Whats on your turntable tonight?

My sister in laws neighbor just gave me her old record collection. Many seem to never have been played:

The Eagles Greatest Hits 71 -75

The Judds (great recording)

Journey - Escape

The Police - Ghost in the Machine

There's a lot more, and a lot of it is crap, but after cleaning these, there are no pops, no scratches, nothing. It's a good Friday.

doctor feelgood-stupidity.....sparks-kimono my house

Mickey Hart, Airto, Flora Purim "Dafos" (Reference Recordings RR-12) 45 rpm

Rhythm Devils "Rhythm Devils Play River Music" (Passport Records PB 9844)

Chick Corea, Gary Burton "Lyric Suite For Sextet" (ECM 1260)

Ben Webster "Ben Webster - Live at the Renaissance" (contemporary C-7646)

Sonny Rollins "Way Out West" (Contemporary S7530)

Ben Webster/Joe Zawinul "Soulmates" (Riverside RLP 9476)

Vivaldi "The Four Seasons, op 8" - Marco Fornaciari and the Fone Ensemble on Fone 007 (2LPs) - a muscular, full-tone performace with a "big sound" from this small ensemble, playing with just one instrument per part. This recording is very closely miked (albeit with all-tube microphones) and cut at a high level, with overload apparent periodically. I ended up raising my tracking force just a touch to help tame it. Overall, a very enjoyable performance that sounded delightfully "different" in this day of more demure HIP performances. Using Strativari, Guarneri and Amati instruments, the group gets a big, full and forceful presentation of this music that was a pleasure. I just wish the miking were not quite so close and that the LP cutting had not been at quite such a high level. Still, a keeper that I will come back to.