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[garylkoh]

I've been looking for a UK "swirl" pressing of Gentle Giant...... but this one just got too rich for me.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/GENTLE-GIAN...20976951647?pt=UK_Records&hash=item1c2ac9c95f

What are the good pressings of Gentle Giant and Acquiring the Taste? Ron? Are the US or Canadian pressings any good?

 

[lasercd]

Gary:

You really do want the UK pressings. Vertigo swirl collectors drive the price up on that particular title. My friend just scored a UK pressing of Interview for about $20. In A Glass House is reference quality and never saw a US release. The UK pressing on WWA is quite common. You can find it for under $20 at any standard record fair. A Vertigo "spaceship" of Aquiring The Taste shouldn't hit your wallet too hard.

Ken Golden

P.S. From my experience Canadian pressings in general sound like a**.

 

[garylkoh]

Thanks, Ken. I'll keep hunting for the Vertigo swirl pressings of the first two albums. I found a NM copy of Playing the Fool for a buck at a recent trip to the local thrift store which prompted my hunt for more of Gentle Giant.

 

[jazdoc]

"Nefertiti" is one of my favorite Andrew Hill records. Best known for the classic Blue Note release "Point of Departure", Hill has released many other terrific albums of challenging improvisational music. This LP was released on EastWind and bests their usual high standards for fidelity. Possibly the most natural sounding bass recording I've ever heard and the cymbal work is to die for. Cool album cover too...

 

[Lee]

Here's one. A white label promo of Bebe Le Strange by Heart. Then again most of the Heart catalog is beautiful analog sound.

I also got the Nautilus of Dreamboat Annie and it is fantastic.

 

[jazdoc]

The Gutter Twins "Saturnalia"

From the Amazon website:
"The first album from the collaboration forged in late 2003 by Mark Lanegan and fellow maverick singer-songwriter Greg Dulli. "Saturnalia" finds the Dulli nicknamed "Satanic Everly Brothers" going even deeper into the shadows than ever before. It proves rootsy but baroque, handmade yet modernist, teeming with siren melodies that don't resolve. The cumulative effect proves internal yet epic: the netherworld symphonics of Mogwai, Sigur Ros, and Bohren und der Club of Gore are touchstones, alongside the sprawling emotions of Pink Floyd, the melodically catchy paranoia of the Beach Boys, the primal confessionals of John Lennon. Still, what Dulli and Lanegan achieve ultimately feels like the determinedly individual product of two auteurs coming together."

A really great double LP on a demo quality recording.

 

[jadis]

The other day I was just playing these series of ABC Records produced by Simon Tsui in NY and engineered by Mark Levinson in 2006, and I remembered this thread. They sound fabulous and vocals are lovely. I never heard Kenny Rogers sang When I Fall in Love till this one, and the selections of the 30 Years Tubes are fantastic, including Louis Armstrong Blueberry Hill, Bacharach's Close to You, What a Wonderful World by Tony Bennett and KD Lang. How I wish they had more titles. I only have these 2. Impeccable vinyl made in Germany on Direct Metal Master Cut. It even has a free CD enclosed.

Just discovered yesterday another ML engineered ABC LP that had been on my shelf for years. Songs in Mandarin Chinese by Taiwanese vocalist Tsai Chin which sounds so lush and lovely. As usual, this set has a free CD enclosed.

 

[garylkoh]

This is a great album I discovered in Japan. Fabulous music as well great sound. Side 1 track 2 is EXPLOSIVE.

Get the original on Pablo:

 

[jadis]

This is a great album I discovered in Japan. Fabulous music as well great sound. Side 1 track 2 is EXPLOSIVE.

Get the original on Pablo:

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I can imagine, Gary. Gonna start the hunt.

