Thread: What are you listening to?

Some of my favorite jazz...Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie ( Diz and Bird at Carnegie Hall )

https://youtu.be/5ySn4mx0-qU

Originally Posted by doc47

Some of my favorite jazz...Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie ( Diz and Bird at Carnegie Hall )

https://youtu.be/5ySn4mx0-qU

You gotta' love Diz and Bird. Alone they are amazing. Together, it was magic. I don't play much of the old masters classic albums during the day because I played them to death in the 90s. I usually only play them in the morning while shaving. But they are amazing works of art if you love Jazz.

I'll follow you partly in that trend (classic Jazz masters);

My favorite Oscar Peterson Album. Have not played this in a very long time.

Oscar Peterson - Night Train



For your listening enjoyment;

Toby Mac and Hollyn. On the radio.

Frank Morgan and the McCoy Tyner Trio - Major Changes (Off the Contemporary 14k Series Label)



Sorry, no link available on Youtube. This is a rare one.

Originally Posted by ZipZop

You gotta' love Diz and Bird. Alone they are amazing. Together, it was magic. I don't play much of the old masters classic albums during the day because I played them to death in the 90s. I usually only play them in the morning while shaving. But they are amazing works of art if you love Jazz.

I'll follow you partly in that trend (classic Jazz masters);

My favorite Oscar Peterson Album. Have not played this in a very long time.

Oscar Peterson - Night Train



For your listening enjoyment;

I enjoyed the Oscar Peterson YouTube audio.

Have you thought about making all of those 'scarce or rare' tracks you have available for others to listen to? Just wondering

Try this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-P4DVCsd70

Death Cab for Cutie covering Soundgarden's "Fell on Black Days" from this week's show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1_9kOAecuM

Really like this song, but is it jazz...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v8YQ6sU6I4

Been a long, long time since I not only listened to any Traffic let alone thought of them. Was Winwood on this album?

Originally Posted by cudarunner

I enjoyed the Oscar Peterson YouTube audio.

Have you thought about making all of those 'scarce or rare' tracks you have available for others to listen to? Just wondering

Certainly. But you have to be careful with copyright. All of us that respect the music also respect the copyright. Even if the artist is long gone (like most of the Jazz Masters), their estates live on, as do the copyrights for their msuic. 99 percent of what I have is already in FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) format for digital download and play. But sharing it with the general public is not legal. You can't even legally play music in public to crowds without a license to do so. Trust me on this. I produce sports venues, and I need a commercial license to play music over a PA system to the general public. For personal use, I don't do anything in mp3 or other lossy formats. Everything is stored in FLAC. FLAC delivers the same quality as a CD, so it's lossless. Meaning if you ripped a CD (converted it to digital) in FLAC, there would be no loss of audio quality. Same with ripping Vinyl. Yes, you can convert Vinyl (records) to digital as well.

Some of my friends and myself included also do High Resolution Jazz format, where the audio is superior to CD. When you get into this level of audio, then you need to consider your playback analog chain. A high end DAC (Digital Audio Converter) is paramount at anything above CD quality. Most of us that participate in this kind of audio are true audiophiles, and we have high end vintage stereophonic hi-fi systems, from the 70s and early 80s. That and current high end equipment like McIntosh.

Some of us do publish rare items to Youtube, like that Donaldson album I linked to earlier in this thread. I don't know how Youtube gets around copyright, but they would not allow it to sit on the site if they were concerned about copyright. I assume they are paying a royalty of some kind in bulk to the recording companies that own the material. Youtube does have a Youtube audio app for streaming music from Youtube, so I'm sure there is payment of some kind (from advertising or membership) sent to the owners of the copyright.