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| Jazz for aficionados Morgana King has been one of my favorite jazz singers for a long time. She had a four-octave contralto voice that carried a lot of emotion. Her most famous song "A Taste of Honey" https://www.google.com/search?q=morgana+king+a+taste+of+honey+yout... | |
| Movie/film suggestions. I had a 6' 9" Irish ex-rugby player staying at my house. He is a Richard Harris fan, so I streamed "This Sporting Life," which I had watched many years ago. It was a much more complex and interesting film than I had remembered. Recommended. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Isao Suzuki's "Orpheus," the best recorded album in my collection. But also a winner for pure enjoyment. Suzuki plays a double bass that will twang your woofers. https://www.google.com/search?q=isao+suzuki+orpheus&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS945US945&... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Yusef Lateef "Love Song From Spartacus," a gorgeous melody taken from the ballet written by Aram Khachaturian, off Lateef's great "Eastern Sounds" album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhqQFs7huwU | |
| How large (or small) is the audiophile market? I would think about the amount of audiophiles worldwide. The reason I say this is that I have sold a lot of high-end used gear over ebay and at least a third of it has been shipped outside the country. My VPI TNT-3 went to Australia, believe it or... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @tyray, when stuartk told me about Wayne Shorter, I liked his album "Speak No Evil" so much I thought about buying it on vinyl. On Qobuz, however, it's recorded at 192 khz resolution. That's so close to vinyl there's no need. | |
| Jazz for aficionados On my turntable this morning a jazz album that has long been one of my favorites: Amarcord Nino Rota = I Remember Nino Rota (Interpretations Of Nino Rota's Music From The Films Of Federico Fellini) For Fellini fans or those with a European bent... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Looking over Absolute Sound's music reviews I came across Branford Marsalis's remake of Keith Jarrett's "Belonging." I loved Marsalis's take on "Belonging" and went back to Jarrett's "Belonging." I don't know how I've missed it before. Jarrett's o... | |
| Jazz for aficionados mahgister, first of all I think it is so cool you've read Richard Tarnas. And you are right, he did not talk about things in terms of masculine and feminine. That is why what I'm doing is so difficult. Nobody has really broken down our history by ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados acman3, it has taken me years of working on a book to try to get across my ideas on the Feminine Creative Spirit. I don't know how much you know about physics, but there is a concept called entropy. Basically, it says that forms will eventually di... | |
| Jazz for aficionados frogman, so funny that you're hip to the violist jokes. At the L.A. Phil we had a lead violist named Carrie Dennis. She must have been one of the best violists in the world. In her twenties she was chosen as the L.A. Phil's lead violist but she we... | |
| What type of speaker would sound better? I would say a high-end two way, especially if it has a decent sized woofer that can push a fair amount of air. I think, however, that you might want to add a few other variables. What kind of music do you listen to? How loud do you usually play it... | |
| Jazz for aficionados curiousjim, I like Sharel Cassidy. I'll stream one of her albums. | |
| Jazz for aficionados frogman, BTW, I have a number of Beethoven's string quartets on vinyl. His last ones sound as though they were written in the 20th century. I have no idea how he was able to make those musical leaps. I heard one of his early piano sonatas played l... | |
| Jazz for aficionados frogman, thank you for the long post responding to my various posts. You have more of an understanding of the structure of music and a vocabulary to discuss it than I ever will. I think that also helps with an appreciation of music, but I’ve loved... |