Whats on your turntable tonight?


For me its the first or very early LP's of:
Allman Brothers - "Allman Joys" "Idyllwild South"
Santana - "Santana" 200 g reissue
Emerson Lake and Palmer - "Emerson Lake and Palmer"
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Beethoven - "Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major" Rudolph Serkin/Ozawa/BSO
slipknot1
sharks-jab it in your eye, wiliam lyall-solo casting, brownsville station-no b.s.
I found one song on the net and liked very much. The problem is that I don't know who's playing it and what's the album. Can anyone help me please. The link is below;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7m5UB037tw
Dinosaur Jr -- Beyond
Donald Byrd -- Mustang
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings -- I Learned The Hard Way
Sun Ra -- I Am Strange 7"
I have been too busy to post up but due to a snow storm and working from home I got to do some listening between conference calls. Especially nice since I just got a new Ypsilon SUT. Damn thing costs as much as the rest of my system, but Mike Morrow is very persuasive (he lent it to me to hear first).

Janis Ian "Between the Lines" Columbia

Joni Mitchell "Clouds" Reprise

Gustav Holst "Savitri" Argo

Shostakovitch "Age of Gold","Symphony #1" Decca LSO/Martinon

"Contate Domino" Proprius

Dave Brubeck "Impressions of Eurasia" Columbia "six eye"

Film score of "Barry Lyndon" Warner Bros.

Excerpts from "Star Wars, Close Encounters" LA phil./Mehta

Rushton: I love your selections,glad to see you are still going strong

e
Budgie...Squawk..Original UK MCA pressing

Uriah Heep..Demons and Wizards...Bronze UK Pressing
e,
Nice to see a few of my favorite recordings in your recent playlist, including particularly:

Gustav Holst "Savitri" Argo
Shostakovitch "Age of Gold","Symphony #1" Decca LSO/Martinon

My listening partner and I are currently working our way through our collection of alternative performances of Mahler's symphonies. Finished through the 1st through the 4th symphonies at this point (21 different recordings), on to Barbirolli's performance of the 5th tonight, with Kubelik and Solti to follow at some later time.
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Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose
Marc Cohn - Join The Parade
Rush that sounds like fun. I envy you having a listening partner.

I have been working my way through the Shostakovitch symphonies. I have the 1st with the same combination as the Decca only it is on a ancient RCA Victrola label. On the whole it is quite excellent.
My lp of the 9th is bundled with the Prokofiev "Lieut. Kije"; it is on Everest with the LSO and Malcolm Sargent.
It is well played but the pressing isn't the best.

I also have the 5,8 on Everest. more later

e
Dukes of Dixieland on 1959 Audio Fidelity vinyl. Nice!

Interesting technical specs regarding the recording on the album cover. Hi Fi was a big deal back then and some labels really made an all out assault on sound quality and people took notice.

Those were the days......
Cat Stevens "Teaser and the Firecat"

Al Stewart "Year of the cat"

Dave Brubeck "Impressions of Eurasia"

Joni Mitchell "Song to a Seagull","Blue", "Ladies of the Canyon", "Clouds"

e
Late night free jazz session:
Ornette Coleman - Change of a century
Miles Davis - Call it Anything, live at the Isle Wight Festival (includes a star studded cast with Chick, Keith, JDJ, Airto, Dave Holland)
The Decemberists - The King Is Dead [EMI 509996 42727 1 9]

First entrant for best of 2011.
Martin Simpson, Leaves of Life - Shanachie 97008
Silly Wizard, Wild & Beautiful - Shanachie 79028
Mahler, Symphony No. 4, Szell/ClevelandSO, Judith Raskin -sop - Columbia
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Esquivel - "Cabaret Manana" [RCA/BMG CD comp. '95, rec. '58-'67]
Esquivel - "More Of Other Worlds, Other Sounds" [Reprise CD reissue, orig. '62]
Bill Holman - "Big Band In A Jazz Orbit" [V.S.O.P. CD reissue '87, orig. Andex '58]
Pink Floyd - "Soundtrack From The Film 'More'" [Digital Re-Masters/Capitol EMI CD reissue '95, orig. '69]
The Dells - "The Best Of The Vee-Jay Years" [Shout! Factory CD comp. '07, rec. '55-'65]
Last night with some friends over:

