best albim evar?

[Notes_Norton]

Hard to say, since there are so many genres.

Beethoven symphonies #4 and #7 by the Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell conducting.
I can't find this one on YouTube, but it's my two favorite Beetoven Symphonies and a great interpretation.

OR..

When I was a young student, playing in the beginning band, and not very wise about jazz yet, I walked into a record store and asked for a saxophone record. The owner suggested Focus, by Stan Getz. I wore out 3 LPs, and have it on CD. It was over my head then, but as I grew, so did my appreciation. The entire sax performance is an improvisation over the orchestrated background.

How about a Gino Vanelli LP with a little symphony in the middle?
 

 

or:

Breakfast In America - Supertramp 

Time Out - Dave Brubeck Quartet

Yes anyone?

Aqualung - Jethro Tull

I like this one better than Aja
 

Manhattan Transfer - Extensions

 

I could go on and on

 

[Xoo]

On 5/9/2025 at 5:51 PM, pwalpwal said:

 

Influential, and I love it, but not the (or their) best 🙂

[Pragi]

On 5/12/2025 at 9:54 AM, Xoo said:

Influential, and I love it, but not the (or their) best 🙂

That's all  ?

Edited June 6 by Pragi

[504 lover lover]

2 hours ago, Pragi said:

That's all  ?

yarp, secretly hawkwind suck

[Xoo]

On 6/6/2025 at 7:15 PM, Pragi said:

That's all  ?

You want an essay? :-)

[Pragi]

18 hours ago, Xoo said:

You want an essay? :-)

Say xoo.....

[Technostica]

On 5/9/2025 at 3:48 PM, Pragi said:

Miles  Davis - Bitches Brew. 

Not even in my top five Miles Davis albums, but it sold well to the hippy crowd. 

[Pragi]

8 hours ago, Technostica said:

Not even in my top five Miles Davis albums, but it sold well to the hippy crowd. 

Right, everybody who likes Bitches Brew by M.Davis is a  Hippy and doesn' t know anything about real  Jazz.

Edited yesterday at 06:53 AM by Pragi

[Technostica]

38 minutes ago, Pragi said:

Right, everybody who likes Bitches Brew by M.Davus is a  Hippy and doesn' t know anything about real  Jazz.

Miles was playing the Fillmore supporting rock bands and was also at the Isle of Wight festival, so he was exposed to much larger and younger audience which happened to include hippies. 

I prefer other albums recorded from the 69 - 75 era. BB was the big seller and has achieved a legendary status of course. 

I particularly like Guinnevere from the extended BB sessions, although it didn't make the album. 

I'm too young to have caught him live in that era but I did catch the comeback tour of 82 and later. 

[Wibbles]

a) None of the above;

b) see a)

c) see b)

[Pragi]

38 minutes ago, Technostica said:

I'm too young to have caught him live in that era but I did catch the comeback tour of 82 and later

1.Right, your are too young 

2. you know everything about the birth of fusion.

3. You are full on topic.

Edited yesterday at 07:48 AM by Pragi

[Rain]

To me, Beethoven's Late Strings Quartets are one of mankind's highest achievements. The Brentano String Quartet recorded them on 3 CDs, and those are my personal favorite recordings - probably the best that I know of (I'm not a connoisseur by any stretch). No 12 is the very first I heard. 

 

[57Gregy]

28 minutes ago, Rain said:

To me, Beethoven's Late Strings Quartets are one of mankind's highest achievements. The Brentano String Quartet recorded them on 3 CDs, and those are my personal favorite recordings - probably the best that I know of (I'm not a connoisseur by any stretch). No 12 is the very first I heard. 

 

Coincidentally, I just watched a movie last week called "The Late Quartet". Released in '12, I'd never seen it. I enjoyed it and they talk about Beethoven quite a bit.

Christopher Walken, P. S. Hoffman, Catherine Keener. Good flick, a little soap in it, but that's okay.