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| Kind of Blue SACD on a whim. I’ll throw out these Miles albums as essential listening: the live album “Four & More” (which btw MoFi also issued an excellent-sounding version of); “E.S.P.”; and “Miles Smiles.” Miles Smiles can be initially hard to wrap one’s head around bu... | |
| Kind of Blue SACD on a whim. That MoFi Kind Of Blue was also released on 45 RPM vinyl format and there are a number of reviews on that specifically. May want to read those to get a flavor about the reception to MoFi’s Kind Of Blue release in general. I would also spring for t... | |
| Jazz listening: Is it about the music? Or is it about the sound? That “encyclopedic knowledge” of rock, pop and country that you refer to: I take it you say you have that because you can actually name the vast majority of the songs. That’s because all those songs have lyrics that give away the name of the song.... | |
| How does Donald Fagen do it? Kamakiriad didn’t grab me, at least initially, like Nightfly did. But it has grown on me over the years. The song Florida Room is killer. Anyone listened to the song Gaucho side-by-side vs. Keith Jarrett’s ‘Long As You Know You’re Living Yours, fr... | |
| How does Donald Fagen do it? https://sdarchive.com/dennys3.html | |
| Late Night Jazz Just listened to Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong’s “Ella and Louis.” Definitely fits the bill for Late Night Jazz. | |
| music: religious experience or background noise? Can’t speak for the OP, but in my post above, the word “critical” can be replaced with the word “attentive.” Both words mean the same thing in the context of my post above. | |
| music: religious experience or background noise? In my younger days I had more free time to listen critically and adhere to the “I’m not gonna listen unless it’s critical listening” mantra. But I’m working and raising a family so I am more apt to have music playing at times that I am unable to c... | |
| RIP - Aretha Franklin She died over 2 years ago. Still sad nonetheless. | |
| Is Modern Jazz an Oxymoron? Long-time Jazz listener. I love the old Blue Note (and similar-era) albums but my need to discover and listen to those has peaked. Same with 70’s fusion. Always searching and manage to find something, even post-80’s. But I’ll bet if I stratified m... | |
| What’s your top 5 Christmas albums ? Around 130 Christmas albums in my collection, currently. It is hard for me to pick a Top 5. However, it is easy for me to pick The Top One: The Magic Of Christmas by The Soulful Strings. This album has the most inventive and catchy arrangements (w... | |
| moody soundtracks Sideways; Ocean’s Eleven & Twelve; The Gauntlet; Dirty Harry; The Exorcist; Home Alone; Star Wars. | |
| My Oppo is a bit too bright Try feeding an external usb drive directly into the Oppo playing .wav files. That is how it sounds best in my system; beats spinning a disc and .flac format. Never found the 105 to be bright under that configuration. If anything, there’s a slight ... | |
| Guilty pleasures? A new version of an old question...Dark Side... Yes, have quite a bit of easy listening titles that were issued on the London Phase 4 label. Nothing wrong with it. | |
| Best sounding concert dvds Dejohnette/Holland/Hancock/Metheny: In Concert - Recorded Live At The Mellon Jazz Festival |