Jack DeJohnette, Zebra - MCA
John Coltrane, Crescent - Impulse
June Tabor & Martin Simpson, A Cut Above - Topic 12TS410
Julie London, Julie is her name - Liberty LRP 3006
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Ella and Louis - Verve 4003 SpeakersC
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Ella and Louis Again - Verve MG V-4018
Peggy Lee, Is That All There Is? - Capitol ST 386 PurePleasure
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Bach/The Three Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord, played on cello and piano by Leonard Rose and Glenn Gould (both dead and gone). My turntable loves Bach.
Renee Olstead,
Perhaps the greatest new talent in female jazz vocals I've heard.
She's only 21, but her phrasing, vocal control, styling, all transcend her age.
All I can say further is....WOW.

Larry
Well after my abortive initial foray into the world of SUTs (previous posts), a couple months ago I decided to simply upgrade my phonostage to a considerably costlier one with SUTs built-in. Both sonically and musically the new 'stage slays my prior ones, as it should, and the circuit itself is nicely quiet in MM mode, however the SUTs do add some low-level hum that I can't eliminate no matter what I do, and that the modestly-priced outboard SUT I tried didn't have. Still, the overall sound quality is the best I've enjoyed, and with my current medium-output MC I can use the lowest step-up ratio, where the hum level is so residual as to not be a problem even at realistically high volumes.

Joe Pass - "For Django" [Pacific Jazz/Capitol LP reissue '64/?] Two-guitar quartet date with John Pisano
Barney Kessel - "Let's Cook!" [Contemporary LP reissue '62/?] With Ben Webster, Shelly Manne, Victor Feldman, Jimmie Rowles, Hampton Hawes, Leroy Vinnegar, Frank Rosolino. Originally recorded by Roy DuNann in '57 in early stereo with notably high fidelity
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - "Kyoto" [Riverside/Fantasy LP reissue '66/?] With Art's cousin Wellington Blakey delivering the powerhouse vocal on "Wellington's Blues"
The Modern Jazz Quartet - "...& Orchestra" [Atlantic LP reissue '61/?] Gunther Schuller conducts
Dave Brubeck Trio Featuring Gerry Mulligan - "Compadres" [Columbia LP '68] With Jack Six and Alan Dawson
Chico Hamilton Quintet - "The Chico Hamilton Special" [Columbia/CSP LP reissue '60/?]
Art Van Damme Quintet With Johnny Smith - "A Perfect Match" [Columbia LP '63]
Al Kooper - "You Never Know Who Your Friends Are" [Columbia LP '69]
Elliott Murphy - "Aquashow" [Polydor LP '73]
UFO - "Phenomenon" [Chysalis LP '74]
Katrina And The Waves - "...2" [Attic (Canadian) LP '84]
Horace Silver, Song For My Father – BN 84185 (Music Matters 45 rpm reissue)

Grant Green, Solid – BN LT 990 (Music Matters 45 rpm reissue)

Exceptional sound quality on both! Musically, hmmmm... I found some of the individual cuts captured my interest, but overall not so much. OTOH, listening to Grant Green on Solid caused me to reappraise just how incredibly good an artist he was.
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The Decemberists - The Crane Wife. While I do listen to jazz 90% of the time, I also go to Starbucks every day and found their current release, then they appeared on NPR. The new album is good, but I really like this older disc. I wonder if they listened to Fairport Convention.
Kalenda Maya, Songs & Dances 1200-1550 - Simax PS 1017

Gregorian Chant, 400-1400, Ruhland/Capella Antiqua Munich - Telefunken SAWT 9493

Haydn, Symphonies 43 (Merkur) and 59 (Feuersymphonie), Marriner/ASMF Philips 9500 159
The Outfield - Play Deep

The Producers - You Make the Heat

Little Feat - Time Loves a Hero

Rush - Permanant Waves (MOFI)

