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| Big Jazz Band Music with Great Sound Sounds like you prefer a more traditional big band sound (Swing). Count Basie’s band was one of the greatest; some would say the greatest. Two recordings with truly outstanding sound: -“88 Basie Street” , “Me and You”. You may also check out... | |
| George Kaye Thanks for the spell check @bdp24 😊 @unreceivedogma , as you obviously know OTL’s are great with high impedance loads. The Stax are a very difficult load. From 40-800 hz their impedance is 100+ ohms. Limited bass and volume, but if midrange is... | |
| George Kaye If I’m not mistaken it was the infamous Harvery “Gizmo” Rosenberg who founded NYAL. George worked for NYAL and later kept the brand name. | |
| George Kaye @unreceivedogma , I still have the pair of Stax F81’s that I always hoped would be able to drive with a pair of Futterman’s. Best midrange and small(er) scale soundstaging I have ever heard. RIP, George. | |
| George Kaye Very sad to learn this. Excellent player he was! Not mentioned in his obit is that he also spent a fairly long stint as saxophonist Houston Person’s bassist. I got to know George years ago when I would make periodic trips from my home in Brookly... | |
| Help me build up a jazz album collection. Can you suggest a must have album? Which Miles and Coltrane recordings do you have and do you like them? If not, why not? Of the artists that you mention, Miles and Coltrane were the only ones who ventured outside of what can be called “mainstream”. This would help offer suggestion... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I get it. The MJQ’s style is of a particular aesthetic. A particular sense of swing and emphasis on a compositional style evoking Baroque Classical music. For me it pushes some of the same buttons as some West Coast Jazz does, Brubeck, Mulligan... | |
| Jazz for aficionados And let’s not forget Milt’s recording’s with the Modern Jazz Quartet. Interesting mix of swinging Jazz and Baroque style canons and fugues. https://youtu.be/7qOTELKw6p0?si=echcV-cbkwvxG97- | |
| Jazz for aficionados @stuartk , no, it’s Marcel Daniels, not credited on the clip’s personnel list. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Re Milt Jackson, here’s one: https://youtu.be/CsYm8rUNO4k?si=hOS6VoDBp4MIXQH5 | |
| Roberta Flack Sad news. Lovely singer. RIP https://youtu.be/d8_fLu2yrP4 | |
| Sinatra Watertown Great record! From one of the greatest singers of all time. From a more subjective point of view, as one professional reviewer I once read correctly points out, Sinatra was much more than the “tough guy image” that he projected. What the reviewer ... | |
| Spiritual/soul jazz from early 70s and later. Agree about Shirley Scott. Her recordings with husband and tenor great Stanley Turrentine stand out for me. | |
| Spiritual/soul jazz from early 70s and later. For me, two different genres. Soul Jazz: funky with emphasis on the groove. Groove which has more of a straight, even eighth note feel as opposed to the typical Jazz “swing” feel where the upbeat is closer to the following downbeat, A few that ... | |
| Woodstock 1969, or 1967? I won’t comment on the issue of a personal posting style which seems to be rankling some, but I did find the “documentary” very interesting and educational as I did not have a good enough understanding of the history of the pre-Festival town of Wo... |