Whats on your turntable tonight?

miles davis "plugged nickel sessions" on mosaic (box set). this one had been gathering dust for a good while. excellent!

Stuck at work today, but unwinding tonight with:

Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington "Recording Together for The First Time" (Roulette SR52074) Classic Records 200g reissue. And what a wonderful reissue this one is! Satchmo's voice is locked dead center with Ellington's piano on the left. Quiet surfaces and a lot of fun to listen to.

Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler "The Best Of...Private Investigations (Mercury Records 987576-7) Fairly new LP release. Curious effort this one. When I ordered it, based largly on the track listing, I thought I would be getting a remaster compilation pressed on heavy vinyl. These tunes are remixed, different presentation/performances of some of their most familar work. No judgement, as I want to give it more time to get my ears used to it.

Rimsky-Korsakov "Scheherazade" Maazel/Cleveland (London CS7098) Nice performance of this warhorse. Not quite the sonic fireworks of the RCA/Reiner/Chicago.

Tchaikowsky "Symphony No.6 in B Minor, Op.74 (Audio Fidelity FCS 50,002) One of those "Oh wow, an Audio Fidelity for 2.00 here in this junk store" moments. Record cleaner has not really been able to salvage this one. Too much surface noise getting in the way of the performance.

Clifton Chenier! Boogie 'n' zydeco and Boogaloosa Boogie- It's almost 1 a.m. and this dude won't let me go to bed.
Los Lobos/ A Time To Dance- this is the EP which put them on the map for all those who had never heard of them. Of course, if your from East LA, like yours truly, you heard these dudes at Belvedere and Garfield, Montelbello Park, Joey's wedding, at the CYO...
BB King/ Best of- On The Thrill is Gone drums truly sound like they are in my room.

...Not all of us here in Detroit are at the super bowl...
After a day at the closing of the Claudel & Rodin exhibit "Fateful Encounter" in the DIA, Detroit Institute of Arts, tonight we're listening to:

The Dave Bailey Sextet -One Foot in the Gutter on Epic
(Grab this one while you still can. It's a great performance, and a beautifully dynamic recording.)

followed up by -2 feet in the Gutter on Epic (also)

Miles Davis -Kind of Blue on Columbia/Classic Records

Gene Ammons -Blue Gene on Prestige

Ben Webster -meets Oscar Peterson on Verve Records

Blue Michell -Blue's Moods on Riverside/AP 45's

Life is anything but blue tonight!

2-06-2006 Montepilot

I just acquired my first set of tube monoblock amplifiers from Israel Bloom at Coincident and a Manley Shrimp linestage. It is all beautifully sitting in place like someone all dressed up with nowhere to go. I am still waiting for some long enough inteconnect I ordered to finalize the connections. So for now it all sits in silence. Until the interconnect arrives my stack of vinyl is anxiously waiting in the wings for me to relish and hopefully contribute to these threads. This entire segment has been thoroughly enjoyable reading. I send my warmest regards to all of you.

Fellow audiophile,

montepilot