stuartk
Responses from stuartk
| Most underrated female recording artists.. Jackie Ryan/Jazz with Latin influence Amy Helm/Americana (Levon's daughter) Linda Thompson/British Folk-Rock (I think her work with Richard is better than her own solo recordings) Courtney Marie Andrews/Contemporary Folk/Americana Singer-Song... | |
| What Is Most Important? @theaudioamp "To respond to the ops actual question, for ultimate enjoyment, being able to share it with other people. When you are your death bed, are you going to remember back fondly to that time you were sitting in your basement, alone, list... | |
| What Is Most Important? @panzrwagn "Engagement. If the system, modest or mammoth, engages you then it's all good. If for whatever reason it doesn't engage you, you'll never be happy" +1 | |
| Washington Post article on MoFi vs. Fremer vs. Esposito @big_greg "In my experience, it's been the Japanese SHM SACDs that are on the "bright side". All of the MFSL SACDs I have are much easier to listen to." +1 | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? @tylermunns Now you're just looking for a fight. You STILL do not get my point and I've lost patience trying to explain. I'm done. M | |
| Anyone Know of a Source for Plastic Sleeves that fit Two-Disc Digipaks????? No luck with the above suggested sources. Anyone else???????????? | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? @tylermunns "I consider jazz to be that singular, unique, original music of Parker, Gillespie, Davis, Monk, Coltrane, Mingus, Roach, we could go on and on, and further on into the ‘60s and ‘70s, Coleman, Taylor, Art Ensemble of Chicago, I could ... | |
| Anyone Know of a Source for Plastic Sleeves that fit Two-Disc Digipaks????? @johnto Thanks for the suggestion. | |
| Anyone Know of a Source for Plastic Sleeves that fit Two-Disc Digipaks????? @ericsch Thanks for the suggestion. I will take a look. | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? @rok2id "Jazz is a way of playing music." --- Jelly Roll Morton. (he should know) Which means all of the first Jazz tunes, were not Jazz, when written, but played in a Jazz style later" Yes! This is exactly what I was attempting to conve... | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? @frogman "For me an even more interesting question is why, when considering artists in the admittedly very small group at the very top level of excellence, some listeners feel the need to declare one or the other “the best” as if that opinion is... | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? @chowkwan "I stand back to no one in my admiration for Ella Fitzgerald's technique but all the vocal fireworks make for precious little emotion. Billie Holiday on the other hand makes you feel she's singing just for you." You do realize that yo... | |
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear Argus is a great one! Mine is "Annunciation" by the Subdudes, a band with a sound somewhere between Little Feat and The Band. | |
| what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original? @dayglow I can't fault the musicianship of House of Lord's cover but as I perceive them, the two versions are very different in terms of the emotional aspect. There's an "epic", "triumphant" quality to H. O. L's version that is very different f... | |
| Help Of course, the sibilance is in the recordings but something is exaggerating it. |