Frank Sinatra - Live in Paris (MOFI)

The Pixies - Bassanova (MOFI)

Badfinger - No Dice (Japanese Pressing)

Emerson Lake and Palmer - Trilogy (I'm an avowed prog-rock hater, but I have a soft spot for this album)
The Soft Boys - "A Can Of Bees" [Two Crabs LP '84]
Jimmy Cliff - "Follow My Mind" [Reprise LP '75]
Chico Hamilton - "Man From Two Worlds" [Impulse! LP '63]
Chico Hamilton - "El Chico" [Impulse! LP '65]
Chico Hamilton - "The Dealer" [Impulse! LP '66]
Bill Evans Trio - "How My Heart Sings!" [Riverside LP '64, rec. '62]
Paul Desmond With The Modern Jazz Quartet - "The Only Recorded Performance Of..." [Finesse LP '81, rec. '71]
Renee Olstead? Thanks for the info...I'm really happy you enjoy it. I have a pet peeve for a smokin' hot 20 something singing jazz/blues.

Give me horse faced Phoebe Snow and her honest angst any time...it seems more genuine to me. To me.

BTW, you got a bitchin' system!
Lieutenant Kije on Chesky vinyl. I just scored a sealed copy and sacrificed its virginity last night. It was all that as far as I'm concerned. What an interesting piece of music. Spectacular instrumentation. I have a couple of the originals on RCA Living Stereo, shaded dog as well. The Chesky is better in a lot of ways, then again, I've never heard an original 1S that was sealed either so what do I know?
I'm on a R.E.M. binge. "Life's Rich Pageant" (a gift from my 22yo nephew-vinyl!), "R.E.M. Live" and "Document". Got started on them during my CD era so only I only have a small portion of their stuff on vinyl- I'm working on adding to the vinyl.
Delroy Wilson - "Best Of (Anthology of Reggae Collectors Series Vol.6)" [U.A. LP '78, rec. '64-'6?]
The Standells - "Try It" [Tower LP '67]
Roger McGuinn - "Cardiff Rose" [Columbia LP '76] Produced by Mick Ronson of David Bowie fame, who also plays. Contains a song called "Rock And Roll Time", co-written in '74 by McGuinn with Kris Kristofferson and Bobby Neuwirth, that sounds fantastically and rather improbably like the Clash with Joe Strummer singing -- before the Clash debuted. I'm talking uncanny, dead-ringer here, right down to the Simonon-esque bass playing of Rob Stoner. Give a listen if you doubt me! (The same can hardly be said however of the more ordinary country-rock version on Neuwirth's own '74 debut.)
Thelonius Sphere Monk - "Monk's Blues" [Columbia LP '69] Arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson
J.J. Johnson Quartet - "A Touch Of Satin" [Columbia LP '61]
Tino Contreras - "Percusiones Mexicanas" [Capitol LP '61]
This evening with friends over:

Walton, Belshazzzar's Feast, Previn/LSO, Shirley-Quirk - EMI SAN 324 (Wilson AGAT reissue)

Walton, Violin Concerto
Stravinsky, Violin Concerto
-- Previn/LSO, Kyun-Wha Chung -vn - London CS 6819

Lee Morgan, Leeway - Blue Note ST-84034 (45rpm Analogue Productions reissue)

Eva Cassidy, Songbird - S & P Records SNP 501

Neil Young, Live at Massey Hall 1971 - Reprise 43328 (Classic Records reissue)

David Crosby, If I Could Only Remember My Name - Atlantic AATC 7203Q (Classic Records reissue)

