In the Chicago Area. 1. First Great Place: The College of duPage radio station in the morning driving period of the day with (John) "Your British Buddy" and his playing repertoire. Incredible and since a few years ago, they powered up their wattage, it is easily heard all over Chicago. For a college to do this, this a geat gift to all Chicago. John also has a Big Band which plays around the area too. 2. Second great place: I saw them at the incredible "Club 43" on 1043 East 43rd Street as part of a Sunday Night Hyde Park Jazz Fest evening a few Sundays ago; and 3. Third Great Place: The Big Band that plays at Hackneys at 143rd and I think LaGrange Road the first Monday of each month is a group of former Beverly and Br. Rice players who have a band that has stuck together since high school. (Can't think of their name, used to be I think the "Big Band Machine.") They fill the place there every FIRST Monday of the year, and 4. Fourth Place: Anywhere the "Beverly All Stars plays: usually at a local venue in Beverly Hills in Chicago on Wednesday evenings. Bob Keeley, Chicago
Oh my God! A majority for CDs? Maybe for early jazz, yes. There is nothing like Count Basie's 1937 recordings on Hep's compilation "Listen And Ye Shall Hear". Or Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Sevens on CD. I must admit, too, Miles' "Walkin'" (1954) was incredible on CD.
But anything later, when the original quality is clearer, LP... there is no other answer! (Unless the voters thought the question meant, "What apparatus do you actually use to listen to jazz with?").
In the Chicago Area. 1. First Great Place: The College of duPage radio station in the morning driving period of the day with (John) "Your British Buddy" and his playing repertoire. Incredible and since a few years ago, they powered up their wattage, it is easily heard all over Chicago. For a college to do this, this a geat gift to all Chicago. John also has a Big Band which plays around the area too. 2. Second great place: I saw them at the incredible "Club 43" on 1043 East 43rd Street as part of a Sunday Night Hyde Park Jazz Fest evening a few Sundays ago; and 3. Third Great Place: The Big Band that plays at Hackneys at 143rd and I think LaGrange Road the first Monday of each month is a group of former Beverly and Br. Rice players who have a band that has stuck together since high school. (Can't think of their name, used to be I think the "Big Band Machine.") They fill the place there every FIRST Monday of the year, and 4. Fourth Place: Anywhere the "Beverly All Stars plays: usually at a local venue in Beverly Hills in Chicago on Wednesday evenings. Bob Keeley, Chicago
Oh my God! A majority for CDs? Maybe for early jazz, yes. There is nothing like Count Basie's 1937 recordings on Hep's compilation "Listen And Ye Shall Hear". Or Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Sevens on CD. I must admit, too, Miles' "Walkin'" (1954) was incredible on CD.
But anything later, when the original quality is clearer, LP... there is no other answer! (Unless the voters thought the question meant, "What apparatus do you actually use to listen to jazz with?").
Simon J Harper