Milt Jackson & Ray Charles – Soul Brothers Label: Atlantic – 8122-79686-9 Series: Jazz Best Collection 1000 – 3 Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo Released: 12 Sep 2012 Genre: Jazz, Funk / Soul Style: Soul-Jazz, Rhythm & Blues, Cool Jazz
Hi Chervokas, I have a paid Spotify subscription. When I go to my settings for Music Quality on my Android phone and tablet, the highest bit rate I see is the 320 kbps Ogg Vorbis. On my PC I am given a choice to turn on/off "high quality streaming", but there is no mention of bit rate. I've searched on Spotify and Google for a Spotify subscription that offers 16/44.1 FLAC, but cannot find it. Am I missing something here? Thank you! Mark
Spotify apparently has talked about a higher resolution offering, but never implemented one. Tidal offers 16/44.1 FLAC, and higher res via MQA in its $20/mo "HiFi" plan. The sound is often very good. Qobuz, which is in closed beta in the US at the moment, offers 16/44.1 and, at an even higher fee, uncompressed high res.
Yeah, the boxes seem to be the only way anymore to get new, regular production CDs of much of the Black Saint and Soul Note material, other than on the second-hand market or if any old inventory is still out there are retailers.
I was buying a lot more new jazz releases in the 80s & 90s. There's not much that excites me these days. I'm buying some ECM re-issues and that's about it. I've got 14 Black Saint boxes, over a hundred ECM titles, probably a 150 Blue Notes, and several hundred other jazz titles. After a while one has to say enough!
I dunno, I remember when I was a kid my mom asked me, "Why do you need to buy more album, you already have so many?" And I said, "You know, mom, there's different music on each one!" One thing I really love about the streaming era is that in many cases I can hear new releases that I'm curious about, which, in the end, I may not want to listen to over and over down through the years, but which I'm glad to be able to hear. Last year that included things like Freebird by Walking Distance w/ Jason Moran or Negro Manifesto by Dana Murray or Makaya McCraven's Universal Beings. Thanks to streaming I'm actually hearing a lot more new music than I have in quite a few years.
I really need to connect with a personal voice to stay interested. There's an abundance of excellent musicians, but the unique artists are rare. I haven't heard any guitarists or sax players in recent years that sound unique. Ben Monder was the last guy that caught my attention on guitar. Steve Coleman, and Kenny Garrett on sax, and that was 30 years ago. I like modern big band stuff, and John Hollenbeck is one guy that has caught my attention.
Ha, I wish I knew when to say enough. I have over 20,000 jazz recordings, and I begin to realize how daft that is, but . . . . I still find more I want to explore. Right now The TOCJ Japan cd of "Rendezvous" by Jacky Terasson and Cassandra Wilson
I'm at an age now where I'd like to lighten the load, myself. My storage space has its limitations and I've thoroughly enjoyed a lot of recordings that I would rather not hear again given the choice of that or something new. There are people who are satisfied that they've already had the best listening experience they ever will and don't want or need to hear what's next, and god bless them but they are not me. For those reasons I wouldn't mind getting into streaming the way I have with streaming video. But with music I want to have more information about what I'm listening to than what I watch and that's not available with streaming. Also, I've read the posts above about issues with file size. I'll admit not to be able to tell much difference at all between lossless, 328 kbps, and wav, but it's still an issue as is the cost of getting music in CD quality, as they say. That doesn't even touch the issues of which mastering you're listening to, etc. So for now, no thanks to streaming and I guess I'll have to expand my storage area just a teeny bit more. The price you have to pay for refusing to believe the music died with Bill Evans.
Well, in terms of new stuff, particularly new jazz, mastering isn't so much an issue, there's usually just one master out there. File size and streaming has never been a problem with my wifi, and I don't have the highest bandwidth available or anything like that, nor generally with my cell, but I only use that for less than critical listening -- in car for the most part -- where ambient noise makes me not so concerned with the fine details of the audio. But, yeah, the info is a problem for me too. Thankfully all the info, and often more, is often online somewhere. I don't love being tethered to an internet connected device when I'm listening -- too potentially distracting, but I'm learning new ways to be disciplined about the distractions. Of course, not all new stuff I want to hear is available on one or another streaming platform, so I'll go where the music is. But like I said, I'm listening to more new and more new to me material now than I have in recent years because of the access (and the fact that it involves no storage and no marginal increase in cost, it's all you can eat for a flat monthly fee).
Very excited to hear the first information regarding this year’s Vision Festival which will happen between 6/11 & 6/16 thankfully again @ Roulette in Brooklyn. Andrew Cyrille will be the honored musician and I hear he will be playing a duo with Peter Brotzmann on the opening night I’m sure there will be a couple of other exciting ensembles for Andrew’s night and I’m sure I’ll get to one or two of the other nights to hear some other wonderful musicians/groups play in a very fine venue. But the confirmation that I’ll get another chance to hear the legendary saxophonist one more time made my day today.
Earlier I listened to Peter Brotzmann with Masahiko Satoh on piano & Takeo Moriyama in Drums: Yatagarasu Recorded live on November 8th, 2011 @ Manngha Hall in Kraków Astonishing energy and facility / the recording is given a sub-title of The Heavyweights and it’s easy to hear why when listening - first 26 minute is Brotzmann on tenor sax with the second 30 minute piece has him switching from his taragato to alto saxophone. Some of the peaks during these pieces are mind melting. They end with 3 shorter pieces that are an apt close to what must have been something up close & personal. On Not Two records
Listening to this collaboration between Bill Bruford, Ralph Towner and Eddie Gomez. Love all 3 players contributions here! A mostly nuanced and acoustic album, not to be missed. There’s even a drum solo, for the old prog head that I am!
Very calm times here at the Jzz&Cnv thread. Miss some participants: @Jacline @Mirror Image, beatnikdaddyo (not able to find his user ?? ) @Mook ... I used to get up and have 20 posts to read. It was always a good time having breakfast while catching up. But lately ... Hope people can come back and post some good old jazz. This lack of posts resulted in me getting into contemporaneous jazz: Kamaal, Comet is Coming, Shabaka and the Ancestors.... Not that they're bad, not at all... But I miss the good old stuff. Although it's not the right time for a request like this one... I'm going to risk it anyway. So, here's the first 2019 ************************************ ************************************ Jazz & Conversation TOP list request ! ************************************ ************************************ I'm asking your top Riverside albums. Top 10 or 20... whatever you think is relevant. Just a small note, until now we had these tops: Columbia Impulse Blue Note CTI ECM Mainstream Verve Good luck on your top !! Just post
There are many interesting websites about jazz or about jazz archives all over the world. Here is one Jazz music reviews, top albums and forums
