chowkwan
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| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? Not to start a flame war, but @stuartk, is Ravel's Piano Concerto jazz? https://www.you_tube.com/watch?v=cJOW5mlhH_Y * remove underscore in word youtube. ** what a rare and delicate treat for the laureates! | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? @tylermunns You are alright if you like country. For those unaware of what @tylermunns is talking about: I do believe the gentleman you're talking about is not Jerry Jeff but Waylon. Y'know I just purely cannot resist. | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? @tylermunns the songs of Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Harold Arlen, Rodgers & Hart, Irving Berlin, Rodgers & Hammerstein, etc. These are some of the greatest pop songwriters in history, but not what I would call jazz. Substitu... | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? These categories were invented by the salespeople at record companies so minimum wage store clerks would know into which bins to stick the records. With digital freeing us from physical storage everything can be reduced to two categories: good mus... | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? @skyscraper Both he (Lester Young), Coltrane and Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins are my all time sax favorites, all geniuses in their own right, just like Ella and Billie in theirs. Prolly going to ignite yet another flame war, but what about Son... | |
| How many speakers and AMPS do you own, and why? Oh wait the topic was speakers and amps. 1. Eminent Tech Super LFT8 and Manley Lab 440. 2. Gallo Nucleus Reference and Manley Stingray 3. Replica JBL Hartsfield and VTL 500 | |
| A perfect song? What are your choices? Puccini's Vissi d'arte. Superhuman voices. Ortofon named its top cartridge the Anna after this lady. | |
| Your last concert was to see who and when? 09 May 2022 Figaro at Vienna State Opera The orchestra was loud Bengtsonn was a ravishing Countess | |
| 80 years old - Paul McCartney & Brian Wilson Caught the Who at the Santa Barbara Bowl a few years ago. They are in their 70's. Still great. Townsend doesn't leap around anymore but he did one hop at the end just to show he's still got it. Starkey is a credible replacement for Moon. Santana ... | |
| How many speakers and AMPS do you own, and why? Luv that Just One. The man must have a will of iron. I had just one turntable a VPI TNT One and a Versa 1.2. Oh wait ... I had just two turntables both from the last century and then Upscale got me with a sale on the VPI Avenger with printed arm... | |
| VPI Fatboys versus others in its' tonearm weight class. There is more variation between cartridges than between arms so you're better off putting yr money into trying a different cartridge. I have a VPI TNT 1 with 9" JMW Memorial arm. Then Upscale got me with a sale on the VPI Avenger with printed... | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? @stuartk You do realize that you're describing your subjective experience here as though it were objective, right? You do realize you're not me so how do you know my subjective experience isn't objective, right? @stuartk I've played CDs that I... | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? @tylermunns To reduce an artist to a polarized representation of some manufactured binary makes no sense. One man's reduction is another man's observation. e.g. Steve Vai shredder extraordinaire, but to what end? Technique per se is OK viz Joh... | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? @edcyn. Now we're remembering Callas, she was an audiophile. At the end of her life, she spent her days listening to her old recordings on reel tape. Prolly master copies. There is a photo of her in her apartment with her tape machine but even the... | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? @danager. Re:clip of Tebaldi and Callas. Well you tried. More than that I cannot ask of any man. Or woman. They do say that the fastest way to empty a room at a hifi show is to put on some opera. Tebaldi was technically superior to Callas. Tebal... |