A music thread for diehard analog guys that get great sound from cd

I somehow missed this thread. One CD I have that features great sound AND music is:

- A Meeting By The River (on Water Lily Acoustics), an album of instrumental duets by Ry Cooder and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt. Recorded by Kavichandran Alexander on a tube reel-to-reel machine (the electronics of which were custom designed and installed by Tim DeParavicini of EAR-Yoshino fame). Absolutely stunning!

I have the lp @bdp24   The lp sounds so natural. I forgot about this thread myself. My contribution is Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers "Live at The Fillmore 1997".

Wonderful!

A story I have told before. At the ’96 Stereophile show at the N.Y. Waldorf, Pierre Sprey came into my room (Jadis) and handed me a Mapleshade cd of his, to demo. It was ’’Big Sweet N’ Blue"..."Norris Turney with his Quartet". There are a few tracks that are OUTSTANDING, all engineered by Pierre and digitally mastered by Bob Katz. Inserted between the front of the case and the booklet, was a printed label that read: Norris Turney: Demo Tracks # 1,2,10. Without question, the musical compositions and performances are great! I have a few others as well. 

I called Mapleshade one Saturday morning and Pierre answered. We talked for more than thirty minutes without any hint of him needing to be doing something else. 

For  jazz fans that go beyond the usual warhorses from the 50's and 60's ("oh wait, you mean jazz is actually a living, evolving art form?"), the label ECM is a great source for excellent sounding CD's. 

It did not take them long to do a good job remastering their analog recording for CD.

And now, they contemporary CD releases are universally excellent. 

Relaxed, open, great soundstage and imaging, with lots of "space". 

And they seem to continue discovering talented, creative, musicians, with their own voice.

Michal Formanek (bass), Craig Taborn (piano), Avashai Cohen (trumpet), Mette Henriette (sax), Thomas Strønen (percussion), Julia Hülsmann (piano), just to name a few.

Much of ECM's releases can he thought of as "chamber-jazz", IMO.