Whats on your turntable tonight?

Zaikesman, I've enjoyed your descriptions and comments. Thanks for sharing those!
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Thanks Rushton, and thanks also for your posts on the Ralph Karsten/Atma-Sphere situation, which I'm still trying to get my mind around (the situation that is, not your posts, which have helped). I didn't originally plan to offer commentary on my listening material, but now I find I can't really help it, and if I don't feel like yakking a bit about something I played, I simply don't list it.

•Branford Marsalis - Crazy People Music: Young Branford with his telepathic quartet. Juicy Ornette style musings, along with usual, high quality post-bop stuff. Tain is one titanium plated monster.

•The Jazz Crusaders - Stretchin' Out: Old Pacific Jazz title with Monk Montgomery on bass, along with the potent Texans. Great ensemble sound right from the start. Signature sax-'bone synergy kills me every time. Joe Sample ain't chopped liver either.

•Jean-Luc Ponty - Enigmatic Ocean: Hadn't heard this since my first copy was stolen over 20 years ago. DAMN...Alan Holdsworth and Alphonso Johnson had spectacular chops! Recently saw Johnson supporting James Carter...still has chops on his chops.

Zaikesman & Siliab,
Thanks for including your comments along with your posts!
This thread is beginning to become a great resource and shopping list for vinylphiles. To date, there have been over 6100 views of this thread.

A big thanks to all who continue to contribute. I've been exposed to some really great music!

Listening to organ music this early evening: just finished a wonderful Pontefract engineered recording on Harmonia Mundi of Rene Saorgin performing Bach's Toccata & Fugue in d minor on a lovely Silbermann organ, Harmonia Mundi HM 1214. And now listening to Marcel Dupre on a VERY FRENCH organ (Saint-Suplice) playing Bach's Prelude & Fugue in D major, Mercury SR 90227: great recording, but not my favorite way to hear Bach performed.

Representative recordings of two great recording engineers: Jean-Francois Pontefract, who made many superb recordings for Harmonia Mundi, and Robert Fine, the genius behind the legendary Mercury recordings.
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