Outstanding Demo CD's etc...

TJC712 · « **Reply #520 on:** 30 Oct 2009, 03:28 am »

Quote from: adydula on 29 Oct 2009, 03:32 pm

Ok help me out here there are a few to choose from on Amazon...remastered, import, the el cheapo original etc...which one to get?

Thanks
Alex

Mine's just the older original (cheapo) cd... Sounds great. Can't imagine anything sounding too much better.

Bob in St. Louis · « **Reply #521 on:** 31 Oct 2009, 03:13 pm »

Same here. Mine aren't any type of "special edition".
Alex, if you'd like, I can dig them out and get you the SKU. That'll get you the exact "edition".

Bob

adydula · « **Reply #522 on:** 1 Nov 2009, 01:01 am »

I have a copy of the original cd, plain jane et at..np lets she how it sounds!!

Alex

Thanks to everyone!

fishinbob · « **Reply #523 on:** 7 Nov 2009, 04:28 am »

Buy this one if only to play track 17, the Trumpet Voluntary by Jeremiah Clarke.

This piece gives me the chills.

capwkidd · « **Reply #524 on:** 7 Nov 2009, 05:44 am »

Could you give us a pic big enough to read, or just tell use the CD title? How about a URL? Sample tracks would be nice. Thanks.

Quote from: fishinbob on 7 Nov 2009, 04:28 am

Buy this one if only to play track 17, the Trumpet Voluntary by Jeremiah Clarke.
This piece gives me the chills.

lonewolfny42 · « **Reply #525 on:** 7 Nov 2009, 05:47 am »

http://www.amazon.com/Baroque-Music-Brass-Tomaso-Albinoni/dp/B00009NH8O/ref=sr_1_20?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1257572795&sr=1-20 .......

Quote from: capwkidd on 7 Nov 2009, 05:44 am

Could you give us a pic big enough to read, or just tell use the CD title? How about a URL? Sample tracks would be nice. Thanks.

Quote from: fishinbob on 7 Nov 2009, 04:28 am
Buy this one if only to play track 17, the Trumpet Voluntary by Jeremiah Clarke.
This piece gives me the chills.

satfrat · « **Reply #526 on:** 7 Nov 2009, 05:55 am »

Quote from: capwkidd on 7 Nov 2009, 05:44 am

Could you give us a pic big enough to read, or just tell use the CD title? How about a URL? Sample tracks would be nice. Thanks.

Quote from: fishinbob on 7 Nov 2009, 04:28 am
Buy this one if only to play track 17, the Trumpet Voluntary by Jeremiah Clarke.
This piece gives me the chills.

Baroque Music for Brass and Organ: Various Artists (2003)

Samples

Cheers,
Robin

fishinbob · « **Reply #527 on:** 7 Nov 2009, 12:29 pm »

PS: At present, the SACD hybrid version can be had new for a mere $3.99 +S&H.

adydula · « **Reply #528 on:** 7 Nov 2009, 02:58 pm »

Such a Deal!

$3.99 for a SACD , DSD hybrid, on order, thanks much for the recommendation!!

All the best
Alex
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Art_Chicago · « **Reply #529 on:** 7 Nov 2009, 04:05 pm »

Quote from: adydula on 7 Nov 2009, 02:58 pm

Such a Deal!

$3.99 for a SACD , DSD hybrid, on order, thanks much for the recommendation!!

All the best
Alex
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+1!

vintagebob · « **Reply #530 on:** 7 Nov 2009, 04:14 pm »

Quote from: adydula on 7 Nov 2009, 02:58 pm

Such a Deal!

$3.99 for a SACD , DSD hybrid, on order, thanks much for the recommendation!!

All the best
Alex
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+2

charmerci · « **Reply #531 on:** 7 Nov 2009, 08:38 pm »

Forget the 30 second sound bites. Go to www.musicme.com to listen to the whole album.

It's a French site but you'll be able to figure out how to use it. (Probably the only word you'll need translated- "titres" means titles)

adydula · « **Reply #532 on:** 8 Nov 2009, 02:21 pm »

Charmerci,

Thanks for that link!

Let me ask the crowd this:

Looking at the Verve label, there are many artists that have been mentioned in this thread in one way or another.

My question is: Looking at the artists that record on this label, are there any really outstanding cds that are of demo quality?

So dig thru your Verve recordings and let us know!

