What are you listening to now?
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@mark said in What are you listening to now?:
Interesting. You are most likely correct but I wonder what this album is all about? It has this text on the back cover.
Not sure - it's a bit weird attributing them to Miles. Also, I'm pretty sure the master tapes still exist, so there was really no need to take the sound from a 78. It's still kind of fun seeing these albums from the 70's.
Presumably they're the same recordings I'm thinking of - here's an example (with the greatest alto-sax break in history)
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"The composer John Adams has long shown a flair for catchy titles. “Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?,” a piano concerto commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, takes its name from a saying attributed to Martin Luther—alluding, perhaps, to the seductions of secular art. A fun-house-mirror distortion of Henry Mancini’s “Peter Gunn” riff drives the burly, funky opening; a limpid central reverie prefaces a finale whose rhythms possess a demoniac swagger. In this recording, Yuja Wang, the soloist, performs with athleticism and grace; the orchestra, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, matches her with power and atmosphere aplenty. Wang’s splendid account of “China Gates,” a brief piano work from 1977, provides an agreeably dreamy coda."
I'm not a huge fan of Adams, but I'm enjoying this.
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Finally got around to a 30 day free trial to stream CD and high resolution recirdings from Qobuz. Phenomenal selection of music titles especially for classical, jazz, folk and world music. 100 million titles in the data base.
Right now am listening to some absolutely delicious baroque guitar and theobro music.
Impressive.
“Little by little I am learning the art of being quite content by doing very little slowly” ~ Lionel Hardcastle
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Until recently Qobuz in Canada was only available to audio equipment dealers. Since I worked part time for a hi-fi dealer until 2020, I became familiar with it. Qobuz far surpassed available titles the other streaming service, Tidal, offered in the store.
The subscription is $1 more per month than buying an MP3 recording from iTunes. Go figure.
I now have my sound system back again.
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apparently Mozart wrote some wrong notes in the piece.
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Heh, a five year old can play it better....
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They should record Vivek accompanying Trump singing some Schubert Lieder.
I'd like to see Mark make that sound good on his fancy-schmancy stereo.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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That would definitely be low fidelity, even lower than MP3 quality. I don’t think even Mark’s magic could make it sound better.
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Johnny Clyde.
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I'm a sucker for "The Great American Songbook."
I'd never heard of this artist until she came up in my FB feed for Postmodern Jukebox.
She's 25 years old. What a voice...
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