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Schumann, via AI? (Not.)

Stephen Francis Vasta — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 19:04:44 +0000

Schumann Symphony 4 (orig. vers.); Manfred Overture. Yun: Cello Concerto. Jaemin Han, cello; Korean National Symphony Orchestra/David Reiland. Decca Records (Korea). Downloads and streams: music.apple.com; plixid.net (FLAC 24/96); qobuz.com (16/44.1); spotify.com; uk.7digital.com (M4A, MP3, FLAC) Universal, the current parent company of Decca and Deutsche Grammophon, has been unusually unforthcoming about this particular production. Although it was listed in... Read More »

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Impex Records' Newest Limited Edition 1STEP 45 rpm LP Release: Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra

Tom Gibbs — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 20:29:47 +0000

Four years ago, Impex Records contracted a pair of Grammy award-winning engineers and tasked them with reviving the original analog tapes for Frank Sinatra's transitional masterpiece, 1950's Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra. Andreas Meyer of Swan Studios handled the restoration and transfer of the original tapes, and Chris Bellman of Bernie Grundman Mastering mastered... Read More »

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Rhino Announces Cool Limited Edition LP Releases in the Rocktober and Now Playing Series

Tom Gibbs — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 16:17:11 +0000

Rhino Entertainment has launched their Roctober and Now Playing Fall 2024 LP series, which combined feature 48 limited edition LP releases, with many of them being offered in ultra-cool colored-vinyl versions. The release package covers a broad range of artists and musical genres, and includes catalog album reissues, rare and long out-of-print LPs, previously never-released... Read More »

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Five New Release and Reissue LPs from Craft Recordings

Tom Gibbs — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:08:44 +0000

Craft Recordings has a diverse slate of new release and reissue albums that they're offering heading into the last part of 2024, and I have a generous handful of them here for your consideration. As is typical for Craft, their new releases will appeal to a range of musical interests, and feature rare, long out-of-print,... Read More »

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Counterparts' The Difference Between Hell and Home

Peter R. Clark — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 16:46:31 +0000

A little over 10 years ago, Canadian melodic hardcore band, Counterparts, released their groundbreaking album The Difference Between Hell and Home. An eleven track foray into a variety of emotional themes, death, religion, depression, love, and the lack thereof. Counterparts set the stage for an emerging genre, and continued building a musical movement today. Over... Read More »

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Afterimage Faces to Hide

Dave Clark — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 18:39:50 +0000

I am not a music reviewer. Never done that before as I never saw that as something I could do with respect to being faithful to the artist and their music. Pretty much a whole different thing than reviewing audio gear. Of which, that is hard enough. But, out of nowhere I get an album... Read More »

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Sunset Boulevard Records and Rhino Reissue Folk/Rock Influencer Bob Neuwirth's Remixed and Remastered Debut Album

Tom Gibbs — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 18:40:12 +0000

Rhino Entertainment, in cooperation with Sunset Boulevard Records is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the release of Bob Neuwirth's self-titled debut album, Bob Neuwirth. Many of you are probably asking yourselves the same question I asked upon receiving the initial press release for this LP from Shore Fire Entertainment: "Bob Neuwirth? Who is Bob Neuwirth?"... Read More »

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Roger Eno, the skies:rarities

Gary Lea — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 20:32:01 +0000

Roger Eno, the skies:rarities. 2024. Desutche Grammaphon. Available HERE As I am shifting away from 24 years of equipment reviews and focusing more and more on sharing music I find, I was recently afforded the opportunity to listen to a wonderful new album by Roger Eno. The album is titled the skies:rarities available on Deutsche Grammaphon. Yes... Read More »

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The Frankie Laine Collection

Robert Pincus — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 17:44:15 +0000

If you're an audiophile who's under the age of eighty, you probably haven't paid much attention to Frankie Laine (1913-2007). There was a time when the dynamic Mr. Laine, who was born Francesco Paulo LoVecchio, was as popular as Frank Sinatra. In his day he was affectionately called Mr. Rhythm, and for good reason. Great... Read More »

