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The first run of vinyl sold out already--it's awaiting a repress. (I think MoFi only presses 1,000 at a time to gauge interest.) I may still get the SACD of this one. Fremer gave the vinyl a good write-up at Analog Planet a couple of weeks ago.Good rainy night listen is Painted From Memory. I'm awaiting the Mobile Fidelity vinyl release, which I don't have a concrete date for (nobody but Amazon lists a release date, and Amazon's dates on MoFi releases often is incorrect). The test pressing I heard at AXPONA was stunning. It's limited to 3,000 pressings--it is almost tempting to order two of them, or get the vinyl plus the SACD.
I agree except I don't have a turntable these days but for me buying CDS and downloads have a different kind of thrill attached to them for me it's having the music in the cleanest and best sound quality possible for me CDS in a sense have a sort of almost equality with lps in that they are similar in the tangibility and the artwork and liner notes albeit in smaller print but it's not true for All Cds but fortunately my cds 99% of them have the same wonderful effect as vinyl did before back in the day it's hard for me to explain in detail but I hope my point will be understood.I have to admit that buying new LPs, or sealed "new old stock" LPs, is still the thrill it used to be. With many newer LPs, though, they are not in tight shrink-wrap, but in looser plastic bags so the album does not warp as the shrink wrap can shrink even further in the right conditions. But still...yeah, that whole tactile thing is part of the listening process.
CDs used to be almost as much fun, but back in the day, it was exciting to find old favorites or long-lost albums finally get released on CD. It's the tiny print on the CD booklets that really changed things, though. It wasn't like holding the 12" packaging, reading the jacket, reading the innersleeve, etc. And I don't know of anyone who hangs CD booklets in frames on the walls, whereas I usually grab a couple more LP frames each time I hit IKEA. I have nine so far--I still have to hang up 1999, which I put in a frame last year in April but never got around to hanging.
Downloads are boring in comparison, but I have to say that many of the high-res downloads I've gotten sound so good that it's a different kind of thrill to see them listed in my media player's directory. And of course, to listen to them.
As for a CD in an LP-sized package, the only times I have come across that is when a vinyl release had a CD inside. Two Pat Metheny releases had them in the jacket in their own mini-LP jacket (Orchestrion and Kin (<-->)), and Brian Setzer's Songs from Lonely Avenue LP actually had the CD printed with the moon on it, and a foam hub in the gatefold jacket held the CD up in the sky as part of the cover art. (It's sad that the LP sounded so terrible, though--it was poorly mastered and sounded like it was recorded with the treble turned all the way down. The CD is actually too bright. Can't win!)
It's definitely a high water mark for both of them. I'm not even that big of a Costello fan (yet...he's growing on me, and his catalog is vast and varied), but his lyrics here are very thought provoking with some clever wordplay. Burt is doing here what Burt has done for decades. You would think that sound went out of style in the 60s, but it sounds just as fresh today as it did back then. His arrangements recall his work with Dionne in the 60s (and I could hear her singing some of these tracks quite easily), with many touches I recognize. I could see why Bacharach would have been drawn towards Costello's lyrics--his work on this record is right up there with the work Burt did with Hal David.That Costello/Bacharach album sounds interesting.
it was just information overload on my tiny brain.
My Dad liked Belafonte he had his album Midnight special it was hardly ever played and sadly I never got a chance to listen to it but to me is a curiosity I liked the Calypso Album tremendously still do Belafonte is still a true legendary vocalistAnd on another path, I sort of "rediscovered" this album this past week. We had a few of Belafonte's albums in the house when I was a young 'un. Calypso of course was the monster hit album. We also had An Evening with Harry Belafonte and This is Belafonte, and the following:
As young as I was, this album was one I probably played a couple of times and didn't pay much attention since it is very downtempo. Ours was a mono LP, although this was the first album Belafonte recorded in stereo.
Musically it has a very late-night smoky feel to it. There are three here penned by Ray Charles, and one is a tune originally covered by Billie Holiday. Two of the tunes are traditional blues ("Cotton Fields" and "In The Evenin' Mama"), and there is even a cover of a tune that Sinatra made famous: "One for my Baby." The supporting musicians are a who's who of jazz--Jimmy Rowles, Jack Sperling, Plas Johnson, Ben Webster, Milt Bernhart, Don Fagerquist, and a handful of other well-known names. Belafonte has said that this was his favorite of the albums he has recorded.
The sound on this album is demo quality. The Impex 45RPM 2-LP set, cut from the original analog tapes, sounds fantastic.
I remember Wind Machine but I only have their albums the road to freedom and their follow up which I don't remember at the moment but I do own several Tim Weisberg albums so I know where you are coming from but unfortunately I lost track of the smooth jazz genre for the most part in the late 90s early 2000sI heard a smooth jazz song from around the 70's decade when I heard it on AM 760 WJR Detroit back then while the Detroit Tigers game was heard. The song has a "bing, bing, bing, bing...." & then a flute player (maybe Tim Weisburg) plays the part of the song & holds the flute note at the end of the song. Another song that I heard back in 1993 or 1994 was on Cozy FM 104.3 FM in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan (which was also a Smooth Jazz format station) & there was an electric organ that is playing & then the flutes are playing & at the middle it sounds like Nick Ingram playing the guitar. I wish that I knew what the title of the song & the artist that play it back then. I also know there was a instrumental new age group out of Colorado called Wind Machine (which I have the 1990 CD "Portraits Of Christmas"). The song from 1985 called "Song For The Children" (from an out of print CD) is a beautiful song which reminds me of David Gray doing an instrumental called "January Rain" from the "Serendipity" movie soundtrack from 2001 which starred Kate Beckinsale & John Cusack. By the way, David Gray is best known for the 2000 song "Babylon". Could a smooth jazz expert help me out on the first 2 songs please?? Matt Clark Sanford, MI