Fanmusic is a distributor and a brand of Chinese audio-equipment which also has an eBay store. I was contacted by Tony, their manager a while ago and he informed me that they were working...
Very nice amp for mid-fiers to entry high-fiers.
The sound quality and specs are very good for the price. Works very well with Jazz and Classical music in particular (not that rock and...
My pair was a supposed demo model from one of Hifiman's retailers. They came in mint condition, which is lucky for me. I'm not using a balanced cable yet, but I already feel it's a good upgrade...
The JVC HA M750's were my first "real" pair of headphones. Previously, I had just used iPod headphones and cheap 10 dollar headphones from my local grocery store. As such, I was very impressed by...
…ironic trivia…Mingus received his only Grammy Award for the liner notes of this album…not the music…
Bless him, Its a great album and I think it was his fave too. There are some great Ellington-esque moments and some really nice orchestrations, although some of it does come across as being a little contrived.
From Bitches Brew on out Miles was a different animal altogether. If you like what hear on the regular version of Bitches Brew, see if you can get your hands on the Complete Bitches Brew Sessions...amazing stuff.
You might also want to find a copy of Get Up With It.
also i highly recommend miles davis' autobiography, a really good read, pretty much explains what we all hear; his music always keeps changing which what makes him a legend
From Bitches Brew on out Miles was a different animal altogether. If you like what hear on the regular version of Bitches Brew, see if you can get your hands on the Complete Bitches Brew Sessions...amazing stuff.
You might also want to find a copy of Get Up With It.
also i highly recommend miles davis' autobiography, a really good read, pretty much explains what we all hear; his music always keeps changing which what makes him a legend
+1 on the Miles autobiography!! Highly entertaining - an inside look at his career from a "wet-behind the ears" teenager in NYC all the way through the 1980s. For the jazz fan, the book is hard to put down - it's written like you are just sitting there listening to Miles talk.
I saw McCoy Tyner years ago and his pianist, Carlos McKinney, was a beast. An acquaintance of mine, Dezron Douglas, is currently gigging with Ravi Coltrane as his bassist - he's come a long way from playing small clubs in Hartford, Connecticut, so I have to plug him.
I realize this thread is pretty much one giant recomendations list to begin with, but would anyone care to recommend some tunes to a relative newbie of the jazz genre?
I know I love the classics (Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, Dave Brubeck [R.I.P]), but beyond that, the most jazz I've listened to has been from the Cowboy Bebop soundtracks (good stuff if you haven't heard of it)