Whats on your turntable tonight?

Not the best recording, but I love King Crimson, "Discipline" from early 80s.

Heard it in my car and had to go home and play the LP.

SON VOLT - Honky Tonk [Rounder 11661-9145-1]

Albertporter, nice one love when that happens

this is a great thread...I am just starting to discover Jazz at an old age...wow...I have jumped in with both feet and have purchased a hundred albums and cd's over the last month. Digging in to late forties to early sixties styles so far.

So tonight it will be:

Original Columbia copy of The Jazz Messengers Hard Bop.

Mulligan meets Monk

The Blue Note Re-Issue Series Freddie Hubbard first spin of this LP

Johhny Griffin, A Blowing Session, Blue Note 1559 (Music Matters 45 rpm reissue) with Lee Moran, Hank Mobley, John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly, Paul Cambers and Art Blakey. What a fantastic line up!

Dexter Gordon, A Swingin' Affair, Blue Note ST-84133 (Music Matters 45 rpm reissue). Another outstanding LP and reissue.

Ravel, Rapsodie Espagnole, Reiner/CSO, RCA LSC 2183 (Classic Records 45 rpm reissue). One of the great orchestral recordings and performances, in fantastic sound quality. If you've heard and discounted the 33 rpm reissues from Classic Records, I don't blame you. But the 45 rpm reissues are entirely different and far better. Bernie Grundman had changed his mastering chain by the time he started mastering these 45s and the vast improvements in naturalness and timbral balance are immediately apparent.
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We've been doing some critical listening to a set of power cords loaned to us for audition. It's always a challenge deciding on a few recordings to use. Our practice for doing this is 1) to listen critically to a selected few cuts on our system as it exists, 2) swap gear and burn in the new gear for the requisite period of time, 3) listen critically to those same selected few cuts and note what we hear, 4) switch back to our original gear, burn in again, then listen critically one more time. By the time we do this, we have a very good handle on what we're hearing. And, we always find that we've heard the same things when we compare our listening notes.

So, here's the recent selected few cuts for this adventure:

Klimo Open Window OW 002, Music for Barque Violin and Harpsichord: Uccelini: Son II. Son e Correnti, op4 / Banchini and Darmstadt

Groove Note GRV 1043 -45rpm, Dvorak Piano Trio No. 3: Finale / Jung Trio

RCA LSC 2183 -45rpm Classic Records, Ravel, Rapsodie Espagnole: Habanera / Reiner/LSO

S&P Records SNP 501, Eva Cassidy, Songbird: Fields of Gold

So, why this set of recordings? All are acoustic, and all are very realistically and naturally reproduced capturing well the distinctive timbre of the instruments involved. Each brings a different combination of instruments and acoustic environments. And, we know these recordings very well through many years of listening.
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