What are you listening to tonight ?

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Charlie Brown Christmas. I always bring it out on Thanksgiving.

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Gary Barlow - Music Played by Humans

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I was browsing the new music section of Tidal/Roon today and came across this Elvis album which is something I might normally blow past. I started reading the notes in Tidal that indicated this recording session was the basis for three Elvis albums. What intrigued me was that this box set offers the session as it was recorded before any overdubs or sweating. Very interesting sound.

Elvis - From Elvis in Nashville

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Composer Józef Koffler was the first Polish champion of Schoenberg's 12-tone system and a modernist whose work, based on this fascinating transcription of Bach's Goldberg Variations for harpsichord, BWV 988, is likely to be worth further investigation.

He ran afoul of Stalin's Soviet Union and then, worse, of the Germans when they took over Poland, and he disappeared in the Holocaust. The Goldberg arrangement, composed in 1938, was perhaps intended as something palatable to Soviet conservatives, but it is in no way done by the numbers. For one thing, when Koffler composed the work, the Goldberg Variations were quite new in the public consciousness; they had received their first recording, from harpsichordist Wanda Landowska, just five years earlier.

Koffler's version, for a small orchestra of strings and winds, was forgotten and was premiered only in 2019, by many of the forces on this recording: it is extremely artfully done. Koffler deploys his ensemble, generally speaking, in three different ways: with the strings taking Bach's melody line, with wind-and-strings atomization of the melody, and with counterpoint mainly in the winds.

He is inspired by the broadly tripartite structure of the variations, with canons mostly making up every third variation, but he departs from this where Bach does, and the entire set retains the unity and growth of the original, with complexity and expressivity growing as if inevitably as the music proceeds.

The work would make an ideal complement in concert to Anton Webern's arrangement of the fugue from Bach's Musical Offering, BWV 1079. Historical performance veteran Trevor Pinnock leads a mixed ensemble of young musicians, consisting of members of the Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble and students at the Glenn Gould School in Canada, and they play with precision and a fine edge.

The Linn label delivers superbly detailed sound from the Britten Studio in Snape Maltings, UK, and the album graphics, showing a Chagall-like shtetl painting by the similarly doomed artist Chara Kowalska, are haunting. A unique release, fully deserving of the commercial success it has received.

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Ellister van der Molen - trumpet & Flugelhorn
Gideon Tazelaar - tenor saxophone
Bob Wijnen - Hammond organ
Wouter Kühne - drums
Recording, mixing and mastering by Frans de Rond. Produced by Peter Bjørnild. Music arranged by Ellister van der Molen and Bob Wijnen. Recorded at MCO, Studio 2, Hilversum, The Netherlands, on the 12th of January
2020. Total time: 52:11
Catalog Number: SL-1044A
Original recording format DXD 352,8 kHz - Premium
All other formats are converted versions of the original. This is a One Mic recording;
Main central microphone: Josephson C700S
Used equipment:
Micpre's: Merging Horus
Microphone cables by AudioQuest
Speakers: TAD Compact Evolution
Poweramp: Moon 760A
Mixing headphones: Sennheiser HD800S / AKG 702
All power cables and power conditioners by AudioQuest


Frans de Rond - Sound Liaison

[FDPDK]

well the upload of photos from my iMac has become too difficult so will just text.
Dont really understand why it has become such an issue , in an otherwise great working Forum.

Judith Tellado , album. Yerba Mala

A new artist for me but its good.

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Such a great album. If you love hard bop era jazz, this album is a treat. Rockets my mood into Orbit every time.

"Long Ago (and Far Away)" (Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern) - 6:17
"Walkin'" (Jimmy Mundy) - 5:21
"Why Was I Born?" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Kern) - 8:20
"John Brown's Body" (Traditional) - 7:22
"Bye Bye Blackbird" (Mort Dixon, Ray Henderson) - 9:58



Sonny Stitt - tenor saxophone
Gene Ammons - tenor saxophone
Don Patterson - organ
Paul Weeden - guitar
Billy James - drums

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Could not stop at just one, the going was just too good.


