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And… It’s Friday night! Good eve to all. I’m starting off with a song that I think kicks all kinds of ass! LOL Always love it when I can get some speaker time in. And away we go!
AMHD > Douk U2 Pro > Schiit BF2 > XDuoo TA-20 Pre > SMSL DA-9 > Triangle Borea BR02 w/REL TZero MKiii sub
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Saw this band live a couple of times many years ago .
Pulled out the vinyl albums and gave them a spin for old times sake. Looking back at these videos now makes me chuckle a bit but the music was good for its time…
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My entire Thompson Twins collection is the first two songs listed. 
I still do like Hold Me Now when it pops up on my 80’s playlist occasionally.
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Yeah the late 70’s and 80’s were unique times.
I got into a lot of punk and new wave along with prog music. Jazz was a big part of my listening materials too.
The British acts were very talented for their time…
Lots of fun…
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I wasn’t a punk guy, but I did like quite a bit of the new wave. Rock was king to me though.
The jazz is much newer to me as I just started that about 7 years ago.
PS: Just ordered 3 books last night:
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The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia
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Cookin: Hard Bop and Soul Jazz 1954-1965 by Kenny Mathieson
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Giant Steps: Bebop And The Creators Of Modern Jazz, 1945-65 by Kenny Mathieson
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Pure Reason Revolution’s album Eupnea and The Sea Within’s self-titled release. Both are great albums!
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Both of those books by Mathieson are great, BTW. I picked up a love of jazz as a jazz trained saxophonist and drummer since I was 5 y/o and as a historian as well (well I have a BA in History from UC Berkeley anyways lol!) I love reading about the history of jazz (all genres really) on top of listening. It adds to the experience when you know more about the stories behind the music you’re listening to, IMO. Somehow it just adds another dimension to the experience for me.
Sorry for butting in…
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What drew me to jazz is the horns. My favourites are:
Miles Davis, Donald Byrd, John Coltrane, Freddie Hubbard, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Sonny Rollins, etc.
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FINALLY figured out how to EQ on Audirvana. A bit quirky at first, but it’s so worth it.
With that said, time to enjoy some rap.
FLAC → WA7 → HD800S
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Coltrane is the reason I picked up tenor sax, but I also really dig Hank Mobley, Stan Getz, Coleman Hawkins, and, of course, Sonny Rollins. Charlie Parker is probably my favorite alto saxman. He can get a little out there sometimes, but the cat can rip! Cannonball Adderley is another killer alto player. For trumpet, Davis is obviously outstanding, but Dizzy Gillespie is not to be overlooked and Chet Baker and Winton Marsalis are greats in their own right. Oh yeah, that Louis Armstrong fella is okay too I suppose lol. For drummers Gene Krupa and Tony Williams are my favorites and are the reasons I begged my mom to let me take drum lessons only 6 months after starting sax, but there are so many other greats like Max Roach, Bill Evans, Elvin Jones, Buddy Rich, Jack DeJohnette, Chick Corea, Kenny Clark, etc. I’ll stop there before I lose you. When it comes to bass I have always dug Charles Mingus, Ray Brown, and Stanley Clarke for upright and Jaco Pistorius and Nathan East when it comes to modern bass guitar work.
I’ll leave it at that. I definitely got a little carried away, but it’s hard to narrow things down when it comes to a genre like jazz that’s literally packed with exceptionally talented musicians.
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Here we go…
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I remeber seeing the Album cover of ’Nevermind’ as a kid in my dads CD collection and going ‘wtf am I looking at’ 
Such a great album. I know you didn’t post it but Superunknown was a defining album to me as a young 20 year old kid that didn’t know a damn thing.
All classics to me - you just brought me back, brother. Jesus.
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Bought it then and it’ll always be close to my 
forever 
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What an era of music, my friend - I was born too late in my eyes! Haha
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That was probably said by every music lover ever tbh…Live stuff maybe…IOW and Woodstock would’ve love’d to have been there for sure 
but I did the Stonehenge 1984 festival so 
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