Kehut: I was just spinning Oscar Plays Cole this very morning, but on a German CD reissue. It really sounds extremely good -- not at all "digital" -- but I haven't done a direct comparison with the vinyl. (I have quite a few Peterson Verve LPs but don't recall offhand if this is one of them.)
Also today:
The Monochrome Set - Black & White Minstrels '75-'79 [Cherry Red]
Them Featuring Van Morrison [Decca]
William Boyce/The Eight Symphonies - Bournemouth Sinfonietta [CRD] |
Paul Chambers' Bass On Top.
In a word, awesome. |
Status Quo - Spare Parts
Outkast - Stankonia
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
Shonen Knife - Brand New Knife
Go To Blazes - Love, Lust & Trouble
The New Colony Six - At The River's Edge |
Roland Alexander - Pleasure Bent: Hard bop saxophonist contemporary of Coltrane with a sweet middle register and a good head for changes.
Antibalas - Who Is This America: Fela-flavored Afro-funk via Brooklyn. Great horn driven booty shakin' music.
John Mayall - Turning Point: Post-Mick, Post-Peter, Post-Eric Mayall, but really good! Mostly acoustic Blues with tasty sax work by John Almond. Surprising.
Lee Morgan - Cornbread: Seminal hard bop masterpiece. Ceora is one of the most beautiful and memorable songs of the era. Blend of Morgan, Jackie McLean, and Hank Mobley is sublime. |
SRV-Soul to Soul
Count Basie-Basie Jam & 88 Basie Street
Kenny Burrell-Intoducing Kenny Burrell
Allman Bros.-Live at Fillmore East |
Casual Listening:
Kanye West- Late Registration
Jay Z- The Black Album
Motor- Klunk
Critical Listening:
My morning jacket- Okonokos
Lucinda Williams- West
John Renbourne-The Lady and Unicorn |
Last night:
The Who - "Tommy - performed by the London Symphony Orchestra . . . and various guest soloists" This is a really well recorded double LP set.
Journey - First Album
Joe Walsh - "So What"
This morning:
John Prine - "John Prine"
Emmy Lou Harris - "Cimmaron"
Bob Dylan - "Highway 61 Revisted"
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Gil Scott Heron- Revolution Not Televised
Flora Purim- Stories To Tell
John Reischmann- |
This morning prior to heading into work...
John Coltrane - Blue Train
David + David - Boomtown |
Oingo Boingo-Good for your soul |
thin lizzy jailbreak and chinatown |
Ben Webster - King of the Tenors
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Stomu Yamashta, Winwood, Shrieve, Shultz, et al - "Go - Live in Paris"
Joe Pass - "Best Of"
Mike Oldfield - "Orchestral Tubular Bells" w/ Royal Philharmonic/David Bedford
Kitaro - "Silver Cloud"
Supertramp - "Breakfast in America"
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The Doors "An American Prayer" pretty cool stuff. |
Oooops it was Jim Morrison and not the Doors in the tittle. |
Lucinda Williams - West
Booker T & the M.G.s - Green Onions
Count Basie - Basie Jam #2 |
Hedgehog, what a coincidence!!
I started with Lucinda Williams - West
Air- Pocket Symphony
Allison Krauss and Union Station Live (first two records)
John Renbourne - Sir John Alot |
Rachel Grime's *Music for Egon Schiele* on Quarterstick Records. There's definitely some music magic in this one. Does anyone out here know how it compares with other offerings by Rachel? This one is 1996. |
Neil Young - Greatest Hits, sides 1&2
Count Basie - Chariman of the Board
Both are recent arrivals, and are 200gm issues from Classic Records. The sound quality is very, very good. |
Buffalo Springfield
John Reischman
Eugen Maslov
Flora Purim
Django Rheinhardt
Bireli
Hendrix |
Iron Butterfly - Ina-Gadda-Da-Vida
Journey - Next
Neil Young - Greatest Hits (sides 3&4)
Jazz at the Pawnshop (sides 1&2)
Allman Brothers - Brothers and Sisters
Ike Quebec - Blue and Sentimental |
Porcupine Tree - "Deadwing"
Klauss Schulze - "X"
Jan Hammer - "The First Seven Days" |
Yellow Jackets, Rippingtsons (Kilimanjaro), Miles Davis |
A new Schroeder 2 tonearm !!!!!!!!!!!! Yeeehaaa! |
I've Got The World On A String- Sarah Vaughn. LP- How Long Has This Been Going On?
