What are we buying these days?...

Im tryin to like Jazz. I have been for years. Its sinking in bit by bit. I know that I SHOULD like Jazz more than I do. There is some Jazz that I like. Mostly the psychedelic stuff from the 60's (Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, Dr. John, Weather Report, Stanley Clark, Al Di Miola, Billy Cobham, Sri Chinmoy, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, well you get the idea...
 
Alright Great stuff.. Downhome, tell us what you find out.. And Grainger, I feel you are correct. It makes sense to me.. And that is what I want to know.. I think what I will do is buy vinyl when it is available as a first choice, and the rest digital downloads...
 
Grainger49 said:
Downhome Upstate said:
Hey Grainger,

Ever listen to John Fahey's Blind Joe Death?
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Never, is it like Kottke?  BTW, the Kottke was cheaper than the LP, brand new SACD.
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Leo Kottke learned guitar from John Fahey. Fahey's playing is more sparse, and at times even spooky. He was a master.
 
Hi there,

I recently saw Cassandra Wilson at Ronnie Scotts in London. Was herr final performance and it was brilliant. Small jazz club, great atmosphere and very good music.

My last vinyl was Horace Silver The Tokyo blues 45 re-issue. Great sound, great music.

My latest CD purchase was Pat Matheney Unity Band. Just love this guy and have most of his music in my collection.

Michael
 
I am a fan of Norman Barratt (NOT Bates) from his christian stuff.. and I was on you tube and learned he was with a band Gravy Train.. I listened  to the 1970 release completely and man, it was good.. I will have to get it.. And in the days of clapton, beck, page etc.. There is some good guitar work on that album.. anybody a GT fan??. Take a listen... Go to You tube and type....Gravy Train 1970 (Full Album Listen).....They are an English (Lancashire) prog band... They even have a song about Syd... Maybe Norman is a relation.. their sound is a little like 60s Floyd....
 
Anybody familiar with the TRANS SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA??  if not, try to go this christmas season to their show... i dont think you will be disappointed , even if you are not a rocker... check them out on you tube.... tickets are on sale now , i believe....they play in like EVERY major and smaller major city in the US...
 
I had a 45 RPM of Patricia Barber a few years ago. Don't recall the album. What I can't forget is the eeriness of the album! She was in my room and her breath smelled of liquor.
  G, I totally agree with the idea that analog is the highest sampling rat(rate, sorry). I use my analogy of comparing analog with shaving. If you use a blade, then that misses nothing. If you use an electric shaver, it 'samples' the hairs(some by pulling!) and cuts most of them.
 
I bought 2 or 3 of the Trans Siberian Orchestra CDs last Christmas.

More recently I bought Presenting The Ian Campbell Folk Group (LP), Russ Barrenburg Moving Pictures (CD & LP), Steeleye Span Time Span, And Richard Thompson Guitar Vocal.
 
Cool, keep 'em coming.. I am just saying the shows are bigger and better than ever according to the band... And this year, I believe they will be playing The Lost Christmas Eve for the last time and tickets are going on sale..Could be the time to go see them you guys.. I WOULD go every year if I lived in the US again...Just sayin' and I will hold forever hold my piece now.... :)
 
Downhome Upstate said:
Hey Eric,

Fair enough - time to play with the music software.

It's been a while since I compared (i) rips of 16/44.1 CD's to (ii) native 24/88.2 or 24/96 digital recordings formatted in AIFF (I use a Mac). 

I'll select automatic upsampling in Pure Music for sample rates under 88.2. (I think that's my default setting anyway.) Then its off to find a native high res download and compare it with the upsampled rip of the same album from redbook CD. I don't remember whether I own such doubles or not; have to look,

More later,

Mike
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Hey Mike - update on the above -- I cant keep track of what is when in these posts. Sometimes the changes come fast. Anyway, JRiver upsampler is definately good. Easy to hear the A/B comparison. What I did though, is go back to my original upsample fav. Sox min phase, dither, allow alias, through foobar 16/44.1 to 24/192. Ok - now thats good. Huge files. Well worth it IMO. Whew... Out of breath.. Play those files NATIVE with JRiver. Now thats good...
 
Let me add one one thing for the nay-Sayers. Weiss Saricon 1.6 uses similar filters. Dont be afraid of aliasing at that sample rate.... Anyway off the topic...

http://src.infinitewave.ca/
 
I agree about the "infinite sampling rate of vinyl"  concept also.. makes perfect sense to me....
 
I forgot there was a music forum here.  While my music tastes are all over the place, lately I've been finding some impressive young female artists.

Haim (HA-yim) - 3 sisters from a musical family with their debut album out called Days Are Gone.  Several of their songs keep getting stuck in my head lately.

http://youtu.be/1TffpkE2GU4

Boy - 1 Swiss, 1 German, nice vocal tone and a catchy song.

http://youtu.be/zsyjS_vJfkw
 
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