Whats on your turntable tonight?

Tonight, Jimmy Smith of course (hi Spencer). The very cleanest deep-groove Lex. Ave. Blue Note in my small collection, LP #1525 "The Incredible Jimmy Smith At The Organ Vol. 3". (With Donald Bailey, d. and Thornel Schwartz, g., plus graphically arresting Reid Miles cover of smiling Jimmy in a Francis Wolff profile shot with his index finger exuberently pointed straight into the camera, rendered in luscious glossy sepiatone with "JIMMY SMITH" across the top in orange-red letters 2 1/2 inches tall.) I have many later JS disks, mostly on Verve, but while the organ-trio format he pioneered got somewhat diluted, hackneyed and stale by the mid-60's, his 1956 debut trifecta still sounds fresh and exciting today. RIP

I have been listening to SO MANY different LP's in the last week, I haven't had the gumption to post them here.

I am in the middle of an audition of a pair of Wolcott P220 tube amps I am contemplating adding to my system.

Last night:
Chopin "Les Sylphides" von Karajan/Berliner (Deutsche Grammophon 136 257)
Holst "Savitri - A Chamber Opera in One Act" Imogen Holst/English Chamber Orchestra/Purcell Singers (Argo ZNF 6)
Eva Cassidy "Songbird" (S&P-501 180g)
Pink Floyd "DSOTM" (Harvest SHVL 804 30th Anniversary reissue)

CD:
Pink Floyd "Division Bell"
Jerry Douglas "Look Out For Hope"
Sanjay Mishra/Jerry Garcia "Blue Incantation"

Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Ormandy/Philly Orch - "Virtuosi" An ole 6-eye LP that gives a few soloists a chance to showoff. Fun record. Milhaud's Concerto for Percusion & Small Orch" is really cool.
Glenn Gould, Bernstein / Columbia Sym Orch Concerto No.2 in B Flat, Bach:Concerto No.1 in Dminor
David Bowie - Pinups (Simply Vinyl)
Bach - Klemperer/Pro Musica Chamber Orch Brandenburg Concertos Complete
Daniel Lanois - Shine
Lyle Lovett - Pontiac (yikes, a digital LP!)
Bill Evans - Quintessance
Bill Evans - Sunday@Village Vanguard (RTI remaster)
Handel - Concertos Pour Orgue et Orch Vol.2

No Undertones Lps here, but the Feargal Sharkey CD is heading to the car next...Cheers,
Spencer

Dire Straits...SRM1-1197 1978 Murcury. Played it twice!

'Dire Straits'. I like to describe it as "guitarchitecture". Knopfler and crew were absolute mavericks putting out an album like this considering some of the crap that was out at that time. I just could not get over the range in Knopflers guitar work from start to finish on this album. Besides the usual suspects, I really enjoy the slide work on 'Water of Love'. The 'Communique' album is no slouch either, could never get into 'Lady Writer' though. The early Straits will always be my favorite Sraits.