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| List some of your favorite live Jazz recordings Johnathan Blake "Trion" (Blake, drums; Chris Potter, tenor sax; Linda May Han Oh, bass--killer band!) John Coltrane "Afro Blue Impressions" (Classic quartet live in Europe. I grew up on this album. Music gets no better.) Brad Mehldau "The Art of... | |
| And the best jazz albums of 2022 were…? Bill Frisell "Four": Understated and beautiful. Micah Thomas "Piano Solo": He's a monster. Harish Raghavan "In Tense": Esp. the last two tracks. Domi & JD Beck "Not Tight": The future of jazz? Tomasz Dabrowski & The Individual Beings:... | |
| Favourite Guitarists Some of the best young jazz guitarists to check out: Mary Halvorson Lionel Loueke Gilad Heckselman Charles Altura Miles Okazaki Lage Lund Matthew Stevens Mike Moreno Julian Lage Nir Felder (I probably forgot someone.) | |
| Candidates for best speakers in the $2000-5000 market Kef LS60--if you're interested in music more than tinkering with components. Active speakers are state of the art audio technology. No need to buy anything else. | |
| Active Speakers Better? No, per Michael Borresen Speaker engineers, unlike audiophiles, are in no position to discount the advantages of active speakers. Andrew Jones tells us that in actives: Each amplifier is matched to the driver, and only has to operate over a limited frequency range. It’s... | |
| a remarkably basic question about Roon Roon also has a good crossfeed feature if you ever listen on headphones. (It's why I subscribe.) | |
| The Return of Live Music I'm lucky enough to have seen Wayne Shorter a bunch of times, from his time with Weather Report on through to his most recent quartet. I've been watching the NYC clubs and they don't seem to be opening up. The Village Vanguard in particular has po... | |
| The Return of Live Music Organizing travel around music events is a great idea. | |
| The Return of Live Music My plan is to travel to New York in October for the jazz clubs, but I'm not positive they'll be open. | |
| Roon - 10 Things You Don't Know Thank you! An informative and well-produced video. Keep 'em coming. | |
| What speakers are shown in the movie The Counselor? I was surprised to see Meridian speakers in "Date Night." I don't think they say much about Mark Ruffalo's character, although they do seem to be in his man cave. Did Meridian do a lot of product placement 10 years ago? https://www.youtube.com/wat... | |
| Why do some think "music" (not gear, trading, etc.) is the ultimate end? The experience of great music can be divorced from pleasure. Bono (of U2) fame, tells a story of listening to "A Love Supreme" over and over, trying to work his way into the music. He sensed something good was there, but it took him time to access... | |
| Why do some think "music" (not gear, trading, etc.) is the ultimate end? It's backwards to say we value music because we enjoy it. Rather, we enjoy music because it's valuable. The pleasure or enjoyment is a result of being in the presence of something beautiful or meaningful or important. Think about how music affects... | |
| Is Modern Jazz an Oxymoron? There is so much good new jazz out there that it's impossible to keep up with it all, esp. with Tidal at one's fingertips.I'm enjoying Yazz Ahmed's latest, she can play the trumpet, and Thana Alexa's "Ona" is interesting too. The rhythm section is... | |
| Which Would You Prefer Received opinion seems to be that actives with digital sound processing and cardioid sound radiation are the wave of the future--e.g., Kii Three and Dutch & Dutch 8c loudspeakers.Apparently active speakers never took off (until recently) becau... |