Alejandro Escovedo is Sheila E’s uncle…her 2017 album is worth a listen for some fairly tight funk and her signature percussion.
Impressive list of artists contributed.
This is Alice Coltrane’s masterpiece in my opinion (of course, many of her records are classics … at this rarefied level, which album is the ‘best’ is a matter personal preference). I cannot remember the last time I put this album on and did not listen all the way through.
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Spinning this new jazz CD release by Misha Tsiganov. Challenging without being avant-garde.
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W. A. Mozart: Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat, K452
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Curtis Fuller “Two Bones” Blue Note
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If someone‘s still interested in the Diavalet comparison:
I bought the Dizzy as hires files and 120$ LP.
The carton they ship the LP in could also carry 8 Sprout amps packed flat aside each other. Maybe that’s why the LP is so expensive 
For whatever reason they didn’t manage to include soft inner sleeves. But the cover and the pressing are both perfect. They even put the most dynamic tracks at the beginning of each side, so they do take care. And it’s a very dynamic recording.
On my deck (as with all such comparisons in case source is digital and mastering and engineer are identical) the hires sounds identical to the vinyl except for the small difference of DAC to vinyl rig. In my case the vinyl just has a bit more aura around everything. But tonality, dynamics, bass, top end, soundstage…just the same. It’s often different in case of analog sources and a bit more differentiated in case of a recording with extremely good soundstaging and ambiance.
So although the LP really sounds extremely clean and dynamic as the hires tracks do, you won’t need to buy it if you have a DS and expected clearly better sound…
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It sounds like this is a beautifully produced LP.
Explosive proto-fusion, including seminal tracks featuring John McLaughlin and Larry Young that laid the groundwork for the fusion genre.
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It is. It’s a great achievement that they could put these dynamics that clean on vinyl.
This is usually not my very favorite music, but his somehow simple songs have depth, which is underlined by good sound by great mastering work of Doug Sax. Some really intense songs on this album. Just like his cover portrait.
Ah I’m sure you know him…David Crosby.
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, time to check some new releases on Qobuz and started with this one…
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Awesome album.
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I just read that Tony Joe White died at 75. Very sad news. Talk about a man who led a life!! He was a stud with a great swampy Louisiana voice! He was also a vibrant talent late in life. Would have loved to have seen him play in some dive bar! He was part of much of what I love in music: American, southern, funky, soulful and raw. It comes in black and white.
Bet he had some fun that night!
Not exactly in Johnny Cash’s wheel house, and the arrangement is too gussied up (TV of the era), but it’s still pretty bad ass.
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Several I’ll be checking out this evening and tomorrow, thanks guys.
Over 35 years I’ve seen Rush three times. The first was at the San Diego Sports Arena. A hockey arena that is oval shaped and about as bad as one can imagine for acoustics. We were up high and the bass build-up and ring was something tremendous!
I’m struggling to remember the second time, it could have been at Irvine Meadows Amphitheater, as I’m confident of the third.
A natural earthen amphitheater with grass out to infinity. Needless say which sounded better.
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Disc and download available on Bandcamp. Tidal as well. Their one and only recording I’ve been able to find.
