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George is Mr beautiful, I always enjoyed his playing especially with Art Pepper. I was listening to him playing with Jay Cayton on "Brooklin 2000" last night, his solo on "Young and foolish" is mind blowing George get well, I want to hear you some more.

Norma Winstone with Stan Tracey and Bobby Wellins Amoroso ........... Only More So Simply beautiful

Nobody mentioned French pianist, composer, conductor, arranger Antoine Herve!??? I really enjoy his live recording with trumpeter Markus Stockhausen. (the son of the famous Stockhausen)

Give me Martial Solal any time!

Check the Tivoli speakers, they are pretty small but bigger than Boses. 50$ each and they sound much better than the Boses here is the link http://www.tivoliaudio.com/product.php?pro...=263&page=1

Another stunning sounding SACD Les violons du Roy "Piazolla" maybe my best out of 50 or so.

For that reason, few of the duet recordings would make my list of favorite Mal Waldron (or Steve Lacy, for that matter). On the other hand, I absolutely love Hard Talk and One Upmanship.

What kind of music is that?? Thanks jazz1

In theory the more money you spend, the less impact the device playing the record will have on hearing the music on the record: less rumble from motors, less ambient vibrations affecting the sound, a better cartridge to translate those grooves more accurately into music. Music for the money I would go vintage. There were some incredible turntables made in the 70's that were designed to last a lifetime plus. I am very lucky in that my local dealer will let me test drive everything, so I have a chance to make sure it works and that the price is reasonable. Currently I am deeply in love with my new 1970's Thorens TD-125 MkII. For about $300 bucks with a nice Shure V15 cartridge it is hard to imagine any thing new for this price ever coming close in qualilty. I know two guys that make part of their living picking up used tables and amps through the want ads and garage sales and turning them for a profit. So there is lots of good used stuff out there. Bill I agree, unless you have a very high end system a vintage turntable like the Thorens is a great option, the model to consider are the TD124, TD125,TD160 or even better TD160 Super, just make sure they are in good working condition. Then it would be nice to find one of the above turntable fitted with a SME3 arm, and the Shure V15 Mk cartridge is hard to beat and being a moving magnet would not require any head amp. These particular Thorens turntables are very well made and should last a life time. Another option is a Linn Sondek lp 12 but they are more tricky to get to work well. Ok, and how difficult is it to find *that* combination in good working condition for a fair price? The Thorens/SME arm and Shure cartridges where standard combinations thus it should not be impossible. A little searching will obviously be necessary.

In theory the more money you spend, the less impact the device playing the record will have on hearing the music on the record: less rumble from motors, less ambient vibrations affecting the sound, a better cartridge to translate those grooves more accurately into music. Music for the money I would go vintage. There were some incredible turntables made in the 70's that were designed to last a lifetime plus. I am very lucky in that my local dealer will let me test drive everything, so I have a chance to make sure it works and that the price is reasonable. Currently I am deeply in love with my new 1970's Thorens TD-125 MkII. For about $300 bucks with a nice Shure V15 cartridge it is hard to imagine any thing new for this price ever coming close in qualilty. I know two guys that make part of their living picking up used tables and amps through the want ads and garage sales and turning them for a profit. So there is lots of good used stuff out there. Bill I agree, unless you have a very high end system a vintage turntable like the Thorens is a great option, the model to consider are the TD124, TD125,TD160 or even better TD160 Super, just make sure they are in good working condition. Then it would be nice to find one of the above turntable fitted with a SME3 arm, and the Shure V15 Mk cartridge is hard to beat and being a moving magnet would not require any head amp. These particular Thorens turntables are very well made and should last a life time. Another option is a Linn Sondek lp 12 but they are more tricky to get to work well.

