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Editorial for July 2011
Welcome to Adobe GoLive 6 To be one of the dozen AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers during this month who will receive two great SACD albums from Opus 3 Records, you need to register this month using our simple non-intrusive email-protected form Here. We reviewed “Best of Omnibus Wind Ensemble Here. It contains 19 selections by this award-winning wind ensemble, including music of Bizet, Rossini, Mozart and others. The “30th Anniversary Celebration Album” presents 19 tracks from various Opus 3 SACDs, chosen for their musical value and three-dimensional listening experiences by their award-winning studio recording engineer Jan-Eric Persson. Included are folk performer Eric Bibb, jazzmen Lars Erstand, Kenny Davern and Benny Waters, The Stockholm Guitar Quartet and the Global Percussion Network. The dozen winners will be announced here in early August. Here are the winners of the two Putumayo jazz compilations we offered last month – Jazz Legends & Women of Jazz. Congrats to all!: Steven Allen, Austin TX; Howard Feder, Bensalem, PA; Terry Qualman, Sand Springs OK; Allan Gruskoff, Pasadena CA; Doug Lambert, Medlothian VA; Sally Wess, Titusville PA; Paul Emery, Ellsworth KS; John Hawkridge, Berkeley CA; Flash Ryan, Davenport FL; Wayne Wehrspann, Jenks OK. EDITORIAL AUDIOPHILE AUDITION began in […]
Editorial for June 2011
Welcome to Adobe GoLive 6 To be one of the ten AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers during June who will be receiving the two great jazz albums from Putumayo World Music, you need to register this month using our simple non-intrusive email-protected form Here. (We reviewed both jazz albums Here.) 12 jazz legends are heard on the Jazz album, including King Cole, Louis Armstrong, Chet Baker, Mose Allison and Billie Holiday. Ten extraordinary female vocalists are on Women of Jazz, including Cassandra Wilson, Madeleine Peyroux and Stacy Kent. Many of the recordings have been remixed and remastered for enhanced fidelity. The ten winners of the two CDs will be announced here in July. Here are the ten lucky winners of the Dado Moroni Blu-ray concert video from Resonance Records – which was our drawing/giveaway for May on the site: Jeffrey Tinkelman, Jersey City NJ; Marco Valtorta, Chapin SC; Gerald Porzio, Brooklyn NY; Ralph A. Mazzeo Jr., Port Chester NY; Greg Walters, Kingwood TX; Robert Beck, Memphis TN; Louis Fischer, Washington DC; Jann Dougherty, Henrico VA; Stefan Tedjakusuma, Castro Valley CA; Tom Grisham, Washington MO. GUEST EDITORIAL: Discs vs. Downloads by Mark Waldrep, Ph.D. , founder & CEO of AIX Records Discs vs. […]
Editorial for May 2011
Welcome to Adobe GoLive 6 To be one of the AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers during May who will receive the free Resonance Records jazz Blu-ray concert by the Dado Moroni Trio, you need to register this month using our simple non-intrusive email-protected form Here. We reviewed the Blu-ray Here. The varied program draws from all corners of the jazz liturgy, and Moroni performs on a rich-sounding piano from his homeland, a Fabrioli, reproduced in uncompressed PCM stereo. The winners will be listed below in June. Here are the lucky winners of the two LINN hybrid SACDs we awarded in our April drawing – Jazz vocalist Ian Shaw and "Trumpet Masques": Brent Wilson, Columbia SC; Mike Long, Hampton Cove AL; Bill Franklin, Harelysville PA; Benjamin Wilkes, Pasadena CA; Chuck Gerlach, Roswell GA; Erich Meyer, Poulsbo WA; Frank Poiesz, Jamison PA; T.M. Tate, Bellevue WA; Chuck Story, Grand River OH; Ed Lindsey, Olympia WA. Be sure to register now for your chance in this month’s drawing. EDITORIAL AUDIOPHILE AUDITION began in 1985 as a weekly national radio series hosted by John Sunier, which aired for 13 1/2 years on up to 200 public radio and commercial stations coast to coast. In […]
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