Jazz for aficionados
I’ve seen that video before and it makes me smile. Not that it’s comedic, but because when I started my audio journey, I had twenty watt Singer(?) amps. By the eighties, you had to hundreds of watts per channel and now if you look at some of the uber high end amps, they put out over a thousand watts a side! And here I am with 90 dbs speakers that rarely go over 90 db and an amp that puts out 250 watts a side. |
Another fine album that I got just recently...
Joe Newman Quintet at Count Basie’s (1961) https://youtu.be/z2DMW815Vg0?feature=shared https://youtu.be/4vc8-TM3wQo?feature=shared
’Joe Newman at Count Basie’s is the first record the underappreciated trumpeter cut after leaving the Basie Band for the second time. The 1961 session was cut live at his former employer’s club in front of a noisy, appreciative audience and features Newman and his young band (Oliver Nelson on tenor, Art Davis on bass, Lloyd Mayers on piano and Ed Shaughnessy on drums) cutting loose on a mix of standards and Newman originals. While this record may have seemed like the beginning of a great solo career for Joe Newman, in fact it was his final session for a major label as a leader.’ |
