Your Go to CD to Impress

Ginger Baker's "Why?"  Specifically the first cut. 

Why?

Because 100% of my friends and acquaintances have some idea of who he is, and second, they have not heard anything by him since Cream.  Kinda wakes 'em up, ya know?

Very nice- oblgny.

DiMeola, Ponty, and Clark - Rites of String - absolutely gorgeous production and execution


Dire Straits - "Why Worry" (from BIA)

Christian McBride--Night Train
John McLaughlin Trio--Que Allegria
Josefine Cronholm--In Your Wild Garden
Anne Bisson--September in Montreal
Brian Bromberg--Come Together
Marcus Miller--Bruce Lee
Michael Franks--Mice
Anointed--Send Out a Prayer
Take 6--A Few More Miles
Michael Franks--Tokyo

Most folks are familiar with the human voice. I like to demo ballad singers from the 50’s like June Christy’s "Something Cool," Jo Stafford’s recording she did with Art VanDamme, Doris Day’s "Day by Day ... or Chris Connor’s "All About Ronnie." .

If you notice, all the above are mono albums that were never issued in stereo. Mono recordings just seem to reproduce the great naturalness of the human voice. Modern recording engineers tend to strong arm the digital reverb dial too much for my taste, making it sound as though the artist is singing from the inside of a cave.

Frank