soundfan Posted October 29, 2012 Posted October 29, 2012 Just home from work and needing to wind down, and this is the perfect album to throw on the platter. I have 3 different pressings on vinyl of this seminal album, and the 50th Anniversary edition on blue vinyl is actually very good. Side two first up, with the magnificent All Blues and Flamenco Sketches. Jazz to me has rarely, if ever been this good. 2
mikey d Posted October 29, 2012 Posted October 29, 2012 My blue copy has a bit of surface noise. My ancient Aussie pressing is still very good. I have a Mastersound 20bit Super Bit Mapping cd on gold suface which is very, very good for digital. They didn't try to get rid of the tape hiss during the really quiet bits, so it sounds real. 1
soundfan Posted October 29, 2012 Posted October 29, 2012 My blue copy has a bit of surface noise. My ancient Aussie pressing is still very good. I have a Mastersound 20bit Super Bit Mapping cd on gold suface which is very, very good for digital. They didn't try to get rid of the tape hiss during the really quiet bits, so it sounds real. IIRC my blue copy was a little noisy when I first played it upon purchase, but a clean with my RCM fixed that. 1
Monty Posted November 1, 2012 Posted November 1, 2012 Eric Dolphy - Outward Bound Previously I've only heard Dolphy as a Mingus sideman. I had a preconception that he might be a bit wild and out there for me, but this is just lovely, lyrical 1960 jazz with fine support from Freddie Hubbard. 1
soundfan Posted November 2, 2012 Posted November 2, 2012 John Zorn: Filmworks XIX The Rain Horse Greg Cohen: Bass Rob Burger: Piano Erik Friedlander: Cello Title track here: [media=] [/media] 1
k-k-k-kenny Posted November 3, 2012 Posted November 3, 2012 Like this. My only previous exposure to John Zorn was this piece, which is a lot of fun: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TdON1fCWav4
soundfan Posted November 3, 2012 Posted November 3, 2012 (edited) Continuing my John Zorn kick, am playing this at the minute via Grooveshark: Edited November 3, 2012 by soundfan 2
Soundscape Posted November 3, 2012 Posted November 3, 2012 Continuing my John Zorn kick Good stuff, keep it going. Thx for the youb linky. 1
sligoriverblues Posted November 3, 2012 Posted November 3, 2012 Continuing my John Zorn kick, am playing this at the minute via Grooveshark: I might take out some 50th Birthday CDs... No time for records tonight.
soundfan Posted November 3, 2012 Posted November 3, 2012 I might take out some 50th Birthday CDs... No time for records tonight. Is it your birthday Jan? 1
sligoriverblues Posted November 3, 2012 Posted November 3, 2012 Nah... I still have a few years to get there It was Zorn's 50th when they did a series of concerts at Tonic. Some of those are quite nice, my favorite being the one with Milford Graves on drums
Hugehair Posted November 4, 2012 Posted November 4, 2012 Morton Feldman - Crippled Symmetry: at June in Buffalo Hat Hut, Smalltown Superjazzz type of improvisational Jazz is my cup of tea. So I immensely enjoy Zorn's works too. However, PHJB's 50 year anni is also an epic. Dixieland never dies!
soundfan Posted November 4, 2012 Posted November 4, 2012 John Zorn: Femina He has such a huge body of work, and I've immersed myself in quite a bit of it over the weekend. I'm liking this, via Grooveshark. 1
soundfan Posted November 4, 2012 Posted November 4, 2012 Miles Davis: We Want Miles This is a live 2 lp album with takes recorded in Boston, NY, and Tokyo in '81. Way under rated IMO. vinyl 1
soundfan Posted November 8, 2012 Posted November 8, 2012 Masada: Live At Tonic 2001 John Zorn: Alto sax Dave Douglas: Trumpet Greg Cohen: Bass Joey Baron: Drums A fantastic "avante garde" live set, the interplay between Zorn and Douglas in particular is mind-blowingly good. 1
sligoriverblues Posted November 8, 2012 Posted November 8, 2012 Great! Have you heard Live In Jerusalem? Well worth checking out.
sligoriverblues Posted November 8, 2012 Posted November 8, 2012 I saw them live in 2005... They flew in from Vienna and straight onto the stage! They were discussing the set list between the tunes. "Nah, I don't remember that one..." Fantastic show, though!!!
soundfan Posted November 10, 2012 Posted November 10, 2012 Miles Davis: Nefertiti Featuring his second quintet, an amazing group at the peak of their powers. And his last album to feature all acoustic instruments. 1
wolster Posted November 11, 2012 Posted November 11, 2012 (edited) Was unsure. Should I post this in currently purchasing? Nope. It would be more appreciated here. Picked this up at a record fair here in Perth today. Played this arvo and Mrs Wolster declared it to be the best jazz (double) LP she has ever heard. I'm not arguing, especially as it is in mint condition and cost me $2. From "All about jazz" On December 6 and 7, 1976, in a small jazz club called Stampen (The Pawn Shop) in Stockholm's Old Town, Swedish sound engineer Gert Palmcrantz recorded a group of leading Scandinavian jazzmen live, trying to get "the tight, harmonious sound of the records of my childhood." Conditions were less than ideal. A full house, a great deal of background noise. No rehearsals. No sound checks. The musicians just started playing with no one knowing what would be next on the agenda until reedman Arne Domnerus called it. The result has often been hailed as the best live jazz recording ever. Amazingly, for a small country such as Sweden, the record sold more than half a million copies and still sells, at a rate of around 4,000 copies annually. In the past thirty years it has been re-released in all manner of formats and become a cult album for Hi-Fi freaks, especially in South East Asia, where a Hong Kong audio magazine devoted five pages to an analysis of Palmcrantz's achievement. Edited November 11, 2012 by wolster 4
wolster Posted November 11, 2012 Posted November 11, 2012 Sorry, guys, but genuine vinyl bargains are hard to find these days so I had to share my other $2 purchases from the record fair. All in mint condition. I am a very happy Wolster. 2
ZEN MISTER Posted November 11, 2012 Posted November 11, 2012 Good on you Wol, that's a great find- very happy for you. ZM.
Two Flies Posted November 11, 2012 Posted November 11, 2012 (edited) That's a pretty big call from Wol the bargain master, Jazz at the Pawn Shop got a copy off ophool a while back Edited November 11, 2012 by MC240
alekshead Posted November 11, 2012 Posted November 11, 2012 Was unsure. Should I post this in currently purchasing? Nope. It would be more appreciated here. Picked this up at a record fair here in Perth today. Played this arvo and Mrs Wolster declared it to be the best jazz (double) LP she has ever heard. I'm not arguing, especially as it is in mint condition and cost me $2. Were you at the one in Morley, Wol? I stopped in yesterday and was surprised to find more records than I usually do at fairs ten times its size!
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