Revinylization #23: Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, Oliver Nelson

Revinylization #23: Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, Oliver Nelson

Nov 11, 2021
Two new reissues in Blue Note's Classic Vinyl series—Grant Green's Idle Moments and Kenny Burrell's Midnight Blue—capture peaks of jazz guitar's possibilities at a juncture when modernism was primed for a shift to something else. Both albums were recorded in 1963; both sport "the Blue Note sound," which engineer Rudy Van Gelder had refined to its high point. But the two albums lay out very different musical paths.

New Hampshire's AV Therapy Hosts a Listening Event This Weekend

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New Hampshire's AV Therapy Hosts a Listening Event This Weekend

Nov 11, 2021

On Friday, November 12, AV Therapy of Nashua, New Hampshire, will host its first annual “Groove Event,” in loving memory of Mark Terletzky, its late co-owner and Groove Champion. This is the store’s first in-person event in two years.

Dance, Don't Swing: the New Jazz Scene in London and the UK

Dance, Don't Swing: the New Jazz Scene in London and the UK

Nov 10, 2021
Over a long weekend in late August 2021, DJ, broadcaster, and contemporary music scholar Gilles Peterson and his Brownswood recordings label hosted the We Out Here (WOH) festival in Abbots Ripton, Cambridgeshire, 80 miles north of London. 20 stages. 15,000 attendees. Peterson called it "the British Jazz Woodstock."

Analog Corner #275: Bergmann Audio Galder turntable & Odin tonearm

Analog Corner #275: Bergmann Audio Galder turntable & Odin tonearm

Nov 09, 2021 First Published:Jul 01, 2018
Bergmann Audio (footnote 1) launched its first turntable—the Sindre, which featured an integrated tonearm—in 2008. The Sindre's acrylic platter and tangential-tracking tonearm both floated on air bearings; it had an outboard motor controller, a separate air pump for the air bearings, and cost $21,000.

Capital Audiofest 2021: It's a Wrap

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Capital Audiofest 2021: It's a Wrap

Nov 09, 2021

Capital Audiofest 2021 was a fantastic show. Everyone I spoke to—vendors, visitors, the helpful Hilton staff—was jazzed to be there. Everyone was in good spirits. While I didn’t see as many attendees in total as at the 2019 CAF show pre-Covid, every room I visited was full, and in many midday cases, standing-room-only.

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