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A legend and a mentor to today's greatest jazz pianists, Chris was the master of slow ballads and haunting Impressionist harmonies. No jazz pianist has touched me more deeply; this CD is a rare, priceless legacy of his genius. Chris’ most famous student, Herbie Hancock, testifies: “A master of harmony and sensitivity…After hearing him play just once, I begged him to let me study with him…” His sound is utterly unique. “Imagine the lushness of Ellington, the off-centered cadences of Monk, and the harmonic inventiveness of Debussy mixed with a potent scent of the blues,” according to Fred Kaplan. We’ve captured Chris’ spacious, beautifully sustained chords with warm, ultra-detailed sound.
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"Before Patato, Cuban drummers played the African way: one-man, one-drum. Patato invented the modern three-conga style while still in his teens. No living player can match the melodic inventiveness of this, his most adventurous CD—his first and only with five(!) congas. Patato is up front, accompanied by a cooking quintet of Latin saxes and flutes. You'll never hear the perfectly tuned resonance of his drums, the sledge hammer power of his iron-hard palms better than here. Bound For Sound drooled over this one: “…another crazy, zany, free-flow musical expression…Just your basic eclectic combination of Latin percussion, South American rhythms, jazz brass and funk baritone sax…Wonderfully rhythmic and infectious…so sonically superior it’s scary…Recording of Merit.”
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"The fact that one of the best acoustic blues albums of the year comes from three white boys from Maryland might surprise you—that is, until you realize that it's the return of the Blue Rider Trio, who kicked up a lot of shit out of nowhere with their 1992 release Preachin' the Blues..." raves Blues Revue.
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Leon, one of the warmest baritones in jazz, sang with everyone from Pharoah Sanders to Santana, replacing Joe Williams in the Count Basie Orchestra. My mikes caught him on a great night at Ethell’s in Baltimore with Gary Bartz.
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"Steve Davis is one of my favorite trombone players of all time. I like his sound, I like the way he writes. He is a very special musician," according to Jackie McLean. Steve and Larry Willis, two of Jackie's greatest protégés, front this smoking group.
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Here are 13 of our best-sounding tracks—everything from blues and R&B to gospel and jazz. There's a single thread that connects all our artists—they’re passionate about music.
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PHONOPHILE Upgrades
Twenty-five years ago, even before starting Mapleshade Studio, I jumped into my first high end design project: upgrading the legendary Maplenoll Turntable for air-bearing pioneer Bob Dilger. In 2007, with my love of collecting LPs and transforming turntables undiminished, I’ve come full circle.
My new Phonophile product family consists of upgrades that dramatically improve the sound of LPs. In addition to our acclaimed and often-imitated maple platform suspension and brass coupling system, I’ve designed five radically-new products I guarantee will yield great results. Two of them, our all-new approach to mounting records and mounting cartridges, are the direct outgrowth of Mapleshade’s 20 years of cutting edge vibration control R&D. Our steam-based record cleaning system is audibly more effective (and affordable!) than widely-touted megabuck machines. The last, our high-tech static draining record brush, comes right out of the R&D for our very successful Ionoclast static neutalizer.
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Ne Plus Ultra Speaker Bases
The Ne Plus Ultra combines our most massive maple platforms with by far the bestperforming (and best-looking) footer coupling design we've devised: four huge Mega- Mounts locked tightly under the maple base by heavy brass tensioning through-bolts, tightened from above by gorgeous handbuffed brass cap nuts.
If you've spent this much to get a truly greatsounding speaker, it doesn't make sense to let an inadequate floor diminish its sonic beauty by nearly half. For perhaps 5% of your investment, we guarantee a more-than-50% upgrade of your speaker. If your ears don't agree, we return your money.
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