Sonny Boy Williamson, Keep It To Ourselves - Alligator AL 4787

ZZ Top, Tres Hombres - London XPS 631 (Rhino reissue)
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Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - "Piano In The Background" [Columbia '6-eye' 1B/1B stereo LP '60]
Gerry Mulligan - "Jeru" [Columbia '360 sound' 1A/1B stereo LP '63]
Michel Legrand - "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" O.M.P. Sndtrk. [Philips 'Connoisseur' gatefold stereo LP '64]
Count Basie - "Afrique" [Flying Dutchman LP reissue '84/'72, rec. '70] Arranged & conducted by Oliver Nelson
Prokofiev, Lt. Kije, Tilson-Thomas/LASO, Coumbia
Brahms, Sonata 1 for Violin & Piano, Zukerman/Barenboim, DGG
Rodrigo, Concert-Serenade for Harp and Orchestra, Marzendorfer/BerlinRSO, Zabaleta -hp, DGG
Sullivan, Irish Sym, Groves/Royal Liverpool PO, EMI
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Rush: I started thinking about one of your last posts and after looking at your list you played with your friends visiting;wow, what a eclectic list! I dearly love the Walton and John Shirley Quirk. You must have great friends. When ever I play my English cathedral music for my friends;they just roll their eyes.

I hope we can meet up some day

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Horace Silver Quintet - "Silver's Serenade" [Blue Note LP reissue '63/'7?] Overall I'm preferring this to the RVG CD I also have on hand, primarily for its openess, texture, and more involving sense of communication (though I find my cartridge does rise inaccurately the top octaves), but how much of that preference is attributable to my gear, how much to the remastering, and how much to format I can't say -- something I believe is almost always true in these comparisons

Horace Silver - "Sterling Silver" [Blue Note LP compilation '79, rec. '56-'64] Unissued + alternate takes + 45rpm versions previously unavailable on LP, all but one are Quintet, most or all of which have since been appended to CD reissues as bonus tracks, a few of which I also have, and again I'm preferring the LP

Horace Silver - "The Trio Sides" [Blue Note mono/stereo 2LP compilation '76, rec. '52-'68] Great collection of Horace without the usual 2-horn frontline he helped popularize, and so really showcases his piano
Usually something by a lesser known, older, female artist. Tonite it is Sylvia Tyson.
Hi e,

I am truly fortunate to have music friends locally who are willing to explore music new to them. I love it because they also introduce me to music I never would otherwise have selected on my own!

Cheers,
Rush
Great old records from the 1970s and 80s. For example, Fame, George Solti conducting Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Beethoven 9th (London ffrr), George Solti conducting Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Tchaikovsky 5th (London ffrr), Loggins and Messina, Sittin In (Columbia), Leonard Bernstein conducting New York Philharmonic Orchestra - Beethoven 5th (Columbia). I forgot how good the old vinyl sounds!! Also, highly recommend the old London ffrr label -- extremely detailed and dynamic.
The Wailers - "The Wailers Wail" [Golden Crest LP '59/'6?] The Wailers from Tacoma, WA, stompin' Northwest scene-mates of The Kingsmen, Paul Revere & The Raiders, and The Sonics

Booker T. & The MG's - "And Now!" [Stax stereo LP '66] This monster sounds so alive you can practically see down the throat of Booker T.'s Leslie horn

The Gloria Coleman Quartet featuring Pola Roberts - "Soul Sisters" [Impulse! mono LP '63] Gender-balanced Hammond organ group with Grant Green guitar and Leo Wright alto, Pola Roberts drums.

Cannonball Adderly - "...And The Poll Winners" [Riverside mono LP '60] With Ray Brown, Wes Montgomery, Victor Feldman, Louis Hayes

Bob Brookmeyer/Bossa Nova - "Trombone Jazz Samba" [Verve stereo LP '62] With Jim Hall & Jimmy Raney guitars, Gary McFarland vibes, Willie Bobo drums, Carmen Costa & Jose Paulo percussion

Gabor Szabo - "Dreams" [Skye LP '68] Hungarian psych-funk-jazz at its finest, from the genre's originator, master, and sole exponent!
Chopin, Piano Sonata No. 3 Op. 58; Scherzo No. 2 Op. 31
-- Edward Auer, Piano (RCA Japan RDCE-7, Direct-to-Disk)

Beethoven, Sonatas Op. 53 ("Waldstein"), 78, 90
-- Paul Badura-Skoda, Piano-forte (Astree AS73)

Regards,
Al
Al, welcome and congrats! I believe what may be your first post to this thread is also the 2,000th!