So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[jazzbo]

An exciting new release from Japan, and SACD in lp facsimile gatefold packaging.

The sound is excellent. I still love my “Special” 24 bit by RVG lp facsimile release from Japan with its meatier sound, and the “Complete” US Capitol release from 2019. Music I have no issue having several versions of.

[jazzbo]

Another Miles Davis SACD in lp packaging from Universal Japan, with Tone Poet mastering from Kevin Gray. Great sound.

Miles Davis “Volume 1” Blue Note Japan SACD

 

 

[Brad]

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

An exciting new release from Japan, and SACD in lp facsimile gatefold packaging.

The sound is excellent. I still love my “Special” 24 bit by RVG lp facsimile release from Japan with its meatier sound, and the “Complete” US Capitol release from 2019. Music I have no issue having several versions of.

I have the 1998 one (as well as the RVG) and I think that’s probably enough for me although I’m sure yours sounds really good. 

[Rabshakeh]

Tilaye Gebre - Tilaye's Saxophone with the Dahlak Band

First listen. It sounds very similar to Hailu Mergia, with basically the identical saxophone licks played. I enjoy Mergia and Astatke but I'm not sure why this needed a marquee reissue. 

[Peter Friedman]

 

Edited yesterday at 02:31 PM by Peter Friedman

[Chuck Nessa]

[jazzbo]

Blue Note All-Stars “Our Points of View” Blue Note 2 cd set, disc 2

 

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It’s been some time since I spun this one. Some of it I really like.

[HutchFan]

[jazzbo]

I finally have summoned the courage to listen to some of the music I used to listen to with my Dad. Doing so makes me miss him so much. It’s been four years now, the happier memories remain and are not as tinged with sadness as they have been the past years.

Listening to disc 4 of this set, the first disc of orchstral work, sounds really really good in my current system situation.

 

[Rabshakeh]

4 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

I finally have summoned the courage to listen to some of the music I used to listen to with my Dad. Doing so makes me miss him so much. It’s been four years now, the happier memories remain and are not as tinged with sadness as they have been the past years.

Listening to disc 4 of this set, the first disc of orchstral work, sounds really really good in my current system situation.

 

I always think that the piano trio is a seriously underrated piece of music.

[HutchFan]

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

Duke Ellington “Volume 9 1942-1947 The Alternative Takes In Chronological Order” Neatwork cd

I found this cheap. I have this material on other collections but these alternates really sound good together on this disc, nice mastering and I love Duke of this period.

 

 

[Rabshakeh]

Amalgam – Samanna

 

[jazzbo]

Jethro Tull “Under Wraps,” the version with original drumming in a new remix of the 1983 album, from the new box set “Under Wraps. . . The Unwrapped Edition” (disc 2)

 

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[Ken Dryden]

[Rabshakeh]

Schlippenbach Trio – Physics

 

[rostasi]

Slot Machine Music, Vol. 1 & 2:
Field Recordings from Middle American Casinos

[Dub Modal]

4 hours ago, rostasi said:

Slot Machine Music, Vol. 1 & 2:
Field Recordings from Middle American Casinos

This is some real exploitative anthropology shit. It's from Adrian Rew, correct?

"I learned a lot about casino sonics in the process: game designers, for example, once tuned all their machines to the key of C major in order to optimize harmonic cohesion (strict adherence to the key is no more but C still dominates the game floor); one team of designers, the story goes, even spent a month perfecting a single 'ding' sound on one machine. In the interest of preserving the true ambient sounds of the casino these recordings are untreated, but lost in the sea of chance I did exert some affirmative control by means of meandering intent and my actual playing of the machines. And by participating in the games myself I got a taste of the financially debilitating consequences that accompany the enchantment of video gambling. The disc in your hands represents my endeavor to bring you the zone experience without the harsh comedown of its unfortunate reality."

—Adrian Rew, 2014

[rostasi]

1 hour ago, Dub Modal said:

It's from Adrian Rew, correct?

Yes, the link takes you there.

[Pim]

 

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[jazzbo]

Another cooler morning, and I"m in a bit of pain, so distracting myself with Cannonball’s first recorded appearance on Kenny Clarke’s “Bohemia After Dark” after seeing another jazz pen pal playing the lp on another board. I found this version first, and as a further search might wake sleeping beauty Lucinda, and because moving about is a bit painful today, I’m spinning the version that begins this 2 cd set.

 

 

[Peter Friedman]

[Simon8]

[Peter Friedman]