Strictly Jazz Sounds (Part 1)

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Everyone of them had to be returned at least once, Lush Life twice. In each instance the vinyl was warped. More trouble than it is worth IME. Wish I had your luck.

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A bit of a surprise as the CD leaflet does not acknowledge it as stereo or mono for that matter. Yet Kenny is hard left, drums hard right.

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Oh you had to return the One Step’s, too? How unfortunate. How did you like the lush life compared to the AP 45 if you have both?

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I didn’t have to return the AP 45 :lying_face:, and did not do a head on comparison.

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This is the 2016 SHM-CD reissue. Nice sense of space. Pleasant enough, but no fire here.

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Ok, I thought if you buy the second expensive Craft reissue, you compare :wink:

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I didn’t make systematic CD comparisons, but when I read what people like Steve Hoffman write, it seems ordinary OJC reissues are usually much closer to the original master than any Japanese one. But I understood that Japanese reissues are especially popular in the US (home of the original masters) for whatever reason :wink: People always seem to prefer what’s most uncommon and hard to get. But there are good SHM masterings also in my experience.

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Just an amazing event.

CARMEN McRAE & BETTY CARTER: The Carmen McRae - Betty Carter Duets, Live at the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco

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Art Pepper - The Croydon Concert
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Released this year as part of the “Forever Chick Corea’ series. Apparently there will be 17 titles in all, but discogs currently only lists 12. Interestingly, it looks like there are some ECM tittles being reissued as part of the series.

I also picked up “Circling In’ and “Song of Singing’, my lp copies are beat.

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I grabbed those three and also Return to Forever SHM-SACD. These represent my favorite Chick along with the two solo piano ECM titles.

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It will be interesting to see what the remaining 5 titles will be.

It’s great that they included the ‘Circle’ material, I don’t think Circulus and Circling in were available on cd before.

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Streaming it right now. Fantastic album. Placed an order for AP’s SACD.

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Very nice LP

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Interesting fusion of so many genres!

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That’s not good enough–which format and version? :slight_smile:

I’m into the MoFi SACD these days.