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Re: sound is so real it stops you in your track!

Posted by Mike M. on November 19, 2002 at 12:23:20

In Reply to: sound is so real it stops you in your track! posted by jazz1 on November 19, 2002 at 08:50:31:

Completely agree with the Chesky recs... most of my favorite sounding recordings are on Chesky. I love Paquito's Portrait of Cuba. I think New York Reunion with McCoy Tyner and Joe Henderson is still my all around favorite. Henderson's sax solos breathe and I swear you can even hear them reverberate off of the back walls of the studio, Piano notes are clear and soft and natural - no "plinky" sound that ruins so many piano recordings, Ron Carter's bass is pure and deep, and the same with Al Foster's drums - clean and undistorted. His cymbal work especially - every shimmery tone is completely three-dimensional. The most natural recording of a quartet that I can think of. I've been thinking of an SACD player (I wonder how the Marantz DV8300 SACD/DVD/CD player is? Looks like it may be interesting.), and I noticed recently that New York Reunion is on SACD now - perhaps all the motivation I need. A couple of Fred Hersch Trio's recordings on Chesky are also beautifully recorded, as are Badi Assad's. Johnny Frigo with Bucky and John Pizarelli Live From Studio A is also very natural sounding (and teriffic swing jazz too). A couple of other really wonderful souning recordings that come to mind are Union and State of the Union on the Naim label, both by the piano trio of Wertico, Torff, and Hobgood. Most of the music is slow paced, ethereal, but when you listen closely, you hear real depth and beauty, and the sound is exactly what you are looking for when you say "Stops you in your tracks". Again, particularly the acoustic bass, the cymbals, and Laurence Hobgood's piano. He's much more subdued on these recordings than on the typical Kurt Elling date, but still very expressive, imaginative, and articulate.

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