What are you listening to right now?

[eleazar]

The Compact Story Of Barclay James Harvest

     CD

[etcarroll]

Brothers in Arms
Dire Straits | Format: vinyl

I want my MTV! Dammit!!

[etcarroll]

Speak No Evil
Wayne Shorter | Format: vinyl

[etcarroll]

Dire Straits [Original recording]
Dire Straits | Format: Vinyl

[eleazar]

Earl Klugh ~ Midnight In San Juan

    CD

[eleazar]

The Open Mind

New 180 gram LP

[tmazz]

John Coltrane: The Last Trane

CD

I only have one complaint about this CD. Musically and sonically it is what you would expect from Coltrane and Prestige, but only 36 minutes on a CD? You would think they could have at least filled some some space with alternate takes from the same sessions.

[tmazz]

Maynard Ferguson: The Blues Roar

MFSL CD

[tmazz]

The Best of Pete Fountain

CD

A nice collection of top shelf New Orleans jazz

[tmazz]

Diannes Reeves: When You Know

Blue Note CD

[richidoo]

Radio Paradise @ AAC 128kbps. Sounds is pretty good, wide variety of different music.

http://www.radioparadise.com/

Stream I'm using on Sonos: http://scfire-dtc-aa06.stream.aol.com:80/stream/1049

[tmazz]

Chris Botti in Boston

CD

Live performance with the Boston Pops, featuring guest appearances by Sting, Yo-Yo Ma, Josh Groban, John Mayer and Steven Tyler.

[tmazz]

Jackson Browne: Running on Empty

CD

[tmazz]

Jesse Cook: Tempest

CD

Rumba Flamenco guitar blended with music from the global village.

[jsaliga]

I only have one complaint about this CD. Musically and sonically it is what you would expect from Coltrane and Prestige, but only 36 minutes on a CD? You would think they could have at least filled some some space with alternate takes from the same sessions.

Original Jazz Classics reissues 1950s and 1960s Prestige, Riverside, and other jazz label recordings with their original LP track listings (hence the name).  I have hundreds of CDs from OJC and appreciate what they do.  A lot of the titles they have are just about impossible to find on vinyl in anything close to playable condition.

http://www2.concordmusicgroup.com/artists/label/Original-Jazz-Classics

Adding bonus tracks means more production costs since somone has to go over all of the session tapes and decide which, if any, unissued tracks should be included.  I bought most of my OJC titles direct from Concord Music Group for $7.99.  It seems that Concord has struck some sort of deal with Amazon.com because they no longer sell CDs directly from their website.  A lot of the titles I was buying for $7.99 from Concord are selling for $8.99 and $9.99 on Amazon.  I can't say I'm too happy about that.

--Jerome