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| Your favorite male soul voices John Boutte | |
| Bettye Lavette Few artists of any genre have Bettye Lavette's ability to redefine the meaning of songs that have long been fixtures of our consciousness. While she has done this for me several times, her reworking of Elton John's and Bernie Taupin's "Talking Old... | |
| Anyone else a big fan of Norman Grantz' Pablo Label form the 70's/80's The pinnacle of the Pablo label for me is Joe Pass' Virtuoso. My cousin, a phenomenal guitar player in his own right played the record for me in the summer of 1976 when we had a landscaping business together. We played the record so many times tha... | |
| exceptional voices of female singers (non-classical) Ellen McIlwaine blows my mind:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44UBIB8S20U | |
| The longest you have owned any gear? Some pieces open the door to the music--regardless of their vintage. My 39 year old Nakamichi 600 II is one. Properly tuned, it plays music very compellingly. | |
| Best Acoustic Guitar Players Of All Time? Lanny BreauSandy BullMississippi Fred McDowell | |
| Sarah Vaughan....Best Performances and Recordings "No Count Sarah" was an album she cut with the Count Basie Orchestra (w/another pianist) that had a lot of great music. Jazz standards like "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and "Just One of Those Things" receive strong treatment. But, the cuts that make ... | |
| Best Debut Albums Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood MacOscar Brown Jr. - Sin and SoulJanis Joplin - Cheap ThrillsThelonious Monk - Genius of Modern MusicThe Band - Music from Big Pink | |
| Martin Logan CLS vs. ReQuest Had every incarnation of CLSes and subs over the course of 15 years, and enjoyed them immensely. They are as others have indicated, highly revelatory, especially with small scale music. I have never encountered a better speaker system for reproduc... | |
| Amps from the 1980's -- What gear holds up sonically? Reliably? Spectral electronics were built to a different technical standard than most and featured a particular sound that was, and is still largely is distinct. The sound of the Spectral amps of that era compare favorably to that of modern high speed amps... | |
| "All Things Must Pass"-Tower Records Documentary Tower on 4th and Broadway was the meat in the sandwich between Stereo Exchange down the street and the Strand book store up the street. Spent more hours there than I can count. Also spent untold $$$. I still occasionally pull out an unopened recor... | |
| Some Musical Truths you know, oh, oh that you're over the hillwhen your mind makes a promise that your body can't fill | |
| Who do you credit for your love of mucic? My parents played music constantly. and they played everything--Tchaikovsky, Cream, Horace Silver, Olatunji, Dylan, Verdi, etc. My fascination with music was inevitable. I was kind enough to extend the same favor to my children. | |
| Monty Alexander lp recommendations Monty's album Ivory and Steel: Jamboree is a tribute to his jamaican heritage, featuring a couple of great steel drummers, and some great jazz versions of famous jamaican songs. It also happens to be a great sounding LP. | |
| horace silver has died Horace was a giant. Jazz owes him a huge debt of gratitude: He was a peerless composer of Hard Bop idiom; an inimitably funky pianist; and was an ace promoter of talented, young musicians. I loved how his songs always told a story. |