Britten, Simple Symphony--English Music for Strings. Britten cond./English Chamber Orchestra; King Super Analog Disc (reissue of a 1968 London/Decca recording). As seems to be the case with most of the King reissues, the sound seems tilted towards the bass, which works well on this recording, particularly when the double basses strum in the second movement. I'm breaking in a new system (moved to a place with a much smaller room), and this record sounds great on the new setup.
Rush, I'm now in VA about 50 miles from you, will have to arrange a visit at some point soon. |
Stravinsky, L'Histoire du Soldat Suite - Chicago Pro Musica / Reference Recordings RR 17 (always a pleasure - top drawer performance of the suited, in superb sound)
Paul Chambers, Paul Chambers Quintet / Blue Note BN1534 (Analogue Productions 45rpm reissue)
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Hey guys,Two of my favorites tonight.
Doc Watson-Southbound
Rickie Lee Jones, Mofi Original Master
Might put on ,T-Rex - Slider next
I do love Holst:The Planets! |
Copland: El Salon Mexico / Appalachian Spring - Bernstein/NYP Columbia MS 6355 2-eye (says spouse: "I like LIKE Bernstein, I don't care what you audiophiles say." So, I am corrected.)
Holst: The Planets - Previn/LSO, EMI ASD 2002 reissed by Hi-Q Supercuts (continues to be my favorite performance of this work. The Hi-Q reissue is clean, detailed and well balanced, losing a certain amount of the warmth found in the earlier EMI ASD pressings. But certainly eminently listenable.)
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ICP Couldn't listen to the whole disc. But something a bit different is good to hear once in a while... |
Tonight it is audiophile only.
and it is
The Sound Liaison downloads only:
Carmen Gomes Inc.,Paul Berner, Atsuko Kohashi,Bach Reflections |
Wow! I can FINALY post after all this AGon mayhem!!! |
Two new Aerosmith remasters-
Get Your Wings and Aerosmith from RTI. |
Joni Mitchell. Maybe 2525 |
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Angus&Julia Stone, Down the Way |
Daniel Higgs - The Godward Way [GMT 0:33] |
Grateful Dead, Dick's Picks Volume 3 box set! Lovin' It, only bad part is having to put down the air guitar every 20 minutes to change sides. |
Keith jarret Standards vol 2 |
Wes Montgomery
Bags meets Wes |
Moving Targets - Fall {TAANG 54] |
Frontier Folk Nebraska - [NCR1212] |
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David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust. |
Prokofiev piano sonatas #7 & #8 / Ashkenazy / London |
FedEx delivered my Elusive Disc order today. Got 10% off everything and free shipping (sale ended last Monday). I bought 13 LPs on this order. Of course they won't all get played tonight but many will. Most of them I have on CD but I'm hoping the vinyl is better. Here is what I received today:
Shelby Lynne/Just a Little Lovin
Norah Jones/Come Away with Me
Janis Ian/Breaking Silence
Chicago/Chicago Transit Authority
Chicago/Chicago II
Chicago/Chicago V
Blood,Sweat & Tears/3
Blood,Sweat & Tears/Blood,Sweat & Tears 45rpm
Patricia Barber/Nightclub
Patricia Barber/Cafe Blue
Diana Krall/Live in Paris 45rpm
Jennifer Warnes/The Hunter
Ella Fitzgerald/Clap Your Hands Here comes Charley |
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For Albertporter or any other Crimson fan, most of my KC recordings are very poor. Steve Wilson and Robert Fripp are reissuing the KC catalogue from Robert Fripp's original master tapes both digitally and on vinyl. The recordings are superb, although they are not cheap, especially when you add shipping from England. They are available on "The Burning Shed" website. |
Heard some classics today. Dave Brubeck "Time Out", Miles Davis "Kind of Blue", Cannonball Adderley "Somethin' Else". Thunderstorms rolling through, had to unplug everything. |
David Bromberg self titled first Album.
