2. analog
  3. 191720-196045

Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital

I have not bought a vinyl record since CDs came out, but have been exposed to numerous claims that vinyl is better.  I suspect jazz may be best placed to deliver on these claims, so I am looking for your recommendations.

I must confess that I do not like trad jazz much.  Also I was about to fork out A$145 for Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" but bought the CD for A$12 to see what the music was like.  I have kept the change!

I love the jazz in the movie Babylon, which features local Oz girl Margo Robbie (the film, not the jazz).

So what should I buy?

richardbrand
lewm
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Also great Chet Baker recordings on Sam’s Records, in mono, pressed in France. I’ve got at least two, maybe three albums. All make you forget that the signal is mono. Quality of the vinyl is the highest.

lewm
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Grisly, I’m sure Paul can play in the jazz idiom, but he’s no “jazz musician”.

grislybutter
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I called McCartney a jazz musician to make a point. I wouldn't argue that he is. All I meant was that jazz is not a genre, it's an attitude. Genres have lines/boundaries, jazz doesn't.

(and I should admit, I know very little about music theory AND jazz, so I may be completely wrong.)

lewm
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No, I think you have a point, and that's why I get aggravated by some who say they don't like jazz but who then cite music or musicians that I don't think of as jazz-y in any sense, as examples.  I must admit my own idea of jazz is fairly parochial. I listen to live performances locally by musicians that adhere to the rules of bebop or "modern jazz", meaning post WW2 jazz and therefore including KOB, for example, which is not really bebop.  I own probably ~3000 Jazz LPs encoding performances by musicians that are mostly deceased, therefore. Spiro Gyra is not jazz to me, although I would not deny the possible musical merit.

By the way, it took me a long time to see the irony in this thread: If you don't care for jazz, then why ask about a jazz LP that proves any point about digital vs analog?

grislybutter
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@lewm

By the way, it took me a long time to see the irony in this thread: If you don't care for jazz, then why ask about a jazz LP that proves any point about digital vs analog?

Indeed!

I obviously know very little about jazz, but I like some tracks and some musicians.  There are a lot pieces and depth of jazz that are only appreciated by musicians or hard core listeners - which I think confuses some of simpletons and make us say: we don't like jazz. It's a process....

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