Your One "Go To" Recording

herb alpert rise.

And that isn't because someone already suggested a Grusin album...far from it.

Is there a sentence missing from the beginning of this post? Which Grusin album?

Onhwy61, go stand in the cyber corner. You must learn to follow instructions, young man!

Dave Grusin's Homage to Duke

And that isn't because someone already suggested a Grusin album...far from it. Like some on this post I have my computer control my CD players, so it is often left to make the final order to cue the players up....but if I had to search, find and pull out an album ...it would surely be this one.

I always seem to fall back on this album and play a part of it every time I listen to music....it is an amazingly well engineered studio album with such clarity, detail and dynamics. I must have heard it a thousand times but it still has the ability to make my hair stand on end every time...and I am not even a jazz or Duke Ellington fan...so that is really saying something!!!!

My record of choice is Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition, performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Ricardo Muti on MFSL LP 1-520. This record posseses one of the most lifelike reproductions of orchestral music on record I have ever heard, and excels at revealing any flaws in a system's reproduction of string tone, dynamics, and soundstaging.