All the best!
Alex

mathgeek97 · « **Reply #533 on:** 8 Nov 2009, 06:50 pm »

Quote from: adydula on 8 Nov 2009, 02:21 pm

So dig thru your Verve recordings and let us know!

I'm voting for the 2003 release of John Coltrane - A Love Supreme. (However, it was originally recorded for Impulse! records.)

adydula · « **Reply #534 on:** 9 Nov 2009, 01:24 am »

Thanks for the recommendation mathgeek97...

Amazon is having a 3 for$30 sale on VERVE cds right now!

Keep the VERVE recommendations coming in!!

Alex

adydula · « **Reply #535 on:** 12 Nov 2009, 03:57 pm »

Hello!

The holidays are fast approaching and I hope you all will have time to listen and post any new 'gems' out there for us all to explore and enjoy!

I am working on a list of all of the recommendations in this thread and will post when it is complete!

Its quite a list, but it will be nice to have a list to help people from reading the many pages in this thread..although its nice to read the comments from all the wonderful people that have contributed to this thread...

I hope to have this list up in a few days!

All the Best
Alex
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jsalk · « **Reply #536 on:** 12 Nov 2009, 08:09 pm »

Alex -

Thanks for all the great work on this!

I guess I'll have to dust off a credit card and get on Amazon when you post your list.

- Jim

adydula · « **Reply #537 on:** 13 Nov 2009, 12:34 am »

Ok gang....Here is PART 1

I had to split this up due to the 10,000 character limitationin posting on the board.
I have this in chronological order based on PAGE in the thread.
This way you can go back and read the comments of the person posting etc...

If someone wants to put this in a spreadsheet so you can sort but name, album etc..this would be nice, but its a lot of work to get there.but I would think it would not be that difficult to do this if if desired.

I know I might have some mis-spellings etc, but its close enough to identify the recommendations.

Lots of great stocking stuffers for sure!!

PAGE 1:

Richard Souther "Cross Currents" New Age (Mary's Question and transition into High Tide)

Kitaro-Cirque "Ingenieux"- New Age Electronic

James Newton Howard "James Newtom Howard and Friends" - Jazz
David Benoit "Waiting for Spring" - Jazz (Some Other Sunset. My Romance)

Donald Fagen "Nightfly" Walk Between the Raindrops, The Goodbye Look, Ruby Baby

Steely Dan "Aja"
Steely Dan "Two Against Nature"

Tony Bennett "There's a Small Hotel" (Rogers and Hart Songbook)

Bobby McFerrin "Freedom is a Voice"

Shirley Horn "Hers to Life" (Return to Paradise)

Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis "Two Men With the Blues" (concert)

Blood Sweat & Tears "Blood Sweat & Tears" (God Bless the Child)

Esperanza Spalding "Esperanza CD" (Precious)

Lenny Kravitz "Its Time For A Love Revolution" (This moment Is All There Is)

Nora Jones "Come Away With Me" (Cold, Cold Heart)

Sting "Mercury Falling" (I Was Brought to my Senses)

Tony Corbiscello "Real Time" (As If We Never Said Goodbye)... Big Band (Top shelf trumpet playing)

Jazz at the Pawnshop - Various Artists

Steve Bach "More Than A Dream"

Wynton Marsalis "The Magic Hour" (Feeling of Jazz)

The Bad Plus "These Are the Vistas" (Keep the Bugs Off Your Glass And The Bears Off Your Ass)

Bozzio, Levin, Stevens "Blacl Light Syndrome" (Duende)

Ben Harper "Fight For Your Mind" (Gold To Me)

Morphine "Cure for Pain" (Buena)

Nils Lofgren "Acoustic Live" (Keith Don't Go)

Mino Cinelu "Mino Cinelu" (Oncoming Horizons)

Copland "Fanfare For the Comman Man" Louis Lane, and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra on Telarc

Ben Vaughn "Designs in Music" (Too Happy"

Rimsky-Korsakov "Dance of the Tumblers" Eiji Oue/Minnesota Orch

Dean Peer "Think" (Its All Good)

Weather Report "Sportin' Life" (Confians)

Bernadette Peters "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" (Blackbird)

ZZ Top "Tres Hombres" (La Grange)

Dave Grusin "Discovered Again"

Vienna Tang "Waking Hour"

Lyle Lovette "Joshua Judges Ruth"

Dave Grusin 'Homage to Duke"

Thelma Houston "I've Got the Music In Me"

Dead Can Dance "Boxed Set"

PAGE2:

Ry Cooder "Paradise and Lunch"

Flim and The BB's "TriCycle", "Big Notes", "Tunnel"

Kim Pensyl "Sketches 1", 'Sketches 2", "Sketches 3"

Roberta Flack "Quiet Fire" (Get Up Moses)

Rhythm Devils "The Apocalypse Now Sessions" (Napalm for Breakfast)

Bad Company "Bad Company" (Seagull, Hell..)

