goofyfoot
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| Jazz for aficionados Jazzcourier, you're apparently resentful about my having mentioned that I would opt to describe particular works by Paul Bley by using an aesthetic and theoretical vocabulary. This is common practice by the way in all music programs beyond grade s... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I'm not here to argue but I am adding commentary. A lot of these comparisons are ambiguous as most comparisons are prone to be. I have always believed it to be most constructive to talk about music in terms of things like harmony, counterpoint, ar... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I said Soho, I should have said Chelsea. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Frogman, I'd certainly consider Wayne Krantz to be one of the 'hipper' players, so maybe he lives in Soho but I don't consider him as un-deserving of his popularity. Yes, popularity doesn't account for musicianship, artistry or technique but it do... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Certainly, and If I were to say that I appreciated everything in the classical raisonne, I'd either be an idiot or a liar. One thing that I do sympathize with is opposition to this notion that anything can be great, or creative or easily labeled a... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok2id, there's still a lot of great music being made but there needs to be a willingness and an open mindedness in order to invest in it. Jazz is more of an art form than most other popular styles of music and so it takes a little work but it's w... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Music has to change, art has to change. It wouldn't make any sense for someone today to write like Haydn or maybe less so, like Art Tatum. Uri Caine seems interesting to me now. It's rewarding to listen to musicians playing Stan Kenton, Mozart, Bi... | |
| Wish List of LPs to be re-released Geoffkait, I have not heard the 'Sticky Fingers' Mo Fi release. It could be that someone else could do a better job, possibly a Japanese remaster?The Mo Fi reference was a generality. What I can say about the current Rolling Stones catalogue howev... | |
| Wish List of LPs to be re-released Given the overall quality of the Rolling Stones remasters, I'd like to see them re-done by someone like Mobile Fidelity. Included among these would be a copy of 'Between the Buttons' Decca UK, re-remastered from the original mono master tapes and ... | |
| Beethoven Symphonies - best perf + sonics on CD K330, if you look at the release dates, one is from 1994 and the other is from 2010. Essentially this means that the earlier set is the original release and is currently out of print. The two should however sound the same as it doesn't appear as i... | |
| Beethoven Symphonies - best perf + sonics on CD Hi Lloydelee,I find the Penguin Guide to be a bit conservative though it is consistent. Do you remember the Schwann Catalogue for classical recordings? I really liked that catalogue and I was nearly devastated when it stopped publication because I... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I've been in the wings here but it seems to me that everyones experience, points of view and preferences are valid and of use to someone. I know of Mosaic, Analogue Productions and Mobile Fidelity and just recently Pure Pleasure with respect to re... | |
| Beethoven Symphonies - best perf + sonics on CD Rok2id,I rarely take reviews on Amazon seriously though admittedly some are substantial. I often post on and read from the Gramophone website and as much as I respect that magazine and its staff, I need to put things from Gramophone in there prope... | |
| Beethoven Symphonies - best perf + sonics on CD Brownsfan, certainly these engineers who are remastering in the SHM format have little time 'for wasting where with fools' as I would guess that there's an abundance of good material for them to choose from. They seemingly aren't dumb enough to re... | |
| Beethoven Symphonies - best perf + sonics on CD That's a good question Rok2id. Brownsfan would you, or anyone else for that matter, happen to know the idiosyncrasies of the differing media formats concerning 'SHM', SACD, Redbook. etc...? It seems like these catalogue descriptions might confuse ... |