Jazz for aficionados

***** I'm enjoying LP's like never before.*****


I will never understand how you 'audiophiles' can spend a small fortune on Amps, Pre-Amps and 'wire' in an attempt to hear perfection, and then nullify it all by using an ancient technology like LPs as a listening source.  Have the clicks and pops gone?  How can a cheap $400  per foot piece of wire cause ear bleeding, but the noise and distortion of LPs does not.

I need answers!!

Cheers

***** That also means I will refrain from those lively "new jazz, old jazz" debates. According to Dr. John, that great Louisiana Philosopher; "There are only so many croaks in a frog, so many barks in a dog, so many grunts in a hog, and so many beats in a heart". Seeing as how people younger than me been dropping like flys, I'm going to heed his advice and not waste another precious beat of this week heart of mine.*****

By Jove, I think he has finally got it!!!   All answers to Jazz are found in Nawlins.

Cheers

Got new stuff by Les McCann and Dee Dee Bridgewater over the holidays.   Will report later.

Alex:  I received the Christmas CD by Kenny Burrell that you posted.  Thanks

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I too read Watership Down many years ago...probably on the order of 30.  Recollection of details a little vague.  I haven't seen the movie you linked to.  No idea how faithful it is to the novel (though I have my doubts).  Watership Down is not a cutesy animal story a la Disney's Bambi.  Rok said in his reply to jafant, "It's about us."  That is true.  In that regard, it is too complex to have one single message though I'll repeat there is a deeper story there.

Rather than say it is about a "rabbit society", I should have written it's about a "rabbit community".  Somewhat like Orwell's Animal Farm, Watership Down is an allegory about human society.... though not as narrowly political and I think much more complex, textured and nuanced than Animal Farm.  It tracks the pilgrimage of a community of rabbits as they seek a new safe home having been warmed of impending disaster by one of their visionaries.  They face many perils and temptations in their travels. There are personality clashes, power struggles, moments of great doubt and crisis.  The portray of rabbit society is well-realized...they have their own mythology, a unique vocabulary, and a distinctly "rabbit" world-view.  

It's a great book and like Rok said, not to late to read.  
Note to self:  Not to late for re-reading, either.

Rok, "Analog" is not even in the same country as what we knew, neither is the price. Remember all those king of the hill TT's like Dual and Girard; they wont cut it now.

When CD first came out, and those "Audiophiles" were saying "What's the big deal"? I thought they were all on crack, or jealous because we had something as good as them, and much cheaper, but it wasn't necessarily so.

To make a long story short, it's only worth it when you got a lot of LP's; they can sound new all over again.

Every time I think I got almost everything by Less McCann, you come up with something I don't got; can't wait for the review.


Enjoy the music.