vinyl & shellac audio
Characteristic of the transistor 1970s is a dirty mid-range and a lot of compression in an attempt to correct the lack of clarity of the sound. The situation is leveled by the good bass and drums of When I’m a Kid and, of course, the unusual vocal of the young “Pop Pavarotti”, who pulls out the blurred tracks Goodbye my Love and Forever and Ever, which once became hits despite the thorough efforts of sound engineers.
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Lo-Fi, audiophile recording. King Cole’s vocals and grand piano are beautiful, the swing feeling is amazing: perfect pauses, accents, intonations. Many of these nuances would not be available on records if it weren’t for the gorgeous, live Capitol studio of the 1940s and its sound engeneers.
It is a rare case when the remastered recordings of the 1940s, made on the equipment of the 1970s, turn out to be quite listenable. Thanks to Capitol sound engineers, Nat King Cole swings and burns the jazz out!
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Lo-Fi, audiophile recording. Reissue of 1951, 10 ‘ English Brunswick LP from 78 rpm Decca originals of 1940s. A surprisingly pleasant record in the atmosphere, Hampton is not a virtuoso, but a vibraphone poet, what a touching version of “Time on my hands”he has! The sextet is excellent, no one interferes with the soloist, as is often the case in democratic jazz.
Strange trio without double bass: vibraphone (Hampton), grand piano (Art Tatum) and minimalist drums (Buddy Rich). Support from the bottom is clearly lacking, the two pronounced leaders Hampton and Tatum do not quite match each other in style, but the honey sound of Clef is quite delivering.
It turned out to be the only decent track from entire record. Vibraphone is perfectly played and recorded , which compensates for the mediocre sound of the other instruments. In general, the LP is quite strange, it sounds as if from the early 1950s. Sonny Rollins, a great saxophonist, improvised on this disc with such a mess, as if he was not allowed to sleep through after a good booze and tied one hand behind his back. Something had obviously gone wrong in the Atlantic. But the Medley still succeeded.
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An interesting LP. Forum is a budget label for sale in regular stores, recorded almost from a household reel-to-reel tape recorder — Little Pony even has an area with crumpled tape but they did not care. The record is from 1960, and it sounds like it’s from the first half of the 1950s, that is, it’s fuller and musically more honest than its coevals. Similarly, in the USSR, the flexible monophonic records of the magazine Krugozor were distinguished.