UMG - Mihimaru GT - Best of - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

John Eliot Gardiner - Cantatas 27 [COMPACT DISCS] date 04/08/2008

Bill Evans' recordings almost always received good to excellent sound, and the Analogue Productions reissues are no exception. While I don't own the original releases, the 45 rpm reissues clearly better, even after VTA adjustments, the later OJC reissues or the earlier 33 1/3 rpm Analogue Productions releases. The 45 rpm reissues are more musical and transparent; instruments have greater three-dimensionality and frequency extremes, especially lower octaves, exhibit greater resolution and impact. Get them before they're sold out!' Myles Astor, Positive-Feedback Online, Issue 34, www. Positive-feedback. #comAlmost every one of the 11 albums featuring Bill Evans that were issued during his pivotal early years (1956-1964) with Riverside were trio performances. Of the two exceptions, one was strictly speaking not an Evans record (Know What I Mean?, a quartet album that featured Bill but was under the leadership of Cannonball Adderley. ) The other is Interplay. Adding trumpet and guitar to create an unusual quintet alignment, concentrating on the standard tunes, and with brighter tempos than are generally associated with his playing, it is a uniquely valuable addition to the catalog of perhaps the most important pianist in modern jazz. Individual title from The Bill Evans Riverside Recordings Box Set 180-gram 45 RPM double LPMastered by Kevin Gray & Steve Hoffman at AcousTech Mastering AAA analog from original master tapesPraise for our Riverside Recordings LP Box Set from Analogue Productions

Cuffed Up have a knack for distilling big dreams into sound. Their debut album All You Got, tipped at KEXP, Paste Magazine, FLOOD Magazine and more is available as a eco-mix vinyl via Hit the North Records. It is filled with dreams of bigger stages, a more open heart and a more equitable society-in short, dreams that are swiftly dismissed as naive. For this Los Angeles three-piece, InchanthemicInch is not just an apt descriptor of their sound, it's an ethos. In every swelling chorus, ardent guitar riff and rich cascade of cymbals is a seed of hope that things will take a turn for the better. After all, this band has been to hell and back, whether it's multiple lineup changes, industry roadblocks or a global pandemic, and they're used to being written off as starry-eyed.