Donald Fagen The Nightfly (DVD-Audio 24/48 DTS 6-Channel rip)
1982/2002 | Genre: Jazz | DVD-A Rip 24-bit/48kHz 5.1 Channel DTS Surround | FLAC+HQ scans | 1.1GB
1982/2002 | Genre: Jazz | DVD-A Rip 24-bit/48kHz 5.1 Channel DTS Surround | FLAC+HQ scans | 1.1GB
| “ | I use this album as standard for evaluating and adjusting audio gear. The music has such depth and quality it can be used to calibrate to the highest standards. After 25 years I get the album better now than I did as a Steely Dan fan in college. It's really the voice of a 40-something remembering his adolescence and young adulthood in the 50s and 60s. Fagan's lyrics and vocals are funny, ironic but also really heart-on-the-sleeve wistful in ways I never heard when I was a kid. The music holds up, too -- better than I would have expected, and arguably better than late Dan (certainly better than the whiny "Gaucho"). The sound is kind of a surrealistic time capsule -- some of the finest musicians on the planet (Jeff Porcaro, Valerie Simpson, Larry Carlton, the Brecker Bros. etc.) playing ultra-slick 1982 arrangements to lyrics gently poking fun at the 50s beat generation. The saxophone solo on "Maxine" (Michael Brecker I think) by itself is worth the price of admission. Ask those who follow the music industry closely and they will tell you that Donald Fagen's "The Nightfly" is clearly one of the great albums of the last 25 years. Currently there is an artist on the music scene named Norah Jones who has gained some fame with a retro/jazz sound. While Jones does a nice job on this, Fagan does it even better on this album. Donald Fagen's "The Nightfly" brings the jazz/blues sound to the forefront, but takes it a step further. "The Nightfly" also is a concept album. In the CD's liner notes, Fagen says that the songs on this album "represent certain fantasies that might of been entertained by a young man growing up in the remote suburbs of a northeastern city during the late fifties and early sixties". When you listen to the songs on this collection, you will easily see how the theme flows through - and as a result, this enhances the listening experience. Amazon review | ” |
Artists:
Donald Fagen, organ, synthesizer, harmonica, horn, keyboards, electric piano, vocals, background vocals, synthesizer harp
Dave Bargeron, trombone, euphonium, horn, background vocals
Michael Brecker,tenor saxophone
Randy Brecker, trumpet, flugelhorn
Larry Carlton, guitar
Ronnie Cuber, horn, baritone saxophone
Rick Derringer, guitar
James Gadson, drums
Anthony Jackson,bass
Steve Jordan, drums
Steve Khan, acoustic guitar
Hugh McCracken,guitar, harmonica
Rob Mounsey, synthesizer, horn, keyboards
Paul Shaffer, organ
plus additional artists, listed in the scanned material
Tracks:
1. I.G.Y.
2. Green Flower Street
3. Ruby Baby
4. Maxine
5. New Frontier
6. Nightfly
7. Goodbye Look
8. Walk Between Raindrops
Recorded 1982
DVD-Audio released 2002 (out of print)
Donald Fagen, organ, synthesizer, harmonica, horn, keyboards, electric piano, vocals, background vocals, synthesizer harp
Dave Bargeron, trombone, euphonium, horn, background vocals
Michael Brecker,tenor saxophone
Randy Brecker, trumpet, flugelhorn
Larry Carlton, guitar
Ronnie Cuber, horn, baritone saxophone
Rick Derringer, guitar
James Gadson, drums
Anthony Jackson,bass
Steve Jordan, drums
Steve Khan, acoustic guitar
Hugh McCracken,guitar, harmonica
Rob Mounsey, synthesizer, horn, keyboards
Paul Shaffer, organ
plus additional artists, listed in the scanned material
Tracks:
1. I.G.Y.
2. Green Flower Street
3. Ruby Baby
4. Maxine
5. New Frontier
6. Nightfly
7. Goodbye Look
8. Walk Between Raindrops
Recorded 1982
DVD-Audio released 2002 (out of print)
IMPORTANT INFORMATION...PLEASE READ!
This is a rip of the original 5.1 24/48 6-Channel DVD-Audio to 6-channel wave files, compressed with FLAC. Burn to DVD using your favorite authoring software (I use discWelder CHROME). I must notify you in advance about watermarked DVD-Audio. This rip has been burned and successfully tested on three of my DVD players (Panasonic, Marantz and Oppo), but due to the inherent watermarking of DVD-A, a few DVD standalone models may not play them. You can, however, play ripped and watermarked DVD-Audio on your PC with no problems.
So that you may test the process without downloading the entire 1.1GB rip, I've uploaded a single 24/48 6-channel test file of Track 2 to Rapidshare -- http://rapidshare.com/files/255915108/DonFaNight_testfile.rar-- that can be burned to DVD using a DVD Audio authoring program. If it plays on your DVD player without stopping after 15 or 20 seconds, the entire DVD-Audio will play without a hitch and you can download all the files in the main link below with confidence and enjoy the phenomenal sound provided by DVD-Audio.
http://rapidshare.com/users/AQI9DN
Hopefully someday we'll see the whole Nightfly Trilogy up here :)
@namrats417 & cdfreako: you guys read my mind; planning on upping the rest of the Trilogy as soon as I have time to prep it.
Is this your rip?
To me this still sounds somewhat worse than the first 2.
@corporalcoriander
I'm listening this at my PC with AIMP2 (free and great player).
I have great HD sound kart 7.1, connected with 5.1 speakers.
This sounds great, but it is impossible to enjoy this beautiful sound in two channnels.
So check your PC if you can connect 5.1 speakers.
But it's from a very sincere place in my heart.
Thank you......so much!
:-)
S'Efxaristo Poli.
Every Oppo model does splendidly with virtually anything you throw at it, including second-generation watermarked DVDs. "The Nightfly" hi-def extraction sounds especially spectacular, thanks to Mr. Van Pelten's generous contribution.
I don't want to be against the mainstream here but for me the LP sounds better then this, altough, highly equilibrated multichanel DVD-A.
I had a similar experience with my multitrack SACDs of Miles Davis that presented the same problem in reference to the same vinyl releases. I'm curious if VanPelten has the Nightfly as vinyl too (played with his excellent Zyxel cartridge) and compared it to this DVD-A?
I don't have a multichanel audio system maybe it depends on it?
My favorite Nightfly stereo version is a Japanese Warner/Pioneer import LP, P-1126. I've listened to it extensively on my system, the Zyxel/Schroder/Linn combo being among the 9 Wonders of the World, IMHO. So when I bought Nightfly DVD-audio, I was immediately prompted to do some comparisons on straight-out stereo with analog out (setting the 983 and 8002 to downmix 5.1 to stereo), listening through my KEF 207/2 Monitors. My conclusion was that the DVD-a sounded a bit more focused and detailed, with not a touch of harshness. On multi-channel (PSB Synchrony and Imagine speakers, front, center & rear) this DVD-a is a dazzling tour de force of what DTS and Dolby surround can bring to the party when done correctly. It's all pretty subjective, however, and may also depend on which/whose LP pressing one has. I hope you get a chance to listen to this in surround...the bass is staggeringly good and deeper (not louder!) than that on the LP.
Cheers...
VP
Disc Welder Chrome II dosn't recognize flac files, so I had to decompress them to .wav
Thanks again for great post. Cheers
BTW, you can use DigionAudio2 to create a menu driven DVD-Audio disc with these wav files.
http://avaxhome.ws/software/software_type/multimedia/Converters/digionaudio2_reloaded.html
Muchas gracias !!!
Thank you so much!!