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Member Nominations: Best Entertainment

I know there have been a lot of threads discussing the most amazingly 3-D holographic imaging, wall shaking, trouser flapping bass, torturous demos, magical midrange etc., but as an audiophile, I often try to remind myself that a good recording of a GREAT performance should, IMHO, be held in higher esteem than a great recording of a merely GOOD performance. With that in mind, what CDs, DVDs etc do you think are well produced or well recorded -- not necessarily state of the art -- but of sufficiently high quality and where the performance REALLY MOVES YOU or REALLY MAKES YOU VERY HAPPY to play on your system? (To get you started, Mannheim Steamroller, the Sheffield Drum Record and the Video Essentials DVD should not be on the list.) Obviously, if you know of music or a movie that is technically AND creatively superb, so much the better. I am hoping this list will provide excellent suggestions for all.
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blbloom
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Too many, but one I'll never grow tired of is David Bromberg doing Mr. Bojangles. It has the sweetest guitar solo I've ever heard. I saw him twice a year for at least ten years at the Bottom Line Anniversary shows in N.Y.C. and the Tarrytown Music Hall, his home town,in Tarrytown N.Y.. Sharon, Danger Man, New Lee Highway Blues, Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair, Katskill Serenade, Statesboro Blues. I could go on and on. I admit it. I was addicted.

Albert, I couldn't agree more about Tom Waits... Making the scene with a magazine... I don't tie myself up or anything.
blbloom
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I just have to add two more. Martin Sexton's "The American". His voice is truely an instrument. If you ever get the oportunity to see him live, don't pass it up. The Best of Laura Nyro, Stoned Soul Picnic. If she doesn't move you to tears, nothing will.
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