Whats on your turntable tonight?

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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David Bromberg self titled first Album.

Picked it up used for .77 cents along with 50 plus other gems at the same price.

Most look like new.

All I can say keep downloading those albums, and clearing out space.

Us bottom feeders sure appreciate it. My just started vinyl collection is growing by leaps and bounds.

Heard some classics today. Dave Brubeck "Time Out", Miles Davis "Kind of Blue", Cannonball Adderley "Somethin' Else". Thunderstorms rolling through, had to unplug everything.

For Albertporter or any other Crimson fan, most of my KC recordings are very poor. Steve Wilson and Robert Fripp are reissuing the KC catalogue from Robert Fripp's original master tapes both digitally and on vinyl. The recordings are superb, although they are not cheap, especially when you add shipping from England. They are available on "The Burning Shed" website.