Leon Russell "Leon Russell" (A Song For You) A DCC gold disc mastered by Steve Hoffman

Cowboy Junkies "Trinity Sessions"

Stanley Turrentine "Stan the Man" SHM-CD

Rolling Stones "Let It Bleed" SHM-CD

Patricia Barber "A Fortnight in France"

Linda Ronstadt "Round Midnight" Nelson Riddle Songs, 2 cd set

Spyrogyra "Off the Deep End"

Holly Cole "It Happened One Night"

PAGE3:

Manu Katche "Neighboorhood"

Diana Krall "Love Scenes" (My Love Is)

Regina Spektor "Begin To Hope"

Quincy Coleman "Come Closer" (Want Me Back)

Ronan Hardiman "Anthem", "Solas"

Count Basie "88 Basie Street" XRCD version

Joe Satriani "The Electric Joe Satriani: An Anthology" (Rubina)

Igor Stravinski "The Right of Spring"

Benny Goodman - 'Benny Goodman and Friends'

The Benny Green Trio - "Testifyin'" 'Live at the Village Vanguard

Bill Berry - 'For Duke'

Bill Mays Trio - 'Live at the Jazz Standard'

Bob James - 'Dancing on the Water'

Carmen McRae - 'The Great American Songbook'

Clifford Jordan - 'Live at Ethell's'

The Count Basie Orchestra - 'Live at EL Morocco'

Diana Krall - 'The Girl in the Other Room'

Ella Fitzgerald - 'Clap Hands Here Comes Charlie'

Fred Hersch Trio - 'The Fred Hersch Trio Plays'

Hope Waits - 'Hope Waits'

James Carter - 'Chasin' The Gypsy'

Jane Monheit - 'Come Dream With Me'

Joshua Redman Quartet - 'Live at the Village Vanguard'

Kendra Shank - 'Afterglow'

Oscar Peterson - 'Live at the Blue Note'

Ray Brown/Laurindo Almeida - 'Moonlight Serenade'

The Ray Brown Trio - 'Live at Kuumbwa'

Rickie Lee Jones - 'Pop Pop'

Roy Gaines - 'I Got the T-Bone Walker Blues'

Victor Feldman - 'Audiophile'

Wynton Marsalis Septet - 'Live at the Village Vanguard'

Johnny Cash - 'American Recordings'

Linda Ronstadt & Nelson Riddle - 'What's New'

Blue Rodeo "Five Days In July"

Aimee Mann "Magnolia Sundtrack" (One)

Natalie Merchant's "Tigerlily" (Carnival,The Letter)

Holly Cole's "Romantically Helpless" (One Trick Pony)

Gladiator Soundtrack (The Battle)

Hugh Masekela "Burmester Reference III CD" (Stimela)

Rebecca Pidgeon "The Raven" (Spanish Harlem) (24/96 version)

Wilco's "Being There" (Sunken Treasure)

Steely Dan "The Royal Scam" (Kid Charlemagne)

Rusted Root "When I Woke" (Cat Turned Blue, Laugh As The Sun)

Peggy Lee "Black Coffee" (Black Coffee)

Ben Harper "Fight For Your Mind" (Gold To Me, God Fearing Man)

Dave Matthews Band Before These Crowded Streets (Crush)

Elanor McEvoy "Yola" (Isn't It A Little Late?)

Roland Kirk "Domino" (Domino,remastered)

Sarah McLachlan "Surfacing" (Angel)

Tommy Emmanuel - "Center Stage"

Ray Brown- "Walk On"

Stravinsky "Firebird Suite" Eiji Oue Minnesota Orch

Chrisette Michele "I Am" (Your Joy)

Mars - Dean Peter...

Brian Wilson Surf's Up!