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Cool New Original Motion Picture Soundtracks on Gorgeous Colored Vinyl from Varèse Sarabande

Tom Gibbs — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:22:39 +0000

Varèse Sarabande is a specialty imprint of Craft Recordings, and is one of the world's most prolific producers of motion picture and television soundtrack recordings. While originally established in 1972 as an avant garde classical music label, it has since found a successful niche specializing in the release of film scores, original soundtrack recordings, and... Read More »

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Top 500 SuperSonic List - Part 41

Claude Lemaire — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:17:06 +0000

This is an ongoing project by Claude Lemaire of Soundevaluations 241. Shelly Manne & His Men – At the Blackhawk Vol.1. Contemporary Records – S 7577 (1960), Craft Recordings – CR00601 (2024), Acoustic Sounds Series, 33 1/3 rpm. Genre: hard bop, cool jazz. As the title suggest, this is the first of four volumes of drummer Shelly... Read More »

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Sylvester's Live at the Opera House on Translucent Purple Vinyl from Craft Recordings

Tom Gibbs — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:25:47 +0000

When singer, songwriter, disco diva, and queer icon Sylvester walked onto the stage of San Francisco's War Memorial Opera House on March 11, 1979, it would prove to be not only an important pinnacle in his all too brief career, but also a historic moment for the city's LGBTQ+ community. The evening would become a... Read More »

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Rhino's High Fidelity Premium Vinyl Series Rolls Out Classic LP Reissues from Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris

Tom Gibbs — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 16:37:59 +0000

Rhino Entertainment's High Fidelity Premium Vinyl Series continues with a pair of classic LP reissues from influential country rock performers Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris, both of whose lives and music were inseparably entwined. Included are Gram Parsons' second and final studio album (and his undeniable masterpiece), Grievous Angel (Reprise Records, 1974), along with Emmylou... Read More »

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Craft Recordings' OJC Reboot Continues With Classic Albums from Miles Davis and Clark Terry with Thelonious Monk

Tom Gibbs — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 19:46:16 +0000

Craft Recordings' revival of the Original Jazz Classics (OJC) series continues with another pair of exciting new 180 gram LP reissues. Including The New Miles Davis Quintet's classic 1956 session Miles (Prestige Records), along with a noteworthy collaboration between trumpeter Clark Terry and Thelonious Monk, 1958's In Orbit (Riverside Records). Both are landmark recordings of... Read More »

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The Box Tops Cry Like A Baby

Robert Pincus — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 15:52:53 +0000

There are few if any male rock voices that I find more interesting and pleasing than the one possessed by Alex Chilton (1950-2010) during the sixties. The gritty, soulful, and expressive voice that Chilton used during his tenure with The Box Tops never, to my knowledge, reemerged on recordings after 1970. Rock historians are quick... Read More »

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The Original Mahler Pioneer?

Stephen Francis Vasta — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 15:41:38 +0000

Mahler: Symphony 4. Netania Davrath, soprano; Utah Symphony/Maurice Abravanel. Vanguard Classics SVC-24 (CD, 1995, orig. rec. 1968). TT: 52.14 Downloads: archive.org (processed from LP); ca.7digital.com (Canada only); us.7digital.com (U.S. only) The charismatic Leonard Bernstein, with his equally prodigious gifts for music and self-promotion, has been accepted unquestioningly in many quarters as the great Mahler pioneer, but... Read More »

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Sisters of the Moon by Susana Gomez Vazquez in Pure DSD256

Rushton Paul — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 16:04:37 +0000

When I hear that Gonzalo Noqué is releasing a new Pure DSD256 recording on his Eudora Records label, my ears prick up. When I find that he is recording the excellent pianist Susana Gomez Vazquez, I'm doubly on alert. Her playing is just scintillating and her choice of programming is always intriguing. And so, when... Read More »

