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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: lextek on February 11, 2012, 08:30:18 AM

Title: Fantastic Album
Post by: lextek on February 11, 2012, 08:30:18 AM

I never see people post much about music they are listening to.  Came across "Jazz at the Pawnshop vol.1".  Man I love it.  Sounds great on the Crack.  May have to get the other volumes.

Title: Re: Fantastic Album
Post by: markwilliams on February 11, 2012, 08:38:44 AM

I absolutely agree!   Great recording.   I play it often.  I've had the CD for many years.

In addition to the music, I love all the stuff going on in the background...cash registers, glasses clinking, people having conversations.

Mark

Title: Re: Fantastic Album
Post by: Jim R. on February 11, 2012, 09:49:09 AM

Totally agree!  Wonderful album, now I just have to get another copy on large black discs.

Lots of other great recordings on the Proprius label too.

Ok, my turn...

My wife was recently visiting Chicago on a business trip but was able to go a day early and spent some time with my best friend and his family.  This friend has had a CD he's wanted to give me for sometime but he never remembers to send it, so when Linda was there she got it and brought it home.  This is one of the last CDs that a dear mutual friend of all of o9urs, also from Chicago, made of the Bach cello suites.  Felix was a wonderful cellist and played with many celebrated symphonies in his life, but bladder cancer took him last year but today I was able to hear my friend again and playing one of my go-to pieces of music on his 5-string cello.

I listened, mesmerized through the whole thing and for perhaps the first time, never thought about gear, wire, tubes, anything but what I was listening to -- my good friend, immortalized and playing right in front of me.  Perhaps one of the most special musicsical listening sessions I've ever had.

-- Jim

Title: Re: Fantastic Album
Post by: porcupunctis on February 11, 2012, 10:08:56 AM

Jim, great post.  The music is what it is all about.  Often, it is the relationships we form that make those links. 

Thanks for sharing that story. 

Title: Re: Fantastic Album
Post by: Jim R. on February 14, 2012, 05:35:19 AM

Thanks, Randall.  Sorry, didn't see your reply until now.

Also, Lextek, sorry if I stepped on your thread.

-- Jim

Title: Re: Fantastic Album
Post by: Yoder on February 14, 2012, 12:04:38 PM

I have never heard of it and so I looked it up and was surprised at the members of the band. Glad to see the Europeans putting out some good jazz. Hell they have loved jazz for decades and supported our musicians, so I guess it is payback time!

An older, but phenomenal album is Ben Webster, King of the Tenors. There is also a CD where he plays with Oscar Peterson. The later is a two CD set and contains many of the tracks from King of the Tenors.
Definitely should be in every audio library.