simonmoon
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| Jazz Fans-- Name some of your favorite, less well known recordings Here’s a few more.Jonathan Finlayson - one of the best contemporary trumpet players. Whether a sideman or leader, his playing is never boring, and his technique is as good as it gets. His latest release as a leader, 3 Times Round, was placed near ... | |
| Jazz Fans-- Name some of your favorite, less well known recordings I like the mention of Joanne Brackeen. She is pretty unknown and underappreciated. Those recordings of original material she did in the 80's were great. Ancient Dynasty, Special Identity Fi-Fi Goes to Heaven are pretty special.Unfortunately for my... | |
| Jazz Fans-- Name some of your favorite, less well known recordings I view jazz as an evolving living art form, and not a museum piece, so, I will try to focus my recommendations on recent artists and music. But i will still recommend some older stuff too, that I feel may be more obscure.It's not that I don't love... | |
| Blindfold Speaker testing I'm not sure if this is close to what the OP is referring to, but acoustic engineer, Floyd Toole has already performed blind tests at the Harman facilities in the LA area. https://www.stereophile.com/content/blind-listening-harman-international | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? King Crimson - Happy FamilySong about the breakup of the Beatles Judas- Paul McCartneyJonah- John LennonSilas- George HarrisonRufus- Ringo Starr Happy family, one hand clap, four went by and none come back.Brother Judas, ash and sack, swal... | |
| Music for setting up speakers I listened to some solo violin and cello, some folky vocals, some Led Zepp just because :0)maybe music where instruments are easily located ect I think you are on the right track listening to solo acoustic instruments. I would add some chamber ... | |
| What tracks offer the best left right separation? I guess it depends on whether you are looking for studio ’tricks’ for L R separation, things like Dark Side of the Moon are always highly thought of, as is Wish You Were Here. Yellow as previously mentioned contains a lot of the same sort of studi... | |
| What kind of music do you like to hear the most? To begin with, I am a fan of music that has all or most of the following attributes, in no particular order:High level of musicianshipComplexity (chord progressions, time signatures, harmonic structure, etc)Broad range of emotional content (positi... | |
| Favorite Guitar Solo It would be hard for me to come up with just one.So many of my favorite guitarists, Like Allan Holdsworth, John McLaughlin, Alex Machacek, Jan Zehrfeld etc. hardly ever play the same solo twice. They are improvisors, based on a deep knowledge of m... | |
| For auld lang syne, ..high-end companies you really liked that are gone.... Electron Kinetics and the amazing Eagle 7a amplifier. Built by the very eccentric John Iverson*.Fidelity Research moving coil phono cartridges.* seriously, Google Iverson for a very strange and mysterious story about him. His disappearance is stil... | |
| Second hand components that can still kick butt today Almost anything in Kenwood's "L" series of gear. This line was their late 70's through the 80's, assault on the US and the European high end market. And they were largely successful, at somewhat reasonable prices. The L-07m 150 watt mono amps (ori... | |
| Who is your overall favorite guitarist? I am very late to this thread, but naming an overall favorite is next to impossible for me. For example, Allan Holdsworth may be my favorite guitarist (his inventiveness, his technique, those otherworldly chords...), but I certainly wouldn’t want ... | |
| Revisiting a piece of underground prog rock Oh, and let me add, that I would not consider this an "underground" piece of prog. A solo album by any member of Genesis at the time, could not be underground. They were pretty mainstream at the time. After all, in the same year, there were a grea... | |
| Revisiting a piece of underground prog rock For sure.The side long, title track is very good. Not a masterpiece, by any stretch, but a great listen. And the drum work by Simon Philips is worth the price of admission. Not a fan of the other side. | |
| Renaissance Fans: great version Ashes are Burning live 1974 Yeah, I've noticed quite a few recently published live Renaissance vids on YouTube quite recently. All seen to be pretty good quality. |