David Hazeltine, piano; George Mraz, bass; Billy Drummond, drums.
The day I first met David Chesky, he was pitching Tower Records' national classical buyer on his then-nascent record label. "We're going to make the best sounding recordings that have ever been manufactured," he said. With my almost four years experience as a production manager at a record press and classical label, I chuckled at his naivetè.
With Manhattan: The New York Sessions, Chesky has come…
Unlike the Mets, the hi-fi, last night, was hot. Hot. I've read about this, how a system will have its good nights and its bad. But what sense does that make? How can a stereo sound on some nights better than others? It is not a living, breathing animal. It does not suffer from swings of mood or fits of poor judgement. It neither catches cold nor runs fever.
Does it? Does it?
Unlike the Mets, the hi-fi, last night, was hot. Or was it me?
This one will go like so many other hi-fi paragraphs have gone, only it will be mine, mine, mine:
I…
With 45 minutes before show time in the Marriott Denver Tech Center, let's start with some background information on the 3rd Annual Rocky Mountain Audiofest.
Marjorie Baumert (left), show Co-Director with her husband Al Steifel and Colorado Audio Society founder Art Tedeschi, explains that the show has grown from over 66 exhibit rooms the first year to well over 100. There are at least 313 exhibitors registered for this year's show. Attendees, who travel from 38 states, numbered 1900 last year, up from 1000 at the first show. At least an…
As I entered, a track from The Modern Jazz Quartet's Concorde LP was playing. The sound was indescribably beautiful. Perhaps the best way to describe it is to report that, when I turned around, I discovered a couple…