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Rumer's "Boys Don't Cry" Will Make Some Mist, Others Bawl
Real name Sarah Joyce, the 34 year-old singer-songwriter who goes by the name Rumer (after the English writer Margaret Rumer Godden), was born in Islamabad, Pakistan and is most often described as having a Karen Carpenter-like soothing, dreamy voice.
Multi-Cartridge Survey: The Hard Work Completed!
The listening has been completed to the nine moderately priced cartridges for this survey. The cartridges are: The Audio Technica AT95E, the AT 95SA, the Ortofon 2M red and 2M black, the Grado Prestige Gold 1, the Sumiko Blue Point Special EVO III, the Audio Technica AT7V and AT150ANV and the Nagoaka MP300.
ORG Announces 15 New London/Decca and Mercury Double 45 Classical Releases
ORG today announced an ambitious London/Decca and Mercury classical release schedule for the 4th quarter of 2013 and 2014.
Preservation Hall Jazz Band Celebrates 50 Years With "That's It!"
Best known for playing the traditional jazz it was founded to preserve fifty years ago, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band here celebrates its next fifty with a forward looking program of audacious, often raucous and sometimes mischievous new originals mostly written by 41 year old Ben Jaffe, Preservation Hall's current Creative Director and son of the hall's founders Allan and Sandra Jaffe.
Dr. Amar Bose Dead at 83
Don't speak ill of the dead is commonly accepted wisdom to which I almost always subscribe. However, an Amar Bose obituary in today's New York Times by Glenn Rifkin that read more like an advertisement than an obit forces my hand.
VPI Traveler Plants American Flag on Mid-Entry Level Turntable Territory
Imports crowd the $1500 turntable price-point with entries from Rega, Pro-Ject, Music Hall, Clearaudio, JA Michell, Marantz (made by Clearaudio), Acoustic Signature and some others.
"The Dave Brubeck Quartet At Carnegie Hall" Issued on Double 180g Vinyl
By the time the "classic" Dave Brubeck Quartet arrived at Carnegie Hall on February 22nd, 1963 it had "practiced, practiced, practiced" as the old joke goes. The quartet of Brubeck, drummer Joe Morello, bassist Eugene Wright and alto saxophonist Paul Desmond was a well-oiled music making machine.
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Major Analog Vinyl/Turntable/Cartridge Survey Underway!
Most of us are convinced that the media regularly underreports record sales. It seems that Nielsen/Soundscan's numbers can't possible be correct, nor does it seem likely they have the ability to dig deeply into the sales portals where much of the vinyl activity occurs.
"The Dave Brubeck Quartet At Carnegie Hall" Issued on Double 180g Vinyl
By the time the "classic" Dave Brubeck Quartet arrived at Carnegie Hall on February 22nd, 1963 it had "practiced, practiced, practiced" as the old joke goes. The quartet of Brubeck, drummer Joe Morello, bassist Eugene Wright and alto saxophonist Paul Desmond was a well-oiled music making machine.
Analog Corner #41
(Originally published in Stereophile, December 12th, 1998) It was 9am as the plane touched down at Heathrow, but my brain screamed "4am! Go back to sleep!''--as if the eight hours of slouched-over dozing interrupted by cattle-prodding flight attendants could be called "sleep."
ORG Announces Two Roy Orbison Double 45rpm Reissues
ORG today announced a Roy Orbison reissue project that will bring to the 45rpm format Lonely and Blue and In Dreams, two of Roy's early Monument albums. Both of these albums were recorded in Nashville by the legendary engineer Bill Porter.
"Thank You Les, A Tribute to Les Paul" Issued on 180g AAA Vinyl!
This loving tribute to Les Paul featuring longtime trio cohort Lou Pallo and others with whom Les played at Fat Tuesdays and the Iridium is musically fabulous assuming you like the timeless "old school" style.
Gil Evans's "Out of the Cool" Into the Crapper?
Last winter an old audio biz friend of mine visited bearing a gift: a new Italian 45rpm pressing of Gil Evans' dark, brooding and oh so slinky 1960 recording of Out of the Cool originally issued in 1961 by the then new Impulse! label created by producer Creed Taylor for parent company ABC-Paramount.
Bob Dylan's Morose Masterpiece Untangled in Black By Mobile Fidelity
Dylan claims Blood on the Tracks' pained, heartbreaking and often very angry and vicious songs weren't personal confessionals, though he was in the midst of a painful divorce. His son Jakob says they were.
Analog Corner #40
(Originally published in Stereophile, November 12th, 1998) Have you noticed how the pace of things "going digital" has increased? There's no escaping it, and television's next. It'll take about 10 years, but then, like abandoned canals, the empty two-lane cement of Route 66, and overgrown railroad rights of way, the analog broadcast pathways will be discarded, handed back to the government for reuse in what will no doubt be a far less glamorous endeavor--garage-door opener or pocket-pager frequencies, perhaps.
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