Month: March 2022
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Jason Victor Serinus writes: Some months back, SACD and DSD champion Jared Sacks, founder of Channel Classics, stopped by Casa Bellecci-Serinus in Oakland for an extended chat about the history of his label, recording in DSD, and his new NativeDSD.com download site. I started our conversation by asking Jared to share his history with music […]
ALEX JOHNSTON … Yes. Miles was supposedly introduced to Hendrix’s music by his then-wife, Betty, née Mabry, who was a figure on the counter-cultural scene at the time: a model, a singer, a DJ and a general scenemaker. Betty and Miles’ marriage didn’t last very long. Sources disagree as to why it ended: one version […]
The Newport Folk Festival takes place at Fort Adams State Park in Newport Rhode Island, a beautiful setting and a favourite of many acts. This gem saw stunning performances by John Hiatt, Laura Nyro, Emmylou Harris, John Prine, John Lee Hooker, BB King all captured & broadcast by KGNU-FM. Disc 1 01 Radio Intro [0:48] 02 […]
James O’Connor: The song, “Dirty Work,” is from Steely Dan’s 1972 debut album Can’t Buy A Thrill and is likely the most pop feeling song on the record, featuring an almost Philly Soul sound that stood in contrast to the more Jazz/Rock style of the rest of the LP. David Palmer was the lead vocalist […]
The Savage-Solveig label devotes itself to the archive of previously unreleased live material by the dazzling British sax star of the 50s and 60s, Edward Brian “Tubby” Hayes. This session finds the bop virtuoso at Nottingham’s Dancing Slipper club (a favourite haunt of a jazz-loving teenager who would become Kenneth Clarke MP) on 12 […]
We are told …. This 1963 date is titled for Dexter Gordon’s living in self-imposed Parisian exile and recording there with two other expatriates and a French native. Along with Gordon, pianist Bud Powell and Kenny “Klook” Clarke were living in the City of Lights and were joined by the brilliant French bassman Pierre Michelot. […]
Said a viewer: “Love the beginning… this shit is so raw, so real it makes hip-hop put it’s tail between it’s legs and cry.” MORE
BOB SMITH: Oooh good question as the sounds are very hard to identify, but thankfully John Fogerty explained this and more in his 2015 autobiography. The song is a cover of a “Screamin’ Jay” Hawkins song from 1956 done by Creedence ClearWater for their self titled album in 1968. In an attempt to create a […]
They tell us ….. Disc 1. Delaney & Bonnie with Duane & Gregg Allman & King Curtis – WPLJ-FM, A&R Recording Studios,New York, 22nd July 1971 Annoucer/sponsor Come On In My Kitchen * Talk Goin’Down The Road Feeling Bad * Talk Poor Elijah * The Ghetto * Annoucer introduces musicians/tuning Livin’On The open Road Better […]
GERAINT HALL … Saxophones can be made out of wood (I looked on YouTube) but usually (and traditionally) they are not, they are made out of brass. Prince Chokorda and his wooden saxophone Wooden saxophone Wooden Saxophone — Bart Hopkin (this one doesn’t look like a saxophone but still sounds like one) Thoughts on the […]
“Everything that can be counted doesn’t necessarily count. Everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.” Albert Einstein must have had high-end audio and measuring in mind when he spoke those words oh so many years ago – but probably not since high-end audio didn’t exist. 🙂 However, it sure does apply today when we […]
Paul McGowan writes: In Stereophile Magazine John Atkinson opines about the goals and challenges of reviewing audio equipment: a challenging task to do it as well and as thoroughly as does John. I have always admired his measurements plus listening approach to high-end audio as being really down to earth and informative. At one point […]
Gentlemen – I read this term frequently in the paper magazines and on this site too. Usually it is expressed by listeners, and not very well either and from ‘professional writers’ in a somewhat unconvincing way. I rarely here the term defined or at least clarified by a maker. Why is this? Thank you for […]
We are told: CLASSIC 1977 BROADCAST FROM TORONTO At 3 a.m. on 28th May 1977, after ten months of legal battles, and nearly two years after Born to Run had catapulted him to national celebrity, Bruce Springsteen and his former manager, Mike Appel, settled their differences and parted ways forever. The move finally enabled Springsteen […]