What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. X)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 31 December 2013
On the cusp of 2014, we start a new thread...
Anyway, links:
Volume IX: https://forums.naimaudio.com/to...16#22826037054683416
Volume VIII: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...nt/12970396056050819
Volume VII: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...6878604287751/page/1
Volume VI: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878604097229
Volume V: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878605140495
Volume IV: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878605795042
Volume III: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878607309474
Volume II: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878606245043
Volume I: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878607464290
Thanks Debs.
Listening to this ATM.
Original mono 1st press. Great '60s beat music, worth a fortune now. Thanks Dad. 
On CD:-
2002 remaster/expanded version. It sounds fine but is it worth looking out for an original 7 track copy?
Michael Stanley "The Ground"
(cd rip to iTunes)
RUSH - Farewell To Kings
Not my introduction to RUSH (Hemispheres it was) but a great album and worthy of a spin.
On CD:-
Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
Vinyl
Matthew Ryan "Dear Lover"
(iTunes download)
Streaming...
vinyl
Laura Veirs "Year Of Meteors"
(cd rip to iTunes)
Streaming...
First press vinyl
By far the best world music disc in my collection.
A rare solo performance by one of jazz’s great originals, Canadian pianist Paul Bley, recorded live at the Oslo Jazz Festival in 2008 by Jan Erik Kongshaug and Manfred Eicher (ECM). There is nothing else quite like a Paul Bley concert. As the New York Times noted, “Mr. Bley long ago found a way to express his long, elegant, voluminous thoughts in a manner that implies complete autonomy from its given setting but isn't quite free jazz. The music runs on a mixture of deep historical knowledge and its own inviolable principles." Here Bley, encouraged by an attentive and enthusiastic Norwegian audience shapes music in the moment, plays his own compositions, and brings the music to a fine conclusion in a performance of Sonny Rollins’s “Pent-Up House”.
Original vinyl...
Synced up the LP and the CD to compare just for the h*** of it.
Just played 'Lonely Woman' from this album which I downloaded as a 24bit, 192kHz FLAC file from the Naim Label site using the free track download offer following the Statement experience at the Bristol show. I already have this album as naimcd005 & naimcd006 but this is probably my favourite track from both (although not as good as the original version on Ornette Coleman's 'The Shape of Jazz to Come' IMHO). It was too good an opportunity to miss - a free hi-res download of this great piece.
Back-to-back comparisons commence now!
Avishai Cohen is a leading figure on the international jazz scene and one of the most sought-after players of his generation.This CD, titled "original project" shows a collaboration between a close-knit Italian trio and flighty Israeli-American trumpet player. Jazz last frontier, compositions of great originality. this cd is taking jazz in new direction, Though deeply rooted in tradition yet able to interpret and define new horizons, a classic example of brilliant artistic collaboration between new and old world according according to a custom of the italian label Abeat. The evocative power of the compositions, the class of interpreters, the artistic sensibility and the intensity of expression offer a very compelling experience of listening.
i suspect this has been translated rather badly...Gordon
..I wasn't so much a Krall fan, but by listening a bit more, it's quite fine - still prefer the likes of Cassandra Wilson much more.....
Bert, you might try also:
On vinyl, first spin and impressed by the guitar playing and recording.