Picked it up used for .77 cents along with 50 plus other gems at the same price.
Most look like new.
All I can say keep downloading those albums, and clearing out space.
Us bottom feeders sure appreciate it. My just started vinyl collection is growing by leaps and bounds. |
We've been doing some critical listening to a set of power cords loaned to us for audition. It's always a challenge deciding on a few recordings to use. Our practice for doing this is 1) to listen critically to a selected few cuts on our system as it exists, 2) swap gear and burn in the new gear for the requisite period of time, 3) listen critically to those same selected few cuts and note what we hear, 4) switch back to our original gear, burn in again, then listen critically one more time. By the time we do this, we have a very good handle on what we're hearing. And, we always find that we've heard the same things when we compare our listening notes.
So, here's the recent selected few cuts for this adventure:
Klimo Open Window OW 002, Music for Barque Violin and Harpsichord: Uccelini: Son II. Son e Correnti, op4 / Banchini and Darmstadt
Groove Note GRV 1043 -45rpm, Dvorak Piano Trio No. 3: Finale / Jung Trio
RCA LSC 2183 -45rpm Classic Records, Ravel, Rapsodie Espagnole: Habanera / Reiner/LSO
S&P Records SNP 501, Eva Cassidy, Songbird: Fields of Gold
So, why this set of recordings? All are acoustic, and all are very realistically and naturally reproduced capturing well the distinctive timbre of the instruments involved. Each brings a different combination of instruments and acoustic environments. And, we know these recordings very well through many years of listening.
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Johhny Griffin, A Blowing Session, Blue Note 1559 (Music Matters 45 rpm reissue) with Lee Moran, Hank Mobley, John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly, Paul Cambers and Art Blakey. What a fantastic line up!
Dexter Gordon, A Swingin' Affair, Blue Note ST-84133 (Music Matters 45 rpm reissue). Another outstanding LP and reissue.
Ravel, Rapsodie Espagnole, Reiner/CSO, RCA LSC 2183 (Classic Records 45 rpm reissue). One of the great orchestral recordings and performances, in fantastic sound quality. If you've heard and discounted the 33 rpm reissues from Classic Records, I don't blame you. But the 45 rpm reissues are entirely different and far better. Bernie Grundman had changed his mastering chain by the time he started mastering these 45s and the vast improvements in naturalness and timbral balance are immediately apparent.
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this is a great thread...I am just starting to discover Jazz at an old age...wow...I have jumped in with both feet and have purchased a hundred albums and cd's over the last month. Digging in to late forties to early sixties styles so far.
So tonight it will be:
Original Columbia copy of The Jazz Messengers Hard Bop.
Mulligan meets Monk
The Blue Note Re-Issue Series Freddie Hubbard first spin of this LP |
SON VOLT - Honky Tonk [Rounder 11661-9145-1]
Albertporter, nice one love when that happens |
Not the best recording, but I love King Crimson, "Discipline" from early 80s.
Heard it in my car and had to go home and play the LP. |
Check out these three audiophile albums on the small dutch label Sound Liaison. Carmen Gomes inc. 'Torn'..best Blues ballad album ever. Poul Berner Band 'Road to Memphis'.. beautifully told Elvis Presley "saga" and Carmen Gomes inc. 'Thousand Shades of Blue'..intimacy, the band is so well recorded that you can practically reach out and touch them,and there's an absolutely haunting version of Bruce Springsteen's I'm on Fire. http://www.soundliaison.com |
Paul Berner Band: 'Road to Memphis' beautiful laid back,jazz instrumental,Elvis Tribute. If they would ever make a movie on Elvis focusing on the saga of a country boy becoming a king,this would be the soundtrack. track 6 "the Colonel" always gives me goosebumps and ads a whole new dimension to the Elvis manager Colonel Parker. http://www.soundliaison.com |
A 45rpm reissue morning:
Gerry Mulligan, What is there to say? - ORG 45rpm reissue
Ella Fitzgerald, Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! - QRP 45rpm reissue
Louis Armstrong, Loius Under the Stars - Classic Records 45rpm reissue
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Hoodoo Gurus - Mars Needs Guitars (nice original aussie pressing on Mushroom)
Gene Ammons - Soulful Moods of Gene Ammons (Acoustic Sounds 45 rpm) - incredible recording and fantastic music |
The Beatles (MOFI Box)- Let It Be
Abbey Road
Help
Revolver
The Replacements - Don't Tell a Soul
Pleased to Meet Me
Foo Fighters - Greatest Hits
Led Zeppelin - III (finally found a reasonably price Japanese pressing.
