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"
and,
Beethoven - "Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major" Rudolph Serkin/Ozawa/BSO
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Karajan conducts Dvořák

  • Symphonie "Aus Der Neuen Welt" / From The New World

Berliner Philharmoniker
Deutsche Grammophon repress 1964, German release 

Wilhelm Kempff plays Schumann

  • Kinderszenen Op. 15
  • Drei Romanzen Op. 28
  • Arabeske Op. 18
  • Waldszenen Op. 82
  • Bunte Blätter Op. 99

Deutsche Grammophon 1980

Maurizio Pollini plays Schumann

  • Klaviersonate Nr. 1 Fis-Moll Op. 11
  • Fantasie C-Dur Op. 17

Deutsche Grammophon 1983, German release
 

The Cars / S-T
2023 Rhino RE, orig. 1978

A nice reissue by Rhino, now with a gatefold. The outer jacket looks like the original. Great SQ.

Earl Klugh-Crazy For You Side 2 SQ Audiophile

Art Pepper And George Cables-Goin' Home Side 1 SQ Audiophile

The John Colianni Trio-Blues-O-Matic(CJ 367) Side 1 SQ Audiophile

Chris Connor-Live Side 1 SQ*

Maynard Ferguson-Hollywood Side 2 SQ Audiophile

Joyce Collins Quartet-Moment To Moment Side 1 SQ Audiophile

Al Jarreau-This Time Side 2 SQ*

Zoot Sims-And The Gershwin Brothers Side 2 SQ Audiophile

Moving on from Valerie Joyce(CD) I kept the cool jazz theme. With 6/8 Audiophile SQ recordings provided a great evening of SQ and content! SQ* Connor/Jarreau were a notch below the others in SQ. Difficult picking an SQ winner tonight but Maynard takes the SQ Crown due to the recording being dynamic and relaxed simultaneously. Portuguese Love is one of the standout tracks on this overlooked recording.

@bslon - Budgie / Bandolier

Dig it! Good on you. I'm a Budgie fan since the '70's.

Bob Dylan - Bringing it All Back Home

Columbia repress 1972, originally 1965

Iron Butterfly / In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida 
2019 MFSL RE #910 of 3000, orig. 1968

More Hammond and lots of drums on the title cut

Iron Butterfly / Ball
1969 Atlantic

Cool Hammond organ sound on this and Steppenwolf’s album, popular back in the day with a lot of rock bands…gatefold shown

Sir John Barbirolli conducts Vaughan Williams

  • A London Symphony

Hallé Orchestra
Angel, 1968
 

 

Sir Adrian Boult conducts Vaughan Williams

  • Symphony No. 6 In E Minor
  • The Lark Ascending. 

New Philharmonia Orchestra with Hugh Bean, violin. 
Angel 1968
 

 

Sir John Barbirolli conducts Vaughan Williams

  • Symphony No.5 In D Major

Philharmonia Orchestra
Angel 1962
 

Leonard Bernstein conducts Vaughan Williams

  • Symphony No. 4 In F Minor
  • Serenade To Music. 

The New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Columbia Masterworks 1968
 

 

Richard Hickox conducts Vaughan Williams 

  • Five Mystical Songs
  • Prelude On An Old Carol Tune
  • Prelude 49th Parallel
  • The Lark Ascending
  • The Running Set
  • Two Hymn Tune Preludes: I - Eventide; II - Dominus Regit Me
  • Sea Songs - Quick March

Northern Sinfonia with The Northern Sinfonia Chorus/Stephen Roberts baritone and Bradley Creswick, violin
Angel Eminence/EMI 1985 UK release 
 

 

Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Ives

  • Symphony No. 2

Concertgebouworkest
CBS Masterworks 1982
 

 

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Sir Adrian Boult conducts Vaughan Williams

  • Pastoral Symphony (No. 3)
  • In The Fen Country (Symphonic Impression)

New Philharmonia Orchestra
Angel 1968
 

 

DEVO / oh, no! it’s DEVO
1982 Warner Bros.

This is fun stuff…music, lyrics, sonics

jacobites, robespierre's velvet basement--hadn't listened to this in a long while, but it's something of a classic, with that shambolic loose feel you can't fake

graham parker, another gray area--he's a surly guy who screwed himself commercially and musically by abandoning the hard edge of "squeezing out sparks." that said, he remained an ace songwriter and this is better than i remember.

the church, heyday--a lot of their records are more about the sonics than the songs, but this one is full of tight hooky tunes, including their best-ever, "tantalized"

Eric Clapton / 461 Ocean Boulevard 
1974 RSO

Yes, it has the hit “I Shot The Sheriff” and then a great follow-up with side 2’s lineup and “Let It Grow”.

Hawkwind - Warrior On The Edge Of Time

2023 LP Gatefold New Mixes by Steven Wilson 

Atomhenge

 

A deep dive into nerd-dom, comparing my two pressings of the Byrds' Mr. Tambourine Man LP, one a two-eyed initial pressing (complete with an ancient Columbia Records soft clear plastic sleeve) and the other a later no-eyed pressing in a paper sleeve. The earlier pressing has less punch but better midrange tonality. The later pressing has more punch but not quite the original's beautiful tone.

Michael Tilson Thomas conducts

Piston

  • Symphony No. 2

Schuman

  • Concerto For Violin And Orchestra

Boston Symphony Orchestra w/Paul Zukofsky, violin
Deutsche Grammophon 1971, German release