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Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass - Whipped Cream & Other Delights

   A&M LP

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Frederick Fennell/Dallas Symphony Winds: Beachcomber

Tidal Streaming

Frederick Fennell, who, along with Arthur Fiedler, I consider to be one of the masters of the "Pops" genre leads the Dallas Symphony Winds in a great performance. Combine this with the superb SQ we have come to expect from Keith Johnson and Reference Recordings and you come up with one very enjoyable album. 

BTW, looking through the Tidal catalog I have come to discover that they have almost the entire Reference Recording catalog in their streaming library. Sweet.   

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Carly Simon: Moonlight Serenade

Tidal Streaming

Damn, after all these years those legs still go all the way up to her @ss..... oh yeah, and she still sing well too. 

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Recorded over three consecutive nights in December of 2014, Live at the Village Vanguard showcases bassist Christian McBride and his trio in concert at the storied New York venue. A four-time Grammy winner, McBride has been a superstar in the jazz world since debuting as a teenager in the late '80s. Here, McBride is joined by his trio bandmates, pianist Christian Sands and drummer Ulysses Owens, Jr. This is the same outfit that recorded the swinging, sophisticated 2013 studio album Out Here. As with that release, Live at the Village Vanguard finds McBride diving headlong into a set of swaggering, lively standards, originals, and unexpected covers, including a take on the theme to the cult '70s comedy film Car Wash.

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Bob Seger System ~ Mongrel

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Fifty Foot Hose ~ Cauldron.....180 gram reissue

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The Dukes Of The Stratosphere ~ Psonic Psunspot

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Santana III.......LP

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Jorma Kaukonen ~ River Of Time

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Masters Of Reality - Sunrise On The Sufferbus

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What if Mozart wrote "Born to be Wild" ?

RCA CD

I saw this in the library and just couldn't resist. It is exactly what you would think it is from the title. Classic Rock hits played by a string quartet in the style of Mozart.

A fun library listen, but I am glad I didn't pay any significant money for it.  I already own enough CDs that I will probably not listen to a second time. 

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Michael Garson:The Bowie Variations

Tidal Streaming

A nice sonic offering from Reference Recording, but not something that I think will be in my regular rotation list.

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Roger Waters "The Wall"



OK so I posted a week or two ago that I was extremely underwhelmed by the SQ on the Tidal stream of this album, but I would reserve judgement until I heard the CD. Well, I got the CD and it is just as bad. (And it is not just me, because three other people have heard it in my house and said the same think. It had very strange phasey imaging and sounds like it was recorded on the inside of a box. Which really perplexed me because I saw this shoe live when it came to Long Island in Oct of 2011 and that show had some of the best SQ I had ever heard at a rock concert, period.

Last weekend I picked up the DVD from my library, just to see how that was. I was shocked, the difference was night and day. The 5.1 soundtrack of the DVD was clear and sound orders of magnitude better than the CD. I am completely befuddled as to why since you would think they both would have been source from the same feed, but for whatever reason the SQ is worlds apart. I wonder what the vinyl is like (but I am not about to risk $45 until I at least hear from somebody who has done a critical evaluation of it. And I would think the Bluray version of the video should sound better than the DVD as well. But after hearing the CD I am not going to go out on that limb right now.


More to come..........