Jazz for aficionados

@tyray 

Thanks. Somehow I missed your post the first time around. 

Am listening now -- I like this a lot! 

In a different category, but have you heard this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb6q_zzP2-8&list=OLAK5uy_nEEzClAHymfvLuGFg72vFUOOTkk8rrKOQ&index=5

@stuartk, @tyray, the Flor Purim album I come back to again and again is "Encounter." I don't think it can be appreciated over computer speakers. I need to play it loud. I bought it when I was buying a lot of Flora Purim albums and for years it was the one I couldn't listen to. Just too abstract. Then one day it clicked and now it's my favorite of her albums. I think it is super sophisticated jazz. Probably the second of her albums is "Stories To Tell," and again her voice goes into abstraction. She can do things with her voice that I have never heard any other singer do. She can "hear" things that few singers can hear. You know how we were talking about everybody in a jazz band inferring the beat, yet nobody hitting right on the beat. She does the same with the melody. Once you can hear the inference... very, very cool!

@stuartk 

Fantastic, very good! Hermeto Pascoal's style of music is derived from the Northeast of Brazil from the town of Lagoa da Canoa in the state of Alagoas.

No, I have not heard of Jorge Strunz of Costa Rica. In fact I can't say I've had the pleasure of listening to any Costa Rican music, that I know of?

@audio-b-dog,

You gotta remember audiogon is a site dedicated to all sorts of audio equipment usage first, not just sharing music. So everyone's rig may be much different than someone else's rig.

Some here have just a turntable an integrated amplifier/stereo receiver and a set of stand alone speakers. While others may or may not have a turntable, streamer and some just use their computer as their front end as a streamer and use powered speakers for playback, stand alone or desktop.

I know you mean no harm, but I notice that sometimes you use absolutes in equipment usage without regarding what others may or may not have for music playback. 

Also keep in mind when we use youtube we use it only as an easy tool that we have at our disposal. Including all the function buttons at the top of the audiogon page where we post our messages to each other. 

I agree with you about Flora's voice. She is a Brazilian Sorceress with her voice inflections which draw you in and you gotta listen to her!

Joyce Moreno - Aquarius 1975 (Full Album Stream)

More of Joyce to come...

@tyray, I get you on various people's audio gear. I do try to keep down my references to equipment. But some things you just can't get unless you can kick up the volume. I made reference to myself not being able to listen to Jorge Ben properly because my wife was home. I could tell that he wouldn't come across properly unless I played him loud, which I'll do the next time I have the house to myself. Flora Purim's "Encounter" is an album that requires a certain amount of volume. I never play it when my wife is home. Flora needs to take over the room. And I'm not judging anyones rig--I'm just saying she needs room. And I also wanted to let people know that I literally couldn't get what she was doing for many years. I'd try to take a taste and then have to turn her off. Eventually, she educated my ear. My neighbor has a fairly inexpensive stereo but he kicks it up (I know I can hear it next door), and he does fine with the Stones and other rock he listens to. He also loves my stereo and has pronounced that he will gladly inherit it when I die. And maybe he will, because nobody in my family has room for it or even knows how to turn it on.