Been enjoying a cd by Portuguese guitar player Joel Xavier. The cd in question "Lisboa" is your typical jazz guitar/bass/drums affair but with the Portuguese touch. Toots Thielemans is a guest on one track, and Carlos Carmo sings a nice Fado on another. Wondering if anybody can recommend another cd by Joel Xavier? BTW: the recording is first class. You can check his credential on http://www.joelxavier.com/default2.htm

Just bought the latest Carol Sloane "Dearest Duke" cd, not only it is great musically but the recording is astounding, this is real demo quality stuff. Boston based Peter Kontrimas is the recording engineer. I always admired his work but on this one he excelled himself. Coming back to the music which is mostly ballads written by Ellington, the instrumentation is lovely, just voice, piano, and sax or cl. Carol Sloane is one of the few true great jazz singer around these day. It is on Arbor records. Really worth seeking.

I use to have a lp (direct cut) issued by RealTime of Spanish Flamenco music, it was stunning, one of the most realistic recording I ever heard. Is Real Time out of business??

Thanks, it is on, a really lovely photo. In case you wonder, this dog was voted the ugliest in the world The poor thing died yesterday 14 years old.

Did upload a lovely photo, now how do I make it my avatar??

After months of listening to various versions, I settled for the Brendel, as I felt that it was the best compromise performanse and sound wise. It is actually wonderful. But I still enjoy the crazy interpretations of John Ogdon.

His name was John Ogdon, not Ogden.

Holy shit!!! 8 x 15" bass driver !!! that must really shake your house. Are you an organ freak?? that would be perfect for it. And I thought that I had big bass with 4 x 8" It could shake the house, but we choose to rarely shake it! These speakers were installed by the guy who built the house. He was a retired dentist with MS, confined to a wheelchair, whose joy in life was listening to his 50,000+ classical LP collection on this system. He had an entire wall of the bedroom made into built in LP racks, too. My wife wants to move out of the house, into a nicer house, which I can't argue with. I am trying to figure out whether this speaker system is notable enough to make it worth taking it out of the walls and installing it in whatever new house we buy. Any opinions on that? I would really appreciate all of your input. 20 years ago I had 2 x15 " speakers build in the wall, then a separate box handling the mid and treble, although the bottom end was very realistic the sound was pretty coloured compared to some of today modern loudspeakers. Then again to get a loudspeaker to move air anddecent bottom end (30 hz) it is quite expansive I would imagine 6000$ plus. I built my own using the best drivers money can buy and lots of trial and error with the crossover, it took me nearly 2 years to get right but it was worth it To get something similar to what I build would cost close to 30000$ and it only cost me 4500$ + lot's of my own time and labor. I used 8" Audio Technology drive units (4) they move enough air to listen to big orchestral work realistically. I am very happy and the speakers are relatively small 9" wide 42" tall and 16" deep. If you like big sound (you have big sound) check out http://www.me-geithain.de/ these East German guys make one of the most realistic sounding speaker there is (15000$) for a pair of RL 901 which includes 2 x 16" bass drivers. The big plus is that they are active thus you save on the amps. These are units with very good reflection control characteristics (both for high AND low frequencies - the latter is a unique engineering feat in the audio world), so easy to control in a normal living room The big minus, they are the ugliest speakers I have ever seen. Still highly recommended. They are a few reviews on the net. So here is some food for thoughts.

Holy shit!!! 8 x 15" bass driver !!! that must really shake your house. Are you an organ freak?? that would be perfect for it. And I thought that I had big bass with 4 x 8"

I have a spare copy of Cool Heat I do not need as it is on the Mosaic box. I'll swop for something nice, give me some ideas jazz1

Which of you lps or cds have an exceptional audio quality. This should preferably be an exceptional performance as well. I can name a few, 1) Position Alpha "The great sound of sound" 2) Patricia Barber "Verses" 3) Frank Kimbrough "Play" 4) Dinah Shore "Sings with Andre Previn" (Remastered) 5) The intimate June Christy 6) Arne Domnerus "Antiphone blues" IMHO all of these are of demo quality soundwise and the music is pretty good.

The Abashiri concert is also fantastic, but listening on line Vol 2 audio quality did not seem that good?? I tend to be too facy I like good music with good sound. jazz1