 

[Bill Hart]

The Gutter Twins "Saturnalia"

From the Amazon website:
"The first album from the collaboration forged in late 2003 by Mark Lanegan and fellow maverick singer-songwriter Greg Dulli. "Saturnalia" finds the Dulli nicknamed "Satanic Everly Brothers" going even deeper into the shadows than ever before. It proves rootsy but baroque, handmade yet modernist, teeming with siren melodies that don't resolve. The cumulative effect proves internal yet epic: the netherworld symphonics of Mogwai, Sigur Ros, and Bohren und der Club of Gore are touchstones, alongside the sprawling emotions of Pink Floyd, the melodically catchy paranoia of the Beach Boys, the primal confessionals of John Lennon. Still, what Dulli and Lanegan achieve ultimately feels like the determinedly individual product of two auteurs coming together."

A really great double LP on a demo quality recording.

this was too strange to resist. It will go on my shelf next to Gerhard's The Plague on Decca Head 6.
thank you.

 

[jazdoc]

this was too strange to resist. It will go on my shelf next to Gerhard's The Plague on Decca Head 6.
thank you.

Let me know how you like it!

 

[jazdoc]

Couple for Rockitman's budding mono collection

Gerry Mulligan & Johnny Hodges "Mulligan Meets Hodges", Verve, V8536, 1959 (Sorry for the stereo cover pic)

"Rabbit" will make you wonder why can't they make records that sound this good today. "What's the Rush" is Hodges at his most beautiful.

Nat Adderley "That's Nat", Savoy, 1955

Louis Armstrong "Satch Plays Fats", Columbia, 1955

"All That Meat and No Potatoes" is a sonic and musical tour de force

 

[rockitman]

Very nice...I will put those on my ebay hit list.

 

[Bill Hart]

A recent posting by Jazzdoc of a modern album (which i ordered) reminded me of Gerhard's The Plague on Decca Head 6. Hadn't listened to that record in years. Holy ****, Batman. I know this falls into the category of audiophile spectacular, but this is one I'm not sellling. Wow. Worth a listen if you haven't pulled it out in a while.

 

[jadis]

A recent posting by Jazzdoc of a modern album (which i ordered) reminded me of Gerhard's The Plague on Decca Head 6. Hadn't listened to that record in years. Holy ****, Batman. I know this falls into the category of audiophile spectacular, but this is one I'm not sellling. Wow. Worth a listen if you haven't pulled it out in a while.

I've heard The Plague at a friend's house and the sound can be spooky real. The Headline Decca series is quite good but maybe unheralded. I have the Gerhard 'Astrological Series' on Head 11 and it sounds great too.

 

[Johnny Vinyl]

Have only ever owned the CAN/US pressing of Roxy Music-Avalon, but just added the Simply Vinyl 180g version pressed in the EU. Really looking forward to giving it a spin when it arrives sometime later this week or early next week. It is one of my favourite albums.

 

[Bill Hart]

heard a great track today, unfortunately the album is not released on vinyl: Susan Marshall "Oh My Soul" from an album entitled "Little Red." Apparently a well-known Memphis singer.

 

[Tubedoctor]

dollar brand/ abdulah ibrahim - south african sunshine -- best on vinyl

 

[jazdoc]

A Trio of Miles Davis Columbia 6-eyes

The epitome of cool and some of the greatest music laid down on wax. Beautiful, huge mono sound...expensive but worth every penny for an original

'Round About Midnight, 1955, CL 949. Miles' first record with Columbia recorded while still under contract to Prestige...a masterpiece. My personal favorite Miles Davis recording...

Milestones, 1958, CL 1193. Awesome music. Better album cover.
Edit: Great post on "London Jazz Collector" blog re: "Milestones" http://londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/miles-davis-milestones-1958-columbia/

Kind of Blue, 1959, CL 1335. Best selling jazz LP of all-time and arguably the 3rd best record of this group...You haven't really heard this until you've experienced an early mono pressing with a dedicated mono set up...magical

 

[garylkoh]

jazdoc, I agree with Round About Midnight. I don't get why Kind of Blue is the best selling jazz LP of all time - may be because I haven't experienced an early mono pressing.