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Episode #177 - Author Michael Connelly on Music in the Harry Bosch Novels and TV Series Apr 14, 2020

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Michael Connelly writes crime fiction, and his character Harry Bosch loves jazz. We talk with Michael about how he decided what music Bosch liked, and how he uses music in the novels and TV series.

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Michael Connelly
The Murder Book Podcast
Sound of Redemption – The Frank Morgan Story
Music from Bosch playlist (curated by Amazon)
Bosch playlist (user created on Apple Music)
The house in Bosch
Bosch's stereo system (with a McIntosh 240 tube amplifier)
Apple Music Jazzzzzzzzz playlist

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Special Guest: Michael Connelly.

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Episode #176 - How to Stream Music From Your Home Apr 10, 2020

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A lot of musicians, suddenly faced with no opportunities for public performance, are opting to stream live from their homes. Andy Doe joins us to discuss what it means for all the musicians to have to build streaming studios in their homes from scratch, and gives tips on how best to set up cameras, lights, and microphones.

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Andy Doe

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Tim Cook's video
Rode NT-USB Mini, a small, inexpensive USB microphone with good audio quality
May Morning - Magdalen College
Impulse response reverb
Alex Ross's COVID-19 livestream list

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Episode #175 - Violinist Alina Ibragimova Apr 07, 2020

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We chat with violinist Alina Ibragimova, who is taking advantage of the lockdown to learn the Paganini caprices in her home in London.

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Alina Ibragimova
Alina Ibragimova on Hyperion Records
The Alina Ibragimova Violin Playlist on Apple Music

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Takemitsu: From Me Flows What You Call Time (CD); Berliner Philharmoniker & Yutaka Sado (DVD/Blu-Ray)
Zoë Keating: Into the Trees

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Special Guest: Alina Ibragimova.

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Episode #174 - Pianist, Composer, and Author Stephen Hough Apr 03, 2020

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In this episode, we talk with the pianist and author Stephen Hough, about how the lockdown is affecting him, how he has "the backside of a rhinoceros," and we discuss how classical concerts could change in the future.

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Special Guest: Stephen Hough.

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Episode #173 - Pianist Angela Hewitt Mar 31, 2020

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In the first of a number of out-of-band episodes that we're planning to release in the coming weeks, we talk with pianist Angela Hewitt, best known for her extraordinary recordings of all of Bach's keyboard works.

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Angela Hewitt
Angela Hewitt on Twitter
Angela Hewitt on Hyperion Records
The Angela Hewitt Bach Playlist an Apple Music
The Angela Hewitt Baroque Playlist on Apple Music

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Led by the hand (article about Murray Perahia's thumb injury)
Virtuoso mourns beloved £150,000 piano smashed by movers
Fazioli pianos
A Late Quartet

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Special Guest: Angela Hewitt.

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Episode #172 - Social Isolation and Music Mar 25, 2020

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These are difficult times for many people, who are now required to stay at home. Music can help us get through this. In this "two guys not in a pub" episode, Doug and Kirk reflect on social isolation and music.

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Episode #171 - Vintage Audio Gear Mar 11, 2020

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While there are lots of reasons to opt for minimal audio equipment, for some people there is an enduring allure for vintage stereo amps and receivers from the hi-fi heydays of the 1970s. The time when audio gear had knobs and dials and VU meters, like the fins and grilles on 1950s cars. We discuss our lust for those baroque audio devices of yore.

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Episode #170 - Miles Davis's Landmark Album Kind of Blue Feb 26, 2020

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Ashley Kahn wrote the book on Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, the jazz album everyone owns if they one at least one jazz album. We talk with Ashley about the recording of Kind of Blue, and about its legacy. (Apologies for the audio issues.)

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Episode #169 - The Environmental Impact of Vinyl Records, CDs, and Data Feb 12, 2020

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We talk with Kyle Devine, author of a new book about the environmental impact of music recordings, which raises a number of issues that we had never previously considered.

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Episode #168 - L'Affaire Sonos and Obsolescence in Audio Equipment Jan 29, 2020

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Andy Doe joins us again to discuss the perils of having software-controlled audio equipment. After the Affaire Sonos, when the company announced that a lot of its older products would become "obsolete," perhaps it's time to think more carefully about how long hardware we buy will last, when it depends on software.

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