Recommended Venus Label Recordings

@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.

@slf Thanks for your note.  My wife is a NH girl and we go back and forth between houses.  One is in Colebrook, NH, and the other is in West Palm Beach, FL.  If we could stay in Colebrook full time that would be our preference.  The problem is health care.  Doctors are scarce on the ground in the North Country.  So, we have to schlep down to this den of iniquity to see the excellent doctors that take good care of a couple of old goats.  Of course the day will come when we will get too old to keep making the trip.  We have decided when that day comes, we'd rather be where we're most comfortable and just be calm about dyeing.  So we'll eventually be back in NH among the sane full time.  Sorry we'll miss the concert.