Whats on your turntable tonight?

@mammothguy54, Hey there.   A Degritter. Nice!   I’d like to hear from you about how you like both it’s operation and results.  

“Mankind, where do you go?”

Virus
Thoughts
Recent reissue


Has taken on new meaning in a world seen through virus colored glasses.  My city has been overrun by the ravages of heroin addiction.   This record speaks about both in a language from a simpler times.  

Parish Hall
Eponymous 

Egberto Gismonti 
Solo
ECM 1979

Sibelius
Symphony No. 3
from the big blue box of:
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sibelius Symphonies 1-7
Simon Rattle
2019

Oregon
Eponymous
ECM 1983

David Crosby And The Lighthouse Band Record Store Day 10th Anniversary Record

Here’s How Records Give You 
More Of What You Want:

• The Best For Less. Records give you top quality for less money than any other recorded form. 

• They Allow Selectivity Of Songs And Tracks.  With records it’s easy to pick out the songs you want to play, or to play again in a particular song or side.  All you have to do is lift the tone arm and place it where you want it.  You can’t do this as easily with anything but a phonograph record.

• They’re The Top Quality In Sound.  Long-playing phonograph records look the same now as when they were introduced in 1948, but there’s a world of difference.  Countless refinements and developments have been made to perfect the long-playing record’s technical excellence and insure the best in sound reproduction and quality available in recorded form.

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Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
David Oistrakh
The Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy
Odyssey Y 30312 1974 
The Great Columbia Stereo Recordings

This fellow sure could play.

Here’s How Records Give You 
More Of What You Want:

• The Best For Less. Records give you top quality for less money than any other recorded form.

• They Allow Selectivity Of Songs And Tracks.  With records it’s easy to pick out the songs you want to play, or to play again in a particular song or side.  All you have to do is lift the tone arm and place it where you want it.  You can’t do this as easily with anything but a phonograph record.

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Ellis Marsalis
For All We Know

Beethoven 
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61
David Oistrakh
Moscow State Symphony Orchestra 
Alexander Gauk conductor 
Allegro 196? Reissue of a 1952 recording 

Sweet like an old romantic black and white movie, and has probably served as film soundtrack many times.    

Pedant?

No, don’t have McMurtry, will check it out though.  

John Moreland
Big Bad Luv

Ursa Major 
Eponymous 

John Abercrombie
Timeless
ECM 1975

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Issac Stern
The Great Beethoven &
Brahms Violin Concertos
Columbia 1972

This was $5 for a just Fair Condition Jacket and ok looking vinyl. After a good scrubbing on first spin the record is flawless. Not a tic. It’s not as lush as the Oistrach or as spatial as the Milstein but it has a nice presence. Middle emphasized I guess. Nice.

Billy Cobham 
Spectrum
Atlantic (Reissue)

I know this has been reissued by MOV and also Rhino I think.   Seems like it would be a good candidate for something special.  I mean, the musicianship is incredible.  Maybe the tapes are bad or gone or both...

Thought you already had that record Steve.  

The Art Van Damme Quintet
A Perfect Match
Colombia 1963 (Mono)

1987:   Didn’t the whole world seem bright and shallow then...?

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit 
Eponymous 

Gary Clark Jr
This Land

Cat Stevens
Tea For The Tillerman

Earlier:

John Renbourn
Sir John Alot
Of Merrie Englandes
Musyk Thyng &
Ye Grene Knyghte
1975 Redux


And Currently:

Dave Mason
Let it Flow (Dave Mason with Strings)
1977 OP
 
Exquisite

@realworldaudio,  Nice!  Do you have a mono cartridge?

Dave Alvin
King of California 

The Pentangle

Here’s How Records Give You
More Of What You Want:

• The Best For Less. Records give you top quality for less money than any other recorded form. 
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Handel
Water Music
Fireworks Music
Berliner Philharmoniker
Rafael Kubelik 
Deutche Grammophon 1983 (Redux)

Butterworth
A Shropshire Lad

Sarah Vaughan 

Documentary “Muscle Shoals” streaming free on Amazon.  

Stokowski 
Rhapsodies
Liszt, Enesco, et. al.
RCA/Classic Records 1961/2015

Wow

I think I’m having an audiophile moment

@bkeske, yes, on your recommendation, I did.  What a bargain!  The 4th isn’t my favorite by a long ways but I thought to take them in order.  Working up to the 6th which is a favorite.  Sonics are good but not great, so far.   I think I see what you mean about this version - it seems very authentic.  Vinyl is strong NM.  Happy to have it.  

Samuel Barber
String Quartet, Op. 11
(Including "Adagio For Strings")
String Quartet No. 2
Scherzo For String Quartet

The Cleveland Quartet
RCA 1976

Rich wooden tone and beautiful music. 

Tchaikovsky Symphonies
No.4 In F Minor, Op. 36

Evgeny Mravinsky 
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra 
Deutsche Grammophon

Count Basie
For The Second Time
Pablo 1983

ok, Louie Bellison (a favorite)
and Ray Brown, yes, Ray Brown.  
$5.  Come on.   

@bkeske,
What do you think Brahms would say about, say for instance, Schoenberg?  I
sometimes I like to speculate....   

Gerald Finzi
A Severn Rhapsody
Introit
New Year Music
Prelude
Soliloquies
Romance
The Fall Of The Leaf
Lyrita 1978

Apparently Brahms himself didn’t care for Bruckner much.  

Too much Bruckner and not enough Brahms...?   

Never bought anything from Experience Vinyl.  

Agree with you about Trouble.  It’s a sweet album.  

@slaw +1 on the Dawn Landes.  I saw her live with Hem once and was impressed with her modest style and commitment to her music.

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Ciaramella 
Dances on Movable Ground

Renaissance fare…

There is no fixing my Gov’t Mule record issued by Blue Note.  Love WH but his record sounds appalling.  
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Chick Corea
Now He Sings, Now He Sobs

Debussy
The Sea
(Munch/Boston) you know the one...

Nils Frahm
Empty

In case you didn’t get the news today, Chick Corea died on Tuesday. Cancer. Going to play his solo piano albums 1 & 2 tonight.

Cool.  Love hearing about this kind of thing.   I don’t think I’m giving away any secret sources (new records after all) my 3 go to discogs sellers with the best prices and good packaging are PopMarket, Record Mule, and Plaid Room.   I think I’ve posted about these before.  
There is a small independent here in Portland, Clinton Street Records, that also runs a label.  I try to support him and buy the stuff he issues.  He has lots of good used records too.  My favorite here in Portland though is Music Millennium. As I’m certain Greg knows, It’s a pretty special place, and has been for a long time.  I spend way too much money in there.  One thing I like is that they stay open really late and I can haunt the isles in there for hours. Check it out if you’re ever out this way.  

@reubent hey Tom, I buy from Plaid Room through Discogs pretty often.  They have what I want many times and at pretty good prices. 

Elton John
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

@mammothguy54, thanks! That’s just what I was looking for.  I’d seen that one it was uncertain.   Thanks again.  

@Bkeske, will check that out. As you know, I love those English Strings.

Egberto Gismonti 
Sol Do Meio Dia
ECM 1978

@bkeske  Joni & Neil, you are into classical Brian.  

@slaw @mammothguy54,

hey, could we hear a little more about Barrabas? I remember a couple of references but apparently more than one band has that name and/or album name.  I’d like to explore further