The Doors. LA Woman.
Great final studio album. Sounding very good on qobuz in high res but doesn’t actually say it’s 50th anniversary.
Sounds superior to my old cd version.
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Michael Franks blue pacific / 1990 Reprise / Japan Promo CD / WPCP3596
Tracks produced by Jeff Lorber, Tommy LiPuma and Walter Becker.
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An album I used to play a fair bit but hasn’t had a spin in a while and then it pops up in January Hi-Fi News as one of the best cover albums - Tori Amos - Strange Little Girls.
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I got to watch it over the weekend - it was very good, though I also got a sense of things being rewritten…Not that I knew about them till late 77 in order to really comment, and once saw them walking along the road in Crouch End.
Also saw Genesis once at a native american spirituality talk.
It was interesting to see pictures and film of what they were doing prior to TG.
I always felt they explored the nasty side of human nature rather than sensationalised it - the programme seemed to just skate over that aspect in any detail.
but who am I to say
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The Crusaders Rhapsody and Blues / 2016 MCA / Japan SHM CD / UCCU5808
Featuring Bill Withers on Soul Shadows.
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LP - CTI / Pure Pleasure reissue : )
Ron Carter - bass, piccolo bass
Joe Henderson - tenor saxophone
Roland Hanna - piano
Richard Tee - electric piano “on 117 Special”
Billy Cobham - drums, percussion
Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ on 24th October 1973
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Beautiful laid back jazzy blues just perfect for this wet & gloomy Monday afternoon.
Shame these classic jazz albums are so short, just 33 luxurious minutes of musical superbness 
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Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
One of the great classic rock albums IMHO.
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Wallace Roney Prototype / 2004 HighNote / US CD / HCD 7116
Wallace Roney Trumpet
Adam Holzman Keyboards
Antoine Roney Saxophone
Clifton Anderson Trombone
Matthew Garrison Bass
Eric Allen Drums
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The Doors. L A Woman.
I’ve done something I never do. I’ve done an sq comparison. Earlier I listened to this in high res on qobuz and now on Apple Music from my iPad to streamer via airplay.
I listened so hard my head hurt. The Apple was very good but I think the qobuz pipped it.
I could live with either but at the moment live with both .
This cheap as chips entry level streamer 
is really quite impressive.
Anyway back to just listening to the music and leave the comparison testing to those with better ears.
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Reading Raving Upon Thames about the Brit blues and R&b explosion in 60s SW London so need an appropriate soundtrack. John Mayall Barewires on first press Decca red label vinyl. Crackly but atmospherically so. A touch jazzier than most of his stuff and what a band: Mick Taylor; Hiseman; Lowther; Heckstall-Smith.
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LP - abc records 1972 : )
David Palmer – lead vocals on “Dirty Work” and “Brooklyn”, backing vocals
Donald Fagen – acoustic and electric pianos, plastic (YC-30) organ, vocals
Jeff “Skunk” Baxter – pedal steel guitar, spoken word on “Only a Fool Would Say That”
Denny Dias – guitar, electric sitar
Walter Becker – electric bass, backing vocals
Jim Hodder – drums, percussion, lead vocal on “Midnite Cruiser”, backing vocals
Session musicians
Elliott Randall – lead guitar on “Kings” and “Reelin in the Years”
Jerome Richardson – tenor saxophone
Snooky Young – flugelhorn
Victor Feldman – percussion
Venetta Fields, Clydie King, Sherlie Matthews – backing vocals
Recorded at The Village Recorder, Los Angeles, in August 1972
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Happy 73rd Birthday Jeff “Skunk” Baxter! 
born 13th December 1948 in Washington, D.C. 
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