Streaming "Niagara (ST)" right now. This will have to go on my LP shortlist. @bkeske you should check it out. I think you would like it.
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Steve, I have a 1974 record club pressing of that album. I didn't get a chance to compare them back to back but the Japan pressing sounds really good. One of the warmest Japanese imports that I've heard and in NM condition.
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Lyle Lovett and His Large Band.
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Grateful Dead (Skull and Roses)
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@boxer12
Streaming "Niagara (ST)" right now. This will have to go on my LP shortlist. @bkeske you should check it out. I think you would like it.
Thanks Tim, I'll check them out.
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Chris Botti Live, Wonderful songs and one of the best, if not the best sounding trumpet recordings out there. Silk….
Bernard Allison- Chills & Thrills, great sounding recording and some fabulous Texas blues!
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@oldsounguy "Chris Botti Live, Wonderful songs and one of the best, if not the best sounding trumpet recordings out there. Silk…."
Truly great performances. I liked the Blu-ray with its beautiful visuals. My favorite was Look of Love with Burt Bacharach on the piano.
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Arrived today,
Ryan Bingham "Live"
2016/Axster Bingham Records
Boz Scaggs "Dig"
2006/Gray Cat Records
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+1 Dig. Check the LF on “Thanks To You” Steve, oh yeah!
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The Dry Throat Five – Who's Blue? (Stomp Off 1985)
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Marin Marais, Charles Dollé, Jacques Morel – Marin Marais and the French Solo Viol Tradition (Musical Heritage Society 1977)
Discogs photo - cover on my copy is NM
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Mud Acres – Music Among Friends (Rounder 1972)
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Britten Conducts English Music For Strings
- Purcell - Chacony In G Minor For Strings
- Elgar - Introduction And Allegro For Strings, Op. 47
- Britten - Simple Symphony For String Orchestra
- Delius - Two Aquarelles
- Bridge - "Sir Roger De Coverly" For String Orchestra
English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Britten
London 1969
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Josh White – Sings Ballads - Blues (Elektra 1957 mono)
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Josh White – Josh At Midnight (Elektra 1956 mono)
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Britten - Early Chamber Music
The Gabrieli String Quartet w/Derek Wickens; obo, John Constable; piano, Kenneth Essex; viola
- Temporal Variations
- Phantasy In F Minor (For String Quintet)
- Alla Marcia
- Three Divertimenti
- Two Insect Pieces
- Phantasy Quartet Op. 2 (For Oboe And Strings)
Unicorn-Kanchana 1983
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Eddie Condon, Wild Bill Davison, Ken Davern, Dick Wellstood, Gene Krupa – Jazz At The New School Live (Chiaroscuro 1972)
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Jeff Beck - Truth. This is a Friday Music reissue. It sounds surprisingly good.
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Lousy rainy weekend, so I listened to all 8 sides of Handel's Messiah. - in one sitting lol. It's an old pressing I got from a friend - I have 2 other box sets that I have not listened to. This was on Composer's Concept Series. The London Philharmonic Choir with the London Orch. Walter Susskind conductor. Recorded in London at St. Mary Magdalene in Paddington 1959. Included was a booklet that talked about Handel, the conductor, the orchestra, and, believe it or not, the engineers and the microphones they used. Great performance, and I can't believe I actually listened to this. Will give it another listen. LOVED it.
Also
Diana Krall - Live in Paris - ORG 45 rpm - WOW - great recording and performance - Original mastering by Doug Sax, engineering by Al Schmidt, Bernie Grandma did vinyl mastering for 45 rpm - she got the best of the best on this.
Eric Clapton - Nothing But the Blues - LIveNov 1994 at the Fillmore, SF. Great performance and some excellent solos by EC.
Pat Metheny - Side Eye NYC - VG live performance post Lyle Mays.
Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine in Concert - MoFi. Miles - love him.
BBM - Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, Gary Moore - another WOW. I got this mostly for GM - I think he is very underrated.
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Members of The Vienna Octet :
- Britten - Sinfonietta, Op. 1
- Hindemith - Octet (1957–58)
London, London Treasury Series 1976 reissue, originally 1965
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@dmk_calgary
😉👍🏼 Nice, that’s the way to do it. I have a few opera box sets I need a weekend like that to dedicate the spinning of the complete opera to.
