So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Rabshakeh]

September – Zadnja Avantura

A recommendation from the Euro Fusion thread. 

[John Tapscott]

[jazzcorner]

50 minutes ago, John Tapscott said:

💗 😁

20 hours ago, HutchFan said:

 

 

Excellent box 👍

 

 

[jazzbo]

Xanadu All Stars “Xanadu in Africa–Night Flight from Dakar” disc 2

 

 

 

[mjazzg]

12 hours ago, BFrank said:

Pretty excellent

Definitely agree. It's a fine band

7 hours ago, jazzbo said:

A cool still morning. Going to be a beautiful day!

Starting off with

Lauren Henderson “Sombras” Brontosaurus Music cd

 

 

This is the first I’ve heard Ms Henderson, bought because Joel Ross is part of the supporting quartet. Wow, what a graceful phrasing and voice that draws one in. Such a pity her other albums are so expensive to collect!

 

 

 

New to me too but it sounds very good on initial acquaintance, thank you for posting it.

I buy downloads, I know you don't, so will be buying this one for $7

[jazzbo]

Great! This cd was cheap compared to what I see of her others. . . and I'm not sure there are downloads. If there are that's a good way to go.

[JSngry]

Bandcamp has her whole digital catalog (17 releases!) for under $60 if purchased as a whole.

[jazzbo]

That's cool. I don't do files or stream.

Some day if I am feeling really confident and adventurous I may try the downloading and burning to cdr. . . but that won't be soon.

Edited 8 hours ago by jazzbo

[jazzbo]

 

Kenny Burrell with Art Blakey “On View At the Five Spot.Cafe” Blue Note Japan SHM-SACD

I have about five versions of this on cd and SACD and this one is THE one to listen to. And has additional material. I have listned to the new UHQCD set and it sounds really good too, but this one just has that edge goosing it into the “best” category that SACD always seems to have in my system. Worth the wait for sure!

[JSngry]

50 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

That's cool. I don't do files or stream.

Some day if I am feeling really confident and adventurous I may try the downloading and burning to cdr. . . but that won't be soon.

I know what you mean. I don't watch movies on discs or TV either. It's not the way they were.want to be seen.

[Rabshakeh]

44 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

 

Kenny Burrell with Art Blakey “On View At the Five Spot.Cafe” Blue Note Japan SHM-SACD

I have about five versions of this on cd and SACD and this one is THE one to listen to. And has additional material. I have listned to the new UHQCD set and it sounds really good too, but this one just has that edge goosing it into the “best” category that SACD always seems to have in my system. Worth the wait for sure!

Out of interest, why own this on five versions if you are comfortable with one particular version? Do the others have special bonus tracks or something?

[jazzbo]

Well there are various versions . . . a straight album, ones with a few additional tracks, and this one with even more material, released over time. I like to have and compare versions, it's something I've done for decades. In this case this best version was just released in the last two weeks in two formats. Comparing teaches me about systems and engineering, something I used to do and have done a few times since my band days for a few friends. I will probably thin the herd of some of these in time, I do that, I have sort of semi-annual purges when I have the time to go through the collection objectively. (Right now I have about 30 Japanese and 20 US cds that are duplicates I've culled from the shelves). In cases where I have SACD and cd titles, I tend to keep one of each, as in some cases the SACD is not a hybrid (as in this case) and I still play cds in one system and the car that are not SACD capable.

I'm just both an audiophile and collector and they merge in many instances. Blue Note, Impulse and Bethlehem are three labels I tend to be a completist of and keep duplicates often.

Edited 6 hours ago by jazzbo

[JSngry]

What I've been wondering is if it can all fit on one CD, why did they just release it on two? What is the TT?

[jazzbo]

It can all fit on one SACD, which has a larger capacity than a cd, it would not all fit on one cd.

[JSngry]

Ah, I had forgotten that SACD can hold 110 minutes.

That a long time!

[HutchFan]

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

Nothing wrong here...but I feel like I'm still hungry.

Great trio, though, outstanding!

 

[Rabshakeh]

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

Well there are various versions . . . a straight album, ones with a few additional tracks, and this one with even more material, released over time. I like to have and compare versions, it's something I've done for decades. In this case this best version was just released in the last two weeks in two formats. Comparing teaches me about systems and engineering, something I used to do and have done a few times since my band days for a few friends. I will probably thin the herd of some of these in time, I do that, I have sort of semi-annual purges when I have the time to go through the collection objectively. (Right now I have about 30 Japanese and 20 US cds that are duplicates I've culled from the shelves). In cases where I have SACD and cd titles, I tend to keep one of each, as in some cases the SACD is not a hybrid (as in this case) and I still play cds in one system and the car that are not SACD capable.

I'm just both an audiophile and collector and they merge in many instances. Blue Note, Impulse and Bethlehem are three labels I tend to be a completist of and keep duplicates often.

Fair dos. I have always had severe space issues and tend to panic if I have more than one record by the same artist, so I'm always interested in others' collecting habits.

[jlhoots]

At my age I'm happy I can still hear well enough to enjoy music. For sure I'm not an audiophile. In addition my playing equipment is not great enough to make a discernible difference. Therefore I tend to have only 1 copy / version of each album.

[jazzbo]

I lost space moving into this expanded cottage with my wife ten years ago. . .I have a climate controlled storage space as well as perhaps enough space for a normal person here.

24 minutes ago, jlhoots said:

At my age I'm happy I can still hear well enough to enjoy music. For sure I'm not an audiophile. In addition my playing equipment is not great enough to make a discernible difference. Therefore I tend to have only 1 copy / version of each album.

I've been blessed with good hearing and eyesight (I'm 69 and still don't wear glasses, though all my family has since adolescence, parents and siblings). My hearing was recently checked and is quite good--wish my wife's was--I protected my ears during my drumming and motorcycling days. If things were different, things would be different.

Edited 4 hours ago by jazzbo

[HutchFan]