Interesting fact… I spoke with Jeremy recently and asked about his live shows and he let me know they’ve recently replaced their trumpet player 
Do you mean he sounds as if he’s playing not into but slightly besides the mic?
No, I mean he’s out of tune.
Just listened…you’re right…it gets better at the higher notes, but yes.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. It was fun to make it.
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Which makes sense; the instrument tends to go sharper in the higher register. (There are higher notes which are exceptions. )
Yes, usually one has to care not to get out of tune upwards when in tune at normal levels and height 
But in jazz, where the take, not perfection in notes or both matters, we’re used to occasional out of tune more than in classical. If you want to hear classical out of tune in an unbearable way, try some Fone recordings with Salvatore Accardo
Have you come across the rather magnificent jazz trumpeter Matthew Halsall? With his brother he set up Gondwana Records mainly for Manchester UK musicians and it’s doing brilliantly. There are superb recording facilities in Manchester, the BBC’s state of the art Media City in Salford (also hired out to many independent labels). Halsall works at 80 Hertz.
Here’s a live recording at Halle St Peter’s (as in the Halle Orchestra - best known for its golden years under Sir Thomas Beecham, Sir Malcolm Sargent and Sir John Barbirolli).
Thanks for the hint, very good music!
I just got me a ton of his albums, also this live recording…something to listen to soon….
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Soundstage or static?
Had a few teething troubles getting my 24/88.2 WAV download to stream to my Oppo 205 player.
All I got was static.
Repeated the download zip file extraction - still static.
Converted the WAV files to FLAC files using foobar2000 - success Houston, we have audio!
Converted the FLAC files back to WAV files using foobar2000 - success again!
So I think there might be something odd about the way you’re generating your WAV files?
Musically, I’m now really enjoying the “being there” experience and getting a strong feeling of the spaces where the tracks were recorded.
(In some cases, as per the soprano with piano accompaiment, I wished I was somewhere else, but can’t fault the autheniticity.)
Overall, though, I have to agree with the OP’s observations about this being a benchmark in taking my system to to different places, in a good way!
Nice one!
Something that I think would be great for this album, would be to have an illustrated guide, with overhead and front views of where the performers are standing, and a schematic of the building. That way we can better tweak our systems to better match the settings.
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I think mostly the mixing of the soundstage has little to do with how the musicians were placed.
The biggest quest in this game is, why most drum sets are mixed too far left and right (at least one cymbal mostly too far from the rest), as they never appear in any real setting. That’s also the case on this album.
Realistic soundstages are very rare, effect focused soundstages are quite frequent.
One label with mostly realistic sounding soundstages is Chesky, they just mostly use large rooms with far away perspective (the same mic placement I guess), they don’t seem to vary this a lot.
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Important fact
The irony is that Pyramix has a plug-in called PanNoir that allows you to move each instrument around in the soundstage without phase issues.
Unfortunately I think it can only be used with multi-track DXD files, not DSD.
Even more puzzling is, that I have equipment which you can use to move soundstage (ok not single instruments) during playback 
Do you have this one? (I’m sure you do.)
It’s an all-analogue production, recorded live in France and then mixed at Konk Studios, a few minutes from here. Konk was set up by The Kinks in the early 1970s and is full of wonderful 1970s kit from the likes of Neve, Studer etc. By the looks of it, the place has barely changed in 40 years, save for the addition of digital kit.
The track “Tony’s Blues” has the most extraordinary wall-to-wall soundstaging with precise imaging. All with tape and no digital trickery!
Using a high output (2.2mV) SoundSmith Zephyr Mk3 for this one.
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It is nearly wall-to-wall, so to speak.
But the image has more depth than width in my system - not a lot happening wide/outside of the speakers.
Listening to a MQA recording via Roon/Tidal:
Really fun/great track though.
Thanks for sharing.
Cheers.
PS, really enjoying “Wolf Eats Wolf” as well…
SEE
After a violin sonatas concert last night, Afrobeat is a nice change in mood and this is a fine album. Not sure about listening with MQA, you need to do this on vinyl.
One of the more exciting gigs I went to was a Fela Kuti evening by Ezra Collective and a a superb 5 piece brass section, 4 of whom were female. Makes a change!
I have it indeed, quite good, not absolutely great from hires so far. Just bought the vinyl, didn’t know it’s AAA, will be interesting to compare!
This is the recording venue.
I think it was the last album he recorded before he died, and most of his later work seems to have been done in this studio, presumably because it was local to him in Paris. Again, lots of vintage gear.