Billy Squire - Don't Say No
Bleach House - Bloom |
Nick Cave - Push The Sky Away
Brendan Perry - The Ark |
Moody Blues - A Question of Balance. Haven't played this in I don't know how many years (probably decades). Not sure when I bought it. 1970 gatefold with lyric sheet and London Records sleeve. Great sonics. Nice bass. I don't listen exclusively to vinyl. Have plenty CDs. But sometimes you really have to wonder, "digital?" - what were they thinking?! Get a lot of pleasure playing a medium from almost 40 yrs. ago. |
Led Zeppelin Celebration Day. Excellent sonics |
U2 - Achtung Baby (so hard to find)
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (180g new pressing, excellent)
Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac (new 180g, I think it sounds better than my old first pressing, which is still in great shape)
Heart - Greatest Hits
The Clash - Combat Rock
You know I bought a VPI 17 and sold my VPI 16, and I must say it's much easier to clean records with this thing. Easier than I thought it would be, and there's a big difference in the records. The automatic wash wand obviously does a better job than I did manually. |
Julliard Quartet--Bartok #2, 60's recording on Columbia |
Paul Buchanan - Mid-Air: Blue Nile lead singer solo LP; great music, detailed and dynamic, super quiet pressing; demo disc quality
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours: double LP 45RPM. Although many have said this pressing pales in comparison to the original, it's still quite nice. |
Dave Brubeck - Time Out (Audiophile 2 record 45 set)
Joni Mitchell- Hissing of Summer Lawns (Speakers Corner pressing)
Kate Bush - Aerial
Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Caribou - Andorra |
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds night:
The Boatman's Call
No More Shall We Part
Best of Nick Cave and Bad Seeds
Abattoir Blues
Getting ready for his new one, Push The Sky Away
Also on deck:
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
The The - Mindbomb
Depeche Mode - Construction Time Again |
New records - an embarrassment of riches.
- Punch Brothers -Who's Feeling Young Now? (Nonesuch)
- Duke Ellington - Blues In Orbit (Music on Vinyl reissue)
- XTC - Mummer (Geffen/Virgin)
- Patricia Barber - Mythologies (MFSL)
These, along with the 20 year old single malt in my glass, make for a pretty nice evening.
Cheers! |
Okay. So, tonight it's all about Ballast Point IPA and the Moody Blues. I'm playing the two album set entitled "This is the Moody Blues". Perfect speed and content. Righteous. |
Peter Paul & Mary - In the Wind - Very Last Day
Allman Brothers - Beginnings - Not my Cross to Bear
Joe Bonamassa - Live from Nowhere in Particular - Sloe Gin
The Persuasions - We Came to Play
Joni Mitchell - Blue - California |
Brahms Piano Sonata Op 2, Arrau, Phillips
Music of Kodaly, Kertesz, Decca
Frank Martin, String Quartet, ex libris
Legley Violin Concerto, Gertler, Cultura |
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Norah Jones - Come Away with Me
The Police - Synchronicity
Badfinger - No Dice
Badfinger - Straight Up
Supertramp - Even in the Quietest Moments
REM - Life's Rich Pageant
REM - Murmur
The Commodores - Live
Bad Company - Straight Shooter
Talk Talk - It's My Life
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Pretenders - Pretenders II (MOFI, great new pressing) |
