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Jackie McLean – Demon’s Dance – Blue Note (Tone Poet) 180g Vinyl
Jackie McLean’s music weaved in and out of the avant-garde throughout the 1960s with the brilliant 1963 inside-out dates One Step Beyond and Destination… Out! eventually leading to full-throated free jazz of the 1967 dates New and Old Gospel (featuring Ornette Coleman on trumpet) and ‘Bout Soul. Demon’s Dance, which was recorded in December 1967, found the alto saxophonist maintaining a decidedly post-bop edge with a spirited quintet comprised of trumpeter Woody Shaw, pianist LaMont Johnson, bassist Scott Holt, and drummer Jack DeJohnette. The six-song set presented a pair of tunes each by McLean, Shaw, and composer Cal Massey with highlights including McLean’s churning title track, Shaw’s tuneful bossa “Sweet Love of Mine,” and Massey’s brightly swinging “Message from Trane” in tribute to the great John Coltrane who had passed away early that year. But the album’s most striking feature may be the unforgettable cover artwork by Mati Klarwein whose work also graced the cover of Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew.
Jack Wilson – Easterly Winds – Blue Note (Tone Poet) 180g Vinyl
The six-song set presented four Wilson originals including the groovy opener “Do It” and the sublime ballad “Nirvanna” in addition to a tender rendition of the Johnny Mandel tune “A Time for Love” and “Frank’s Tune” by Frank Strozier, which was recently reimagined by Makaya McCraven on his 2021 Blue Note remix project Deciphering the Message.
Furutech HF-X-NCF HDMI v2.1 HDMI Cable
Furutech’s new HF-X-NCF 48G 8K HDMI cable showcased in extreme gaming display at the TAA Hi-end show 2021. This gaming set up is powered and connected with Furutech products, taking the gaming experience to the next level.
Incorporates Furutech’s top anti-static resonance damping NCF material – eliminating electrical/mechanical vibration and static derived noise, increasing picture and sound resolution, boosting color vividness, and delivering blacker backgrounds. NCF features a special crystalline material that has two 'active' properties. First, it generates negative ions that eliminate static. Second, it converts thermal energy into far infrared. Furutech combines this remarkable material with nano-sized ceramic particles and carbon powder for their additional 'piezoelectric effect' damping properties. The resulting Nano Crystal² Formula is the ultimate electrical and mechanical damping material. Created by Furutech, it is found exclusively in Furutech products.
Verity Audio – Parsifal Anniversary Loudspeakers
1 set only piano black new and sealed
Was £29.995 Now £19,995
The Parsifal Anniversary is a floor-standing, single-tower, three-way, bass-reflex loudspeaker comprised of two isolated yet attached cabinets. All sides of the Parsifal feature beautifully curved panels that give this model a unique modern feel. The top cabinet features a proprietary neo ring dome tweeter and a wide-spectrum midrange. The bottom cabinet houses an impressive bass-reflex rearward woofer. Both cabinets are isolated by a constrained layer platform coupled with special elastomers and the bottom cabinet is floor-coupled via Verity’s Mechanical & Airborne Sound Isolation System (MASIS). The Parsifal Anniversary exhibits a high 91 dB SPL 1 watt/1 meter sensitivity and inherits from the best Verity Audio technologies.
AMG Viella V12 Turntable With 12Jt Tonearm
Herbie Nichols Trio – Herbie Nichols Trio (Mono) – Blue Note (Tone Poet) 180g Vinyl
Herbie Nichols was one of the most original pianists and composers in jazz history. Blue Note founder Alfred Lion considered him to be as unique and important a voice as Thelonious Monk, another singular talent who Lion was the first to record a few years before he signed Nichols in 1955. Little-known during his lifetime, recognition has begun to grow in recent decades for Nichols’ incredibly hip, angular compositions, each of which were miniature marvels built with their own sturdy inner logic.
Miles Davis – Sorcerer – MOFI 2 x 180g 45RPM Vinyl
MOOD, INFLECTION, AND NUANCE TAKE CENTER STAGE ON COMPOSITIONS STEEPED IN SOPHISTICATED EXPRESSIONISM
1/4″ / 15 IPS analog master to DSD 256 to analog console to lathe
Filled with aural magic and enchanting musical spells, Sorcerer is true to its name. The third of five albums devised by Miles Davis’ legendary second quintet – and the second record in a still-unprecedented string of eight consecutive releases within a four-year period that forever changed the face of jazz – the 1967 magnum opus mesmerizes with instrumental colors, subdued musings, and subtle details.
MCRU NNC RCA Interconnects
Designed and manufactured in our Yorkshire workshops, the NNC (no name cable) range has now been extended with this new RCA interconnect. Made to our own design and featuring Furutech locking RCA connectors we have established a new benchmark in high end cabling, the popularity of the NNC mains lead has proven this.
Just listen and be amazed, we are!
Big John Patton – Let ‘Em Roll – Blue Note (Tone Poet) 180g Vinyl
On 1967's Schizophrenia Shorter arrived at the pinnacle of post-bop and gazed out at the horizons around him. A current of the avant-garde already coursed through his music and the next time he would enter the studio for Blue Note would be for his 1969 fusion exploration Super Nova. But in this moment, he produced one of his most complete and stylistically diverse artistic statements with a sextet of like-minded musical adventurers, including James Spaulding on alto saxophone and flute, Curtis Fuller on trombone, Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter on bass, and Joe Chambers on drums. The six-song set of original compositions includes several of Shorter's most enduring themes including the unforgettable groove of "Tom Thumb," the evocative "Go," and the beautiful ballad "Miyako," as well as Spaulding's churning piece "Kryptonite."
Hana Umami Blue – Moving Coil Cartridge
Furutech Project V1 Mains Power Lead – MCRU Special Edition
One of the best power leads we have ever heard, special edition only available at MCRU
Furutech’s Top-of-the-line High Performance Power Cord - 1.5m length
Alpha OCC-DUCC Silver Co ated α (Alpha) OCC Conductors Featuring NCF & Special forged carbon fiber composite Materials The Project V1 power cord features special connectors, exclusive to this power cord: an IEC connector, UK connector and Cable Damping rings that incorporate Furutech’s special antistatic and antiresonance NCF material combined with special high-grade nylon insulation. The housing of the special IEC connector and Damping Rings are formed with 4-layer hybrid NCF carbon fiber finished with a special hardened clear damping coating. The IEC connector side conductors are formed with nonmagnetic rhodium coated α(Alpha) pure copper and the UK connector with nonmagnetic rhodium coated α(Alpha) copper alloy conductors . Both are secured in bodies insulated with Furutech’s special antistatic and antiresonance NCF material NCF allows for the transmission of pure uncoloured power delivering improvements in the depth and focus of the sound stage, harmonics, and tonal balance. Low frequencies are cleaner, with a greater sense of definition made possible by a lowered noise floor.
