Recommended Venus Label Recordings

@dodgealum Oops! I said Matt Hazeltine (formerly of SF 49er's). I meant David Hazeltine

@BillStevenson, do I remember correctly that you used to live in the VT-NH Upper Valley, but maybe moved a bit east from there?  Bill Charlap's performing with Dee Dee Bridgewater at the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth tonight.  There were still seats available when I bought mine yesterday.  After a performance of Italian Renaissance madrigals--Gesualdo, Monteverdi--in Woodstock this afternoon.  Busy live music day!

Op buy Venus sampler see what you think? I have 3 sampler before buying their 30th anniversary sacd box and vynil box set. They are superb. 

I totally agree those records sound great. I know the engineer who tracked a lot of them and she was dismayed after she heard how they were mastered. That said they remind of the same way CTI recordings sounded to me in the seventies. Not the same sound at all but a unique sound that is uniform among all of their releases as were the CTI pressings I loved as a teenager.

I have 60-70 of them; all are very enjoyable (with only a couple of oddball exceptions). Definitely not Bitches Brew, but highlyly listenable small combo jazz.