Whats on your turntable tonight?

     Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince. I love it. I bought it new and have played only LP#1. Other than the fact that I have never seen so much dust/paper particulates on a new LP from a paper inner sleeve, it plays pretty well. The LP looked like it had been dipped into a paper shredder at the factory!

A few days ago, I bought a used copy of "Top Drawer" by Mel Tormé and George Shearing. Wow, what an amazing intersection of great singing, musicianship and superb recording. It didn't hurt that I had just purchased a new-to-me, used Vincent PHO 701 stage. Maybe it was confirmation bias, and I wanted that (and other) LPs to sound better, but "Top Drawer" is just great.

Thanks, @slaw. I do not buy many new releases on vinyl, but I have purchased, “I Have Nothing To Say To The Mayor Of LA”, by Dean Wareham. I like the Colter Wall but stream it. Cheers!

Kenny Burrell - God Bless The Child, an early / first CTI pressing. I bought it used: cover very worn but quiet vinyl. I had listened to very little of his recordings. It’s just beautiful. He really seemed to pluck those strings hard! I just love the sound!

@big_greg I love it too. The tracks by Nora Jones, Lucinda Williams, and especially Beth Orton are spectacular!. My only quibble is that when I really want to crank it up, the “wall of sound” recording technique makes everything smear together a bit more. It could be my system or my ears, but it is not something I notice in better engineered recordings. I love it nonetheless!

Liszt piano concertos, Sviatoslav Richter. He was a monster.

Tomic601 : thanks for the Norah Jones tip, “Day Breaks”. The repeating bass riff is pretty cool. And she has a great voice..

To the fellow listeners who have purchased some of my LPs, thank you so much. If you think I may be too generous in my grading, please let me know. 95% of the pop, rock and jazz are LPs wherein I am the original owner, so I know them well. 75% of the classical I inherited from my father-in-law, and he was picky about things. I want them to go to a good home. A used book store in town buys LPs by the pound, basically, and over prices stuff that looks like it was played on an 80 grit belt sander. Listening tonight: Comes A Time by Neil Young. A smattering of Beth Orton sans et avec The Chemical Brothers. She has such a sweet voice, but she can put the hammer down!  She started to sound like Sandy Denny to me while listening tonight. Thank you again! Stay well, wash your hands and don’t touch your face!

Thanks for the kind words, @uberwaltz and @spiritofradio. My wife and I will move into a smaller space, and my old Magnaplanars and LPs are going to have to go. The upside, I bought some new gear, and streaming is just so darn easy. The SQ is pretty nice as well. I will ship the Goldberg Variations tomorrow, spiritofradio!

I know it’s heresy, but I’m selling all my LPs for sooner rather than later downsizing. My username on Discogs: moleculesinmotion. Since I started streaming, I listen to a lot more music. It helps that I bought new speakers and an integrated amp and an Innuos Zen Mini. What I listened to last night:
Tinariwen- Live in Paris, like really good trance blues music
Soundtracks to Vanilla Sky (best playlist ever) and Donnie Darko. All the while entering all of that LP data into Discogs: very tedious. And when one is trying to identify different pressings by reading the runouts, it makes my eyes blurry thinking about it.