Doc Powell ~ Inner City Blues (1994)
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Home system
Mahler's 5th symphony played by the Bayerische Rundfunks Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rafael Kubelik on a near perfect original DGG recording.
Kit as below.Since getting the Ortofon cartridge I have to listen to everything again. data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
That is coincidence I just bought this Cd on Thursday for 3 quid , I have not played it yet though .
Just about to listen to Julia Fordham - That's live ( also bought on Thursday ) on system below .
Laid Back (1996) is good too, whilst I've just ordered Life Changes (2004) which sounds good apart from one vocal track in the middle.
Just listening to a compilation of favourite trumpet and flugelhorn led jazz tracks specifically, as I write, Polina by Hugh Masekela from Dave Grusin's Migration (1989), made even better by a superb rhythm section comprising Omar Hakim on drums and Marcus Miller on bass. data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
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Home system (Wadia/Bryston/PMC/PurePower/Mana)
The Rippingtons ~ Topaz (1999).Written and recorded when Russ Freeman was living up in Colorado and very different from most of the band's feistier outings (of which my favourite remains Curves Ahead from 1991), but it's very nice.Jeff Kashiwa wasn't a member of the band at this time, though Paul Taylor plays soprano sax on a couple of tracks.
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Home system
Weather Report - Black Market , Cd on system below .
I had forgotten how much I like thisdata:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
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Special EFX/Chieli Minucci ~ Butterfly (2001).Just one of many great albums from the creative pen of Mr Minucci (though I'm not yet quite convinced about Without You).
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Home system
The Marvin Gaye collection - sacd
Dave Grusin ~ Mountain Dance (1981).A magical little album, recorded direct to two track digital using the Soundstream recorder.The rhythm section of Marcus Miller and Harvey Mason is, of course, a huge asset.
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Office system (which has given me more pleasure and less trouble than any other system I've ever owned and cost less than all of them in the process)