Whats on your turntable tonight?

R_f, Thanks for the commentary on the Basie and Monk; I gues I now have two more additions to my wish list! I agree with you about the Fantasy jazz series from Analogue Productions: every one I've heard has been phenominal.

This afternoon with some friends over:

Count Basie "88 Street" (Analogue Productions 45rpm reissue)

John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (Speakers Corner reissue)

Ella Live in Berlin (fun with "Mack the Knife")

Ella and Louis (Verve, Speakers Corner reissue)

Linda Ronstadt "Lush Life"

Stravinsky "Firebird Suite" Leinsdorf/LAPO, Sheffield Labs (then contrasted with the last 5 minutes of the Dorati's full ballet performance on Classic Record's 45rpm Mercury reissue for a stark example of contrasting miking techniques)

Cohn on the Saxophone (Sundazed reissue - they do it again: great sound!)

Sarah McLachlin - Fumbling Towards Ecstacy & Freedom Sessions (Classic Records reissue)

Kodaly's Hary Janos Suite, Kertesz/LSO (Speakers Corner reissue of a great Wilkinson/Kinsway Hall Decca recording)

Respighi's Pines of Rome, Reiner/CSO (Chesky reissue of the RCA)
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Beatles -Abbey Road on Mofi from the box
Spoon -Gimme Fiction on Merge records
Electric Light Orchestra -Eldorado on Jet records
Van Morrison -Hymns to the Silence on Polydor UK
Van Morrison -His Band and the Street Choir
on Warner Bros. CA
Van morrison -Veedon Fleece on Warner Bros.
Van Morrison _ Astral Weeks on Warner Bros. W7

- Espana/Argenta/The London Symphony Orchestra/Decca
- Spanish Orchestral Music/Turina/Albeniz/Falla/Angel
- Debussy/Iberia/Reiner/Chicago Sym./RCA Victor
- Manuel De Falla/Nights in the Gardens of Spain/Gonazlo Soriano/Paris Consevatoire Orchestra/His Master Voice

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. Love Revisited- so many groups of the 70s and 80s have taken many of the ideas and riffs layed down on these 2 LPs.
Also listenig to: Dr. John- Night Tripper, Django, Mozart Chamber by The Budapest Quartet, Aretha, Procul Harem- A Salty Dog. It's getting late, to be cont...

Neil Young -Prairie Wind on Classic Records (Reprise)