Whats on your turntable tonight?

Red Holloway with The Brother Jack McDuff Quartet "Cookin' Together".

"Muddy Waters Sings Big Bill Broonzy", Chess reissued by Speaker's Corner.

Sade, "Diamond Life", still great after all these years...

Vinyl bought new this afternoon:

Johnny "Guitar" Watson, "Bow Wow" on Wilma ($8.00)
The Kinsey Report, "Midnight Drive" on Alligator ($8.00)
Clifton Chenier and his Red Hot Louisiana Band, "New Orleans" On GNP Crescendo, ($12.00)
Muddy Waters, "King Bee" on Blue Sky ($10.00)

All except the last one are NOS, the Alligator album is a delete with a cut corner. I guess the fact they never were the most popular music around is the reason they were still there for me circa 2004.

A bunch of DGG and Philips albums I recently got for $5.99 a piece, brand new and sealed. Actually they were samples that probably disappeared from circulation since 1980. Among the lot my favourite is Dvorak Symphony No 9, Concertgebow, Colin Davis, Philips 9500 511. The surfaces are remarkable, leading to me to believe that the proper pressing of vinyl is a very European art that is lost and has little to do with making the vinyl thicker and charging $40.00 for it.

Was the cat still on the turntable? Maybe a new tweak you picked up on? I sure hope the cat is not cryoed? Good day.

Brand new copy of Vivaldi, "Le Quattro stagioni" Gidon Kremer, LSO Claudio Abbado. DGG 2531 287. I like it much better than the other recording I have on CD that uses period instruments by The Academy of Ancient Music.

Tchaikovsky Symphony No 1, Concertgebouw/Haitink on Philips 9500 777 bought sealed for $5.99 CAD. Now I have the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 6th (already had that last one but how can I remember albums bought twenty-five years ago?) purchased at the same time, sealed and for the same price, to listen to. Seems someone had discovered my stash before me and liked the 5th enough to buy it. Oh well could not buy them all, although I tried and wound up with fifty-five of these NOS Philips and DGG. Strange what you can find in the basement of used record shops!

Sunnyland Slim, The Legacy of the Blues Vol. 11, GNP Crescendo GNPS-10021 and Curtis Jones, "Trouble Blues", Prestige 1022 Bluesville, bought new locally last Friday. Both good, with a slight preference for the Slim one because of his great voice.