Something a bit different today… a masterpiece originally split across 4 sides of the black stuff… presented today with the 20th anniversary remaster on CD from 2007… and blue sky (of sorts) outside too!

Continuing with the @bluenoterecords.bsky.social vibe with Hank Mobley and The Classic Blue Note Collection 1955-1961 streaming via Qobuz…

Start of a new week, bit of job hunting whilst checking out Jazz Message #2 via Qobuz HiRes.. featuring, amongst others, the dulcet instrumental tones of Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Donald Byrd, Hank Jones…

Back to slate grey skies and a chill breeze from the north… oh the vagaries of British weather… nice and warm in thankfully , so Craven Faults are the CD of choice first up with 2023s Standers…

Greeted by glorious blue skies this AM but the first chill wind of autumn cuts right through you… so time for a brew with Yello & Toy in HiRes via Qobuz…

With the remnants of Storm Benjamin whipping up the autumnal leaves outside, I’m staying put in the warm and dry with Ryuichi Sakamoto’s album Opus in 24/96 via Qobuz…

Second system fired up for the arrival in the post of the new @theorblive.bsky.social album Buddhist Hipsters…

Final bit of jazz before my culinary skills are put to the test with prep for Sunday lunch… Cannonball Adderley and Milt Jackson with Things Are Getting Better…

Can’t beat a nice bit of sax on a Sunday morning… with Hank Mobley’s 1962 Workout on CD…

Tea, toast and the Sunday jazz club is in session, with Art Pepper & Sonny Redd - Two Altos from 1959…

First brew of the weekend… shared with Charles Mingus - Mingus at Monterey via Qobuz HiRes…

Different type of Sunday session this week.. stripped back melancholic beauty of Mark Hollis’ solo self titled work from 1998…

Blowin’ a gale out, so what better excuse is there to fire up the main system and play some new Jazz… Village of the Sun with First Light via Qobuz HiRes..

If there is one @chrisreamusic.bsky.social album I’d spin once a week to the day I depart this mortal coil, Road to Hell would be the one… loud!

It’s Sunday.. so time for a bit of jazz… with Grant Green and his 1963 offering Feeling the Spirit

I’m a wee bit late with me Sunday Jazz session, so I’d better fix that…main system fired up and ready to go…

Haunting… Vangelis with the Blade Runner soundtrack… @qobuz.bsky.social

Sunday morning jazz time with the second system, nice bit of Miles Davis and the @qobuz.bsky.social 55 The Prestige Recordings in 24/192…

First brew for the day and streaming Looking Ahead by Ken McIntyre & Eric Dolphy via @qobuz.bsky.social - great way to start the day 🤗

Discovered Jack Johnson… 50p a CD from a local charity shop, seemed rude not to pick them up and jolly glad I did.. ☀️

Nice bit of remastered 1983 album Crises from @mikeoldfield.bsky.social

Been lent a vintage Sony TA-5650 V-Fet integrated which is sounding mighty fine with the Omar Skinner CR501 monitors…

Back in the office with the 2nd system whilst hunting for gainful employment… a second pair of Omar speakers to complement the magnificent CR501s are providing the soundtrack.. these smaller 850’s sound mighty fine too… 👍

Lovely bit of John Scofield with Uncle Johns Band on the ECM label via @qobuz.bsky.social for a Sunday AM on the main system…

Delivered today, remastered /reissue of Yello and their 2009 release Touch Yello

Bit of @qobuz.bsky.social streaming this AM.. with the dulcet tones of Youn Sun Nah album Immersion in 24/48

Today’s Jazz discovery is a 25p charity shop find CD, Ella Fitzgerald with The Best of the Song Books: The Ballads on Verve…

Nothing like dubbing thy neighbours on a Saturday.. double vinyl mixed by Gaudi and giving the bass drivers on my Yammie NS1000Ms a work out 👌

Bit of @qobuz streaming this Sunday morning on the second system… the dulcet tones of Astrud Gilberto with Stan Getz in 24bit/96khz, Live at Cafe Au Go Go in 1964…

Job hunting Monday… whilst spinning Kenny Burrell & the Jazz Guitar Band with Pieces of Blue and the Blues @bluenoterecords.bsky.social CDP7-90260-2

After a trip to the excellent @TenPinRecords in Purley yesterday, todays Sunday session consists of a 1987 French repress of The Fabulous Fats Navarro Volume One on @bluenoterecords.bsky.social 81531

So much music and never enough time… what a lovely quandary 😋

Fired up the vinyl front end with delivery of a new @StackAudio Serene turntable mat, not that I need any excuse to play the 2009 remaster of @Kraftwerk and Tour de France…

Absolutely filthy, cold and wet out, so preparing Sunday lunch with the RVG remaster of the Horace Silver Quintet’s “The Tokyo Blues” to keep me company…

Back to the main system and time to revisit the Tomasz Stanko Quartet 2006 ECM CD release Lontano…

Bit of a Sunday morning chill on the second system with a nice bit of Ike Quebec’s 1961 release Heavy Soul… RVG remastered edition on CD from 2005…

Back in the “office” this morning… but looking for a new employment venture for 2025 as my time looking after the London franchise of EmporiumHiFi comes to an end…

Back to a full Yamaha front end.. the Luxman amp is heading to pastures anew and my trusty Yamaha AX1050 is back doing what it does well… simply pushing the NS1000M with effortless ease… it’s a real giant killer of an amp 👍

It’s chucking it down outside… so time to fire up the main system and streaming some Maurizio via Qobuz… my custom finished Yamaha NS1000M’s are back and sounding mighty fine…

Not a sight often seen, certainly can’t remember the last time we’ve had roses in December… 😮

Working in my main music room with a bit of Ike Quebec drifting through the first chill of winter…

More stock has just arrived and is being tested this morning… any excuse to play some tunes ☺️

Nice bit of jazz on a Sunday morning…

Chilling with the demo system for a change tonight.. Accuphase and Sonus Faber sounding mighty fine too…

Bit of jazz for the Saturday afternoon sesh… Don Sleet with All Members

Big change in my main system, after 7 years of happiness, my trusty Accuphase E306 amp had been replaced with a Musical Fidelity M3 integrated and it’s M3 psu.. wow, what an improvement!

View from the “office” on this fine, clear but bloody cold Monday morning 🥶

Filthy as sin out again… so not only time for a brew, but as Mr Postman stuck a Yello CD through the letterbox… it’d be rude not give it a spin 😎

It’s Saturday folks.. miserable as sin out, but streaming a few tunes before heading out on a HiFi mission of mercy and then a chill with some HiFi buddies