This LP now...

Oh, and I use RCA rectifiers all around, I just find I like them best. In the Torii I am using some early 'fifties 5U4G coke bottle-type.

I've tried 5Y3GT in the Torii, and just prefer the 5U4G. Not sure what the sonic differences are now, it's been so long since I did a comparison. I just preferred the 5U4G. The opposite is true in my CSP2, two CSP2+s and ZP3. Just how it is!

Lon, we're both a bit OCD about this stuff.  I had gone to discogs and looked up Jazz Track.  About our CD's, I see you are correct...wanna trade...hehe.  Mark.  

PS... I just pulled my copies of "58 Sessions" released on CD in 1991 with all seven tracks by the "Kind of Blue" sextet including Bill Evans and the "Live at Newport 1958 & 1963" released on CD in 1994...it has to have been at least 15 years since I last listened to them.  As I read the info I realized all of this material, including the soundtrack, is from 1958...the year I was born.

Yes, amazing music from that year!

Have you ever discovered recordings made the day you were born? I found that Hank Jones did a great trio session for Savoy that day (with Wendell Marshall and the drummer that inspired my own drumming, Kenny Clarke), and Chico Hamilton recorded live for Pacific Jazz that day. Neat stuff to listen to and realize I had just arrived!

mark58 wrote on 12/04/13 at 22:27:54:

On a one hit wonder kick lately.....this is a classic.....especially the YouTube video!!

LP #1 of this 2 LP set...

In the Listening Cave.  This LP spinning...NOT recommended. Hearing Michel Legrand sing reminds me of Bill Murray as "Nick the lounge singer".  Mark.

I`ll check the D. Fagen out Mark.
Got myself in a Traffic jam  :) Bact to back.

ZEP 1V Glad I turned the volume down before i started tonight. It`s pumping.

Next LP...

Great interpretations. Interesting sound; this is a reissue of the recordings for the Telefunken label.

I'm liking the recent choices posted by all.  I was getting worried  about where we were going when someone posted some Kenny G...hehe.

Anyway, I'm back in my Listening Cave after a dreadful time getting to work this morning.  I had to leave my car idling for an hour (5am to 6am) in front of my house to loosen up the 3/4 inch of ice on it.  Only one door would open, for which I'm thankful. But now I'm nice and cozy with my tube warmth while the heavy ice is cracking tree branches and colliding cars outside...here in Big D...Dallas, of course.

I'm listening to the below set...it's fantastic.  I don't know if it's the recording or maybe the used old Seimens EL34s that I popped in the Torri this morning, replacing the new stock KT-66's, but the "too bright" sound I complained of yesterday or the day before has left.  All is sweet and a bit warm...mmmm.  Mark.

Lon, I did a google search for Jazz recordings on my birthday and found that three tunes on the Miles Davis /Gil Evans LP, "Porgy and Bess" were done on my birthday. The album was recorded on 4 different sessions. Milestones was also recorded in 1958 and Kind of Blue the following year.

I was in a Monk Mood and I only can find this one on vinyl, there are other Columbia reissues on vinyl that I can't find.  Of course, I have almost all his official releases on CD.  Anyway, this one is worth another listen.  

The sound I'm getting today is amazing.  I think I'll stop tinkering for a while.  But another 12AU7 came in the mail today...a Raytheon with halo getter like the 12AX7's you and I both have in our ZP3's.  It'll have to wait until tomorrow.  Mark.

This LP is another from my youth...released in 1971, the cover always intrigued me...Billy Preston had the same thing going on back then.  The music is interesting too. Her version of "Bridge Over Troubled Water" is beautiful.  Much different than Simon and Garfunkel's.  

I couldn't resist, I took out the RCA Clear Top 12AU7 and put the Raytheon in the ZP3...I'm not sure I can tell much difference but I think the Clear Top is the winner.  I'll give the raytheon some more time.  I think the biggest difference is from the EL34's vs the KT66's. The bass is a little flabby so I pushed the Bass controls on the Torii MK IV forward...much better. Mark.

This will be the last LP tonight.  This LP was recorded a little more than a year before Jean Luc Ponty's first Atlantic Records release in 1975..."Upon The Wings Of Music"...both albums share the tune "Bowing Bowing".  All songs were written by Ponty and so it is more fusion than straight jazz. It should be no surprise that I like it but not as much as the Atlantic albums I've previously mentioned.  Mark.

Lon, thanks for the recommendation - I found this one, and I do like it! Great for a guitar lover!

Thought you would dig it.

Right now, an old favorite

Digger, I looked for the group's music and found several full albums on you tube and Ten on Spotify.  The group is not Rare Earth...just "Earth".  I can't say I particularly liked the few samples I listened to but everyone's tastes are different.  Vive la différence!  Mark.  

PS...here's the wiki page, another link and several you tube links to get you started....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_(band)
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=4288

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEiRKpflgQA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b45jpDpXCtI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr1MLceqp8Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ-HzoGU-hQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls1OYn_xGzM

Yeah, Mark Found it. I have three of their albums now, the one I posted above I like because it's a slow, heavy, instrumental. The second one I got is full of loud screaming which is a big turn-off for me, the third is like the Honey one posted above, but with some cello mixed in, and I'm liking it even more.

Digger wrote on 12/07/13 at 16:13:58:


Earth is interesting. I like the two that LR likes the best myself.

Here's a wikipedia entry for Earth; I learned from it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_(band)

This LP next...it has Charlie Haden in Mingus' seat. It even has Jimmy Knepper on it, Lon.  It's got all the Spirit and Swing of Mingus.  Mark.

I've honestly never heard this whole album - I grabbed the HDTracks version since it's one of their top selling, if not *the* top selling recording.

At first I didn't get it, but the deeper I go into the album the more I like it. I have a feeling this will really come alive with the ZMA. The Zen amp has the speed, but not the weight this recording needs.

LR, Moondance is one of my favorites.  Once you "get it" you'll need to go listen to  all his early releases...he's not bad even now.  Mark.

This LP now...

I just turned on my CD player to warm up the tubes for my next selection.  Mark.