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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Horace Silver Quintet - "Song For My Father" [Blue Note]Bill Evans Trio - "Portraits In Jazz" [Riverside]More piano! | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? 1's and 0's...Jim Hall - "Hallmarks: The Best Of" [Concord/Telarc 2CD '06] Collection from Milestone and Concord Jazz albums circa '71-'01Joe Henderson - "Page One" [Blue Note RVG ed. '63/'99] Wonderfully enjoyable set featuring Kenny Dorham and M... | |
| Movies that featured High End equipment TV comedy "30 Rock" often shows a pair of Revel Ultima Salon2's in Tracy Morgan's dressing room... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Thanks Emorrisiv. I have no doubt you can hear which polarity is correct with these LPs. My point was just that, given a fairly random distribution of labels, studios or locations, recording engineers, mastering labs, pressing plants etc., togethe... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Hi Emorrisiv. I'm fortunate (or cursed, depending on your viewpoint!) in that my preamp affords remote control of absolute phase, AKA polarity, from the listening position. I try to determine the best polarity setting for any recording before list... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Kaleidoscope - "Tangerine Dream" (Fontana UK '67/ Repertoire UK '05)Kaleidoscope - "Faintly Blowing" (Fontana UK '69/Repertoire UK '05)Fairfield Parlour - "From Home To Home" (Vertigo UK '70/Repertoire UK '04)Kaleidoscope - "The Sidekicks Sessions... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? SRC - S/T (Capitol '68)SRC - Milestones (Capitol '69)Jamme - S/T (Dunhill/Warlok '69)Fotomaker - S/T (Atlantic '78)George Shearing and the Montgomery Brothers - S/T (Jazzland '61)Marco Rizo - The Bossa Nova Sounds Of Marco Rizo (Somerset)Marian Mc... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Love "Undercurrent" Rushton, undeservedly overlooked minor gem, I think I listed it in this space when I discovered it a couple years back (older CD issue though, could've stood remastering)...since then I've gotten a couple other more recent Drew... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Catching up the vinyl stack while I can still lift it...James Moody - "Moody's Workshop" [Prestige]Eddie Harris - "Instant Death" [Atlantic]Ray Bryant Trio - "Gotta Travel On" [Cadet]Thelonius Monk Quintet - "5 By Monk By 5" [Riverside]The Byrds -... | |
| Girlfriends and wifes, how do YOU cope? Good god man, you want to annihilate this universe?! | |
| Girlfriends and wifes, how do YOU cope? Ha, that's a good one Albert, no basement!Yeah, no basement THAT ANYONE KNOWS ABOUT!!(Hope that wasn't too creepy in light of current events...or in the fact that it may tend to imply that your system isn't your REAL system...Just imagine that!) | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Further researching my little CTI RVG jag here, I dug out Thomas Conrad's overview in Stereophile of five Epic/Legacy-CTI remastered CD reissues from the July '02 issue, all recorded by Van Gelder in the early to mid 70's (but not remastered by hi... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Okay, so maybe Milt Jackson's "Olinga" ('74), awful as it sounds, wasn't an exceptionally bad-sounding RVG record of the period after all...I pulled out two other CTI RVGs for comparison: Soprano saxophonist Joe Farrell's "Moon Germs" ('72), with ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Bob Brookmeyer/Jim Hall/Jimmy Raney - "The Street Swingers" [World Pacific] Two-guitar lineup features Brookmeyer switching off between piano and the valve trombone he made his name on. (He also penned the conspicuously wordy liners.) With Bill Cr... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Love:LoveDa CapoForever Changes (all Elektra)Last night saw Johnny Echols, original Love lead guitarist, with Baby Lemonade touring as Love in memorium to late leader/singer/chief songwriter the legendary Arthur Lee.This tour has had epic bad luck... |