[Clyde Slick]

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Yesterday in L.A. I picked up two LPs that are a revelation to
me. I
had heard both of them at HE2006 and was stunned by the
quality of
the
sound (and the greatness of the performances), but I didn't
know how
they would do in my more modest system at home. Upon playing
them
this
morning, I found myself listening in open-mouthed wonder.

Joan Baez: In Concert. Cisco/Vanguard Records. A GREAT
performance
with a "you are at the performance site" perspective that is
just
amazing. Joan's Martin guitar has a tangible quality on this
recording
like no other I've ever heard, especially the notes played on
the D
and
A strings. Her voice, especially in her upper range, has on
this
recording the crystal clear, dead on intonation that she is
known
for.

Ella Fitzgerald: Let No Man Write my Epitaph. Classic?Verve
Records
The perspective here is "Ella is in your room". The finesse
of her
voice is in full display here. The piano is presented well,
but on
Ella's first note, I let out a curse word, which is quite rare
for
me!
There is an incredible reality about her voice on this record.
Actually, incredible is the wrong word; it is CREDIBLE. It
sounds
like
a voice, as opposed to the vast majority of other recordings.

I'm very happy to own these amazing recordings of superlative
performances. For those of you who listen only to CD, I hope
that
those
versions are as good. If so, I urge you to seek them out.

snip

The Ella was released on PolyGram Jazz as "The Intimate Ella."
Sounds
great on the Grados. "Black Coffee" is also on "Shadowland" by kd
lang,
another good recording.

Thanks.


I've seen the Vanguard countless times in used racks, but I can't
remember if I've taken the chance.

'Chance' is also my lp filing system. :-)

LOL I admit to being a bit anal about my recordings data base and
filing system. My Excel sheet just passed 4400 rows.

I do better with the cds!

There are more complications with classical recordings. We had a
typically stupid RAO dustup when someone insisted on calling "Famous
Blue Raincoat" a Leonard Cohen album. Well, if you file exclusively by
composer, it makes sense, but it won't help you find it in a record
store.

This pertains to the fact (which you know, of course) that classical
music is a COMPOSER driven medium, where popular music is a PERFORMER
driven medium (for the most part in both cases.) So I file and
database my recordings by composer, and there is not just one entry per
CD or LP, but rather there is a database entry by each WORK on each CD
or LP.


I can understand the rationale for keeping the database in the detail you
do (in fact for classical, their is no other good way). Where my attempts
to catalog have alway fallen apart is when it comes to physically
storing/referencing them on the shelves. In other words, I've never come
up with a good system for telling where they are physically. Mind sharing
how you do this?


Physically, I sort the Classical lp's by label



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