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The Best Jazz CDs of 2021 | Jazz Files

December 31, 2021 Editorial Staff Comments Off on The Best Jazz CDs of 2021 | Jazz Files

The best jazz CDs of 2021? Vinyl is the most popular and desirable listening format. Do you agree? When it comes to jazz, that means reissued vinyl of largely dead jazz artists, since the majority […]

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Ferrum Audio OOR and HYPSOS Headphone Amplifier | REVIEW

November 21, 2021 Marc Phillips 5

Should I dive back into headphones for 2022? I’m thinking about it. Most of my headphone listening these days is confined to my laptop, an AudioQuest Cobalt, a couple of relatively modest headphones and a […]

Jazz Files

A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle | Jazz Files

November 4, 2021 Editorial Staff 1

In 1965, John Coltrane was on a global tour to promote his then new recording, A Love Supreme. This tour would yield other Impulse! releases including Om, Selflessness, and a bootleg, Live in Antibes. Near […]

Jazz Files

The Beatles’ Let It Be, Super Deluxe | Jazz Files

October 28, 2021 Editorial Staff 2

Capitalizing on producer/director Peter Jackson’s upcoming six-hour extravaganza, The Beatles: Get Back, Apple Records issues yet another grand Beatles’ vinyl project, based on the Fab Four’s penultimate recording as a band. Following the release of […]

Jazz Files

All Things Must Pass 50th Anniversary LP Box Set | Jazz Files

August 18, 2021 Editorial Staff 1

As a youth in the early 1970s I was entranced by George Harrison’s third solo LP, All Things Must Pass. John Lennon’s then new Plastic Ono Band was equally high on my list, even if […]

Jazz Files

Bill Evans, Behind the Dikes | Jazz Files

July 29, 2021 Editorial Staff 2

To paraphrase one of his album titles, why does everybody dig Bill Evans? Something special happened every time Bill Evans played the piano. Time stood still or seemed to suspend and disappear. When he flew […]

Jazz Files

Chicago/The Blues/Today! from Craft/Vanguard RSD | Jazz Files

June 30, 2021 Editorial Staff 4

Every generation of music lovers should listen beyond the popular music of the day. If you don’t do the enjoyable, deep listening required to appreciate classical, blues, Brazilian, as well as other, more esoteric styles […]

Jazz Files

John Lennon, Plastic Ono Band–The Ultimate Collection | Jazz Files

May 21, 2021 Editorial Staff Comments Off on John Lennon, Plastic Ono Band–The Ultimate Collection | Jazz Files

If you’re an analog, aka vinyl lover, I’ll cut to the big magilla: John Lennon’s remastered solo debut LP, Plastic Ono Band, humiliates the original 1970 US pressing. The new pressing, which I assume was […]

Music

The Vinyl Grouch: Lord Classic, Sophia Pfister, Miles & Glasper, Cornelius

November 13, 2016 Editorial Staff Comments Off on The Vinyl Grouch: Lord Classic, Sophia Pfister, Miles & Glasper, Cornelius

By Ken Micallef An infrequent communiqué on the best and worst in new and reissued vinyl titles from around the globe… Lord Classic Lord Classic represent a long lost notion: a New York City band […]

Music

The Vinyl Grouch: Simon & Garfunkel, The Complete Columbia Albums Collection

June 17, 2016 Editorial Staff 2

By Ken Micallef Though their music is largely forgotten and unknown to anyone under 30, Simon & Garfunkel created some of the greatest pop music of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Their classic albums […]

Music

The Vinyl Grouch’s RSD Special! New from Larry Young and Bill Evans

April 15, 2016 Editorial Staff Comments Off on The Vinyl Grouch’s RSD Special! New from Larry Young and Bill Evans

By Ken Micallef Larry Young In Paris: The ORTF Recordings   Perhaps the paramount track on Larry Young In Paris: The ORTF Recordings  (available here) is a 13-minutes-plus version of Wayne Shorter’s “Black Nile.” As […]

Music

The Vinyl Grouch: NEW! from ECM

January 27, 2016 Editorial Staff 3

By Ken Micallef Manufactured in Germany at PALLAS and branded with a “180g Audiophile High Quality Pressing” sticker on every jacket, ECM’s current vinyl releases align with label boss/producer Manfred Eicher’s long-standing commitment to expressive, […]

Music

The Vinyl Grouch: LENNON

August 21, 2015 Editorial Staff 8

Covering all things vinyl, whether from digital or analog sources, with good music the only common denominator. By Ken Micallef More than any other Beatle after the band’s 1969 breakup, more than Paul McCartney, George […]

Music

The Vinyl Grouch: Dewa Budjana, Bjork, Larry Young, Darjeeling Limited

June 21, 2015 Editorial Staff 3

Indonesian jazz, depth charge dance and Record Store Day 2015’s stacks o wax Journeys through vinyl, but it from analog or digital sources, with good music the only common currency by Ken Micallef Jazz guitarists, […]

Music

The Vinyl Grouch: Cream 1966-1972, Box Set (Universal Music Enterprises)

April 29, 2015 Editorial Staff 8

  Adventures in vinyl, be it from analog or digital sources, with good music the only common currency. By Ken Micallef In the opening scene of the 2014 Ginger Baker biopic, Beware of Mr. Baker, […]

Music

The Vinyl Grouch: Bill Evans at the Complete Village Vanguard Recordings (1961)

March 18, 2015 Editorial Staff 18

By Ken Micallef Journeys through vinyl old and new, whether mastered from analog or digital sources, with great music the only common currency Listening to pianist Bill Evans’ recently released box set, The Complete Village […]

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