Whats on your turntable tonight?

Zaikesman, thanks very much! You are correct on all counts.

My enthusiasm for vinyl has recently been revitalized by the retipping Peter Ledermann of Soundsmith did on my vintage Grace F9E Ruby cartridge. It is simply fabulous, although it's hard for me to compare it to its previous incarnation because some major system changes occurred in the interim.

I'm thus in the early stages of rediscovering my vinyl collection, focusing on recordings that I remember as being particularly good sounding. The two I listed and just listened to certainly qualify in that respect, as well as being excellent performances.

Thanks again. Best regards,
-- Al

The last 24 hours

Andrew Hill -- Grass Roots
Heartless Bastards -- All This Time
Old Canes -- Feral Harmonic
Budos Band -- III
Charles Mingus -- The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

The Guess Who - Best of (crappy RCA record club copy, great music though)

Shelby Lynne - Tears, Lies, and Alibis

The Complete Buddy Holly

Radiohead - Pablo Honey (180g came with a bad warp, but the periphery ring makes that a non-issue)

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (still like Widespread Panic - Dirty Side Down better from last year, but this is v good)

Little Anthony & The Imperials - "Goin' Out Of My Head" [DCP mono LP '65]
The Grass Roots - "Let's Live For Today" [Dunhill stereo LP '67]
Gabor Szabo - "His Great Hits" [ABC/Impulse! 2LP compilation '71, rec. '62-'67] The cover shot shows the best view of his idiosyncratic guitar rig, a Gibson J-160E flattop acoustic with built-in magnetic neck pickup similar to the ones made famous by the Beatles, through the otherwise obscure but quite cool looking Toby "Sound Column" red Formica, cylindrical 2-12" solid-state amplifier (which a little research turns up was made by one Toby Guynn, still a small manufacturer of vehicle subwoofers and HT/stereo subs and speakers in the Fort Worth area, at toby.com)
Naif Agby & His Orchestra - "El Debke" [Audio Fidelity stereo LP '62]
Count Basie - "One O'Clock Jump" [Columbia LP '56, rec. '42-'51]
Buddy Cole - "Have Organ, Will Swing" [Warner Bros. stereo LP '58] Unusually, the jacket notes take the step of listing "Other organ albums suggested for your listening pleasure" by three other artists and their labels, all of which are totally unaffiliated with WB (they are: George Wright on HiFi; Wild Bill Davis on Imperial; Milt Buckner on Capitol)
Red Garland Trio + Ray Barreto, conga - "Manteca" [Status/Prestige reissue LP '58/?]
Gerry Mulligan/Paul Desmond - "Gerry Mulligan Meets Paul Desmond" [Verve mono LP '57]
Hank Crawford - "Dig These Blues" [Atlantic mono LP '65]

"Danses Anciennes de Hongrie"
-- Clemencic Consort (Harmonia Mundi France HM1003)

Piano Music of Chopin, Grieg, Debussy, Schumann, Beethoven
-- Kabi Laretei, Piano (Proprius 7793)