Now playing…
Michel Benita - Looking At Sounds
Michel Benita (Double Bass, Laptop), Matthieu Michel (Fluegelhorn), Jozef Dumoulin (Fender Rhodes, Electronics) and Philippe Garcia (Drums, Electronics).
Streaming on Qobuz (88.2/24)… continuing on this Monday afternoon with Michel’s sweet album from September of 2020 and he and the quartet are sounding sublime! One lovely album…
My Little Pony: A new generation. Let’s just say maybe there are kids in the house. Only twenty minutes long and I did enjoy it. I will get my coat. 
Taylor Swift, midnights. I never quite got used to Taylor Swift. Thought I might try playing this after my little pony. It worked.
Now playing…
Elina Duni - Lost Ships
Elina Duni (Voice), Rob Luft (Guitar), Fred Thomas (Piano, Drums) and Matthieu Michel (Flugelhorn).
Streaming on Qobuz (88.2/24)… closing out this Monday with Elina’s ‘Lost Ships’ and, as always, she and her talented group of musicians are sounding sublime! This is one fine album…
On hearing the new version my immediate impression was that it sounded noticeably better than any version I’d heard before. That feeling still holds. I’m not particularly interested in the mono versions, so it’s a delight that the new version gives a much better, more realistic, stereo presentation. The bass and drums are much cleaner, with the bass being slightly more prominent (or maybe it’s just a little clearer). I know it’s a hifi cliché, but it is just like a veil being removed, with everything clearer and easy to follow. That being said, the original stereo album is no dead duck and if I hadn’t heard the new version, it would have still been fine, but I doubt it’ll get played much, or at all, from here on.
I hope that helps.
Thank you Clive. Good feedback.
Tubular bells. 50th anniversary edition.
I didn’t reach the end of part one.
Mike Oldfield. Tubular bells. Original edition.
That’s more like it.
Oscar Peterson Trio with Milt Jackson Very Tall / 1999 Verve / Germany CD / 5598302
Oscar Peterson Piano
Milt Jackson Vibraphone
Ray Brown Bass
Ed Thigpen Drums
We listened to 90% on Sunday.
Tubular Bells is my wife’s all time favourite piece of music, but we had to skip part 2 after dear old Brian started GRUNTING…
The additional material on the end (Ommadawn etc) was decent, but we do prefer the UNADULTERATED original🤷🏻♂️
On CD:-
Symphony No.1 from this box set
