birdland news 22/1/12 - apologies for the poor proof reading. Noticed the misspelling just as I hit the send button. Sorry Mr Cohen.
In stock now - 5 star review in Australian - Mike Nock's new album "Hear and Know"
SMH BEST JAZZ ALBUM 2011
Winner Paul Motian - Live at the Village Vanguard Vol III (W&W/Birdland).
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8/10/11
it was TWENTY years ago today.... Birdland opened in Barrack St on 8/10/91 !!!
wow - we made it to Twenty !! 4 moves, 2 ARIA's, a bakers dozen album releases and 20 years on the clock. A big thanks to all who've contributed in one way or another over the years: ex birdland workers, musicians, reviewers, promoters, record company folk, radio folk, - there are too many to mention by name. But we are especially grateful to you, the customer / client / friend for keeping us in a state of arrested development for the last twenty years.
Without your ongoing support we wouldn't be here and we would have to get proper jobs. So a big thanks to you. Keep on keeping on. Cheers
the crew
TOP 20 lists:
Kierans Top Twenty Turntable hits from the last 20yrs (in no particular order):
John Scofield - Hand Jive + just about every other album by Sco
Joe Henderson - So near so far
Cassandra Wilson - new moon daughter
John Grant - Queen of Denmark
Ben Webster - Soulville
Bill Frisell - Good dog happy man + just about every other album by Bill
Gillian Welch - the harrow and the harvest
Al Green - Lay it down
Herbie Hancock - River: The Joni letters
Jonathan Zwartz - The Sea
Mark Simmonds Freeboppers - Fire
James Muller - Kaboom
Derek Trucks Band - Songlines
Shelby Lynne - Just a little lovin'
Jimmy Scott - All the way
Paul Motian - Bill Evans
Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach - Painted from Memory
Bobby Womack - The Soul Years
Mike Nock - Touch
Prefab Sprout - A life of Surprises.
And few more on SACD:
Steely Dan - Aja
Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
Traffic - John Barleycorn must die
"It's not a best of list, it's just a list of stuff that's been played a lot at home." KS
Keiths Top 20:
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
Al Green - Lay It Down
John Zorn - Filmworks XVI: Workingman's Death
Anthony Hamilton - Comin' From Where i'm From
Eilen Jewell - Sea of Tears
Pat Metheny Trio - Live
Jolie Holland - Escondida
Kurt Rosenwinkel - Next Step
Rufus Wainwright - Poses
Jenny Scheinman - Shalagaster
Marisa Monte - Memories, Chronicles & Declarations of Love
Eliza Carthy - Red / Rice
Cassandra Wilson - Travelin' Miles
Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
Anouar Brahem - Thimar
Nick Lowe - The Convincer
Anat Cohen - Clarinetwork
Dave Rawlings Machine - Friend of a Friend
She and Him - Volume 2
John Shand's list:
