So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[HutchFan]

Now streaming:

Baden Powell Quartet Vol. 2 (Barclay FR, 1971)

 

[Stompin at the Savoy]

 

[EKE BBB]

[jazzbo]

Starting the day off with a very nice recording of Harold Mabern leading a great band through Coltrane compositions.

Harold Mabern “Mabern Plays Coltrane”

 

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[BillF]

12 hours ago, HutchFan said:

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5 hours ago, Stompin at the Savoy said:

 

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Now playing:

[optatio]

[jazzcorner]

File under " Crime Jazz"

 

 

[jazzbo]

Sun Ra in Egypt 1971, cd 2. Wild stuff. Mastering on this set is very good, getting the best out of the material.

 

[John Tapscott]

9 hours ago, Stompin at the Savoy said:

 

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3 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Starting the day off with a very nice recording of Harold Mabern leading a great band through Coltrane compositions.

Harold Mabern “Mabern Plays Coltrane”

 

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Now:

Discs 6 & 7 . A fine set.  

[jazzbo]

Revisiting this one. I love it.

Bob Dylan “Rough and Rowdy Ways” Sony Japan, disc 1

 

[jazzbo]

Coming back to this one, mainly because I've become quite drawn to the playing of Joel Ross and Mark Turner.

Jason Palmer "The Concert: 12 Musings for Isabella"

[HutchFan]

The Rhythmakers - 1932: The Complete Set - 26 Tracks (Retrieval)
Wonderful stuff.  Red Allen & Pee Wee Russell are featured soloists.  

 

[HutchFan]

NP:

Oscar Peterson Jam: Montreux '77 (Pablo/OJC)
Nice cover photo of OP

 

[jazzbo]

Miles Davis “Water Babies” Columbia cd (from “The Complete Columbia Album Collection” box set.)

Trying a Mullard 12AU7 in the input position of my new SEWE300B amp.

[HutchFan]

29 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

Trying a Mullard 12AU7 in the input position of my new SEWE300B amp.

Ooooh.  Nice.

Wish I could come over to your place, listen to some tunes, and bask in the warm glow of your TUBE AMP.   

 

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

28 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Ooooh.  Nice.

Wish I could come over to your place, listen to some tunes, and bask in the warm glow of your TUBE AMP.   

 

It doesn't really glow that much compared to some. But it is beginning to sound really good.

[HutchFan]

2 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

It doesn't really glow that much compared to some. But it is beginning to sound really good.

I've never owned a tube amp.  About how long does it take for new tubes to break in?

 

[mjazzg]

Break A Vase, no.24.

https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-24/

No.25 up next

[jazzbo]

38 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

I've never owned a tube amp.  About how long does it take for new tubes to break in?

It can vary, but tubes generally are all they will be within 25 to 50 hours. Transformers, big capacitors, etc. take longer. I've been using Decware amps for about 26 years. They usually are "broken in" by 500 to 600 hours. That's about where I am with this new amp.

Not my amp--I don't have a camera and don't do pictures--but this is generally what mine looks like, with that massive transformer and copper plated end caps it looks very nice.

This one has the standard black endcaps on the transformer but shows the padauk wood base and ebony knobs that I have on mine. A beautiful amp.

 

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[HutchFan]

16 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

This one has the standard black endcaps on the transformer but shows the padauk wood base and ebony knobs that I have on mine. A beautiful amp.

 

Yowza.  What gorgeous hardware.  There's almost something MAGICAL and ALTAR-like about it -- which seems entirely appropriate, given the fact that it's made to reproduce MUSIC.   

My Marantz solid state amp works very well, and it has for a long time.  But it's just a black box compared that illuminated sorcery!  JK. . .  but also (sorta) not.   

 

[jazzbo]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

Yowza.  What gorgeous hardware.  There's almost something MAGICAL and ALTAR-like about it -- which seems entirely appropriate, given the fact that it's made to reproduce MUSIC.   

My Marantz solid state amp works very well, and it has for a long time.  But it's just a black box compared that illuminated sorcery!  JK. . .  but also (sorta) not.   

 

There is a real difference between solid state and tubes. . . merits to both. I grew up with my Dad's Dynaco system and for a long time had a 1959 EICO stereo tube integrated amp. I just am acclimated totally to tubes. And this one is the best amp I've owned yet.

[mjazzg]

Alexander Hawkins Trio - Carnival Celestial [Intakt]

[Rabshakeh]

Frank Wess – Yo Ho! Poor You, Little Me

I haven't listened to this in years. What a great record.

[gmonahan]

Been a while since I listened to this one. All three great artists at the top of their game.