Bizet - Carmon Fantasie Anne-Sophie-Mutter, Vienner Phil - James Levine

PAGE 4:

Chet Atkins "Sails"

Rene Olstead "Skylark" (Nothing But the Blame"

Jennifer Warnes "Famous Blue Raincoat"

Preston Reed "Instrument Landing"

Eva Cassidy "Time After Time", "Imagine'

Madeleine Peyroux "Careless Love"

Ray Charles "Genius Loves Company"

PAGE 5:

Miles Davis "Kind of Blue"

PAGE 6:

Allison Kraus "Union Station Live"

Josh Groban "Closer"

Chris Issac 'Best of Chris Issac"

PAGE 7:

Keb' Mo' "Suitcase"

Rodger Waters "Amused To Death"

PAGE 8:

John Lee Hooker "Chill Out"

Eric Bibb "A Ship Called Home"

Robert Plant / Allison Krauss "Raising Sand"

Ottmar Liebert "Luna Negra"

Pink Floyd "Dark Sinde of the Moon" Dream Theater mix

Muddy Water 'FOlk Singer"

PAGE 9:

Lyle Lovette "Step Inside This House"

Tears For Fears "The Hurting" Mercury Reissue

PAGE 10

Joe Jackson - any

Peter Wolf "Sleepless"

Ry Cooder "Buena Vista Social Club"

Sonny Rollins "Saxophone Colossus"

Ali Farka Toure & Tuomani Diabatie "In the Heart of the Moon"

Steve Turre "TNT","Sanctified Shells","In the Spur of the Moment"

Chucho Valdes "Live at the Village Vanguard","Bele Bele en La Habana"

Clark Terry "Live-Village Gate"

Taj Mahal "Shoutin in Key", "Senor Blues"

Little Carlie and the Night Cats "Disturbing the Peace"

Jimmie Lee Robinson "All My Life"

John Mellencamp "Trouble No More"

Jorma Kaukonen "Blue Country Heart"

Dire Straits "Brothers In Arms" XRCD

Donald Fagen "Morph The Cat", "Kamakiriad"

Paul Simon "Graceland"

Don Cherry & Ed Blackwell "El Corazon"

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey 'Walking With Giants"

Bliss "Quiet Letters", "Afterlife"

Three Mo'Tenors

Allison Krauss "New Favorite", "So Long So Wrong"

adydula · « **Reply #538 on:** 13 Nov 2009, 12:37 am »

PART2:

PAGE 11:

Neil Young "Live At Massey Hall 1971"

Uncle Tupelo

PAGE 12:

Brian Bromberg "Wood", "WoodII"

Miles Davis "The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions"

Strauss: Don Juan" HDCD Eiji Oue

Joss Stone "Soul Sessions"

PAGE 13:

Ben Harper 'White Lies for Dark Times", "There Will Be A Light", "Live From Mars"

Yello "Baby"

PAGE 14:

SMV "Thunder"

Holly Cole "The Best of Holly Cole"

Dave Brubeck "Time Out'

Getz & Byrd "Jazz Samba"

Horace Silver "Song For My Father"

Oscar Peterson "Tracks'

Duke Ellington "Masterpieces by Ellington"

Joe Henderson "So Near, So Far (Musings for Miles"

Ray Brown "Summer Wind "Live at the Loa"

Phil Roy "The Great Longing", "Grouchyfriendly"

Boz Scaggs "Harbor Lights"

Blossom Dearie "Blossum Dearie" (They Say Its Spring, Manhattan)

Ray Brown "Some of My Best Friends Are Singers"

Methany/Mehldau "Ring of Life"

Eric Claptons "Back Home"

Alanis Morrisette "Jagged Little Pill" This is the ACOUSTIC VERSION (Enhanced).

Alie In chains "Unplugged Live'

Rodrigo y Gabriela "Rodrigo y Gabriela"

PAGE 15:

Tangerine Dream "Force Majeure", "Richochet", "Stratosfear", "Attic Thoughts"

The Flock "Dinosaur Swamps"

Kraftwerk "Minimum-Maximum"

Uberzone "Ideology"

Massive Attack "Mezzanine"

Enigma "Love Sensuality Devotion: The Greatest Hits'

Rosa Passos 'Romance"

Royksopp "Melody A.M."