20 BOXES BEGGING TO BE OPENED
1 MILES DAVIS & JOHN COLTRANE - THE COMPLETE COLUMBIA RECORDINGS 1955-61 - COLUMBIA
2 MILES DAVIS QUINTET - 1965-68 - COLUMBIA
3 MILES DAVIS - THE COMPLETE IN A SILENT WAY SESSIONS - COLUMBIA
4 MILES DAVIS - THE COMPLETE BITCHES BREW SESSIONS - COLUMBIA
5 MILES DAVIS - THE COMPLETE JACK JOHNSON SESSIONS - COLUMBIA
6 MILES DAVIS - THE CELLAR DOOR SESSIONS 1970 - COLUMBIA
7 JOHN COLTRANE - THE COMPLETE 1961 VILLAGE VANGUARD RECORDINGS - IMPULSE!
8 JOHN COLTRANE - THE CLASSIC QUARTET -COMPLETE IMPULSE! STUDIO RECORDINGS - IMPULSE!
9 STAN GETZ - THE COMPLETE ROOST RECORDINGS - ROOST
10 THELONIOUS MONK - THE COLUMBIA YEARS '62-'68 - COLUMBIA
11 KEITH JARRETT - MYSTERIES - THE IMPULSE YEARS 1975-76 - IMPULSE!
12 KEITH JARRETT - AT THE BLUE NOTE THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS - ECM
13 SONNY ROLLINS - THE BLUE NOTE RECORDINGS
14 BILLIE HOLIDAY - LADY DAY - THE COMPLETE BILLIE HOLIDAY ON COLUMBIA 1933-1944 - COLUMBIA
15 HERBIE HANCOCK - THE COMPLETE BLUE NOTE SIXTIES SESSIONS - BLUE NOTE
16 DEXTER GORDON - THE COMPLETE BLUE NOTE SIXTIES SESSIONS - BLUE NOTE
17 LOUIS ARMSTRONG PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN 1923-34 - COLUMBIA
18 JOHN ZORN - NAKED CITY - TZADIK
19 REV. GARY DAVIS - DEMONS AND ANGELS - THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION - SHANACHIE
20 JOHN MARTYN - 40 YEARS ON - AIN'T NO SAINT - ISLAND
Chris's list:
" I've picked 20 artists that over the last 20 years have had a big and enduring impact. The chronology is both relevant and irrelevant as you can read it top to bottom or bottom to top. The point is if you bought 20 cds by these artists you'd have a pretty nice collection and some idea of what has happened over the last 20 years".
20 Artists from 20 Years of Birdland:
2011 Sandy Evans
2010 Mike Nock
2009 Jonathan Zwartz
2008 Joseph Tawadros
2007 Gurrumul
2006 James Muller
2005 Tony Gorman
2004 Norah Jones
2003 Tomasz Stanko
2002 Tord Gustavsen
2001 Herbie Hancock
2000 Bernie McGann
1999 The Necks
1998 Miles Davis
1997 Bill Frisell
1996 John Zorn / Masada
1995 Casandra Wilson
1994 Keith Jarrett
1993 John Scofield
1992 Joe Henderson
1991 Mark Simmonds
and Gerry Kosters (ABC Jazz up late) Top 20:
"Here's 20 CD faves (in a jazz vein) from the last 20 years (in no particular order) new and recent re-issues .... "GK
Thomas Chapin - Alive (Knitting Factory)
Henry Threadgill - The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic Records)
Electric Masada - At The Mountains Of Madness (Tzadik)
Keith Tippett's Ark - Frames: Music For An Imaginary Film (Ogun Recordings)
Tomasz Stanko - Svantetic (ECM)
Jex Saarelaht Trio - Fridays, Late (Bennetts Lane)
Tiziano Tononi & The Ornettians - Peace Warriors Volume 1 & 2 (Black Saint)
Keith Jarrett - At The Blue Note/The Complete Recordings (ECM)
Nels Cline - New Monastery (Cryptogramophone)
The Necks - Aquatic (Fish Of Milk)
Sonny Sharrock - Ask The Ages (Axiom)
Naked City - Complete Studio Recordings (Tzadik)
Rabih Abou-Khalil - The Cactus Of Knowledge (Enja)
Wadada Leo Smith & Organic - Heart's Reflections (Cuneiform)
Masada - Live In Sevilla 2000 (Tzadik)
Edward Vesala - Lumi (ECM)
Alexander von Schlippenbach - Monk's Casino (Intakt)
Phil Treloar - Other Narratives Volume 2 (Feeling To Thought)
Charlie Munro - Eastern Horizons (Votary Records)
Miles Davis - Live in Europe 1967/The Bootleg Series Vil.1 (Sony)
nb - some these titles are out-of-print
Upcoming SHM SACDS from Japan include these:
latee January 2012 we will have the following on SHM SACD:
Rolling Stones - Some Girls, Exile on Main Street, Black and Blue, Undercover, Still Life
Queen - s/t, Queen 2, Sheer Heart Attack, A day at the Races, A night at the Opera and News of the World,
and more ...
and in late February 2012 these SHM SACDS:
Queen - Flash Gordon, The Game, Jazz
Oscar Peterson - Girl Talk, The way I really play, My favourite instrument
Anita O'day - Sings the most, At Mister Kelly's, This is Anita
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn
Dire Straits - Communique, Making Movies, Alchemy , Brothers in arms
SHM SACDS due late March 2012:
Queen - A kind of Magic, The Works, Hot Space
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
John Coltrane - Lush Life
Sonny Rollins - Tenor Madness
Modern Jazz Quartet - Django
+ more and more classical SHM SACDs
Coming soon:
50 Prestige hybrid SACDs including albums from Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Hank Mobley etc
and around 70 Verve hybrid SACD titles including this all time classic:
Ben Webster - Meets Oscar Peterson
and more titles from Ben Webster, Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald,Charles Mingus, Johnny Hodges .....
and three hybrid SACDS from the Doors, three from Ray Charles. two more Cat Stevens as well as a fantastic Sam Cooke - Best of - all on hybrid SACD
And ELO - Out of the Blue is rumoured to be coming to hybrid SACD sometime.......
