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I'm Adrian.
Great album!Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Listening is the act of aural discrimination and dissemination of sound, and accepting you get it wrong sometimes.
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I think I am nearing audio nirvana, but don’t tell anyone.
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I'm Adrian.
A trip down memory lane, a friend who wrote for record mirror at the time gave me a pre-release copy on vinyl, he knew them, and I saw them live about 9 months later just before October was released. I had forgotten just how good this album is, a definitive U2 for me, full of energy and fun, so here I am 43 years later and still absolutely love it, I suppose I have never grown up really.
U2 – Boy
Label: Island Records – 842 296-2
Series: Island Masters – IMCD 211
Format: CD, Album, Reissue
Country: Europe
Released: 1908
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock
Listening is the act of aural discrimination and dissemination of sound, and accepting you get it wrong sometimes.
Analog Inputs: Pro-Ject Signature 10 TT & arm, Benz Micro LP-S, Michel Cusis MC, Goldring 2500 and Ortofon Rondo Blue cartridges, Hitachi FT5500 mk2 Tuner
Digital:- Marantz SA-KI Pearl CD player, RaspberryPi/HifiBerry Digi+ Pro, Buffalo NAS Drive
Amplification:- AudioValve Sunilda phono stage, Krell KSP-7B pre-amp, Krell KSA-80 power amp
Output: Wilson Benesch Vector speakers, KLH Ultimate One Headphones
Cables: Tellurium Q Ultra Black II RCA & Chord Epic 2 RCA, various speaker leads, & links
I think I am nearing audio nirvana, but don’t tell anyone.
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I'm Loz.
Now for something a little different from 1992 !!! CURVE - Doppelgänger. Great shoegaze album.
It isn't necessarily about doing things right, its also about doing the right thing !!!!!
ITS A LONG WAY TO THE TOP........................ WHEN YA WANNA ROCK N ROLL !!!
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I'm Lawrence.
I preferred this
Now for something a little different from 1992 !!! CURVE - Doppelgänger. Great shoegaze album.
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I'm Mark.
So my Thursday morning starts with one of my favourite live jazz albums. Andre Previn should perhaps need no introduction, his extraordinary career had three main genres: Holywood films, jazz and classical music. In his film career he was nominated for 11 Oscars winning four. He received a Grammy lifetime achievement award and a Kennedy Centre Honor for his contribution to classical music, as well as KBE (as a non commonwealth citizen he was only permitted to use the letters KBE and not the title of Sir Andre). As for the remaining cast, the renown and influence of Ray Brown is legendary, notably as a founding member of the Modern Jazz Quartet and his extensive work with Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson. Mundell Lowe is perhaps the least we'll known but his career included being one of the most sought after session guitarist and he was a member of the Today Show band for ten years, in the jazz world he worked with Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Bill Evans, Billie Holiday, Red Norvo, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Sauter-Finegan and Lester Young to name but a few.
This album shows just how three "old friends" play jazz, totally infectious !
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I'm Mark.
Next up is a must have in any jazz collection, this album from the man referred to as "The Sound", because of his warm lyrical tone, is considered as one of the most influential albums in bringing Bossa Nova to the USA, winning him a Grammy for best Jazz Performance in 1963. The follow up album, Getz / Gilberto was to win him a Grammy for the single Girl From Ipanema as well as Best Album and make Astrud Gilberto's vocal the definitive version of the song.
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Life long music lover and Hi-Fi enthusiast for over 40 years, avid live music supporter, dismayed by the current dynamic ticket pricing applied to so many events !!
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Location: Lincoln UK
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I'm Mark.
To finish the morning before work beckons this glorious album from the iconic Oscar Peterson, I saw him live in the 80's and what a talent, he once said of jazz "you can take an audience on a journey but you must always remember to bring them back" his playing was just that, never losing sight of the melody no matter how inventive the interpretation. Despite a stroke in 1993 diminishing his playing in his left hand he continued to perform occasionally with one commentator stating " Peterson plays better with his right hand than most jazz pianists play with both hands".
His partners in crime are the legendary Ray Brown on double bass and the vastly underapreaciated Ed Thigpen on drums.
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Life long music lover and Hi-Fi enthusiast for over 40 years, avid live music supporter, dismayed by the current dynamic ticket pricing applied to so many events !!
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