Whats on your turntable tonight?

Ronnie Montrose / Open Fire
1978 Warner Bros.

Mountain / Nantucket Sleighride
1971 Windfall 

A long busy week, which almost always brings me to Brahms…

Karajan conducts Brahms

• The Four Symphonies

Deutsche Grammophon 4LP box reissue, 1974, originally 1964
German release 
 

Chicken Bones - Hardrock in Concert

Fotomaker / S-T
1977 Atlantic

Started by former members of The Rascals, Raspberries, others…1977 Power Pop

Gary Myrick And The Figures / S-T
1980 Epic

Count Basie & his orchestra "April in Paris" 

2013/Verve

Kurt Vile "watch my moves" 

2022/Verve

Drive-by Truckers "The Dirty South" 

2007/New West 

Blake Mills "Look" 

2018/Verve

Rickie Lee Jones "It's Like This" 

AP/45RPM

Recorded in 1973 and pressed by JVC Mastering Center. Bass and Cello have unbelievable inner detail. This two record set is well worth the outlay. Now, I need to find my copy of Midnight Sugar.

I also have ripped the Blow Up CD ( purchased prior to discovering the 45RPM) to my streamer and the CD sounds great, but lacks the last bit of inner detail, space and musicality, but that’s on my system. Great Japanese jazz..great jazz..

Isao Suzuki died of/with Covid in 2022.

Mark Kozelek "Rock 'N' Roll Singer" 

2015/Badman Recording Co

Sarah Shook & The Disarmers "Nightroamer" 

2022/Thirty Tigers 

Guns N’ Roses - Appetite for Destruction, Locked N’ Loaded Box Set

Decided to mount my mono cartridge, as my mono LP’s are begging to be played.
First up….

Budapest String Quartet
Beethoven - The Six Quartets, OP. 18

• Quartet in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1
• Quartet in G Major, Op. 18, No. 2
• Quartet in D Major, Op. 18, No. 3
• Quartet in C Minor, Op. 18, No. 4
• Quartet in A Major, Op. 18, No. 5
• Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 18, No. 6

Columbia Odyssey 3LP box, mono 1969. Recorded in 1951

Mono

The Kohon Quartet of New York University
Dvořák - Chamber Music Vol. II (Complete)

• String Quartet in F Major, Op.96 "American"
• String Quartet In A-Flat Major, Op.105
• String Quartet In A Major, Op.2
• String Quartet In G Major, Op.106

VOX 3LP box, believe mid-1960’s, Mono
 

Mono

E. Power Biggs & New England Brass Ensemble : Music For Organ And Brass: Canzonas Of Gabrieli And Frescobaldi

• Intonazioni D'organo (Intonations For Organ), Canzon Prima; Giovanni Gabrieli
• Intonazioni D'organo, Canzon Seconda; Giovanni Gabrieli
• Intonazioni D'organo, Canzon Terza; Giovanni Gabrieli
• Intonazioni D'organo; Giovanni Gabrieli
• Canzon Quarta; Giovanni Gabrieli
• Fantasia In The Sixth Tone; Giovanni Gabrieli
• Toccata In D Minor; Girolamo Frescobaldi
• Canzon Prima; Girolamo Frescobaldi
• Canzon Seconda; Girolamo Frescobaldi
• Canzon Terza; Girolamo Frescobaldi
• Canzon Quarta; Girolamo Frescobaldi
• Canzon Quinta; Girolamo Frescobaldi
• Toccata In G Major; Girolamo Frescobaldi

Columbia Masterworks 1959, Mono 

A Recording Premiere of the first true concert organ in America, built by D. A. Flentrop in 1958 for the Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard University.

Mono

William Steinberg conducts Brahms 

• Concerto For Violin And Orchestra In D Major Op. 77

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra w/ Nathan Milstein, violin
Capital Records, Mono, believe 1958

Bill Berry-Shortcake(CJ 75) Side 1 SQ Audiophile

Lefty Frizzell-Saginaw Michigan(CS 8969) Side 1

Joanne Brackeen-Keyed In Side 2 SQ Audiophile

Tim Weisberg-Party Of One Side SQ*

Rossington Collins Band-This Is The Way Side 1

Supertramp-Crime Of The Century Side 2 SQ Audiophile

Mozart-Valdimir Ashkenazy(London L28C-1001) Side 2 SQ Audiophile

Marshal Royal-Royal Blue(CJ 125) Side 1 SQ Audiophile

Lefty was the only recording with average SQ. SQ* Weisberg had slightly excessive treble energy. With 5/8 recording having Audiophile SQ made for a great night but Supertramp was the runaway SQ champ leaving Royal a distant 2nd.

