What are you listening to right now? (VOL I)

On my rejuvenated system the sublime............



I need more jazz in my life, shame my wife thinks its all cafe muzak

Diccus

Diccuss,

My wife was never wild about jazz, but she gets a steady diet of it and has grown to quite like some of it. As she hardly ever buys any records she can hardly complain that she is not listening to one of hers.

Which jazz artist are you keen on? I'd be happy to direct you to a few discs I like.

About time the new system set up was posted in the system pics section.

Currently Focus - Stan Getz

Regards

Nic

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Originally posted by Diccus62:
On my rejuvenated system the sublime............

I need more jazz in my life, shame my wife thinks its all cafe muzak

Diccus

J.S.Bach / Easter Oratorio, BWV 249, Magnificat in D, BWV 243 / Erato

Amsterdam Baroque Choir,
Ton Koopman, conductor

Recorded in Leipzig, Germany in 1988

Haim

Altan - Runaway Sunday. Excellent straight up Celtic music in the traditional way. Most relaxing.

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Originally posted by nicnaim:
Currently Focus - Stan Getz

Must dig that out, it's been ages since I last listened, I don't think I have anything else in my collection quite like it (I wonder if there are other records in the same vein?).

regards, Tam

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Originally posted by Diccus62:
On my rejuvenated system the sublime............



I need more jazz in my life, shame my wife thinks its all cafe muzak

Diccus

Hi Diccus62,
Glad the system sounds sooo good.
My wife dislikes both jazz and blues music, i suppose we can't please everyone.
Regards
Chris N

Nic

I was going to email you when i got settled. To be honest for some tips.

I have and love

Mingus Ah hum
Monk/Coltrane at Carnegie hall
Somethin' else -Adderley/Davis/Jones
Lift to the Scaffold - Miles Davis

Any suggestions. Clearly I need Love Supreme but it took so long on back order I gave up, but i'll try again. Originally I want suggestions for chet Baker and found i wasn't really struck on him, vocally anyway, but i'll persevere.

Any suggestions

Your Team are on the up

diccus

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Originally posted by Tam:

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Originally posted by nicnaim:
Currently Focus - Stan Getz

Must dig that out, it's been ages since I last listened, I don't think I have anything else in my collection quite like it (I wonder if there are other records in the same vein?).

regards, Tam

Dear Tam,

'Focus' makes me think of Bill Evans work 'Conversation With Myself', where he played on the piano the two other parts of a trio (bass and drums) as well, and then had the tree recordings dubbed together. It is a facinating work.

Have you ever listened to it?

Regards,

Haim

Chris

Yes it sounds the business and I even got the Brasso out (no duraglit)!

To be honest i'm pleased my wife likes half the miserable stuff I do and wonder whether she actually has her fingers crossed when I ask her views - her nose doesn't grow so she must be telling the truth.

I'll try and brain wash her with Jazz and see how I get on

Thanks for all the excellent advice. I'll get round to posting a picture of my kit but i'll be careful which bits

diccus

After a Anna Gourari bootleg (with Beethoven variations and Chopin Sonata #2)

some legal Anna Gourari ("Desir")
and
the new Saluzzi (amongst CD's of the year)

Now:




Fabulous, inspired and great audience reaction

cheers
Stefan

Antonella Ruggiero - Registrazioni Moderne. A good recording, too. Great! Waking me up perfectly after a day of writing reviews about software designed by people I would happily kill.... slowly....

Cheers

Mike

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Originally posted by sjust:
After a Anna Gourari bootleg (with Beethoven variations and Chopin Sonata #2)

some legal Anna Gourari ("Desir")
and
the new Saluzzi (amongst CD's of the year)

Now:




Fabulous, inspired and great audience reaction

cheers
Stefan

Stefan,

This yellow shirt is still haunting me...

Haim

Magical.

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Originally posted by Haim Ronen:


Magical.

Absolutely agree ! (Not with teh yellow shirt, though...)

Currently with



(which is being hyped a lot, here, and not without good reason...)

cheers
Stefan

Dear Haim,

I'm a big Bill Evans fan, and I have Conversations with Myself (as well as the other two overdubbed albums, indeed, aside from the Village Vanguard sessions it's one of my favourites) but I must admit to never made a connection to focus - I shall try and listen to both discs tomorrow.

I suppose I meant unique more in terms of Focus's textures.


regards, Tam

Tam / Haim,

Focus by Stan Getz is utterly unique, partly because Eddie Suater, the coposer never did anything else, that I am aware of. It was his masterpiece. Not a bad legacy IMHO.

Whilst not the same, given the instrumentation, I do get a similar buzz from "Guitar Forms" by Kenny Burrell, conducted and arranged by Gil Evans. Burrell never did antyhing else quite like this. If you like "Sketches of Spain", you will like this.

Diccuss, send me your address to my home email and I will put a Christmas sampler together for you.

Regards

Nic

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Originally posted by Tam:
Dear Haim,

I'm a big Bill Evans fan, and I have Conversations with Myself (as well as the other two overdubbed albums, indeed, aside from the Village Vanguard sessions it's one of my favourites) but I must admit to never made a connection to focus - I shall try and listen to both discs tomorrow.

I suppose I meant unique more in terms of Focus's textures.


regards, Tam

still hooked on the Crusaders,atm...

Chris Rea - Road to Hell

"Have yourself a Tractors Christmas". Trying to summon up some festive spirit!

Now moved on to "The Alligator Records Christmas Collection". Katie Webster "Deck The halls" - a funky Christmas to all!

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Currently Focus - Stan Getz

I have quite a few Stan Getz albums, but somehow missed this - an oversight I have just corrected!!

His 'Serenity' is spinning at the moment - that, and the sister album 'Anniversary' are really good albums.

Before that was Madonna's Confessions on a dance floor - while I was peeling the spuds for dinner!

Nigel

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Now moved on to "The Alligator Records Christmas Collection".

That reminds me - I must dig out the Ze Christmas Record, with my favourite ever Chrismas song - the Waitresses' 'Christmas Wrapping'.

Nigel