Miles Davis’ 20-year association as an artist at impresario George Wein’s renowned Newport Jazz Festival is a thriving tradition that will be celebrated with the release of MILES DAVIS AT NEWPORT 1955-1975: THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 4. The four-CD box set, comprised of live performances by Miles’ stellar band lineups in 1955, 1958, 1966, 1967, […]
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Naim Audio, the British hi-fi specialist with 47 years of audio expertise, is delighted to announce native Qobuz support for its Mu-so 2nd Generation family of award-winning wireless speakers. Enabled via a free over-the-air firmware upgrade, the integration will enable seamless access to Qobuz streaming services – including true high-resolution music streaming – from within […]
The Gramophone guide to the finest Schubert recordings available Continues HERE
Wynton Marsalis’ exuberant 2018 concert collection United We Swing: Best of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Galas brings together a handful of live performances the trumpeter gave on behalf of Jazz at Lincoln Center between 2003 and 2007. Recorded first at New York’s Apollo Theater and later at JALC’s Frederick P. Rose Hall, these previously […]
R E writes: Nesmith was not hired as a musician. He was hired as an actor. His role was to play a musician, not be a musician. And to sing. The first records were cut by the best studio musicians in LA. Later the guys in the band got to play on some recordings, but […]
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We are told: Adrian Legg is an English guitar player who has been called “impossible to categorize”. He plays custom guitars that are a hybrid of electric and acoustic, and his fingerstyle picking technique has been acknowledged by the readers of Guitar Player who voted Legg the “best acoustic fingerstyle” player four years in a […]
Dr Feelgood – Put The Blame On meJo Carley & The Old Dry Skulls – Dose Of Your MedicineBuddy Guy – I’ve Got A FeelingCanned Heat – Black CoffeeJD Simo – Mortgage On My SoulRobert Hill & Joanne Lediger – Run OnLil’ Red & The Rooster – Cool Trap BoogieKira Mac – Mississippi SwingingBlues Confidential […]
Hi folks, quick love goes as quick as it came. This is maybe valid for the most spectacular speakers. First listening of my S6e gave me the impression: they will be sold. Meanwhile I honor it’s true involving midband. Bass is despite it’s dimensions full bodied and nearly perfect for my loft apartment. Bigger stands […]
FC writes: (I am posting this answer a second time, as advised by Muiris Mac Cartaine, because I originally posted it as a response to his answer.) I am glad to see that “American Woman” by the Guess Who has been suggested by Ken Dierfler. The song, written and performed by proud Canadians, is about […]
Steve Provia (allaboutjazz.com) interviews: “Just as jazz had played a key role in ending segregation in earlier years, rock performers now took the lead in introducing mainstream society to outside the mainstream conceptions of gender and sexual self-definition. —Ted Gioia” Ted Gioia is a prolific writer and a good one. Readers probably know him through […]
Steven Stone: Back in the “golden age” of high-end audio hardly a month went by that you couldn’t find and read a negative review in The Absolute Sound or Stereophile which excoriated a particular manufacturer’s newest offering. Nowadays it’s hard to find an equipment review that doesn’t describe its subject in glowing terms. What’s changed? […]
Paul McGowan / PS Audio In yesterday’s post I shared with you the fact we’ve made some changes/modifications in Music Room II. I was quite surprised to find reactions to that news varying from outright betrayal, shock and horror, to ‘atta boy’ and everything in between. Thank goodness no one in this crowd has any strong opinions. […]
by Reverend Keith A. Gordon Updated July 23, 2017 Perhaps the most influential of the many styles of blues music, Mississippi Delta blues, also called Delta blues, rose out of the fertile agricultural triangle located between Vicksburg, Mississippi, to the south and Memphis, Tennessee, to the north, and bordered by the Mississippi River to the […]
JIMMY T writes: Wow, I had to think for a very long time about this. The reception every album has gotten, after all, has been extremely mixed. Just a side note, I’ll chiefly be using Rolling Stone Magazine’s reviews as they helpfully archive them and are easily accessible. I’m also excluding 1982’s Coda because it […]
My present system comprises a Sugden Masterclass CD player and a pair of Ruark Solstice floor standing speakers. The amp is excellent but, for reasons which need not weary us here, has to be replaced with a solid state version. I would rather not spend more than around £1k on the replacement and have considered […]
Larkin Poe – Bleach Blonde Bottle BluesBoogie Beasts – France ChanceSuperdownhome – New York CityAynsley Lister – AmazingRusty Wright Band – No One Cares At AllRusty Wright Band – Devil Man BluesJoanne Shaw Taylor – Then There’s YouGrant Dermody – Don’t Boss MeZZ Top – TushChuck Berry – My Mustang FordGuitar Slim – Later For […]