I like to read threads about albums like "the greatest soundstage", "greatest vinyl" etc. There's a lot of great tips to pick up in those! But I did'nt find a thread here where you can post "your latest purchase". So..
Frank & Moon Zappa, Valley Girl, Barking Pumpkin Records 20 Original Winners of 1964, Roulette Kenny Burrell, Midnight Blue, Blue Note Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here, 180gm new vinyl
Gregory Porter- Liquid Spirit on vinyl pressed in Germany. A great contemporary singer who is both soulful, jazzy and insite-full. Compared to the CD, the vocal is more natural, organic, the bass is deeper and richer, the horns are more brassy. So many contemporary LPs suffer from digital sourcing. In this case, the transfer is very successful.
Miles Davis - E.S.P - Impex reissue The Thelonious Monk Quartet - Monk's Dream - Impex reissue Duke Ellington - Masterpieces by Ellington - AP reissue Attaignant: Suites. Bendusi: Cortesana. Ensemble Ricercare Harmonia Mundi HM 573 Mahler: Symphony No. 3 In D Minor - Mehta/Forrester - AP reissue
When he does it, his voice does not sound real, more unreal or synthesized, but I am pretty sure that it is just him. I also have his Classic Concert live recording from Carnegie Hall on Concord jazz label and it is on display there live.
I can only echo Mapman and Schubert. Mel has a very special vocal presentation. Eerie comes to mind in his ability to hold a note and be more accurate than the brass instrument. The horn section could tune there instruments to Mels voice. :)
What freaks me is to hear Mel instantly fill in an error from a player with his voice with the same harmonics and pitch of the player. I have no doubt, leaving vocals aside,that Mel was the finest pure musician of all jazz vocalists.
Shubert, it is the most eerily otherworldly thing I think I have ever heard on any recordings. The sound just seems to transcend the physical realm I'm listening in. One has to hear it to understand.
I just bought an RCA 1s Al Hirt Music to watch girls by,a Tina Turner 12" 45,and a Sting 12" 45 yesterday.I have the Al Hirt on CD and LP but the first side of the LP has been damaged by previous owner.I compared side 2 which is a 6s I think to the CD and went right on Ebay to buy the mint 1s,LP much better.
Jaco Pastorius - The Criteria Sessions (RSD special re-release) Santana - Moonflower (used original CBS release) Thelonius Monk - Solo Monk (CBS re-release) Miles Davis - In A Silent Way (MFSL remaster release 1-377) Zappa & The Mothers - Uncle Meat (Zappa Records re-release)
Dylan Highway 61 --mofi 45 rpm Springsteen--American Beauty R.E.M.--Unplugged Sam Cooke--Ain't That Good News--ABKO The Zombies--Odessey and Oracle Elton John--Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (40th ann ed)--Yellow vinyl Sharon King and the DapTones--Give The People What They Want
used Steve Miller--Fly Like an Eagle--first prssing Diana Ross and the Supremes Greatest Hits
Have not put Dylan on the table yet but all of the Dylan mofi 45s have been spectacular. Sam Cooke album sounds great. Elton is also excellent--close to a match on my original first pressing and better than all digital formats and redbooks I have incl mofi gold, sacd, hi rez and 40th anniversary reissue all of which I also have. Incidentally, the 40th ann redbook bests only a few prior digital versions so only purchase if you want the extras. Springsteen sounds like the usual slightly better than hash sound he produces for some time now. But the songs are good. Sharon Jones sounds like analogue Motown coming out of DapKing studios. Zombies sound great. Diana Ross-you all know how those Motown records sound. R.E.M.--not yet on the table.
First UK press of Floyd's A Nice Pair, which is a two-fer of their first two albums. The matrix numbers on Piper at the Gate are the same as the original pressing, which is now unobtanium. The two-fer, released in the early 70's, is gettable and by comparison, cheap. (Look for the one with the 'Dr.Phang' image on the cover (which was later deleted for legal reasons) as well as comparing matrix numbers.
agree that the Doug McLeod is really good, just got Brand New Eyes. Also
Wood Brothers, Ways Not to Lose (CD) Brian Bromberg, Wood II (CD) Gregory Porter, Liquid Spirit (HDtracks) Hans Theessink and Terry Evans, Delta Time (CD) Lorde, Pure Heroine (HDtracks) Phoebe Snow ($2 LP at Half Price Books, pristine and sounds great!) Tedeschi Trucks Band, Everybody's Talking (CD) Trace Bundy, Adapt (CD and bonus DVD shows his astounding technique--fun!)
I rip the CDs to FLAC lossless digital files and play them thru my Bryston BDP1 and NAD M51--think they sound better that way.
What fun to see all the responses in this thread!!
I will definitely look into what you bought and see if there can be any good tips for me there! My original intention was not that it would necessarily be vinyl albums. I thought the CD and possibly high res. downloads could also be involved. The idea was that the music itself could be the center of this thread.
But I think it's great that you who bought vinyl records also gives us this extra information that is exciting and interesting to other vinyl lovers ... f.ex labels, price, quality and where you bought the album etc! And me who think that the vinyl world is exciting and attractive but have not yet taken the plunge into the world among arms and needles it`s also exciting and fun to read! I guess it's very addictive! ;)
It was not long ago I approached the high-end world. Right now I'm about to get a better dac with more analog feel, bigger soundstage, better details, clearer sound bodies, more blacks, 3D, etc to get some closer to the sweet and liquid sound. But later on, it may well be a vinyl player on the shelf when I have some vinyl left over from the time when I was young. Just have to convince my wife that we need one first .. ;)
So my last purchase (Roger Waters "Amuzed To Death") was a CD that was ripped to my computer and my musicprogram JRiver (I'm afraid to listen to this amazing album on vinyl when I think I get stuck and will put family finances under hefty pressure!;).
I really hope that you continue to share what you buy for music and even commenting in this thread and maybe others, so we can get advice from each other about quality music that embellish life!
Thank you all! And I wish you wonderful days with wonderful music!
the royal sessions--Paul Rogers kiko--Los Lobos Lucinda Williams-- red vinyl
Rogers' Royal Sessions is one of the best records-- sq wise--that I own. Los Lobos is another great sounding one Lucinda is pretty good sound and great music
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