Keith Jarrett, Go Home

Keith Jarrett, Go Home

I am hereby boycotting Keith Jarrett. It’s a shame. He’s one of the great jazz pianists, but he’s just become too big a jerk—and, at a time when America has an ugly image in the world, a dreadful ambassador. Here’s <A HREF="
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footage</A> of him cursing Italian jazz fans for taking his picture as he approached the stage, before he even started playing, at the Umbria Jazz Festival. These are people who paid over $100 for what he called the “privilege” of hearing him play. There are polite ways to ask people not to take pictures. You don’t have to treat them like scum.

enjoying the music again!

I've got a decent two-channel set-up separate from my 5.1 HT rig for the first time in a long while and I am just enjoying the heck out of it! And it's not that music sounded bad on my A/V system, but the combination of a better room and better quality speakers and amp is just blowing me away over and over again. The system is as follows:

Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab OML-2 loudspeakers
Adcom GFA-5500 amp
Adcom GTP-602 tuner/pre-amp
Onkyo DX-7555 CD player

Wish List !!!!

If you had it your way, which components would you have Stereophile review before X-mas time?

Here's my list:

-Audio Research Reference CD7 CD Player
-Audio Research HD220 Hybrid Amplifier
-Rockport Technologies Mira Speakers
-Audio Research LS26 Hybrid Preamp
-Paradigm Signature S8 or S6 Speaker (latest version with the Beryllium tweeter)

Lo Res Labels

Lo Res Labels

Insider music biz stuff should in most cases stay that way because normal folk, what I like to call "civilians," don't care about who said what to whom in the bowels of some label HQ in Burbank or Manhattan. There's also something pitifully self-indulgent and exclusionary and ultimately pathetic about people who are in the know about the music biz and live to tell you about it.

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