Lousy rainy weekend, so I listened to all 8 sides of Handel's Messiah. - in one sitting lol. It's an old pressing I got from a friend - I have 2 other box sets that I have not listened to. This was on Composer's Concept Series. The London Philharmonic Choir with the London Orch. Walter Susskind conductor. Recorded in London at St. Mary Magdalene in Paddington 1959. Included was a booklet that talked about Handel, the conductor, the orchestra, and, believe it or not, the engineers and the microphones they used. Great performance, and I can't believe I actually listened to this. Will give it another listen. LOVED it.
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Wooden Wand – Death Seat (Young God 2010)
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I agree that Gary Moore is underrated. He is excellent!
Boz Scaggs, the album Dig, does have some really deep bass. In fact, I am going to be using that in the mix for breaking the drivers on my new speakers.
Good news, FINALLY!!! They are shipping to me from Ferndale, WA. Should arrive somewhere between Friday and Tuesday. I'll check the tracking on Wednesday as they just had the shipping label created today and are scheduled to be picked up at Daedalus Audio on Tuesday.
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First Aid Kit – The Lion's Roar (Wichita 2012)
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Patricia Barber / Modern Cool
1998 Premonition Records
Mastered by Greg Calbi at Masterdisc directly from the analog master tapes, nice.
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Janis Ian / Breaking Silence
1993 Analogue Productions #4741
Beautiful album, a high rez analog reference disc.
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Heres hoping those speakers arrived unscathed Joel.
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Patricia Barber / café blue
2019 Premonition/Impex 1Step 45rpm, orig. 1994
Definitely a reference, super quiet vinyl…
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Jennifer Warnes / famousblueraincoat
2015 Porchlight/Impex, orig. 1986
Ladies Night here tonight, spinning some great sounding records!
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@bslon Impex is one of the very best labels for producing superior quality products in materials and sonics. Available now for pre-order is the new (from Impex) Patricia Barber album 45rpm 2-disc set, made in the 1Step format in the same packaging as Cafe Blue. Expensive, but worth it! I already have one on preorder. I thought that you may want to know.
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I forgot to mention the name of the album. It's "Nightclub".
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Yes, thanks @mammothguy54 for letting me know. I get notifications from several online vendors (Acoustic Sounds, Elusive Disc, Music Direct, MFSL, my LRS) on new releases/reissues which make it easy for me to keep up! 😛
Even at that I miss some, so thank you. I do agree on those Impex pressings, they’re about as good as it gets. I too have Nightclub on preorder, it should be interesting—all classic cover songs.
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BTW, when I got my copy of Café Blue from Elusive Disc, disc 1 had a bit of static which I complained to them about in an email. They quickly sent a replacement disc 1 and didn’t ask me to return the defective. Fantastic customer service!
P.S. Congrats on the new loudspeakers!
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I had a similar experience with Folk Singer 45rpm that I bought from Acoustic Sound. They handled the situation in the same manner. I gave the "defective disc" to my brother-in-law. His system is a decent mid-fi and the issue on the disc was no problem when played on it. Acoustic Sounds and Elusive Disc are class act retailers. At this point I have reservations about Music Direct. They have always done me right but knowing now that they buried the DSD information with MoFi products (Music Direct owns MoFi and knows first-hand what was going on) has me thinking a little differently about them.
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That is great news Joel! Please keep us updated on performance once they arrive.
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Recent arrivals
The Mountain Goats "Bleed Out"
2022/Merge.
Travis "The Invisible Band"
Craft Recordings/1st time on vinyl
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Last Night:
Ennio Morricone- The Mission (Soundtrack)
Anthony Philips - The Geese and the Ghost
Dead Can Dance - Aion
Gentle Giant - Octopus
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
The Perth County Conspiracy- Alive
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Tears For Fears / The Hurting
1983 Mercury
Great album, content and SQ
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Gary Myrick And The Figures / S-T
1980 Epic
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Joe Jackson / Look Sharp!
1979 A&M
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@bslon +1
Joe Jackson from 1979-89 was nearly flawless with content and recording SQ.
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The Best Of The Grateful Dead - What A Long Strange Trip It's Been.
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@dayglow
Joe Jackson from 1979-89 was nearly flawless with content and recording SQ.
I think so too, have several of his LPs but sorta lost interest after Blaze Of Glory (1989)
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Mehta conducts Bruckner - Symphony No. 9 In D-Minor. Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. London, 1965
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