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Notes on Recent Finds, No. 25 - New Recordings at NativeDSD

Rushton Paul — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 15:39:44 +0000

The labels represented in NativeDSD's catalog continue to deliver outstanding performances in great sounding recordings. NativeDSD is just a stunning resource for those who love immaculate high resolution recordings made by some of the best recording engineers working today (Jared Sacks of Channel Classics, Brendon Heinst of TRPTK, Gonzalo Noqué of Eudora, Jake Purches of... Read More »

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Ornithology: The Best of Bird - A New Charlie Parker Compilation That Features His Classic Savoy Sides in Greatly Improved Sound

Tom Gibbs — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 16:10:17 +0000

Craft Recordings' latest noteworthy release of classic jazz has just arrived, and it's a compilation of some of the finest recorded works by legendary alto saxophonist Charlie Parker. Ornithology: The Best of Bird features a selection of classic studio tracks from Parker's mid-1940's sessions for Savoy Records; the studio sessions are supplemented with a group... Read More »

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George Benson's Lost Orchestral Album - Dreams Do Come True: When George Benson Meets Robert Farnon

Tom Gibbs — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:51:15 +0000

Rhino Entertainment is heralding jazz guitarist and vocalist George Benson’s return to the Warner Music Group with the release of his long lost orchestral album, 1989’s Dreams Do Come True: When George Benson Meets Robert Farnon. The orchestral tracks for the album were recorded in London during a fertile and prolific period while Benson was... Read More »

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Anna Fedorova, Among the Greatest Pianists Performing Today

Rushton Paul — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 15:30:12 +0000

Anna Fedorova performing selections from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, from YouTube video linked below. Anna Fedorova is among the greatest pianists performing and recording today. Sure, my opinion. But well judged. Anna plays organically, self-effacingly. She consistently lets the music flow forth for its own sake, never as a way of saying "look at... Read More »

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Rhino Entertainment's Deluxe Edition of Ween's Irreverent Classic Chocolate and Cheese, Now Available on Three 180 gram LPs

Tom Gibbs — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 15:21:58 +0000

Rhino Entertainment is celebrating the 30th anniversary of cheeky and eclectic alternative icons Ween and their classic fourth studio album, Chocolate and Cheese, with an expanded, 180 gram, 3-LP Chocolate and Cheese (Deluxe Edition). The elaborate gatefold LP jacket contains the remastered original album spread across two LPs, which was necessary to accommodate an album... Read More »

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Skip James Today! on Bluesville Records from Craft Recordings in Partnership with Acoustic Sounds

Tom Gibbs — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 21:03:16 +0000

Craft Recordings' and Acoustic Sounds continue their partnership with the second title in the Bluesville Series reboot, this time featuring Mississippi Delta bluesman Skip James' seminal 1966 Vanguard recording, Today! The LP was pressed by Acoustic Sounds' Quality Record Pressing (QRP) on 180 gram vinyl; Craft and QRP are also collaborating on the Contemporary Jazz... Read More »

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Notes on Recent Finds, No. 24 - HDTT Keeps Rolling Out Great Titles

Rushton Paul — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 20:57:46 +0000

If you listen to digital, love classic jazz and the golden age of stereo classical recordings, then surely you have been listening to the outstanding releases from Bob Witrak's High Definition Tape Transfers. Bob's transfers to high resolution digital (DSD256 and DXD) very typically sound better than the releases from the labels themselves. You know—the... Read More »

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Syndicate of Sound

Robert Pincus — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 21:06:17 +0000

Everybody says it and I'm confirming it. Moving sucks! And as an audiophile with two turntables, two speakers that weigh 130 pounds each, an eighty pound tube amp, and a huge LP collection (and a pretty damn large CD collection as well), moving doesn't double suck, it triple sucks! Having said all of this, it's... Read More »

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