***CDs Now Playing - Part II***

[Bill Fitzpatrick]

Group: Sonny Rollins w/Flannigan, Watkins and Roach
Album: Saxophone Colossus
Genre: Jazz (1956)
Sound Quality: Excellent as most Prestige recordings are
Performance: Excellent

[andy_c]

Bill, would you mind sharing some info about your Saxophone Colossus disk? I'm listening to the track "Moritat" on mine and the saxophone sounds very distorted. I got my copy in the dark ages of CD, around 1985. My disk has the liner notes in Japanese (like many of the early jazz CDs), and says "Manufactured by Victor Musical Industries, Inc., Tokyo, Japan 1985". It also says "Prestige VDJ-1501". Any identifying info on yours that might shed some light on when the analog was converted to digital (the later the better I assume)?

Thanks.

[byteboy]

Album: The New York Rock and Soul Revue - Live at the Beacon - 1991

Track: Pretzel Logic (Steely Dan)

Comment: Fantastic guitar solo by Drew Zingg...............

[Jerry T.]

Group: Radiohead
Album: Hail to the Thief
Genre: Alternative
Sound Quality : Pretty good
Performance: Their best album yet, I can't get enough of it !

[joensd]

Group: Jackson Browne
Album: Looking east
Genre: Rock (laid back;soul,pop,country influences)
Sound Quality : Very good
Performance: Souly voice, great guitars, IMO his best album

[Bill Fitzpatrick]

Group: Rancid
Album: And Out Come The Wolves
Genre: Punk
Sound Quality: Not bad
Performance: It cooks - one of the better Punk bands

andy c: You got my mail?

[Bill Fitzpatrick]

Group: Nina Simone
Album: Little Girl Blue
Genre: Jazz Vocal
Sound Quality: Excellent. Has a nice feel to it. Interestingly, she's in the left channel - not centered.
Performance: Excellent

[andy_c]

Group: John Coltrane et al
Album: The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings
Genre: Jazz
Sound Quality: Very good
Performance: Excellent

If you're familiar with another live Coltrane recording from a similar time frame, Live At Birdland, you'll know that the sound quality of that disk is rather poor. I'm happy to say the sound quality of the 1961 Village Vanguard recordings is way, way better. I honestly don't know why they didn't release some of these tracks long ago. So far, I've only gotten through the first CD (this is a 4 CD set) and I've found that the (A) version of Impressions on the first disk is the best I've heard. Likewise, the (A) version of Naima is the best version of this song I've heard, ever. I've been an avid Coltrane fan for over 30 years, and quite frankly, after hearing some of his stuff literally hundreds of times over the years, it loses its magic. But these new tracks are a breath of fresh air, bringing the magic back again.

BTW, Dolphy plays bass clarinet and alto on many of the tracks, and sometimes Reggie Workman plays bass instead of the usual Jimmy Garrison. Roy Haynes also plays drums on some of the tracks in place of the usual Elvin Jones.

[uvodee]

Artist: Yosefa
cd: the desert speaks

playing now: a postcard from morocco
compose: shlomo Gronich
lyrics: meir goldberg

recorded in a Tel Aviv recording studio

as stated in the subject: something different but remarkeable easy to listen to..


J-P.

[uvodee]

Hemispere is the label, sub from EMI, oasis productions




J-P