Whats on your turntable tonight?

Renee Olstead,
Perhaps the greatest new talent in female jazz vocals I've heard.
She's only 21, but her phrasing, vocal control, styling, all transcend her age.
All I can say further is....WOW.

Larry

Well after my abortive initial foray into the world of SUTs (previous posts), a couple months ago I decided to simply upgrade my phonostage to a considerably costlier one with SUTs built-in. Both sonically and musically the new 'stage slays my prior ones, as it should, and the circuit itself is nicely quiet in MM mode, however the SUTs do add some low-level hum that I can't eliminate no matter what I do, and that the modestly-priced outboard SUT I tried didn't have. Still, the overall sound quality is the best I've enjoyed, and with my current medium-output MC I can use the lowest step-up ratio, where the hum level is so residual as to not be a problem even at realistically high volumes.

Joe Pass - "For Django" [Pacific Jazz/Capitol LP reissue '64/?] Two-guitar quartet date with John Pisano
Barney Kessel - "Let's Cook!" [Contemporary LP reissue '62/?] With Ben Webster, Shelly Manne, Victor Feldman, Jimmie Rowles, Hampton Hawes, Leroy Vinnegar, Frank Rosolino. Originally recorded by Roy DuNann in '57 in early stereo with notably high fidelity
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - "Kyoto" [Riverside/Fantasy LP reissue '66/?] With Art's cousin Wellington Blakey delivering the powerhouse vocal on "Wellington's Blues"
The Modern Jazz Quartet - "...& Orchestra" [Atlantic LP reissue '61/?] Gunther Schuller conducts
Dave Brubeck Trio Featuring Gerry Mulligan - "Compadres" [Columbia LP '68] With Jack Six and Alan Dawson
Chico Hamilton Quintet - "The Chico Hamilton Special" [Columbia/CSP LP reissue '60/?]
Art Van Damme Quintet With Johnny Smith - "A Perfect Match" [Columbia LP '63]
Al Kooper - "You Never Know Who Your Friends Are" [Columbia LP '69]
Elliott Murphy - "Aquashow" [Polydor LP '73]
UFO - "Phenomenon" [Chysalis LP '74]
Katrina And The Waves - "...2" [Attic (Canadian) LP '84]

Lrsky, Where did you find Rene Olstead on Vinyl.

Horace Silver, Song For My Father – BN 84185 (Music Matters 45 rpm reissue)

Grant Green, Solid – BN LT 990 (Music Matters 45 rpm reissue)

Exceptional sound quality on both! Musically, hmmmm... I found some of the individual cuts captured my interest, but overall not so much. OTOH, listening to Grant Green on Solid caused me to reappraise just how incredibly good an artist he was.
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The Decemberists - The Crane Wife. While I do listen to jazz 90% of the time, I also go to Starbucks every day and found their current release, then they appeared on NPR. The new album is good, but I really like this older disc. I wonder if they listened to Fairport Convention.