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I nominate Columbia's Contemporary Masters Series #35342 "Unknown Session". I dont know the original engineer but the reissue engineer was Frank Brooks(no surprise). My recird is klabeled "For Promotion only. Ownership Reserved by CBS. (There arent enough people at ?CBS to take this record away from me.) Sale is unlawful."
The sound is so clear and detailed, so immediate that it is immersive and gripping. Beautiful music, of course.
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Got the "Mary Poppins" CD. Very underwhelmed, kind of schmaltzy. Will be giving it to my new granddaughter so she can be introduced to jazz and Disney."Vol. 9 of the Studio Sessions" is well worth the price of admission. Good sound and just excellent playing.
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Blues in Orbit.
Thanks! for sharing- Jack.
every once in a while, a promo slips under everyone's radar.
Next, would be both 'Anatomy of a Murder' & Masterpieces by Ellington'.
most of these are very good sounding discs. another would be blues in orbit released on Classic Recordings. i got mine for $30 and it sounds slightly better than the SACD of the same music that goes for about $100 and is OOP.
...regards...tr
Especially, This One's for Blanton.
Great strategy!! I've just uncovered a bunch of Ellington that I not only do not have , but that have good sound. (And I thought I had a great Ellington collection -60+ records and 75+ cds.) I prefer to stick to the music he and Strayhorn wrote and played. I've never been able to appreciate poetry to my regret, but his harmonies, especially those that you cant hum or whistle, are poetry to me.
Thanks, guys!
Great strategy!! I've just uncovered a bunch of Ellington that I not only do not have , but that have good sound. (And I thought I had a great Ellington collection -60+ records and 75+ cds.) Thanks, guys!
My faves are all from late 1920's-early 1930's.
Sounds old-fashioned at first, then normal,
after a week or so, everything else sounds, well, too modern!!!
Such Sweet Thunder always sounded good to me. Shame it was mono, not stereo.
I agree that Such Sweet Thunder has great sound - but it is available in a stereo version as part of Columbia's Legacy re-issues. Phil Schaap found stereo tapes that were set down at the same time as the mono recording and re-mastered them for the re-issue. I have both the earlier mono cd and the new stereo one and think that while the mono version is still quite satisfactory the stereo one is better - clearer and more integrated across the sound stage.
However - and this is a widespread gripe - Clerk Terry's marvellous 'Up and Down' which ends with his famous trumpet vocalisation of 'Lord what fools these mortals be' has been replaced with a different stereo take without that ending. The whole stereo Terry track is rather dull while the original mono one is an inspired work of improvisory genius. Schaap was so obsessed with stereo that he failed to include the Terry mono take in the re-issue while adding a number of additional stereo tracks that should have been left on the cutting room floor.
I have the stereo Such Sweet Thunder as part of the bargain 3 cd 'Original Album Classics' which also has 'and his mother called him Bill' and 'Far East Suite'. These are the Columbia re-issues with sound varying form good to excellent on different tracks. Marvellous
music but no liner notes except for the original album covers with text in very small print that refers to the original issues and not the re-mastered versions.
garf
I like volume 9 + 10 of the Private recording sessions, it is live, recorded by the great Wally Heider This set was recorded on 22nd July 1960 at Mather Air Force Base, and it was for a dance evening, thus lots of ambience, very dynamic and the musicians are just so relaxed.
Not only the sound is good but the playing is just out of this world,
Is this available on vinyl? I saw a CD version and the review for volume 9 & 10 was not favorable for performance or sound. I know Wally Heider recordings usually sound great. Would love to get this if available on lp. The review mentioned Live at the Bluenote on Roulette sounded better. Do you also have this recording? If so, could you please give your take? Sounds like another lp I need to find. Thanks in advance for your reply.
I do not think that it is available on vinyl.
It is a 10 cd's set and I particularly enjoy cd 9 and 10 for the relax way the musicians are playing, sure it maybe not the tightest Ellington performance but it gives us listeners something that just sound so real.
I can really imagine myself being there when listening to it.
The solos by Hodges, Hamilton and others are just marvelous.
There is lots of chatting by the musicians and some you can hear had a little too much, but it ads to the being there feeling.
As far a sound within my system in my room it sounds great, much much better than the Fargo recordings which I like but for other reasons.
I do use this recording sometimes for demo.
which was just another gig of many by a steady workin' band.
The Fargo recordings are great and you get over the sub standard
SQ quickly enough.
I need to break out the Private recordings (which I'm only lightly
familiar with) and spend more time with them.
Thanks!
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Just love the sound of that LP, it's got that big lush sound thing going ... gorgeous.I understand most, if not all, of the arrangements are Billly Strayhorn's, and oh so fine they are!
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Off the top of my head:
This One's for Blanton
And His Mother Called Him Bill
Mary Poppins
And all the ones already mentioned as for me there are no BAD Ellington recordings.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
The FIVE best Ellington albums I have ever heard all are A+++:
1. Hot Summer Dance (Red Barron Records)
2. Anatomy of A Murder (Columbia 6-Eye or Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs)
3. Count Meets Duke (with Count Basie Orchestra) (Columbia 6-Eye)
4. Ellington Indigos (Columbia 6-Eye)
5. Black, Brown, and Beige (with Mahalia Jackson) (Columbia 6-Eye)
..all of these recording come from that late 1950's, early 1960's Columbia 6-Eye time period where the sound was great. I WILL BRAG that the studios then used McIntosh amps in them (so IMHO, thier great sound is no wonder ) ;-)
Marty N.
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Nice sound
I agree. Even the turn-of-the-century CD sounds phenomenal !! I will, at some point, cough HARD up the money for the MoFi.
Marty N.
Marty-
is Anatomy on CD or SACD?
Not exactly an Ellington recording, but close: "Johnny Hodges with Billy Strayhorn and the Orchestra" on Verve Master Edition CD. Basically, this is Hodges and the Ellington band performing Strayhorn's remakes of Ellington hits. Great music and great sound.
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nt
The recent Analogue Productions release of this one of the best sounding LPs I own.
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