Oscar Peterson
Joe Pass
Louie Bellson
Ray Brown
What a band! |
Moody Blues "Days of future passed"
George Harrison "All things must pass"
Phillip Lambro, Robert Lombardo, Ramiro Cortes on a Crystal records pressing.....spooky music, LOVE IT! |
Well we're back and spinning a rather eclectic evening on the Sondek Lp12 along with Chinese carryout from R.O...
Jack Johnson -Brushfire Fairytales on Enjoy Records
Lenny Kravitz -Let Love Rule on UK Virgin
Sir Elton John -Madman Across the Water DJM Toshiba/EMI Jp
Michelle-Shocked - The Texas Campfire Tapes on Cooking Vinyl
Tom Petty -Wildflowers on WB
Stay Awake -Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films on A&M
Steve Miller Band -Anthology on Capital/EMI
Various Artists -Surfin Around the World on Pin Up Records
Pink Floyd -Wish You Were Here on UK Harvest Factory Sample
Happy Listening! |
Tonight,
Eddie Harris -Exodus to Jazz on Vee Jay Records
James Moody -Moody on Prestige white label promo
Jutta Hipp with zoot sims on Blue note 1530/Classic
Stan Getz/Charlie Byrd -Jazz Samba on Verve/Classic
Antonio Carlos Jobim -Wave on A&M/Classic
Kenny Dorham -Afro-Cuban on Blue Note 1535/Classic
Steve Miller -born 2 B blue on Capital/EMI
Happy Listening! |
Natalie Merchant's beguiling "TigerLily". It is so well written and performed that it keeps finding a way into my transport. An enchanting mixture of songwriting, performance and wry humor. |
It's been a while since I've contributed to this thread, but vinyl is spinning in our listening room once again so it's time to share what we're listening to, hopefully with a comment or two as the mood dictates. Listening tonight has been an eclectic ramble...
Roy Orbison - "All Time Greatest Hits of Roy Orbison" on S&P Records (S&P 507), a marvelous artist well-served in a great remastering job by Steve Hoffman.
Harry James - "The King James Version" on Sheffield Labs (LAB 3). IMO, the best recording ever released by Sheffield Labs both musically and sonically. Sure it's direct to disc, but the real magic of this LP is the single point stereo miking used in making the recording. None of the multi-miked hash, this LP has the great immediacy and impact that comes only from that purist miking approach. Add Harry James to the mix, and this LP is pure magic on a system that can reproduce it.
Boys of the Lough - "Farewell and Remember Me" on Shanachie (79067). What a superb group of traditional Celtic musicians! Their diverse backgrounds providing a great mix of differing Celtic influences: Ireland, Scotland, Shetland and Northumberland. Doesn't any better in my book.
"Antiphone Blues" on Proprius (PROP 7744) -- How many years have most of us listened to this 1975 recording? At least 25 years for me, but I still enjoy it and I haven't had it out for a listen in several years. For those who haven't encountered this LP, it was really innovative when released: Arne Domnerus' saxaphone with organ in a huge reverberant acoustic.
Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five - "The Louis Armstrong Story - Vol. 1" on Columbia CL 851 - What a great series of recordings collected on LP: this first volume covering some of the recordings made by Armstrong and his group between 1925 and 1927.
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Tonight's listening shifted to classical...
To get the system warmed up, a little organ music first: Marie Claire Alain playing Bach on Erato (ERA 50527). Alain's always enjoyable Bach performances are consistently well recorded on Erato.
With the cartridge nicely excercized with 40 minutes of organ, time to move on to some orchestral with Dimitri Shostakovich:
Shostakovich, Symphony No. 6, Berglund/BournemouthSO, EMI (SLS 5177, 2LPs)
Shostakovich, Age of Gold Ballet Suite, Martinon/LSO, RCA (LSC 2322-45 Classic Records 45 rpm reissue) - excellent LP in this 45 rpm incarnation. I always enjoy the Polka from this piece; Shostakovich's droll humor at his finest. You can also find this movement played delightfully by wind ensemble on the Opus 3 "Bofors Musikkar" (7903) or Opus 3 Test Record ("Timbre," I believe).
Shostakovich, Symphony No. 11, Berglund/BournemouthSO, EMI (SLS 5177, 2LPs) - a truly monumental work encompassing three sides of this 2LP set, wonderful!
This music and these recordings are hugely demanding of any playback system. When they comes across with the complex interplay of rhythms, textures and instrumentation cleanly delineated, you know your system is pretty well tuned. If any of it sounds the least congested or lacking in resolution, you have work to do.
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Just Friends - Zoot Sims and Sweets Edison on Pablo. Better than average recording even by Pablo's standards. |
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A great Sunday afternoon of listening:
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Harry James - Comin From a Good Place - Sheffield Lab # LAB-6  A large, large warm grin . Rushton, give this one a try as well .
