Rolavine
December 31st 04, 07:58 PM
I'm looking for some new things to listen too, anything your willing to share?
My favorite CD I bought this year is a Naxos, "Art Tatum, Improvisations".
This is a great recording featuring Steven Mayer on the Piano playing just
like Art Tatum. Meyer has made a real study and it shows. Wonderful
interpretation - abstractions on 17 songs, yet manages to give each something
new. I find this recording delightful and really a unique kind of music, it's
jazz but it isn't, it's precise yet can cut time to kind of slap you into
waking up and listening to the next bit of it.
The worst one I bought this year was a Telac SACD of Beethoven's 9th: cold,
distant, non involving, and sounds, for the first 3 movements, like your in the
alley of the theatre with your ear to the bricks. If Telac is listening, I may
never buy another thing from you, what the hell is the matter with you?
I like the Naxos cheapie cardboard of all 9 Beethoven Symphonies. Great
recordings, believable, high emotional content, fine musicians, and cheap
enough that everyone on my Christmas list has gotten one. The 9th on there is
far superior to this new Telac.
I like Folk, Jazz, Classical, Rock that has some orignality (if that is
possible), and my favorite music is new acoustic type like 'Short Trip Home",
or "Skip, Hop & Wobble".
Please share your treasures!
Rocky
My favorite CD I bought this year is a Naxos, "Art Tatum, Improvisations".
This is a great recording featuring Steven Mayer on the Piano playing just
like Art Tatum. Meyer has made a real study and it shows. Wonderful
interpretation - abstractions on 17 songs, yet manages to give each something
new. I find this recording delightful and really a unique kind of music, it's
jazz but it isn't, it's precise yet can cut time to kind of slap you into
waking up and listening to the next bit of it.
The worst one I bought this year was a Telac SACD of Beethoven's 9th: cold,
distant, non involving, and sounds, for the first 3 movements, like your in the
alley of the theatre with your ear to the bricks. If Telac is listening, I may
never buy another thing from you, what the hell is the matter with you?
I like the Naxos cheapie cardboard of all 9 Beethoven Symphonies. Great
recordings, believable, high emotional content, fine musicians, and cheap
enough that everyone on my Christmas list has gotten one. The 9th on there is
far superior to this new Telac.
I like Folk, Jazz, Classical, Rock that has some orignality (if that is
possible), and my favorite music is new acoustic type like 'Short Trip Home",
or "Skip, Hop & Wobble".
Please share your treasures!
Rocky