What are you listening to? (VOL VI)

On the Original Black.

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Originally posted by munch:
Black stuff.

love the duet with Thom.

Just got wind of this one after reading JazzTimes. It is a tribute to the music of E.S.T. Wonderful interpretations.

Anthony

Radiolarians: The Evolutionary Set [BOX SET]

Hopefully this will tide me over until the new Portico Quartet album Isla is released in the US on vinyl. Good stuff.

My best CD Christmas present 2009.

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Originally posted by smiglass:


Just got wind of this one after reading JazzTimes. It is a tribute to the music of E.S.T. Wonderful interpretations.

Anthony

Anthony, you might also be interested in this. Ulf did a similar album but this time it was the music of Keith Jarrett


Another album of his that I really like and sounds wonderful on the rig is Forever You.

Cheers

on spotify:

then coming up on silver stuff:

From HDX:



Regards,
Michel

First this:



Then, having enjoyed Jon Balke's piano playing on the above:

2nd dodgy pressing of this. Unlistenable. Think I might just stick to the CD.

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Originally posted by droodzilla:

How do you like this one? Not one I have got into properly. Should I?

What class music. Beautiful and to think he just makes it up as he goes along. Kyoto, November 5th 1976.

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Originally posted by Lontano:

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Originally posted by droodzilla:

How do you like this one? Not one I have got into properly. Should I?

I think so. I tend to file it under "intriguing", which is not to damn it with faint praise, as I enjoy it when I play it. It definitely deserves an occasional spin.

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Originally posted by Lontano:
What class music. Beautiful and to think he just makes it up as he goes along. Kyoto, November 5th 1976.

It's funny, the Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, which I normally respect, gives this a somewhat ambivalent review, and this put me off buying the set for ages. Yet, having finally bought it about a year ago, I now regard it as possibly Jarrett's finest solo piano work. I'm sure there's a moral in this story somewhere - but my head is too fugged by post-festive torpor to find it!

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Originally posted by droodzilla:
I now regard it as possibly Jarrett's finest solo piano work.

I agree with that. It's my "go to" solo work. Much better than Koln for me. And the encores disc is sublime. I do like Penguin guide but they got this one wrong.

Just arrived through the door is a Japanese Made for the US market pressing of one of my fave albums. This is remastered by Barry Diament and meant to be one of the best sounding TOTT albums. Will do a test versus my 4 other CD pressings of this later.

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Originally posted by Lontano:

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Originally posted by droodzilla:
I now regard it as possibly Jarrett's finest solo piano work.

I agree with that. It's my "go to" solo work. Much better than Koln for me. And the encores disc is sublime. I do like Penguin guide but they got this one wrong.

I would third that as well.