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I can't decide between a rt85 or pro-ject debut carbon. Driving me nuts lol I love the Fluance auto stop

Great to see Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie getting more exposure. The more you listen to Bird, the more you can "hear" him. Fortunately, the first recordings I heard were unintentionally the Dial recordings on the Charlie Parker label. His ballads were on side 2, and side one has some all-time greats. It's funny how the new listeners more easily grasp John Coltrane's playing but find Parker to be a challenge. It helps that folks like you play his records. Bird Lives!

Parker's best work was recorded on Dial and Savoy and on live broadcasts. Norman Granz was not a good producer of bebop or even advanced swing players. He imposed his own idea of jazz on his recordings. Of course, Parker had some great moments despite his alcoholism and drug addiction, but Granz never understood Parker's music in any deep way and wasted precious time on JATP showcases, mediocre string arrangements, and some dubious backing musicians. Everything Parker recorded is worth hearing, but the 1950s were not his best work by any measure. The Latin jazz recordings are probably the best thing on Granz labels.

Good album but not exceptional. There have been resp. are many great piano jazz trios of the likes of Esbjorn Svensson or Tingvall, mostly out of Scandinavia, or e.g. Rosset Meyer Geiger out of Switzerland. So, there is strong competition amongst top class musicians. Nevertheless if none of the above is present yet in the collection, it’s a good start.

Fantastic insights into the craftsmanship in a well conducted interview. Well done, Matthew. It was about time to clean up some of the audiophile/vinyl communities’ misbelieves and dictums. Thank you very much to Andreas for that.

Please do the rubaiyat. Please?

Great video, great channel Well done

Bird is way overdue for a real audiophile treatment; source material/recording era not withstanding.

Thanks for sharing! Very much appreciate your contagious enthusiasm for the music!

Bought it a couple years ago. Great box. Nice review 👍

Good evening, I discovered this album by Chet that I am going to order. It just so happens that the weekend when Dear Baker left us. I was with friends on the way to Amsterdam for some sightseeing. On the highway we were overtaken by a beautiful Alfa Romeo. Given our Italian origins, this caught our attention. Chet Baker, no doubt... I have never told this very personal story in public. It is time.

Thanks Matthew, I am a new subscriber. I am enjoying your jazz reviews especially this Chet Baker release. Hopefully, it is relatively easy to find this one in the UK. All the best, Jonathan.

Great intro of these musicians. Another fine recommendation. Thank you, Matthew. Since the cover says „Made in Czech“ it is assumingly and, if so, unfortunately pressed by GZ which is in my experience often a disappointment in terms of pressing quality. The record will be difficult and expensive to get in Europe, and I do not want to take the risk of limited return for exchange possibilities in case. How is the pressing quality?

Yep r. I had to get this pressing. I just ordered it last week.

Great channel, love the interviews and the reviews of the records. I was on the fence on this, but after listening it sounds like o need it 🤙🏻

Very good video Matthew! I own this album to. It is amazing how good he still was at the end of his live.

Why are you running your turntable through a preamp? Couldn’t you just connect that straight to the power speakers?

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Thanks for shining a light on this I need this album now

We are so lucky with all of these great solo releases by members of Genesis. Hackett has been the most prolific, with a diverse range of styles but mainly the progressive rock genre. And he doesn’t look like he is slowing down. Tours frequently and even came out to Australia just a few years back, his live shows are superb! Love this “Circus’ album 👍 Fav Hackett album is “To Watch The Storms” from 2003, now available on vinyl.

We are so lucky with all of these great solo releases by members of Genesis. Hackett has been the most prolific, with a diverse range of styles but mainly the progressive rock genre. And he doesn’t look like he is slowing down. Tours frequently and even came out to Australia just a few years back, his live shows are superb! Love this “Circus’ album 👍

appreciate the tips

Joe Farrell was the greatest saxophonist I ever heard. Problem was he only made it to 48. He abused his body to no end and cancer finally got him at that extremely early age.

Favorite Steve Hackett album is Voyage of the Acolyte (his first) with Collins and Rutherford lending full support. Voyage of the Acolyte is basically the lost Genesis album, sans Banks, who wouldn't get behind any of those Hackett penned songs getting onto a Genesis album. Pretty much the reason why Hackett left Genesis. The Circus and The Nightingale would be a close second.

Great album by Hackett. Terrific! One of the year's best prog albums. I got an autographed vinyl copy (and also the CD).

Sounds great. I had a live Love Supreme on an Italian? cassette that really was unpleasant to listen to...

