What are you listening to right now?

[tmazz]

--Jerome

All right, way to get started here Jerome.  

Ansermet and the Suisse Romande are some of my favorites (hence the avatar).

Welcome aboard!

[jsaliga]

Thanks.  I really love a lot of those London ffrr and ffss records.  The performances are excellent and the sound quality is really top shelf.

Here's an original Command Classics pressing I am listening to right now.  Truely amazing.



--Jerome

[jsaliga]

This record was issued in 1967, which is just about when the decline in vinyl quality began.  You can tell there was a changing of the guard on these newer London ffrr pressings.  The vinyl was a little thinner than earlier records, but the sound was still great.  And this particular example has excellent sound.  Other cost-cutting changes would be ditching gatefold laminated jackets and using standard jackets on heavy paper stock (not laminated).  On the cover, photos of the musicians were common instead of original artwork.  Still, these late 1960s London pressings can be real nice finds and usually can be had on the cheap.  I paid 75 cents for this one.

--Jerome

[eleazar]

America ~ Your Move

    Lp

[jsaliga]

Absolutely magnificent!

--Jerome

[Barry (NJ)]

I picked this up in the NYC Subway one afternoon in the mid '90s on my commute home from work.
The artist was performing down there and had few CDs for sale...

"New York Dreaming" Didjworks | Format: Audio CD

Cool new-age type music with the use of a very interesting aboriginal musical instrument.

[eleazar]

[eleazar]

    LP

[eleazar]

    LP mine is a Mono

[tmazz]

    LP

Did you just pick this up at PREX too?

[etcarroll]

This came from my last trip to PREX, it has the 3rd version of Bye Bye Blackbird in my collection, may be my fav;

Live in New York [Import]
Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Miles Davis & John Coltrane | Format: Audio CD

[etcarroll]

Battle Stations
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Johnny Griffin | Format: Audio CD

[jsaliga]

--Jerome

[tmazz]

I picked this up in the NYC Subway one afternoon in the mid '90s on my commute home from work.
The artist was performing down there and had few CDs for sale...

"New York Dreaming" Didjworks | Format: Audio CD

Cool new-age type music with the use of a very interesting aboriginal musical instrument.

I have seen him in Penn Station as well. The instrument is called a Didjeridoo. Further info in it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didjeridoo

There are quite a few very talented musicians currently playing the "MTA Circuit".

I try to support them in their musical pusuits by buying CDs from the ones that are musically interesting to me.

A few of my favorites:

Lorenzo LaRoc plays a Jazz/Pop electric violin. In addition to being  an excellent musician, he is also quite an entertainer. Just last  Sat night I saw him win the $25K first prize on one of those American Idol clone TV shows.


Dorian Spenser is a Folk/Rock type singer kind of along the line of Eric Bibb


Yasuyuki Takagi plays a nice jazz sax usually with a small combo.



Lorenzo, Dorian and Yaz all have CDs that you can obtain through Amazon, but I think the favorite of my "Subway CDs" is from a young man by the way of Jason Green who play a great hollow body jazz guitar. Unfortunately, his CDs are private issue CD-Rs that as far as I know can only be purchased at one of his performances

[eleazar]

   LP

Did you just pick this up at PREX too?

No that one came from The Crack House the lp is a MPL ? It must be later pressing
I have a Ram on MPL also..........................Bill