Mike Broadman

It ain't just about sound quality...

No, it's also about the music.

Right now I'm groovin' to Chesky's New York Reunion SACD- but not SACD, it's a ripped version of the redbook layer on my Nomad Jukebox mp3 player. McCoy Tyner is one of my favorite piano players (and taking a then-girlfriend to one of his performances at the Blue Note made her stop hating jazz ). And on this disc Joe Henderson is on particularly good form, playing with much gusto. His solo on Ask Me Know is real, man, like down, ya know? Dig it.

Hats' off to the production- Foster's drum cymbals are sweet. And, of course, mad love to my fourth fave bass player ever, Ron Carter, holding down the mountain for the Titans to play on.

This is just such a great session musically. Thing is, it was probably the SACD aspect of it that got me to buy it. With jazz there are just so many recordings out there that I doubt I would have seeked this out over many other good ones. Tyner's output alone is daunting (the ones I do have are so good, though, especially The Real McCoy).

Ah, now the band is doing a nice, mella groove on A Quick Stretch. Shit, they're tight.

Hey, Lee, if you're ever in on another session like this, can I hang out? I'll even play on it if you want.


St Thomas on Sonny Rollins' Saxophone Colossus album- is that not the hippest think ever? Yeah, it is, 'xcept maybe the the douible-shot swing-athon whammy on of "Tune Up/When Lights Are Low" on Miles' Fab 5 closing workout on Cookin' (both found as hybrid SACDs from Analogue Productions in my venerable collection of round silver saucers that bring music).

You know what's a mighty damn fun album?- A Night at the Opera by Queen. Great to listen to when lazing on a Sunday afternoon, especially with the DVD-A belting out half-a-dozen dubbed Mercuries from all over your room on Prophet Song.

Say, the Dylan guy could write some pretty nifty songs, eh?

I've been an avid listener of Stravinsky's symphonic work for a while but hadn't really heard his violin concerto until picking up Hillary Hahn's delightful rendition on Sony's SACD.
The San Francisco Symphony's breathtaking performances of Mahler's symphonies have made me one of the Mahler faithful. 90 minute long symphonies, brash brass, sweeping epic preposterous arrangements- I love it, almost as much as I cherish the multitude of George Szell recordings that Sony released on SACD. His readings of Beethoven very much "agrees" with my extremely non-professional understanding of the music (I got a 57 on a high school music appreciation test, but that was still one of the top grades in the class!)

This is me enjoying the music part of high-res music...

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Kraig Lang

Huzzah!!!

That's all. Have a good day

MOISTURE...*Silica Absorbs It*

Jeff Keene

Oh god, is this going be yet ANOTHER thread about how music is good and...

Wha?

Thanks for this, Mike. I always appreciate your perspective. I'm currently listening to Bjork - Post, on CD on a little Sony bookshelf thingy in my office, and I'm loving it.

Mike Broadman

Bjork- you know, I've always been meaning to listen to what that chick does. I think I only heard like one song. She seems to be one of the weird ones...

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gregD

That she is... and that is indeed a good thing.

Took a couple tries for her to sink in, but now she's a keeper!

There's none of what I usually like in her music... no virtuoso guitar wankery (no guitars at all), big emphasis on vocals and her formidable poetry / lyrics, set in a throb-y, synth-y atmosphere... lotsa atmosphere.

Nothing else like it... do yourself a favor and continue your hi-res enjoyment with her latest studio disc Vespertine on DVD-A.

John Watson

My Percy Mayfield disk from Rhino Handmade arrived yesterday.

Some of the liner notes deal with Dylan's admiration for the largely unknown poet of the blues, the aforementioned Percy Mayfield.

The disk has 28 tracks, and it's almost too much. To squeeze it all in, there is only a 2 second or so silence between tracks.

Some heavy lyrics about booze and suicide and the deep voice, (fretless?) bass, organ, etc.

It's almost symphony of sorrow. (I would have left a few tracks out, and given a 6 or 7 second pause between tracks, but Rhino wanted to give us everything they had, for which I have to be grateful.)

But the disk is capped with two tracks from Atlantic in the early 1970's that have a humourous and uplifting quality , (which I had on an Atlantic Blues LP from the 80's.)

There is amazing separation and clarity in the sound, like most of the Ray Charles 60's music recorded in the same places.

Someday I gotta have a decent sound room, with space for this music, but someday, baby!

Mike Broadman

Ah, Percy Mayfield! Another artist who's music I've been meaning to hear.

With the death of local small record stores, I have to figure out a new way to listen to albums without buying it.

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Lee Scoggins

You've butchered a live to 2 track masterpiece by converting it to MP3? Horrors!



Thanks, I did the microphone work. I did have some help from the great Bob Katz and the also great Jeremy Kipnis so I can't take full credit here.

I wish you could be there. I still have some session photos that Dave King took including McCoy Tyner listening on the Stax headphones that we monitored the session on. As far as jazz history goes, this was one of the last major jazz sessions done in historic RCA Studio A before it was turned into office space.



Mike, I tell you what I may participate in a session with Chesky soon and perhaps you can meet me in NYC and be my guest at the event. I will check with David. I think you would enjoy meeting him and Barry Wolifson the main engineer.



As I posted recently, it's all about the music!

As a gear head and business strategy guy, I definitely spend a lot of time discussing recording gear and sampling rates, but you know what? If we weren't producing good music, this stuff would not matter at all.

Maybe we should spend more time talking about great albums here and exploring & broadening (or is it Broadmaning ) our musical horizons.

And while I still prefer Super Audio, there are some amzing performances and sonic quality on DVD-Audio, and redbook has some great ones too! As a music fan I don't want to miss anything so I have a SACD player, a DVDA player, a fine redbook player, and an old Sony DVD player I use for playing 24/96 DADs.

By the way Mike, check out the Jazz at Oberlin College disc by Dave Brubeck.

no fears alone at night she's sailing through the crowd
in her ears the phones are tight and the music's playing loud
~skateaway

Mike Broadman

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Done and done. A nice set. I snatched up the first batch of Fantasy titles in one shot and plan to do the same with the next batch when I have the dough.

So you have a different player for all that stuff? Funny, I figure the two I have do the job for everything. My DVD-A is also fine for movies and DADs, while my SACD player is a sweet redbook player.


It is now.
That's what you get, HTF, for making us use your real names.


OK, speaking of music (there's a redundant phrase for this forum if I ever wrote one), everyone should pick up a copy of the new Blue Note release of Art Blakey's Indestructable album. Classic Art playing classic music. Classic.

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Lee Scoggins

Well the DADs play on my DVDA player, but I have a Sony DVD 7700 flagship player where the video chip died and I have been too lazy to get it fixed yet, so I figure why not get some audio use out of it? surprisingly good DACs for a DVD player...

Mike,

Do you have any of these new Art Pepper albums people are raving about? Apparently more stellar work from APO...

no fears alone at night she's sailing through the crowd
in her ears the phones are tight and the music's playing loud
~skateaway

Mike Broadman

No, I only have Meets the Rhythm Section, which was released earlier. It's great, and I'm sure the new ones sound just as solid.

I've been very lax on my SACD acquisitions because the player is in storage. I'm into collecting box sets and DCC gold right now.

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