CeCe Gable, More Than a Song | The Vinyl Anachronist
What is it about the female voice? What makes it so vital to audiophiles, so effective at telling us everything we need to know about our audio systems? Over the years [...]
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Wayne Alpern, Standard Deviation | The Vinyl Anachronist
The contemporary jazz scene is almost evenly divided between original compositions and covers from the Great American Songbook. When something falls outside of those two [...]
Jenny Davis, Rearranged | The Vinyl Anachronist
I must admit to a slight bias against jazz performers, arrangers and composers who try to write original songs that sound just like classics from the Great American Songbook. [...]
Jeff Hamilton Trio, Catch Me If You Can | The Vinyl Anachronist
What, another piano trio? I thought I was done with those last week! It’s funny how all these contemporary jazz releases keep arriving in clusters according to jazz [...]
Gloria Reuben and Marty Ashby, For All We Know | The Vinyl Anachronist
Back when I watched the television show ER faithfully, before they started killing off all my favorite characters, I had a massive crush on actress Gloria Reuben. I saw [...]
Judy Wexler, Crowded Heart | The Vinyl Anachronist
Judy Wexler, Judy Wexler. Where do I know that name? Turns out we’ve been friends on Facebook for quite a long time, a mutual friend of both audiophiles, audio [...]
Beata Pater, Tet | The Vinyl Anachronist
There’s a huge pile of recordings of female vocalists on the coffee table in my listening room right now, and Beata Pater‘s Tet has been sitting there for months, [...]
Anthony Caceres, Something’s Gotta Give | The Vinyl Anachronist
I’ve tackled the issue of bassist/leaders in jazz before, something that can be expanded to include drummers as well. My idea is that a leader who comes from the rhythm [...]