Gino Vannelli Brother to Brother  Nautilus  Super Disc

Firefall / S-T
1976 Atlantic

Little River Band / S-T
1975 Harvest

More Mono

Eugene Ormandy conducts Beethoven

• Piano Concerto No. 4 In G Major, Op. 58
• Piano Concerto No. 2 In B Flat Major, Op.19

Rudolf Serkin with The Philadelphia Orchestra
Columbia Masterworks 1955, Mono
 

Mono

Kiril Kondrashin conducts Rachmaninoff

• Piano Concerto No. 3 In D Minor, Op. 30

Van Cliburn with the Symphony Of The Air (NBC Symphony Orchestra)
RCA Victor Red Seal 1959, Mono

Mono

Leonard Bernstein conducts

• Bach - Concerto No. 1 In D Minor For Piano And Orchestra
• Beethoven - Concerto No. 2 In B-Flat Major For Piano And Orchestra, Op 19

Glenn Gould with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra 
Columbia Masterworks 1957, Mono
 

Mono

Mono

Glenn Gould : Bach

• The Goldberg Variations

Columbia Masterworks 1956, Mono

Mono

George Szell conducts:

• Tchaikovsky - Variations On A Rococo Theme For 'Cello And Orchestra In A Major, Op. 33, Leonard Rose, cello
• Weber - Overture To "Der Freischütz" & Overture To "Oberon"

New York Philharmonic.
Columbia Masterworks 1952, Mono

Mono

George Szell conducts Schubert 

• Symphony No. 7 In C Major

The Cleveland Orchestra 
Epic 1959, Mono
 

Mono

Sir Thomas Beecham conducts Rimsky-Korsakov

• Scheherazade

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Angel 1958, mono

My Fav. Nina’s LPs;

Lankum – Between The Earth And Sky (Rough Trade 2017)

The Doors – Absolutely Live (Elektra 1970)

Doc Evans / Knocky Parker / Albert Nicholas / Earl Murphy / Gene Juckem – Reminiscing In Dixieland, Stomps And Blues Vol. 1 (Audiophile 1959)

Tom Waits – Franks Wild Years (Island 1987)

Tom Waits – Rain Dogs (Island 1985)

Joni Mitchell / Blue
1971 Reprise

Carole King / Tapestry
1971 Ode

Carly Simon / No Secrets
1972 Elektra 

@bkeske I used have that Beecham Scheherazade on cassette with the same Chagall cover. Sounded great on my Pioneer components in the car. No idea where it's gone. 

Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit "Weathervanes" 

2023/Thirty Tigers

Bruce Hornsby And The Range-The Way It Is Side B

The Beatles-Magical Mystery Tour(SMAL 2835) Side 2

Joe Walsh-"But Seriously Folks..." Side 1

Herb Ellis & Ray Brown-Soft Shoe(CJ 3) Side 1 SQ Audiophile

Wham !-Make It Big Side 2

The Marshall Tucker Band-Carolina Dreams Side 1

The Brothers Johnson-Blast! Side 2 SQ Audiophile

The Rolling Stones-Some Girls Side 1

Power quality was not at its best all recordings have sounded better in previous playbacks. Several days of storms and minor flooding in the area might have an effect on power quality. Very close between Blast! and Soft Shoes with better power and longer power amp warm up I could pick a winner but tonight a tie. Neither recording is close to demo disc status just a solid 4.5/5

Foghat "S/T" 

2022/Friday Music 

Jenny Lewis "Joy'All"   

2023/ Blue Note " 

Sun Ra "Calling Planet Earth" org music ORGM-2037

Charlie Parker "Bird Of Paradise (best of the Dial Master)" Bird's Nest BN840100

and fetched my promo copy of Hermann Szobel's "Szobel" Arista AL 4058

Lou Rawls "She's Gone" Bell 1318

Getz/Gilberto w/ Antonio Carlos Jobin DOL 1023HG

George Antheil "Ballet Mecanique" Telefunken LC0366

The Dead Weather "Sea of Cowards"

2010/Third Man Records 

@noromance 

That Beecham Scheherazade LP is pretty darn good. First time I listened to it as I had not mounted my mono cart in a while. Good stuff.