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| Under Appreciated Jazz Piano Players 1.Bill Evans2.Oscar Peterson3.Bud Powell4.Art Tatum5.Art Tatum6.Art Tatum | |
| Comments-Pure Silver Sound Cables / Interconnects? Before you buy the cables,look up the price of silver per ounce. Please mthat "pure silver" may be used as an idiom.p | |
| 20th Century Composers 1.Stravinsky2.Hindemith3.Coplandhonorable mentionEllingtonHorace SilverWayne Shorter | |
| Audio and Wine? Try reversing the phlug. German and A-L whites. | |
| Miles Davis,extreme Jazz and the death of Jazz I'm not a jazz scholar but here goes. Miles Davis worked with the best musicians available-including those who inovated. He and Gil Evans invented cool. He worked with Bill Evans in the modern idiom and Coltrane in the Hard Bop idiom. But special ... | |
| Guidance regarding 2 female Jazz legends please.. Dolphin, I realize this is not an answer to your question but please indulge me. If you ever run accross a record or cd that's cover is simply a picture of Sarah Vaughn with her name on it, get it. Every song on it is standard. . stuff like A Trai... | |
| The most erotic passages in classical music during the time Bach was married to his second wife,Anna Magnelena, before he moved to Liepzig,were the happiest years of his life. In an age where marriages were arranged,he had married for love. These following pieces of music demonstrate an ero... | |
| BEETHOVEN'S LATE STRING QUARTETS Historic-budget choice The Cleveland Quartet Contemporary The Emerson String Quartet,if you order on line be careful that you only order the last five;they recorded all of them. | |
| Mozart Piano Concerto 21. In addition to the three fine recordings mentioned above,consider the George Szell-Cleveland Orchestra recording and the Academy of St. Martains in the Fields Orchestra with Clifford Cuzon. My personal favorite is the Cleveland but that's subjective. | |
| Regrets Overpaying for a compact disk player,live and learn. | |
| Some thoughts about value in high-end audio While your point is well taken, remember that Canada subsidizes speaker r and d-if only indirectly. | |
| Some thoughts about value in high-end audio That said,just as free speech protects persons who say outrageous things,so capitalism protects the rights of persons to pay 20k for speaker cables that will depriciate quickly. Yes,a Strad is an excellent value. An hundred years from now,perhaps ... | |
| Best system for the budding audiophile? Five thousand is 67% higher than three thousand but I submit a 5k system will not sound two thirds better than a three thousand dollar system. There is a diminshing return. That said,you might try this system: Adcom 200 watt power amp about 5-6c u... | |
| Barber's Adagio for Strings I second what Sugarbrie said above. The Emerson is a fine rendition of it in its oirignal quartet form. In addition to the Toscanini mentioned above, consider the St. Louis/Slatkin recording. When they toured Asia a few years back, the Adagio move... | |
| Audiogon Ethics People Person: Speaking only for myself,not a community,I'd express my concerns in his feedback and let other individuals draw their own inferences from the whole body of his feedback.p |