Well done, great choices! You have been my savior this year in the sense that I have totally got oversaturated thus bored with all of these Blue Note, Contemporary, Craft, Verve …. re-re-reissues, and your new finds, and extensive reviews and needle drops delivered so many new discoveries with great excitement and fun, and repeat spins. Thank you so much for that. Looking very much forward to your next adventures.

Excellent list of truly “new” music, your doing all of these artists a great justice, because I would not have heard any of these, nor have i through my usual means. You need to check out,unless they’re on Your radar already, Sun Atlas - Return To The Spirit . Thank you for sharing this new jazz.

Superb jazz performance by CG and his bandmates, and recording. Great sound. Cover, vinyl and pressing quality leave nothing to be desired. The people at the label in Italy are very nice and responsive. Highly recommended! A good start into collecting Birdbox records. Looking forward to their next projects.

Superb jazz performance by CG and his bandmates, and recording. Great sound. Cover, vinyl and pressing quality leave nothing to be desired. The people at the label in Italy are very nice and responsive. Highly recommended! A good start into collecting Birdbox records. Looking forward to their next projects.

Superb jazz performance by CG and his bandmates, and recording. Great sound. Cover, vinyl and pressing quality leave nothing to be desired. The people at the label in Italy are very nice and responsive. Highly recommended! A good start into collecting Birdbox records. Looking forward to their next projects.

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Scene and variation: the piece was built on the harmonic skeleton of My Melancoly Baby in Bb, and was dedicated to his daughter Carol !!! capolavoro amico

Scene and Variation is my favorite song , capolavoro assoluto della musica mondiale

adoro questo disco amico, Grazie per averne parlato, congratulazioni

Super episode- thx

Thanks so much Matthew for the great review. Woodneck records is my record label I would love to do an interview with you if your into it.All the best and keep up the good work !

It sounds like a ground issue. I had one loose Headshell wire on my MP-110. Fixed that and zero problems going forward. I’ve got the 2M Blue also. I like the more natural sound of the MP-110 more.

Nicely done Mathew. I checked off those that I currently own, as you announced your list. I have 10 of them.

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I think it's difficult to find something "absolute" in the relationship between audio playback environment and media. This is because, with vinyl, even a single cartridge has its own unique characteristics and performance differences, and sound quality differs depending on the clock performance of an SACD DA converter or the choice between PCM or DSD, so I don't think there's much point in comparing how these sound. Personally I try to choose media that seems to have good mastering, but it's mostly a gamble.

If your records have not been "play graded", then they haven't been graded at all... You cannot visually inspect for pops and clicks, which is by definition in the grading scale. It must be play graded in order to qualify as being graded. Visual inspection alone will not suffice...

Maybe not the most fair comparison on my part but I have a 2M Black LVB 250 and an MP-110. I love them both for different reasons. I only had grounding issues with the MP-110 on the U-Turn Orbit that I've had since 2017 but I have no issues with grounding on my Technics SL-1210GR.

Great music to be had on vinyl but unfortunately with poor distribution choices and buying options for Europeans. Basically unobtainable not even thru major reputable record dealers. Maybe it’s only or preferred for release in the US market and for non-US buyers who accept to spend more on shipping and import tax than on the record itself. Hopefully next time distribution choices and buying options will be more respectful to European fans. Streaming would at least be an option but the ultimate is the release on vinyl.

I do have his 2011 album Exception to the rule on Criss Cross.Great pianist,saw him live as a sideman at a David Binney concert about 15 years ago.I was very impressed by his playing.

I think Jacob needs to get this record on streaming services.

Yes, the instruments do sound "more natural" on the analog production. There's a huge difference in the lead guitar lines especially. On the former, the Nick Davis remix, the lead guitar sounds very different and not in a good way.

Great review, thanks so much for doing it. I think as a person gets older, I'm 68, the Ortofon Blue would sound better because we are losing are upper frequency hearing as we age thus the Blue being more brighter will sound better for older people. My only hesitation for buying the Fluance RT85 is that pesky no VTA, I heard what you said and I agree to some extent, I have an old Empire TC400 that sounds amazing with old classic rock music, and I would like to be able to swap that in once in awhile, but the VTA thing could prevent that. Regardless of that nonsense I just mentioned, my eye is now on the NAD C588 only because of that damn VTA that the Fluance doesn't have. The C588 is made by Project with NAD specs, it's wow and flutter is .001 vs .007 for the Fluance, but the C588 comes with Ortofon Red, but it also has a carbon fiber tone arm...argh.

So glad I discovered your channel. As a music/jazz lover and jazz photographer since the late 60's it is great to see a serious focus on this wonderful music. This music deserves to be heard in each and every home.