So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Daniel A]

5 hours ago, jazzbo said:

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.

 

Absolutely wonderful.

I'm running a couple of active tube-powered speakers. The tubes are hidden within the cabinets, but you can just about see them through the ventilation holes.

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

1 hour ago, Daniel A said:

Absolutely wonderful.

I'm running a couple of active tube-powered speakers. The tubes are hidden within the cabinets, but you can just about see them through the ventilation holes.

Very nice looking indeed! Bet that's a great sound.

[jazzbo]

Donald Byrd “I’m Tryin’ to Get Home” Blue Note Japan SHM-CD

 

 

This Byrd session doesn’t get much love but I dig it. The voices remind me of church in Philadelphia when I was a lad.

[ghost of miles]

This one was pretty much my introduction to both Dameron and Navarro when it came out in 1995:

… may have to throw this one on as well, which came out the same year.  Even though Mosaic’s 8-CD Lester set supersedes it, I’ve held on to it for sentimental reasons:

[T.D.]

28 minutes ago, ghost of miles said:

This one was pretty much my introduction to both Dameron and Navarro when it came out in 1995:

 That's one of my absolute all-time favorite recordings.

 

Listening:

[BillF]

5 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

 

 

👍 👍

 

Now playing:

[jazzbo]

Carlos Santana/Alice Coltrane “Illumination” SACD

Beautiful sound for this crisp summer morning. Fall is coming!

[mjazzg]

10 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

Carlos Santana/Alice Coltrane “Illumination” SACD

Beautiful sound for this crisp summer morning. Fall is coming!

Have listened to that a few times in the last days too, lovely music.

Autumn definitely in the London air too

[jazzbo]

Matthew Stevens "Pittsburg" 

 

Solo/overdubbed guitar album. Get the right volume and it sounds as if he's in your room.
 

[jazzcorner]

[jazzbo]

Milt Jackson “Used to be Jackson” Solid Records Japan 2 cd set, disc 2

Milt jackson, Cedar Walton, Ray Brown, Mickey Roker

Thoroughly modern Milt.

[jazzbo]

Duke Ellington “Newport 1958” Columbia 2 cd set, disc 1

It was time for some Duke. I’d love to see an SACD of this set, never will.

[John Tapscott]

[Rabshakeh]

Yusef Lateef – Hush 'N' Thunder

Revisiting this one. It's not his best, really. Lateef seems barely present on his own record. Kenny Barron seems to have written almost everything. Lateef's solos just fade out.

[Daniel A]

13 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Very nice looking indeed! Bet that's a great sound.

Thanks! When I got these some years back, I stopped thinking about upgrading. Maybe they lack the crisp treble of the best modern speakers, but I am more than happy with the overall sound.

Each speaker has a 10" downwards facing driver in a bass-reflex enclosure, a 8" midrange and four cones for the treble range. They were built some time between 1966 and 1970.

[jazzbo]

Cool. I have unconventional speakers as well, with an upward firing omni-directional driver, a forward firing midrange, a ribbon tweeter and a passive radiator at the bottom.

Decware HR-1

Edited September 1, 2023 by jazzbo

[Daniel A]

5 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

Cool. I have unconventional speakers as well, with an upward firing omni-directional driver, a forward firing midrange, a ribbon tweeter and a passive radiator at the bottom.

Decware HR-1

I'm really attracted by the looks of those. Good too see that omni-directional as a concept lives on.

[Rabshakeh]

Robbie Williams – Swing When You're Winning

Harry Nilsson – A Little Touch Of Schmilsson In The Night

A recent run of listening to Keith Jarrett and Anthony Braxton standards records, plus @Teasing the Korean 's recent post about Great American Songbook records has sent me on a popstars doing standards run. In the interests of science, mind.

The Schmilsson's pretty good. Very much not a jazz album at all, though. 

[Chuck Nessa]

[Rabshakeh]

Steve Lacy, Yuji Takahashi, Takehisa Kosugi – Distant Voices

 

[jazzbo]

Marquis Hill “The Way We Play”

Perhaps a few more vocals than I’d ultimately like but they are good vocals. Lots of bass!

 

[Jim Duckworth]

Actually just part of a Bobby Hackett Chronological Classics that contains this material.  

[Rabshakeh]

Baby Dodds Trio – Jazz A' La Creole

[John Tapscott]