Kruder & Dorfmeister " K&D Session"

Moorcheeba "Big Calm"

The Who "Tommy" Mobile Fidelity Version

Bob James "Ivory Coast", "Double Vision"

Robert Miles & Trilok Gurtu "Miles Gurtu"

Roy Hargrove "Moment to Momnet, "Ear Food"

Seal "Best 1991-2004" 2 CD Set

PAGE 16:

Harry Allen "I Won't Dance" "Meets the John Pizzafelli Trio"

Count Basie "One O'Clock Jump"

David Gray "White Ladder"

Eberhard Weber "Endless Days"

David Sandborn "Upfront"

Cassandra Wilson "New Moon Daughter", "Blue Till Dawn'

Jennifer Warnes " The Hunter'

Rob Wasserman "Trios", "Duets" , "Space Island"

Hugh Masekala "Hope"

PAGE 17:

Eva Cassidy "Songbird" , "Live at Blues Alley"

PAGE 18:

Damien Rice "Live at Fingerprints Warts and All"

Adele "Adele 19"

Diana Krall 'The Very Best of Diana Krall"

Lenard Cohen "Ten New Songs"

PAGE 19:

Hot Club of San Francisco "Yerba Buena Bounce"

Jenna Mammina "Meant To Be', "Inner Smile"

David Finckel & Wu Han "Greig, Schumann & Chopin Music for Piano and Cello"

Yasushi Akutagawa "Ellora Symphony, Trinita Sinfonica & Rhapsody"

Virgil Thompson "The Plow That Broke the Plains and The River"

Dead Can Dance "'Toward the Within"

Charlie Haden & John Taylor "Nightfall"

Charlie HAden & Antonio Forcione "Heartplay"

Sheryl Crowe "The Best of Sheryl Crowe"

Madeline Peyroux "Bare Bones"

PAGE 20:

Larry Fuller Trio "Easy Walker"

Ronny Jordan "A Brighter Day"

McLaughlin, DiMeola, DeLucia "Friday Night Live in San Francisco"

PAGE 21:

Mozart Alfred Brendel, Sir Charles Mackerras "Piano Concertos'

Mike Oldfield "Tubular Bells"

PAGE 22:

Laurie Anderson "Life On A String"

Jethro Tull "Stand Up"

PAGE 23:

Kirk Whalum "For You"

Dave & Don Grusin 'Sticks and Stones", "Migration"

Emiliana Torrini "Me and Armini"

Basia "Best of Basis"

PAGE 24:

Diana Krall "Live In Paris" (Lets Fall In Love)

Getz/Gilberto (SACD) (The Girl From Ipanema)

Misty River "Live at the Backstage Gate"

Johannes Linstead "Guitarra Del Feugo"

Michael Stearns "The Lost World"

Bela Fleck & The Flecktones "UFO","Tofu"

Rebecca Pidgeon "The Raven"

Beethoven Symphony No. 6 ("Pastorale") SACD, Bruno Walter cond. Columbia Symphony Orchestra

Trittico, Reference Recording 52CD, Frederick Fennel cond. Dallas Wind Ensemble

Mephisto & Co., Reference Recording 82CD, Eiji Oue cond. Minnesota Orchestra.

Wynton Marsalis "Standard Time Volume 2"

Brandford Marsalis "I Heard You Twice The First Time"

Akiko Suwanai "Poeme"

Beck "Mutations"

Soul Coughing "Irrestible Bliss"

Paul Simon "Still Crazy After All These Years"

Lyod Cole and the Commotions "Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken"

Shawn Colvin "Steady On"

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Michael Garson "Serendipity"

Aimee Mann "Live At St. Anns Wharehouse"

Tracy Thorn "Out of the Woods"

Ian Hunter "Artful Dodger'

Richard Elliott "Take It To the Skies"

Vivaldi: La Stravaganza - Podger/Arte Dei Suonatori

Johannes Brahms:Serenades Op.11 & Op.16 Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig

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Steve Davis Project

John Horner "Glory Soundtrack"

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"Baroque Music for Brass and Organ"

John Coltrane "A Love Supreme"

adydula · « **Reply #539 on:** 13 Nov 2009, 12:39 am »

I hope this list is helpful to the 'new' and older participants and readers of this thread...I found several cd's that I thought I had ordered but just got lost in the mix!!

So its off to Amazon again!!

Jim, Thanks for supporting and allowing this thread to be on the "Salk Circle"!!

All the Best
Alex
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