Archive for HDCD
Kansas City Saint-Saëns on Fanfare’s Want List
Fanfare critic Andrew Quint has named Michael Stern and the Kansas City Symphony’s Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 “Organ” to his 2016 year-end “Want List”: “San Francisco’s Reference Recordings, issuing musically worthy recordings in audiophile sound for more than three decades, continues its rewarding relationship with Michael Stern and the over-achieving Kansas City Symphony. This all-Saint-Saëns program is anchored by the well-worn “Organ” Symphony, played here with sure-footed metrical precision plus plenty of cinematic splendor. “Professor”…
Reviews for Yerba Buena Bounce
Check out what reviewers said of the original HDCD release of The Hot Club of San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Bounce: “…violinist Evan Price and guitarist Paul Mehling leapt into the stratosphere with flurries of notes… Price’s tone was sweet and plangent. And, oh, momma, is Mehling ever one fast-fingered guitarist. Whooowee, what runs, what flurries.” —Wes Phillips, Stereophile 12/2007 “It’s the synergies, combination of highly competent execution, accessibility and the fact that they swing harder…
Meet Sanch Electronix and Pete the Panstick
Sanch Electronix Managing Director, Simeon Sandiford For quite some time Reference Recordings has been distributed in Trinidad by Sanch Electronix. Managing Director Simeon Sandiford is a great friend of RR and especially of “Prof” Keith O. Johnson’s. Beyond distribution, Sanch also specializes in Steelpan music and is offering some exciting new educational software to teach Steelpan playing and history. With early releases from world percussionist Jim Brock to our latest release Brasileiro Soul featuring Reinaldo…
New Release – Brasileiro Soul
A New RR Recording Reinaldo Brahn Brasileiro Soul Reinaldo Brahn, vocals & acoustic guitar; Jim Brock, percussion; Tim Gordon, winds; Steve Kim, electric bass; Al Sergel, drums; Mark Stallings, keyboards; Dustin Hofsess, electric guitar; Jon Thornton, trumpet/flugelhorn Reference Recordings is proud to announce Brasileiro Soul, a Brazilian jazz/pop album from versatile singer/songwriter/guitarist Reinaldo Brahn. Reinaldo Brahn during the Recording Sessions This collection of fourteen original songs penned by this new artist is rich and complex…
New Release – Mike Garson and “The Bowie Variations”
MIKE GARSON The Bowie Variations RR-123 “Whatever Mike lends his hands to invariably becomes something magical.”–David Bowie. Beginning in 1972, super-versatile pianist Mike Garson performed, toured internationally and recorded with one of the most creative figures in popular music, David Bowie. Garson writes, “When I met David, I sensed that he was an immense artist and a songwriter with a flair for great melodies and unique harmonies. The Ziggy Stardust tour changed the course of…
Pied Piper – Video
We just put this up on YouTube, but thought you might enjoy it here as well!
Celebration Sale!!
We are having a celebration sale between now and May 24th! So to get you as excited about this as we are, we’re highlighting the items that you can save 15% on when you buy 3 or more! We’ve got releases encompassing all of our available formats in this sale. And today our featured sale item is a remastered HDCD! LETTERS FROM THE EQUATOR RR-56 – newly remastered with HDCD Master percussionist Jim Brock features…
Some Insight from Jim Brock
We recently released a re-mastered, HDCD version of master percussionist Jim Brock’s album “Letters from the Equator” and today we thought we’d share a brief statement from Jim Brock about the album: After the success of Tropic Affair, I was asked to make another recording for the San Francisco based label Reference Recordings. I thought how nice it would be to do a co-bill with the guitarist Van Manakas. Van and I were fortunate to…
Letters from the Equator – Original Customer Reviews
Since we’ve recently re-released a remastered version of Jim Brock’s album “Letters from the Equator,” we thought we would share some of the original customer feedback! “Brock Rocks”By Gerard Dionne “high eq” Jim Brock embodies the the first generation of American drummers who were as influenced by Third World Music (well before it was known as such) as by the music Boomers heard on the radio in the 50s and 60s. He’s a true master…
Jim Brock – After Sunrise
One of the best parts of remastering older albums in our catalog is the ability to “re-discover” these artists and albums! So today, we’re going to share another great Jim Brock video! Make sure to get your copy of the new Letters from the Equator album!
Letters from the Equator – Remastered
The Equator Redux LETTERS FROM THE EQUATORRR-56 – newly remastered with HDCD Master percussionist Jim Brock features the music of guitar wizard Van Manakas, with bass, drums, keyboards and winds. From the Tango stylings of Argentina to the celebrations of Brazil, LETTERS FROM THE EQUATOR, takes the armchair traveler on an exciting journey into the furthest regions a sound system can reproduce. “Prof.” Keith Johnson has made a new high-resolution digital transfer from the original…
Minoru Nojima plays Liszt!
Just wanted to share this video. Remember, we have re-released this album in HDCD format! Visit ReferenceRecordings.com to purchase these re-released albums of the great Minoru Nojima
President’s Day
It’s Monday, February 15th, and we are celebrating President’s Day here at Reference Recordings! How does one celebrate President’s Day? Marches and parades, of course! So, to help you celebrate, we’re presenting the perfect album for the occasion – Marches I’ve Missed conducted by Frederick Fennell! MARCHES I’VE MISSEDFrederick Fennell / Dallas Wind SymphonyRR-85 HDCD “Fennell catches cool dance rhythms, delicate neatness, and British propriety very nicely. The Dallas Wind Symphony and the engineering are…
HDCD Answers
Recently on Twitter, we got a great question about HDCD formats. So, today we thought we would post some helpful links for using and enjoying our HDCDs. This was the question: “regarding hdcd-is there a reccomended software solution for decoding hdcd content on a pc?” Here is a short answer: It seems that WMP does a partial job of decoding HDCD. WMP will work (only while playing a physical CD), it will not decode from…
Acoustic Sounds, Inc. Top Sellers List
Okay, so just to brag a little bit. We found out that on the Acoustic Sounds, Inc. website, they have all kinds of Top Sellers Lists. Well, we took a look at the Top 50 list for HDCD sales in the last 30 days just for fun, and found that 32 of the Top 50 HDCDs were all Reference Recordings Releases! And more importantly we are #1 & #2!!!!! Interestingly enough, the #1 selling HDCD…