"There Is No Greater Love" (Isham Jones, Marty Symes) - 6:30
"The One Before This" (Gene Ammons) - 7:09
"Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert) - 6:32
"Blues Up and Down" (Gene Ammons, Sonny Stitt) - 8:47
"Counter Clockwise" (Sonny Stitt) - 9:38
Personnel
Gene Ammons - tenor saxophone
Sonny Stitt - tenor saxophone (tracks 2-5), alto saxophone (track 1)
John Houston - piano
Buster Williams - bass
George Brown - drums

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Released 1960
Recorded June 16, 1960
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre Jazz
Length 35:57
Label Prestige
PRLP 7180
Producer Bob Weinstock


"Hittin' the Jug" – 8:29
"Close Your Eyes" (Bernice Petkere) – 3:46
"My Romance" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 4:16
"Canadian Sunset" (Norman Gimbel, Eddie Heywood) – 5:24
"Blue Ammons" – 4:57
"Confirmation" (Charlie Parker) – 5:24
"Stompin' at the Savoy" (Benny Goodman, Arthur Sampson, Chick Webb, Andy Razaf) – 3:31

Personnel
Gene Ammons – tenor saxophone
Tommy Flanagan – piano
Doug Watkins – bass
Art Taylor – drums
Ray Barretto – congas

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Jesse Colin Young - Highway Troubadour

Nice MQA recording

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Beautiful, relaxed, late night jazz album.

[Andik777]

Beautiful, relaxed, late night jazz album.

Very good, thanks for sharing

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Different! Very cool.

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Niels Pedersen became one of the most heralded jazz bassists of his generation, playing with Bud Powell and Sonny Rollins while gaining international acclaim for his many recordings with Oscar Peterson. But the phenomenal bassist, whose sound is readily identifiable with a note or two, especially shined as a leader. This live CD documents a pair of concerts with guitarist Ulf Wakenius (who also worked with Peterson) and drummer Jonas Johansen, the first five tracks from 1999 and the last six from Pedersen's final recorded concert in March 2005

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Sound Liaison Recording




Carmen Gomes - vocal
Folker Tettero - guitar
Peter Bjørnild - double-bass
Bert Kamsteeg - drums

Recording, mixing and mastering by Frans de Rond.
Produced by Peter Bjørnild.
Music arranged by Peter Bjørnild with lots of help from Carmen, Folker and Bert.
Recorded at MCO, Studio 2, Hilversum, The Netherlands, on the 16th and the 17th of July 2020.

Total time: 45:19
Catalog Number: SL-1043A

Original recording format DXD 352,8 kHz - Premium
All other formats are converted versions of the original.
This is a One Mic + recording;
Main central microphone: Josephson C700S
Support microphone Carmen: Josephson C700A
Support microphone Peter's bass: Josephson C700A
Ambience microphones spaced pair of 2 Josephson C617



Used equipment:
Micpre's: Merging Horus
Microphone cables by AudioQuest
Speakers: TAD Compact Evolution
Poweramp: Moon 760A
Mixing headphones: Sennheiser HD800S / AKG 702
All power cables and power conditioners by AudioQuest.

Double bass brass-slide C-extension made by Jeppe Mørch Sørensen

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Another great album from Carmen Gomez.

Don't You Cry - Carmen Gomes Inc. - BEST VOCAL ALBUM 2019

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non-classical Living Stereo titles

The Living Stereo title was applied to many of RCA Victor's early stereo LPs, despite the fact that the recording techniques and venues used for the non-classical sessions varied. While one might rightly consider the classical titles the true Living Stereo, a great many non-classical Living Stereo titles did feature superb sound quality and would work well reissued in a similar approach as the current Sony/BMG Living Stereo SACD series.

Living Stereo non-classical titles


Inspired by a trip to Tijuana, Tijuana Moods was recorded in 1957 but was sat on by RCA until its release in 1962. Bassist/composer Charles Mingus at the time said that this was his greatest recording, and it certainly ranks near the top. The original version, which was usually edited together from a few different takes, consisted of just five performances. It has often been said that Mingus forced and pressured his sidemen to play above their potential, and that is certainly true of this project.

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Emily James - Til the Morning

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Why not back to back-

Emily James - Dreaming

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Eric Clapton ; Me and Mr Johnson

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Melody Gardot: Sunset in the Blue

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Grant Green - Idle Moments

(one of the great unsung heroes of jazz guitar)

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Clare Bowen

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Rebuilding Paradise - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Hans Zimmer & Lorne Balfe

[steve59]

Tommy Bolin
Zephyr

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Noah Gunderson - Lover

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John Coltrane + Johnny Hartman

Enviado desde mi SM-G950F mediante Tapatalk

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I liked this one.

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Pleasant voice, interesting lyrics, nice acoustic bass accompaniment