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Jazz for aficionados

Jazz for aficionados

I'm going to review records in my collection, and you'll be able to decide if they're worthy of your collection. These records are what I consider "must haves" for any jazz aficionado, and would be found in their collections. I wont review any record that's not on CD, nor will I review any record if the CD is markedly inferior. Fortunately, I only found 1 case where the CD was markedly inferior to the record.

Our first album is "Moanin" by Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers. We have Lee Morgan , trumpet; Benney Golson, tenor sax; Bobby Timmons, piano; Jymie merrit, bass; Art Blakey, drums.

The title tune "Moanin" is by Bobby Timmons, it conveys the emotion of the title like no other tune I've ever heard, even better than any words could ever convey. This music pictures a person whose down to his last nickel, and all he can do is "moan".

"Along Came Betty" is a tune by Benny Golson, it reminds me of a Betty I once knew. She was gorgeous with a jazzy personality, and she moved smooth and easy, just like this tune. Somebody find me a time machine! Maybe you knew a Betty.

While the rest of the music is just fine, those are my favorite tunes. Why don't you share your, "must have" jazz albums with us.

Enjoy the music.
orpheus10
frogman
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Nice gear, pjw; I’m sure it sounds good. I hear you about spending as much for the cables as for the speakers. You don’t have to, if you’re willing to buy used. Actually, you don’t have to at all as I’m sure the sound you have now is good; but ........ Notice Keegiam’s experience buying used.

If you decide to experiment, I would encourage you to try upgrading your interconnects first. My experience has been that with cable upgrades it is usually best to start closer to the source and then move downstream . You may decide that the improvement is not worth it. Tell you what, I have a couple of pairs of unused IC’s. Not for sale, but if you want to try them and see what decent interconnect cables can do between CD player and amp, PM me and I’ll send them to you. Try them and see, then send them back to me. Let me know.
 Edit:  as I think about it, since you have a surround setup it probably means that you use multiple IC’s.  Can’t help with that , but I can tell you that I bought a set of lower end Siltech cables for my 5.1 Video surround for only a couple of hundred bucks and they were a very nice upgrade from the cheapies that come in the box.  
frogman
7,560 posts
 
Another seriously under appreciated tenor player (and interesting composer):

https://youtu.be/jTCFRUdNMEs

https://youtu.be/8L09vcsZImg
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https://youtu.be/BQ4yf2wUWvA

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https://youtu.be/b7Eq4YPjq1Q




alexatpos
1,249 posts
 
I will just add (since Mary mentioned me) that in my experience cables do matter much,in fact so much that I ve heard systems which were 'ruined' by poor choice of cables.

The thing that is even more 'funny' is that power cables are very important as well, as much as that could be laughable to people who have proper education in electronic field, or to ones that do not have hi fi system.

Since the market is the 'king' arguing why something cost so much is pointless (personally I agree that some prices are not 'justified') 

But, everyone makes his own choices and for that there is no better quote than from legendary soccer player George Best:

'I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered'
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ghosthouse
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I'd like to add support for "cables matter" and shockingly (couldn't resist the pun) that includes power cords.  This is from a former "wire skeptic" who was especially skeptical about power cord claims.  Skeptical until I heard the difference in my own system.  Yes, certainly, someone can pay "stupid" money for wire but that's not absolutely essential for realizing a sonic improvement over the typical as-supplied cables.  
pjw81563
1,834 posts
 
So I did a little searching today and went to the web sites of Morrow, Audio Quest and Audio Art and I came away even more apprehensive and confused.

I also came across too many back and forth debates on forums including this one from Audigon with our friend Schubert chiming in:

Audioquest Rocket 44 speaker cable. Any good?? | Audiogon Discussion Forum
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