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Out-of-print for almost a decade, I was reminded during a recent listening session why I had to get QuietLand re-pressed. Mark’s super-soulful solos during our Ebony Brass date prompted this, our first jazz French horn session.
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A piano giant of the New York jazz scene for 40 years, John Hicks could break your heart with a ballad, sweep you off your feet with an anthem, or boot you into boogeyin’ with one of his cookers. And he had the rare gift of inspiring his sidemen to play beyond themselves. "One of Hicks' finest recordings," say Mike Joyce from JazzTimes.
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| JazzTimes says “an astonishing palette of sound from the unorthodox instrumentation...inventive and full of panache, with a dash of the experimental avant garde.” Led by a huge-sounding bass sax with a constantly changing mix of other gorgeously recorded reeds...
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The original 1974 LP was tenor sax giant Clifford Jordan's most legendary session. “...one of those very special dates on which every player strutted high fire and high polish, so much so that the record achieved classic status upon release,” recalls jazz critic Stanley Crouch.
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“Limpidly and absolutely beautiful, this is a wonderful recording that seems tailor-made for late-night listening...” according to Cadence. The iconic master of the piano ballad,Chris Anderson, takes six standards everyone knows and re-creates them as stunningly original and profoundly moving compositions—a must for anyone who loves the piano, whether classical or jazz.
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We put together 13 of our best sound, best music tracks to make a sampler that's real fun to listen to—everything from blues and R&B to gospel and jazz. There's a single thread that connects all these artists—they’re passionate about music.
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 A haven for music since 1986, Mapleshade is a mansion recording studio and label in the Maryland woods. Our more than 100 CDs encompass jazz, blues, classical, world music, country-bluegrass, gospel, rock and more.
We've developed audio upgrade products, first devised for our studio, that transform the sound of your home system--for a fraction of what it costs. Our innovative products make music sound strikingly better than you've ever heard. More Info
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| The Micropoint Heavyfoot is our very best sounding 2" diameter footer—but only for gear with flat metal or plastic bottoms. We discovered that the smaller the point’s inherent resonances, the sweeter the treble. So, to take advantage of the many components with hard flat bottom surfaces, I lowered the Micropoint’s point height to 1/15th that of the original Triplepoint (which was designed with points ¼” high to support both wood and hard surfaces). That radical lowering reduces the resonance amplitudes by 225 times! Set of Three: $185 plus shipping |
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You can't have a truly great home theater by just simply buying expensive equipment. Great picture quality—that is, vibrant color, superb image resolution and endless shadow detail—requires careful attention to each component's wires and each component's vibration mounting. Those are exactly the same technologies that dominate audio quality. Over the last 20 years we've found that Mapleshade's audio breakthroughs—whether in disc/media treatment, wire design, or vibration control--improve video quality just as dramatically.
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For the last 15 years a genius cartridge designer in upstate NY has been quietly turning out world-class cartridges. The first one I heard, the $580 SMMC-2, thoroughly trounced my beloved $2500 Lyra. I’ve spent the year since then evaluating the rest of Peter Lederman’s line. Same results: both at the low end and at the high end, his SoundSmith cartridges typically beat superb cartridges costing 3 to 5 times as much. That includes Dynavector, Ortofon, Benz, Clearaudio, Sumiko, Grado, Denon, Koetsu, Van den Hul, Shelter, Zyx and Lyra.
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