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| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? There’s a first time for everything. After all these years of reading and appreciating Atmasphere’s excellent and very informative posts it happened: disagreement. **** Back in the old days when the SME5 was first made, there were only three top ... | |
| Classical music newbie needs your suggestions Many good suggestions. However, I would like to offer a different approach. You say you already own 600 Classical music recordings; half of which are opera. That’s a lot of music. Start out by listening to what you already have before spending a ... | |
| Classical music newbie needs your suggestions Puccini is a great place to start with opera. Btw, the opera “Carmen” is by Georges Bizet, not Puccini. For Puccini I would start with La Boheme. | |
| Confession: I only like Norah Jones because so many others told me to Norah Jones. Jazz singer?! “Darling of the Jazz press”?! Huh? I don’t think so. Don’t get me wrong I kind of like Norah Jones and some of her material may be a little “jazzy” at times, but a Jazz singer she is not. Perhaps that is part of ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados | |
| Roland Hanna - Jazz Pianist You’re welcome, Charles; glad you liked it. Great iteration of an iconic big band still going strong at the Village Vanguard. The reed section alone! Jerome Richardson, Jerry Dodgion, Joe Henderson, Eddie Daniels and Pepper Adams! | |
| Disappearing Jazz? 🙄 Not biting…. 😊 | |
| Roland Hanna - Jazz Pianist Great post, bigquery. It’s really not surprising. Like Jazz performance itself, the composition process is often a collaborative process. **** …. If you throw an idea out there, he’d take it and write it down.” **** It is interesting to note how... | |
| Disappearing Jazz? **** Jazz is not disappearing. It is progressing. **** Exactly! Although, I might change “progressing” to “evolving”. Whether it is progress or not can be very subjective. Jazz WILL evolve as this is the nature of the “beast”. It always builds on... | |
| Disappearing Jazz? As has been stated, Jazz is alive and well. Now, I think part of what may be shaping your sense of the state of and availability of Jazz is shown by your reference to “traditional Jazz”. What exactly is that? There is a tremendous amount of Jazz ... | |
| The character of analog and digital Charles, yeah, you’re probably right; a little (?) hyperbolic of me. I suppose that feeling that there is a “problem” at hand is not necessarily getting bent out of shape. Maybe it’s me that gets bent out of shape at the frequent complaining ab... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hadn’t planned on mentioning the cover art, but now that you mention the topic… Great cover art. Like that of your post, with a vibe very in keeping with the vibe of the music. I love this record. I post it a fraction of the times I listen to it... | |
| VPI HW-19 with Graham 1.5 arm Question/Suggestions May seem self serving you say “welcome back”, Miller ……but, welcome back. | |
| The character of analog and digital The answer is simple, be confident in your perceptions. One’s perception can be one’s truth. Why should it bother anyone that someone else may have a different perception of what truth is? Good grief, we’re talking about audio, not world hunger. ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados The saxophone was invented in 1846. Pretty primitive. Appropriate media 😊 |