learsfool
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| Jazz for aficionados Hi guys - just quickly listened once to Frogman's clip - I was not familiar with that band, very nice! I'll have to check out some more of their stuff. Orpheus, I had not heard Benny Green, seems from the two clips I listened to that he is a prett... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, Charles, film noir is one of my favorite genres, for sure. I would like to mention a few more ladies one should not leave out of the conversation - Rita Hayworth, Lauren Bacall, Martha Vickers, Joan Bennett, Rhonda Fleming. | |
| Amp recommendation for Klipsch Heresy Though they are indeed efficient enough that you could drive them with almost anything, I would definitely choose tubes for sure. You have tons of great suggestions here. If he does want something newer, the PrimaLuna line works very well with the... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi Orpheus - I do not have nearly the collection of or familiarity with all the great jazz that is out there as the rest of you on this thread do, first of all. Probably only about 10-15% of my collection is jazz, another 5-10% spoken word recordi... | |
| Old Cerwin Vega Model 210 I think that that is the same model my Dad has in his home - they are very nice. I used to have some floorstanding Cerwin Vega's before I got my Cornwall's. I always thought that Cerwin Vega was pretty much the best mid-fi speaker line. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi Orpheus - first, Frogman's post on the woodwind doublers is fantastic, as I knew it would be. One comment on your latest post - my comments on the great sightreaders were actually about the studio (movie) musicians in LA, not the Broadway pit m... | |
| Klipsch Cornwall III You wouldn't find any Cornwall 3's in thrift shops, that's the current production model, if they are indeed still making them - I believe the company was sold a few years back and is concentrating more on their home theater stuff now. You might se... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi Orpheus - that cover of Jaws is hilarious, I had never heard that before. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Bobby McFerrin is also well known as a huge supporter of his fellow musicians of all stripes. A very good guy as well as good musician. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Orpheus, that was definitely on the bizarre side. Even more so, though, would be the recording with that group plus four trombones that was mentioned in the comment below!! I'll have to ask our harp player if she has ever heard of Dorothy Ashby. I... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi Orpheus - studio musicians and pit musicians would have pretty much a completely opposite existence, musically speaking - they are not at all the same. A top Broadway pit musician, for example, will typically play the same show 8 times a week f... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Orpheus, you bring up a great topic for discussion. Unfortunately, I may be away from this board for several days - about to have one of the busiest weeks of my entire season. Also, you have now touched on Frogman's area of professional expertise,... | |
| Why No Power Button on Some Phono Stages? The power supply for my turntable is the only thing in my system I leave on 24/7. My phonostage is a tube one, which I manually unplug every time. This is not at all unusual. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Good to know you are OK Orpheus! | |
| What is the best sounding Mahler symphony cycle? Abbado is one of the greatest interpreters of Mahler for sure. I don't know if his most recent recordings with the Lucerne Festival are available on CD, though, they might be just DVD. |