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Diana Krall - ÂThe Very Best of Diana Krall - Verve - 2 LP set - What a Sunday Afternoon is all about.
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Malcolm Arnold - English ÂScottish & Cornish Dances - Lyrita - Stereo  SRCS.109 - If you don't have socks on after listening to this one, it is not because you did not have any on when you started.
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Mozart - ÂMass in C Minor DG reissue by Speakers Corner - If you do not believe that there is something beyond this existence, listening to this record might make you start to think ..
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Happy Holidays to you all.
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Rgds,
Larry
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Hi Larry (Cello), great list of music; I like your selections! Yes, the Harry James "Comin' from a good place" is a good 'un. Love the Arnold and the Mozart Mass recordings!
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Led Zeppelin....Physical Graphitti, recent events have me thinking about them again :-) |
For Christmas Day, we've been listening to a bunch of non-seasonal music:
Stravinsky "Firebird," on Classic Records 45 rpm reissue of the Dorati/Mercury. We use this record to validate final system setup, the third side is a montrous test of one's system. I recently heard this sound just horrible at friend's home and he couldn't understand why I liked it so much; all I could tell him was that it wasn't the record. But to hear it well does take some immaculate system setup.
Bizet's "L'Arlesienne Suites 1 and 2" and Chabrier's "Espana Rapsodie" also on a Classic Records 45rpm reissue (RCA LSC 2327-45). Another great Decca recording that built RCA's reputation: the eminent Kenneth Wilkinson, engineer, in Kingsway Hall.
Joni Mitchell, her self-titled first album in a pressing my wife has had since it first came out nearly 40 years ago -- still holding up exceptionally well!
Rossini-Respighi, "La Boutique Fantasque" from the Royal Ballet Gala Performances set, Ansermet, RCA LDS 6065-45 (another Classic Records 45rpm reissue) and another great Decca recording on contract to RCA, again with Kenneth Wilkinson engineering the recording at Kingsway Hall.
Adam, "Giselle: Introduction" also from the Royal Ballet Gala Performances set (above).
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Rushton - good to see you back and listening again. It's been some time since I posted here as well. Spending some time at home recuperating from illness, feeling good enough to listen to some music - finally.
So far:
Schuller "Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee" Dorati/Minneapolis SO (Mercury SR90282) Speaker's Corner reissue.
Stravinsky "Firebird Suite (1910)" Leinsdorf/Los Angeles SO (Sheffield Lab LAB 24)
Falla "Nights in the Gardens of Spain" Jorda/San Francisco Symphony (RCA LSC 2430) Classic Records reisuue |
Slipknot!! Great to see your post here, and glad you're feeling better.
Lucious records. I need to pull out the Gunther Schuller recording, and may do so tonight while a friend is over who enjoys more contemporary music.
Late last night I was playing Shostakovich's Symphony No.1 in a performance by Jean Martinon, RCA LSC 2322-45 (Classic Records reissue).
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Tonight was a broad sampling of a bit here and a bit there with a friend over to listen. Here's a sampling of what passed across the turntable over about 5 hours:
Doc Watson, "Home Again!" Cisco reissue of Vanguard VSD 79239.
Bill Berry, "Shortcake" on Pure Audiophile PA-004
Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, "Recording Together for the First Time" Roulette SR52074 (Classic Records reissue)(great music, OK sound, definitely would not put this in a top 25 list for sonics, but this LP is probably as good as this can sound)
Ella Fitzgerald, "Ella in Berlin" (Live) Verve MG VS-64041 (outstanding UCJU-9004 reissue) an amazing performer, who else could get away with what she does and makes work so wonderfully?
Louis Armstrong, "St. James Infirmary" (yes, back again as it will again and again because it is so special) (Classic Records 45 rpm reissue from "Satchmo Plays King Oliver")
Stravinsky, "Firebird" (also back again because it is such a challenge to play well) (Classic Records 45 rpm reissue)
Beethoven, "Septet" with the Vienna Octet on SuperAnalogue 9111 reissue of the Decca. Pure magic, this is a superb recording, performance and pressing.
Schuller, "Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee" on the Speakers Corner reissue of the Mercury. (Thanks to Slipknot for reminding me to pull this out!)
Nathaniel Rosen, cellist, on "Orientale" NorthStar Records, NS 0027 - a true gem of a record containing a collection of short works for cello and piano. A truly special record if you happen to find a copy.
"Italian Violin Music 1600-1750" on Klimo Open Window OW 002, another remarkable record. Baroque violin, cello and harpsichord in an exceptional recording.
