jazzbo

That's right, Phil learned from the pioneer, Vincent. . . .

I know there are hundreds of "crying shames" in the world of jazz and jazz collecting. . . . One recent one I am coming up against is the fact that legal matters or something is keeping Ahmad Jamal Argo and Cadet recordings from being reissued in toto. (Do I have that right?) What vinyl I have been able to find of these is just exhiliratingly beautiful. Jamal at this time had a rare version of virtuosity. He had technique spilling all out of him, but he had an editing mode on 100% and I guess I might be bold enough to say he had a genius for structure, conception, and swing. . . . I'm even afraid to find out what I don't yet have the way the reissues just aren't coming. Here's hoping one day, in the next decade or so, they'll see the light. . . .

Dang it Stefan! Between your sound endorsement and Kevin's revelation that the stereo version of On the Scene is used, I'll have to get this set sometime in the next few months. Here I was thinking I'd just ignore this one as I did the Moncur (for different reasons as well as the same reasons.)

Is this a trick question?

I love this too, and have been eager for #7. And since I'll get paid about that time as well, it's a nice synergy!

Well, my favorites aren't on this list. After a lot of listens, I've come to really like Blood on the Fields for its book and execution. And I really enjoy The Marciac Suite.

Since you're askin' I'd say get the Roost box set. I think it's da bomb. You'll get all the stuff with Horace, and you'll get some other great stuff as well.

I've got one of the first dozen or so sold of the PS300. Never have gone for the "multi-wave" upgrade.

Hmm. . . that could be it. Need to consider that one myself!

There are many claims to that queenly crown. Could this have been Hadda Brooks?

Sissies! Well, I do what I do. The sonic difference is quite noticeable to me, and worth it. My PS Audio Power Plant (ridiculously expensive machine that I love) shuts everything down at the slightest fluctuation of voltage, so I feel fine as far as that goes. And I have not really seen an appreciable difference in my electric bills either way. (I have considerably low electrical cost at home; I'm lucky that way!)

No inside scientific skinniness. . . . My technical support at work tells me it's best to leave the computer on, monitor off, they cite the same reason for leaving the computer on that you have heard. I kindof do half and half with my audio system. I really feel that the components DEFINITELY sound better if left on for a long time. And I leave my PS Audio Power Plant on constantly, and my cdplayer on constantly, but I don't leave my tube amplifier on constantly. I leave it on from Friday evening through Sunday evening. . . and boy does it sound good by Sunday evening. BUT as I don't get a chance to listen much during the week I turn it on and off in the morning and maybe on and off in the evening. The power tubes wear when on so if I left it on constantly I would be only using them for music for about 20 to 30 percent of their life on a good year! (That would be if I were single, which I'm not.) My cdplayer has tubes as well, but they are signal tubes only, and they really don't wear much with use in comparison to power tubes, so I just leave them on 24/7. I have not found a cd player that does NOT sound better if left on continuously. Same to my ears for solid state power amplifiers and preamplifiers, and I can really see no reason not to leave them on continuously. (Unless you are breaking them in; I've read that you are supposed to alternate having a component on and off in four to six hour stints when breaking in---more audio voodoo science, but it wouldn't surprise me if it were true.) My two cents.

It's my fault. I quit buying just every reissue that comes along; I'm not buying all the new remasterings that I could!

Yeah, I can hear that affinity. Thanks Jim. Check your mailbox at home. . .

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The music is fantastic. My favorite may actually be the unreleased session! The sound. . . well some of the set sounds better than other parts, but there is too much of the McMaster trebly signature for my tastes on more than half the discs.

I'm not generally using one, I'm mainly running a full blown digital listening operation in my main listening room. But I do have a Marantz receiver that has two very nice phono circuits within and a preamp out.

I don't listen to much rock at all any longer. I only have collected on cds for instance Hendrix, Cream, and some Traffic, and some others that may or may not be called "rock" such as Joni Mitchell and Rickie Lee Jones. I still have a lot of records. . . gathering layers of dust. I have though recently felt the urge (thanks to a thread here) to listen to some of the Grateful Dead recordings, especially the 1972 to 1975 ones, so I'll be looking into getting cheap copies of these. . . .

A question for the more musically trained: is there a chordal or other musical connection between "Up Up and Away" and say. . . "All the Things you Could Be if Sigmund Freud were your Mama". . . I mean "Anatomy". . . I mean "All the Things you Are"? I kindof hear an affinity of some sort. It may just be ME. Yes, that Saturday Morning is one BEAUTIFUL album!

I think Chuck may have some details. The gist of it I think may be that it was not a project he wanted to do but was convinced to do by the record company/producer. None of the material was an original composition of his. That said it's a good album because Randy never made a bad one!

This is his latest active campaign. Can't wait for these to be released. I preordered!

Jazzbo IS Lon Armstrong and they both recommend the Decware! The beauty of the Decware is that you don't NEED a preamp; you can run your source right into the amp and adjust volume. . . unless you have a turntable in use, in which case you'll need some form of phono preamp. I haven't used a preamp in five years and don't miss one. I get better sound without one than with one. Plus. . . I've heard two persons with Bottlehead preamps say they are rather noisy stock. . . so just thought I would mention that. Looking at the online instructions for the kit make me think even I MIGHT be able to assemble this. . . . https://athena.safe-order.net/decware/zkit02.htm

What I want to know is how did those two gals turn out so BEAUTIFUL?

I imagine the Select Weston sounds pretty good; I'm a big fan of Addey's work, and I have similar complaints with McMaster's. The United Artist two lp set sounds pretty darned good too, and you get a good chunk of "Destry Rides Again" on that which is not included on the Mosaic (and which I like.)

Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden, Fats Waller, Ray Nance, Billie Holiday, Hoagy Carmichael, Red Allen, Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald, Sara Vaughn, Una Mae Carlisle, Helen Merrill. . . . I've learned to like many jazz vocalists. I like Norah Jones as well, though I'd not necessarily call her primarily a jazz vocalist! They don't all sound like Cleo Laine. In fact the fact that they all sound like themselves is what makes them jazz singers in many ways. (And why I would understand Norah being placed in that camp for some of her work.)