What are the best sounding/clearest recorded LIVE RECORDINGS as 2 channel stereo electronics/speaker test music

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Hello to all...

I am always amazed by the diversity of AUDIOPHILE QUALITY LIVE RECORDED MUSIC that us stereo guys and gals use, as Test Music, in listening/comparing to - new/ someone else's electronics and/or speakers...

MINE ARE:
STOP MAKING SENSE: Talking Heads (LP),
ELTON JOHN 11-17-70: A Live Radio Session by Elton John on WABC-FM (LP)
JOE JACKSON - LIVE 1980-86 (LP)
DO IT ACAPPELLA (the Spike Lee-sponsered concert - with various artists; CD)
CANTATA DOMINO on Proprius (CD and LP)
STAN GETZ PLAYS JOBIM: The Girl From Ipanema (CD: NOTE - not all live cuts)
PETER GABRIEL: Secret World Live (Concert in Modena Italy 1993; CD)
RACHEL FULLER PRESENTS: IN THE ATTIC with Peter Townshend and Friends (CD)

Looking to find other Jazz-Hard Rock-Acoustic LIVE Performances-
Your recommendations? - what are your favs?
 
Thanks Mike for the quick reply and suggestion; I'm on-line trying to find it in CD and/or LP right now.

My Long-Term Goal is to get each that I use in both CD and LP...

Thanks again. Best Wishes! Bill
 
cowboy junkies trinity sessions (no audience but it sure sounds like a live recording)
eric clapton unplugged
hot tuna live
 
Thanks Steve for the quick reply and suggestions...

HAD (in what seems like another lifetime) a LIVE Hot Tuna album (I was in my teens - WAY BEFORE CD's were around LOL!); I remember seeing them at 'My Father's Place', in Roslyn NY, in either the mid-60's or the early 70's - they were oh so kool and great performers with amazing music; thanks for the reference...

Have never heard Cowboy Junkies (AT ALL) , so the Trinity Sesssions should be an adventure...

...had the Clapton - on CD; got rid of it (and I can't remember why...???); maybe LP would be better - will investigate again...

Steve - Thanks again. ENJOY YOUR MUSIC! Bill
 
I agree with getting both the Hope CD and the album,as the CD contains songs that are not included on the vinyl. In my system, the 45rpm vinyl album is superior to my ears.
 
My test record are:

Vinyl;
Kind of Blue, Miles Davis. Tone, attacks, decay, Soundstage (Coltrane and Cannonball are outside the speakers)
Let no Man Write my Epitaph, Ella Fitzgerald. Tone and staging.
Pictures at an Exhibition, Mussorgsky. RCA Living Stereo reissue from Analog Productions. If it can pass that soundstage and stage/instrument detail test, well I'm in business!

CD
Duets, Rob Wasserman. Bass and more bass
Anything by Shirley Horn.The voice, the piano and the air/ space in the music.
 
Nils lofgren - Live

Steve Ray Vaughn - Tim pans alley(song)

1814 SACD - that Cannon ball sounds

Diana Krall - Live in Paris especially I think track 11 ?

Ben Webster - Soulville

Ray brown - solar energy

Duke Ellington and Ray Brown
 
Mike said:
Hugh Masakela - HOPE. Nothing touches it.


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Indeed, a great live recording.



Petro85 said:
cowboy junkies trinity sessions (no audience but it sure sounds like a live recording)
eric clapton unplugged
hot tuna live
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I played Clapton Unplugged this AM. Great disc. Trinity Sessions, while not live, certainly has a lot of ambience given it was recorded in a church.

Would also add Alison Krauss & The Union Station - Live. Many consider this an extremely well recorded live album.

Harry Belafonte at Carnegie Hall is also a well recorded live album IMO.
 
RedSectorA said:
My test record are:

Vinyl;
Kind of Blue, Miles Davis. Tone, attacks, decay, Soundstage (Coltrane and Cannonball are outside the speakers)
Let no Man Write my Epitaph, Ella Fitzgerald. Tone and staging.
Pictures at an Exhibition, Mussorgsky. RCA Living Stereo reissue from Analog Productions. If it can pass that soundstage and stage/instrument detail test, well I'm in business!

CD
Duets, Rob Wasserman. Bass and more bass
Anything by Shirley Horn.The voice, the piano and the air/ space in the music.
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Just realized you were looking for live recordings, lost in the translation I guess!

Then:
Belafonte at Carnegie Hall
Oregon, In Performance
Patricia Barber, A fortnight in France and Companion
Bill Evans, Live at Art D'Lugoff's Top of the Gate and Sunday at the Village Vanguard
 
What are the best sounding/clearest recorded LIVE RECORDINGS as 2 channel ste...

JVCSanyoOnkyoWolzeNikko said:
Thanks Mike for the quick reply and suggestion; I'm on-line trying to find it in CD and/or LP right now.

My Long-Term Goal is to get each that I use in both CD and LP...

Thanks again. Best Wishes! Bill
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Get the LP from Acoustic Sounds. It sounds better than the SACD I also have. As my friend says "why can't all albums be this well recorded".


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Mike said:
Get the LP from Acoustic Sounds. It sounds better than the SACD I also have. As my friend says "why can't all albums be this well recorded".


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I love threads like this. I always come away with at least one new album that I end up loving....this one was just ordered on SACD.

I will add Railroad Earth - Elko. If you are not familiar with this band, and you appreciate bluegrass/newgrass....you will LOVE this live recording.
 
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Last night listened to Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall 1971 and Crosby & Nash - another Stoney Evening.
 
Steve: I've never even considered 45rpm recordings - they are usually single recorded songs, aren't they? I can say I've almost never found LIVE recordings in 45's, only on 33rpm LPs; are you telling me that the HOPE is available live as a 45rpm? I've got some 78rpms but they are mono (and I am waiting to get a mono cart to play them...)...
 
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Thanks Paul - I'll investigate your suggestion... Best Wishes. Bill
 
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Thanks Brent - I am not as music selective as I am sounds and sonics. and LIVE PERFORMANCE selective - for example: I'm not sure if Jews with Horns by the Klezmatics is a LIVE recording (un-engineered) - but it is a HOOT sonically!

Thanks again for the suggestion - added to the list of INVESTIGATE... Best Wishes. Bill
 
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Bill, many new records and re-releases are becoming available on 12" LP records. They are supposed to sound better than the 33 1/3 versions but I believe it depends on the recording. They do cost more as you need 2 records instead of one to play at the faster speed. My mind says they are worth it but I may just be trying to justify the extra expense. It may depend on the musicality of your analog rig to see if you can here an improvement of the 45 rpm record which costs quite a bit more than an SACD. For myself, I usually prefer the vinyl.
 
Mary Stallings "Fine and Mellow", from the late Clarity Recordings company.
Takes a great system to play it, unless you want your ears "grated".
 
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Just curious where did you find it on SACD?
 
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bikeman71 said:
I love threads like this. I always come away with at least one new album that I end up loving....this one was just ordered on SACD.

I will add Railroad Earth - Elko. If you are not familiar with this band, and you appreciate bluegrass/newgrass....you will LOVE this live recording.
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Just curious where did you find it on SACD?
 
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