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Stefan Wood

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  1. No, it is a completely unissued session.
  2. I don't think so. I use Airfoil.
  3. On the Airport Express Base station there is a single analogue/optical jack that one can connect to the stereo, using a 'Y" adapter/cable splitter.
  4. I like Fritz, but holy cow, that's a bit much. Now if someone would do a Scherchen, I'm in!
  5. I use Vox, not itunes. I plug the Airport directly into the input jacks of my integrated amp (can't remember that particular connection wire scheme).
  6. But do you think they are taking big risks? The kind of risks that have huge payoffs a lot of the time but can also result in big mistakes/train wrecks? Yes? No? Maybe? Sometimes? If opportunity presents itself? Size of reward not always related to size of risk? Surviving is the biggest risk of all? Exactly Jim..... I think you described it well before I even tried to respond.... If any of the individual players are making choices that just fuck everything up, we are certainly not hearing it overtly in that way..... My initial impression of the group was they all waited with baited breath to react to what Wayne did as opposed to say what Herbie Hancock did which was to create a mood for Wayne to play over. This created a stasis of sorts as no one really seemed to take charge or really even direct things but there would be these short peaks that would create some genuine excitement and then would quickly go back to where they started. They have made this their language though and over 12 years have refined it into more of a group improvisation thing that certainly has it's moments and is certainly more then that to those who find this sort of thing deep and enjoyable (to each his own of course). It's been 12 years and they have certainly evolved and taken the music somewhere. Since I guess we have all been listening to the 1969 Miles stuff though and I assume most here have heard most of that stuff from the beginning of the band until the end, for comparison sake (though not fair I guess), see how far that band went in 7 months time, how they morphed into an almost completely different sound in that short period of time in the course of finding their true group sound. I don't think that it is a fair comparison (Shorter's 2000s quartet to Miles' 60's groups, in whatever configuration). Different leader, different personalities, different stages in lives, etc.
  7. I've been streaming flacs from my mac mini to my stereo (via Airport) and have been extremely happy with this set up. To be able to play 24 bit files...
  8. Spot on. I would say the same. Boulez's version on Nonesuch would be a third.
  9. Flight for Four is a must purchase.
  10. Hmm... Pentagon CIty Mall or Tysons?
  11. Jim, I somehow overlooked this. Just contributed.
  12. Mix tapes were the best parts of the cassette era. As for it being "audiophile", that's another story.......
  13. Or Brooklyn from Queens.
  14. A Don Byas Mosaic. Yes, his stuff was reissued, throught mostly European labels, but if you can get Malcolm Addey's hands on them.......
  15. Dusty Groove has it (or had it; just checked their site, it is out of stock) Got my copy last Friday.
  16. The series has really hit its stride with this third season. I find it really engaging.
  17. 50 Miles is an excellent store. Quality items, through and through,
  18. I don't know that work too well but feel like if it had the Mosaic treatment, I'd learn it. Or whatever part of it I could learn. Believe me, that Hamilton group is worth learning. Seriously underrated.
  19. Chico. Hamilton. Complete. Impulse. Recordings.
  20. What does Sonny Fortune sound like on that one? Like Sonny Fortune, just less experienced. It's a nice hard bop album.
  21. The Stan Hunter is surprisingly good.
  22. ditto :tup
  23. Wish he had won it. But it is great that he was in the running.
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