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| 645.1 | GRP = Good quality recordings | NATASH::WEIGL | Turboferrets - racing for answers | Wed Feb 18 1987 12:47 | 4 |
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GRP, in my experience, is excellent from an engineering standpoint.
I think that most of their stuff, if not all, is digitally mastered,
and is technically very, very well recorded.
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| 645.2 | | PHENIX::QUIMBY | | Wed Feb 18 1987 14:51 | 13 |
| re: .0
I can understand your irrational fear of Roulette, it's probably
from seeing thousands of "Golden Goodies, Vol. xx" in the vinyl
cutout bins (and not much else from them).
I have a record of Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, together
(piano with trumpet and/or vocal, plus sidemen) on Roulette, and
it's very good. I have read in a review that it has been
digitally reprocessed and released on CD, and they spoke well
of it.
dq
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| 645.3 | Tired of GRP? Try Bob James! | CASEE::CLARK | Ward Clark | Thu Feb 19 1987 18:36 | 10 |
| I was initially impressed by GRP CDs, but I've found that they didn't
hold their appeal. The recordings are wonderful, but the performances
(by Dave Grusin, Lee Ritenour, modern Glenn Miller Orchestra) seem to
be heavy on flash and light on substance.
Several of my Bob James recordings (on Columbia) have a similar sound,
but I find that I can listen to them over and over and they still sound
fresh and exciting.
-- Ward
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| 645.4 | ECM | STRATA::TBROWNELL | | Thu Feb 26 1987 11:37 | 5 |
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My favorite label for records as well as disks is ECM. I
feel they have the best possible talent that is being recorded
today.
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| 645.5 | Blue Note and Manhattan! | BETHE::LICEA_KANE | | Sat Feb 28 1987 18:59 | 19 |
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Capitol is *finally* getting more of the vast Blue Note archives
on CD.
Finally found Herbie Hancock's "Maiden Voyage". And yes, it is
"pseudo stereo" with piano and trumpet on the left and sax and
drums on the right, just as it was originally released.
This isn't to snub Blue Note's current crop of tallent at all,
but even there, Capitol didn't get very many Blue Note CDs out until
after Christmas.
I've also just started seeing some Manhattan CDs, another Capitol
jazz label, hit the streets. (BTW, the Manhattan CDs I've got are
made in Canada.)
-mr. bill
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| 645.6 | Roulette, Columbia, Denon, MPS | HUMAN::BURROWS | Jim Burrows | Sat Feb 28 1987 21:18 | 29 |
| My relatively small collection contains several jazz CDs that
I'm quite happy with. Two from Roulette are very good: "Basie"
(the "mushroom cloud" album), and "Basie in Sweden". The
first album has 2 etxra cuts not found on the vinyl and is
in a totally different order.
Two more from Columbia's Jazz Masterpieces collection: "First
Time! The Count Meets the Duke" and "Jazz Sampler--Volume One".
The sampler has convinced me to pick up a couple more real soon:
Benny Goodman's "Sextet" and "Carnegie Hall Concert". The sound
on "Carnegie Hall" isn't up to modern standards, but given that
it was recorded in '38 or '39, it is excellent, and you can't
beat the line-up. That concert was legendary for a reason. I
expect to pick up a couple more from the Jazz Masterpieces
collection like the Armstrong or Brubeck pieces.
"Long Live the Chief" by the Count Basie Orchestra (a new album,
and thus without the Count) from Denon isn't as good as many of
the Count's albums, but is DDD and over an hour, and on the
whole is a pretty good deal.
"Violin" Summit" from MPS brings together 4 of the top jazz
violinists which is a large fraction of good jazz violinists
there are. The four--Stuff Smith, Stephane Grappelli, Svend
Asmussen, and Jean-Luc Ponty--cover a pretty wide range of
styles. I enjoy the album, but jazz violin is not tremendously
popular, so you may not like it as much.
JimB.
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| 645.7 | Bluebird! | BETHE::LICEA_KANE | | Tue Sep 29 1987 23:24 | 11 |
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Time to come back here.
Bluebird is out! In force. Folks older than I don't need any
introduction to this label. For the younger crowd, pick up a piece
of jazz history.
(If you're looking for boring meticulously produced DDD discs, Bluebird
isn't for you. If your looking for some *music*, go for it.)
-mr. bill
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| 645.8 | Bluebird - -WOW | JAWS::LEVITT | | Thu Oct 01 1987 13:52 | 8 |
| re .7
More info please. All my bigband stuf is on Bluebird. I'd love
to replace my Fats Waller record.
Do you know what they'll release first?
Jeff
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