What are you listening to right now?

[richidoo]

LP  -  My favorite Dizzy record. Some of his best soloing from technical trumpeter standpoint.

[pumpkinman]

Family ~ Music In A Doll's House.......white label promo

[BobM]

New Cartridge evaluation disks - listened to these yesterday (sounding good)

[pumpkinman]

Crow ~ Crow By Crow

[pumpkinman]

Rain Parade ~ Explosions In The Glass Palace

[richidoo]

LP
A super record, beautiful recording, great original tunes experimental but traditional, excellent mastering!!!! 
Clarinet, vibes and harmon muted trumpet sound perfect. Bass is big and tuneful without the big disco bloat and punch, drums tight and snapper and alive. Dynamic as hell. Airy and clear, yet dense tone. Just awesome sound. Pan too wide, typical of late 50s stereo show off. Proves that they knew better in 1960 how to make a good sounding vinyl jazz record than they know now. I have never heard a record sound this good recorded after 1980. It's easy to ignore the surface noise when the sound behind it is so good.
Corny 50s "stereo theatrical jazz" style that was common among West Coast and swing guys trying to get hip with the bebop kids.  Never heard of the label.

$.50 from Goodwill!

[tmazz]

Corny 50s "stereo theatrical jazz" style that was common among West Coast and swing guys trying to get hip with the bebop kids.  Never heard of the label.

$.50 from Goodwill!

Gotta love Goodwill (which BTW, contrary to what they would like people to think, is actually a for profit corporation and not a charity, FWIW)

Roulette records was formed in the mid 50s and was allegedly a front business for the Genovese Crime Family who supposedly skimmed million of dollars in royalties due to their artists leaving them to survive on the revenues from live performances (wow, back to the future). However Roulette was also known for giving their acts pretty much total artistic freedom while other labels at the time tended t micro manage  and mold the acts to what the label wanted to see.

During the late 1950s, Roulette scored hits by Buddy Knox, Jimmy Bowen, the Playmates, Jimmie Rodgers, Ronnie Hawkins as well as releasing albums by Pearl Bailey, Dinah Washington and Count Basie.

During the early 1960s, Roulette issued a number of hits connected to the twist dance craze, most notably by releasing "Peppermint Twist" by Joey Dee and the Starliters. But probably their biggest act of the 60s was Tommy James and the Shondells  whose hits "Hanky Panky", "I Think We're Alone Now", "Mirage", "Mony Mony", "Crimson and Clover", as well as many others were released during his time.

The label and their catalog are now part of the Blue Note Group.

[richidoo]

Thanks a lot Tom! That's cool...

I have heard of Roulette. The actual label on the vinyl says something other than Roulette, I'll take a look next time. I do have a really great Basie record on Roulette, Basie at Birdland, also excellent.

[tmazz]

Roy and Jim from the AudioSyndrome stopped over yesterday to check out the new Quicksilvers and we ended up revisiting some of the old audiophile warhorses:

Dave Grusin: Discovered Again

Sheffield Labs Direct to Disc LP

[tmazz]

Thanks a lot Tom! That's cool...

I have heard of Roulette. The actual label on the vinyl says something other than Roulette, I'll take a look next time. I do have a really great Basie record on Roulette, Basie at Birdland, also excellent.

Oh, I was just going by the label name on the album cover. But interesting trivia anyway.

[tmazz]

The Weavers: Reunion at Carnegie Hall - 1963

Analogue Productions LP

[tmazz]

Paul Simon: Graceland

Warner Bros 180g German Import LP

[tmazz]

Rickie Lee Jones: Pop Pop

Geffen LP

[tmazz]

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue - Fiedler/Boston Pops

Analogue Productions 200g LP

[tmazz]

Lori Liebeman: Home of Whispers

PopeMusic/Analogue Productions 180g LP