Mobile Fidelity are going to reissue six Bob Dylan albums on hybrid SACD. Five of them have been issued on SACD before, four of those in multichannel :
Another side of , Blonde on Blonde, Blood on the tracks, Bringing it all back home, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan and The Basement Tapes
and also for MoFi:
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds - Hybrid SACD
We are now located @
# 3, Level 4
428 George Street (Dymocks Building)
Sydney, NSW 2000.
Phone : 02 9231 1188.
The new opening hours are:
Thursday 10am to 5.30pm
Friday 10am to 5.30pm
Saturday 9am to 4.30pm Scroll down for more information.
FYI:
We are now shipping twice a week from the USA, so the turnaround for new releases, stock and special orders is generally 4 days. Short of building another Concorde jet that's as fast as it gets !!
Welcome to Birdland Records*, we offer a huge range of jazz music cds from all around the world. We've probably got the most extensive range of Jazz Music cds in the country, if not the Southern Hemisphere. We also stock other music cds such as blues, soul, world and we have an extensive range of SACDs and we are probably the only shop outside of Japan to actually carry in stock a comprehensive range (ie nearly all) of the fantastic SHM SACDs releases. Audiophile heaven ! And most of the CDs, SACDS, LPs, DVDs listed on this site are actually in stock, not virtual. So, if you order we can usually dispatch within a day or so - not always, but most of the time. Twice weekly shipments from overseas means it's a 4 day turn around for most orders. Clicks and mortar as they say. And we have lots of nice vinyl LPs on labels like Mobile Fidelity, Venus, Classics, Speakers Corner in stock as well.
On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday we concentrate on the Website and our Mail Order service. However, web orders can be collected in person between 12-2 on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. You must email or phone in advance to let us know you're coming in so we can confirm your order is ready to be collected and to ensure that someone is actually here. Orders can be placed on the website and collected at the store rather than posted if you'd prefer.
So next time you are in Sydney come and visit us at 428 George
Street. If our opening hours don't fit with your trip please call or
email in advance and we'll see if we can accomodate you.
* We are a record shop (remember those ?) and sometimes a record label too.
And it's a shop with a decent sound system - Marantz sacd, Meridian amp, Rogers LS4 speakers.
Music not crappy compressed stuff.
FYI:
If you can't find something on our site it does not necessarily mean that we don't have it, so please call or email if you are looking for something that's not listed here. Chances are we can get it or it might even be in stock. Finding hard-to-get albums has been our speciality for almost 20 years now so if you don't see it here, please ask us
To search our site - just type SHM SACD in the search field and it will bring up a complete list. Most are in stock or on the way.
NB
As all SHM SACDs are limited editions don't delay in ordering.
They'll be twice as expensive on ebay next year !
SHM-SACD (Super High Material SACD) is the ultimate Super Audio CD that utilizes the materials and technologies that were developed for the SHM-CD to further enhance the audio-resolution. These discs are made with polycarbonate developed for the screen of the liquid crystal display. As it has a higher transparency, players can read the signal more faithfully. What works wonders for a low resolution format such as CD offers even greater sonic improvements in a real high resolution format that is SHM SACD.
- Two-channel SACD layer only, to secure enough reflectance and not to compress DSD file.
- Label of the disc is printed with a special green ink called 'Onsho Shiyou,' which minimizes diffuse reflection.
- Carefully selected master audio is used, from existing DSD files to newly converted from analog tapes.
We've now got some sound and vision on the site!
Check out some of the great clips we've added.
Contact us if you have any queries. Our friendly staff are always happy to assist.
Pricing: Prices are subject to change without notice. Our website prices change constantly, usually, but not always, downwards. In stock items will ship at the advertised price but if an item is out of stock the price may change due to fluctuations in the exchange rates. We will contact you if the price increases.
