Synergistic Red Fuse ...

keydoades ...

You're welcome.   I'm a real vibes freakiod. I believe Charles is also. Its a wonderful instrument and can be very emotionally involving to be sure. Here's some more recommendations for you: 

1.  Just about anything by Cal Tjader. His Latin jazz is really good, but his straight ahead stuff is outstanding. Tjader is my favorite vibes player. 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cal-Tjader-Latin-Kick-CD-New-/142234404279?hash=item211dd4c5b7:g:HMkAAOSw65F...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Stan-Cal-Tjader-Sextet-Getz-Stan-Getz-Cal-Tjader-Sextet-CD-New-/361636299993...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sentimental-Moods-Cal-Tjader-CD-Used-Very-Good-/182467691259?hash=item2a7bec...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cal-Tjader-Black-Hawk-Nights-CD-New-/142094987570?hash=item2115857132:g:FZEA...

And I have this one on vinyl. One of my very favorite Tjader albums:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cal-Tjader-Cal-Tjader-Quartet-Cal-Tjader-CD-3ZVG-/391684227627?hash=item5b32...

Another favorite vibes player of mine is Victor Feldman. This is a must have:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Arrival-of-Victor-Feldman-by-Victor-Feldman-CD-Mar-1998-Original-Jazz-Cl...

Terry Gibbs is another wonderful vibes player. Here's four albums on one CD:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/GIBBS-TERRY-4-CLASSIC-ALBUMS-CD-NEW-/292004413296?hash=item43fcd1bf70:g:McYA...

Happy listening ....

Frank

Hypothetical question. Many folks seem to believe that the Black fuse and maybe the Beeswax fuse "bring something to the table," in other words, they are better than no fuse at all, I.e., where no fuse is required, e.g., portable CD players. Or even the case where a copper bar or magnet bypasses the stock fuse. So, the question is, has anyone given any consideration to using two Black fuses in series. if they "bring something to the table" wouldn’t two fuses be better than one?

My perception is that these fuses bring something to the table over conventional fuses, and no fuses sound best. 

Charles ...

I really need to explore the new guys more. I’m so stuck in the 50’s jazz scene its pathetic.

Perhaps I have a problem with the modern recording techniques or something. Artificial digital reverb and other added electronic artifacts kind of drive me nutz. Some of the "music" they demo at the audio shows is really gross. Patricia Barber? Uhhh ... no thanks. I’ll take a good, natural recording of Margaret Whiting or Jo Stafford any day of the week. In fact, we usually take good recordings to the shows in order to determine what the offered equipment is really doing.

I checked out Jay Hoggard on Spotify tonight. His "Soular Power" album sounds nice. I especially like the accompaniment of the Hammond B-3. Do you have this album, Charles? If so, I was wondering how it sounds on a good system. I’ll buy it upon your recommendation.

Of the three recommended musicians, none of which I’ve heard of before reading your above post, Jay Hoggard would be my first choice ... based upon what I heard on Spotify playing through my trusty AudioEngine A2+ speakers that are hooked up to my PC.

All of the Stefon Harris albums offered by Spotify have the artificial electronic artifacts added that to my ear sound very unnatural. :-)

Spotify only offered one album by  Steve Nelson, so not much to go on there. What I did hear sounded very good ... and naturally recorded. 

Its kind of  hard to judge this stuff listening through a modest desk-top system though.  

Frank