"La Spagna" - music of Spain from the 15th-17th Centuries by the outstanding early music group Atrium Musicae de Madrid directed by Gregorio Paniagua. BIS LP 163/164
"Musique Arabo-Andalouse" (Music of Arabic-Spain of the 9th-13th Centuries), also by Atrium Musicae de Madrid directed by Gregorio Paniagua, on Harmonia Mundi HM 389
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last night....meat puppets, jimmy webb, paul williams, the flamin' groovies, and bryan hyland |
Jaybo, thanks for sharing. I think you're pointing out some music that I don't know and perhaps ought to explore (?). I'll have to find someone enar me who has some of this in their collection so I can hear it.
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Holst, "Capriccio" and "Double Concerto for Orchestra", Imogen Holst/English Chamber Orchestra, Lyrita SRCS 44 -- the Capriccio is "big music" tuneful Holst with full orchestra, the Double Concerto is "I can be atonal, too" Holst. Excellent performances and recording.
Vaughan Williams, "Lark Ascending" and "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis", Marriner/ASMF, Argo ZRG 696. My favorite performance of the Lark Ascending with the marvelous Iona Brown as the violinist; this is "died and gone to heaven music" for me.
Holst, "Planets" -- reconfirming once again my preference for the characterfulness of the Andre Previn/London Symphony performance on EMI ASD 3002, even though the sonics on my copy could be better. Pulled out the Mehta/LAPO performance on the King SuperAnalogue reissue for a refresher check: just no where near as good a performance, and the sonics are overrated based on what I hear on my copy. I'll listen to the Previn performance for the music!
Hmmm, getting sucked into the Holst/"Ballet Music from the Golden Goose" as I'm typing and listening. Time to drop the laptop and just listen to the music...
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Beethoven / Appasionata - Ikuyo Kamiya (Pianist  on Bozendorfer Piano) 45 rpm Direct Mastering LP - RCA # RDC4 - A big wow  just stunning
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Aja - Steely Dan Reissue  Japanese Pressing (Geffen Records).
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Steve Tibits - ÂBig Map Idea - great guitarist / great recording 1989 ECM Records - # 839-253-1
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Stravinksy - ÂThe Firebird Mercury SR-90226 - (M pressing)  What can you say that Rushton has not already said.
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Carly Simon  The Best of Carly Simon Volume One Electra - Wonderful LP  Surprisingly good recording. I just ordered the Japanese and German pressings to see how they compare. It would be hard to imagine they could be much better, but one can hope.
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The last couple of evenings have found us listening with friends to a variety of music, and this afternoon we listened with a group of fellow vinyl nuts at a friend's house. The music has ranged from Zappa to Prokofiev to Talking Heads to Wild Child Butler to Armstrong/Elington to Tchaikovsky to Bill Evans. After two hours of listening to vinyl, one of our group wanted to hear a CD mastering of the Armstrong/Elington and then listen to the vinyl ("Great Reunion"). Well, that also presented an opportunity to try out Walker Audio's Ultra Vivid cleaner on the CD to see if it really made a difference. So, with 11 of us listening, we listened to the cut "Azalea" as the test cut listening first to the untreated CD. Then our host applied the Ultra Vivid according to the directions and we settled in for a second listen to the same cut. About half of the group (those sitting closest to the sweet spot of the system) said they heard a very immediate and obvious improvement with the Ultra Vivid, with consistent comments about improved resolution, greater clarity and transparency, better rendition of the overtones, etc. We then put on the vinyl: the Classic Records reissue Roulette SR 52103. Well, as many of you would expect, the sound of the vinyl made the CD in any incarnation irrelevant. You expected a different outcome, maybe? Of course not. . |
Sonny Rollins......"Way Out West"
Allman Brothers Band........."Live at Fillmore East"
Ella Fitzgerald........."Mack the Knife" |
A largely Celtic evening tonight:
Silly Wizard - Live in America
Andy Stewart - At it again
Planxty - The Well Below the Valley
Planxty - Cold Blow and teh Rainy Night
Altan - S/T
Mairéad Nà Mhaonaigh/Frankie Kennedy - Ceol Aduaidh
Tannahill Weavers - Land of Light
Earlier we played a bit of classical:
Prokofiev, Romeo & Juliet (Highlights) - Ansermet (London)
Tchaikovsky, Nutcracker Ballet - Ansermet (Speakers Corner reissue)
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Ghostland Observatory - Paparazzi Lightning
Lucinda Williams - West
The Field - From here we go sublime
Boxer - The National |
Rush-Caress of Steel
Epitaph- Above the Law
Boxer- Below the Belt |
J Geils Band: Blow Your Face Out |
The B-52's Cosmic Thing. Came in the mail today. |
