Robert Baird

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Robert Baird  |  Jun 20, 2006  | 
Overheard (coming out of mine and other nearby mouths) at a tavern in Brooklyn:
Robert Baird  |  Jan 30, 2015  | 
There’s a recent recording project that I have to say exemplifies that hard as it is to believe, there are still human hearts beating in the biz.
Robert Baird  |  Aug 07, 2015  | 
Call me a hopeless romantic but I could not get “Penny Lane” out of my head as I sat in the back of a black cab whizzing across a remarkably deserted London early one morning a couple weeks ago. “On the corner is a banker with a motorcar…” I was on a pilgrimage. More like THE pilgrimage. The one every serious fan of twentieth century music needs to make at least once. Out to St. John’s Wood and Abbey Road Studios.
Robert Baird  |  Jul 16, 2016  | 
In New York City or more specially Corona, Queens, July is the month when thoughts turn to the legacy of one Louis Armstrong. Last weekend, I made the pilgrimage with my patient wife to the Pops home in Corona, to view what is now the Louis Armstrong House Museum.
Robert Baird  |  Jun 15, 2006  | 
It's always bugged me. And now I have just the blog to spew about it in.
Robert Baird  |  Dec 08, 2016  | 
One of the few '70s funk/soul holy grails that’s actually worth digging for.
Robert Baird  |  Feb 17, 2017  | 
Does having commercial leanings make you a traitor to the purity of your art? Can you make money in music and still have integrity? These eternal questions came to mind upon the death of singer Al Jarreau. Often savaged by critics and fans for his success, Jarreau cut his own path and by the time he died, at the age of 76, of respiratory failure on Sunday, February 12, he'd had more than a few last laughs on his detractors.
Robert Baird  |  Jun 16, 2014  | 
Vaya con Dios Jimmy Scott!
Robert Baird  |  Nov 10, 2015  | 
For many years the centerpiece around which much of New Orleans music revolved, he was the last in a long line of New Orleans piano professors.
Robert Baird  |  Nov 29, 2007  | 
"For decades the pursuit of high–-quality sound on high-end systems drove the recording industry, especially the classical music branch."
Robert Baird  |  Sep 20, 2006  | 
Earlier this week I was invited to Per Se, a sleek restaurant in the Time Warner Center here in NYC for a lavish lunch sponsored by Concord Records. Co-owner Norman Lear was there. So was former SNL and now Letterman band leader Paul Shaffer who served as MC. The occasion was the release of another Ray Charles project which I will be writing about in more detail in an upcoming issue of the magazine. Titled Ray Swings—Basie Swings, it's an elaborate studio creation. Again though, Look for more in December's Stereophile.
Robert Baird  |  Jun 12, 2017  | 
"They are simultaneously high-fidelity in ways that are less easy to quantify . . . [and] many of the most expensive pieces of [modern] audiophile gear follow the structures of this early equipment."
Robert Baird  |  May 25, 2006  | 
Call me an elitist but I fail to see the attraction—for viewers—in the whole American Idol phenomena. Of course, television has made millions from televising talent shows over the years so I guess it's just me that's out of step.
Robert Baird  |  Jun 06, 2006  | 
Much as I hate to admit it, the experience of going into a record store, particularly a big glorious mom and pop indie store, is fast becoming a thing of the past.
Robert Baird  |  Jan 22, 2018  | 
Another high-quality LP reissue label catches fire...

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