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| Jazz Fans-- Name some of your favorite, less well known recordings The Cookers- Look Out. Bunch of old school guys (museum pieces?)*still playing hot, 3 sides, well made, cheap and not too out there. Released in the last week of Sept, 21.Cochemea- All My Relations- been out for a few years- Dap Kings horn player,... | |
| The Most Philosophical Song You Ever Heard Not necessarily the "most" philosophical but "Epitaph" on Crimson’s first album has some echoes in history. That Greg Lake is singing is a bonus. My best copy remains a first Island UK pink label, but it is somewhat noisy compared to other pressings. | |
| The extinction of human interaction takes yet another step forward... I’m deliberately going to keep my response limited to a couple of examples because the topic is a broad disturbing one that conjures up the worst dystopian visions and I want to avoid politics for obvious reasons.Once I retired from full time prac... | |
| Jazz Fans-- Name some of your favorite, less well known recordings If you like Gary Bartz, his album with Maisha, cut direct to disc and released in 2020 is a good playing thing- a band inspired by the older generation of players, they got Bartz-who was from the period- to join them. Sonically pretty nice and not... | |
| Audirvana Studio is hung up on "Loading First Track" Have you tried posting to the community forum at Audirvana? I find it more effective than emails and even if Damien doesn't weigh in, there are a number of knowledgeable users on that board that can help you.I sorted most of my problems with Studi... | |
| Sugden/Allnic or Luxman L-509X? I agree that spending money on a good phono stage may not be the best expenditure for now. The question then becomes a longer view look at what you hope to achieve; you learn that through listening, trials (hopefully few costly errors) and a budge... | |
| What are we going to do about Tele 12AU7 prices My usual rant is about people buying old desirable tubes as "NOS" that are used and pulled from other equipment. Nothing wrong with that, it’s cheaper to be sure, but you can run into issues sooner or later. Who knows how much life is in a tube th... | |
| Best phono stage for Lyra Etna SL cartridge? I thought the rule of thumb was X10 the internal impedance of the cartridge, but that isn't the only factor- I'd like to know what associated equipment you are using, since you can, by the choice of components, voice the system through the. cartri... | |
| Commander Cody Never heard the Commander live, but heard Bill Kirchen a million times, (well not quite) in NY, and here in Austin. His extended version of Hot Rod Lincoln is always a joy as is his playing trombone, among other instruments. If he was a guy in the... | |
| System building; a meditation @audiosatisficer said: "First, I don’t think one can put budget constraints to one side. They are the very first consideration, for the overwhelming majority of us, in system building."I agree that there are budget constraints even at astronomical... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? Sorry but have not read all the intervening posts. Interesting jazz, to me, ranges from the bass viol part on side 2 of "Marchin' On" by the Heath Bros on Strata-East to hearing yet another rendition of "Patricia" by Art Pepper, with Cecil McBee, ... | |
| What angle should I set the VTA on my VPI turntable? My final settings are done by ear, using a couple of well-known (at least to me) records including the well known flying fish record about which there is an article for using that record to set VTA. There are other records as well: I first heard t... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? Just like any other genre, it breaks down at a certain point. You could go into funk, or fusion, traditional or period, and within period (much respect to the players I mentioned above-- the people that made these recordings in many cases were the... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? @edcyn- +1.Bill Hart | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? Nice post, @deadhead1000- I don't think anyone seriously thinks they can convince a person to like a certain type of music, and the added difficulty with jazz (not quite as much as a factor with rock during its heyday) is that jazz performers appe... |