Rooster_Ties Posted May 27, 2004 Report Posted May 27, 2004 If you could snap your fingers and GREATLY improve the sound quality of any one single recording, what would you pick??? >> A particular bootleg that you love, despite the fact it really sounds like crap?? >> A great commercial recording that has just never been issued on CD with decent sound, for some weird reason or another?? (Maybe it's only been released on CD one time, in the late 80's, and is REALLY overdue for a remastering job.) >> Or a great commercial recording that they just plain f*cked up in the first place, so much so that even the original vinyl sounds like crap -- but you love the recording never the less. (Or maybe some category I'm overlooking.) What would you pick??? Me?? Maybe this... I've never heard the vinyl, but I'm told the sound quality of it is pretty much just as bad as the it is on CD. I doubt we'll ever hear this album with any better sound, but if I could 'snap my fingers' -- oh to hear Woody and Tyrone on a truely 'progressive' date, with really clear sound. PS: Your choices don't have to be jazz. Quote
Eric Posted May 27, 2004 Report Posted May 27, 2004 good choice Rooster - that one does sound like crap - I have the lp and don't recall it as being too much better a couple of (former) boots: Max Roach and Clifford Brown at the Bee Hive in Chicago - burnin' music, really crappy sound Charlie Parker at the Pershing (on CD from Savoy), also in Chicago, with George Freeman on guitar - he is Von's brother - he has a very distinctive tone and way of phrasing and I would love to hear it come through better just about everything Bud Powell did from the bop era Quote
Jazzmoose Posted May 27, 2004 Report Posted May 27, 2004 Talk about confession time... Tom, if I could just snap my fingers, I'd be so happy I wouldn't care! I always felt this was some huge personal defect... Quote
brownie Posted May 27, 2004 Report Posted May 27, 2004 The 1941-1942 Lee and Lester Young band broadcasts from LA clubs. And there may be more than what's appeared so far. Sound of what was released is awful. The music? Well, it's the Prez! Quote
AfricaBrass Posted May 27, 2004 Report Posted May 27, 2004 I don't know if this is stretching the idea too much, but I'd probably go for something recorded from the 20's to the 40's before modern recording techniques. I mean if this a magic, snap your fingers kind of thing, I'd love to hear the contents of the Bix Mosaic sound exactly as it would if I was hearing it live. It be amazing to hear the Armstrong Hot 5's in realistic sound, or the Ellington Blanton-Webster band... I'd also love to hear some of those early BeBop jam sessions is perfect sound. Quote
Eric Posted May 27, 2004 Report Posted May 27, 2004 Talk about confession time... Tom, if I could just snap my fingers, I'd be so happy I wouldn't care! I always felt this was some huge personal defect... LOL Quote
king ubu Posted May 27, 2004 Report Posted May 27, 2004 Cecil Taylor - Nefertiti (though the 1997 Revenant release was, it seems, already a huge step in the right direction). The Monk/Coltrane/Abdul-Malik/Haynes tape. Tons of pre-fifties music, of course (although I'm only starting to really enjoy that stuff, but hell, imagine, for instance, hearing the Lester KC dates in contemporary sound quality!!) Julius Hemphill's "Coon Bid'ness" (or however that should be spelled). The Dameron broadcasts with Fats Navarro. ubu Quote
king ubu Posted May 27, 2004 Report Posted May 27, 2004 The 1941-1942 Lee and Lester Young band broadcasts from LA clubs. And there may be more than what's appeared so far. Sound of what was released is awful. The music? Well, it's the Prez! Just a little bit north of South Carolina... (or was it the other way round?) Good call! ubu Quote
Indestructible! Posted May 27, 2004 Report Posted May 27, 2004 SNAP! The Buddy Bolden cylinder..... Damn, he sounds just like Wynton! Cheers, Shane Quote
Dan Gould Posted May 27, 2004 Report Posted May 27, 2004 There's an LP (still available at Cadence, BTW) on VGM records, Nancy Wilson Sits in with The Three Sounds. Nancy sounds flat out horrible because of massive tape saturation on her microphone input. Totally unlistenable, so if I could snap my fingers, that would be a good one to "fix". BTW, its still a worthwhile LP (especially for $6!)-half the record is just the trio, and they sound fine. Quote
Eric Posted May 27, 2004 Report Posted May 27, 2004 The Monk/Coltrane/Abdul-Malik/Haynes tape. ah yes ... top 'o the list! Quote
Eric Posted May 27, 2004 Report Posted May 27, 2004 there is a Wes Montgomery lp/CD, also on VGM - from a live date in St. Louis around 1961 - I would *love* to hear all of Wes's tone come through ... Quote
catesta Posted May 27, 2004 Report Posted May 27, 2004 Not a completely horrible sound quality on this, but if it was possible I would make it much better. Quote
jazzbo Posted May 27, 2004 Report Posted May 27, 2004 Yes, like Jeff my first thought was towards some of those early horn-recorded masterpieces. . . . Damned if I could pick ONE. Can I say the "Early Ellington" Decca/GRP three cd set? Barring that. . . Ellington Indigoes. I want a Mobile Fidelity SACD of THAT! Quote
Peter Johnson Posted May 27, 2004 Report Posted May 27, 2004 Of course, what I'd like to do is snap my fingers and be THERE... Quote
mikeweil Posted May 27, 2004 Report Posted May 27, 2004 Pete LaRoca with John Gilmore, Turkish Women at the Bath McCoy Tyner, Tender Moments Mongo Santamaria's first 10" LP - enough reverb for a pile of albums! Quote
.:.impossible Posted May 27, 2004 Report Posted May 27, 2004 I tend to think that when people snap to music, or try to whistle along, it makes the music sound worse. Even still, I've got "Klact-Oveeseds-Tene" down. There are always exceptions. Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted May 28, 2004 Author Report Posted May 28, 2004 Pete LaRoca with John Gilmore, Turkish Women at the Bath Ain't that the truth. I've almost bought this one three or four times. Every time, I'm always at a store where I can sample it first (usually I'm finding it used), and every time I listen, and can't stand the sound. Probably worse that Stanley Cowell's "Brilliant Circles", now that I think about it. And before having "Turkish Women..." pointed out to me, here in this thread, I'm not sure I could have ever thought of a modern (post-1950) studio date that sounded any worse than that Cowell date. But "Turkish Women..." may, indeed, be worse. I just can't bring myself to buy it, try as I might. Quote
Free For All Posted May 28, 2004 Report Posted May 28, 2004 Tom, if I could just snap my fingers, I'd be so happy I wouldn't care! I always felt this was some huge personal defect... Just the price of having hooves. Hoofs? Guess you have "Hoove Blues". You're just not "Hoovin' Hard", you "Hoove Merchant". <<premise overload warning>> Quote
BERIGAN Posted May 28, 2004 Report Posted May 28, 2004 Talk about confession time... Tom, if I could just snap my fingers, I'd be so happy I wouldn't care! I always felt this was some huge personal defect... Nothing chases the blues away like snapping one's fingers... Quote
BruceH Posted May 30, 2004 Report Posted May 30, 2004 Talk about confession time... Tom, if I could just snap my fingers, I'd be so happy I wouldn't care! I always felt this was some huge personal defect... It is, but we love you anyway. Quote
danasgoodstuff Posted May 30, 2004 Report Posted May 30, 2004 Jeez, half the stuffs you guys picked isn't really that bad sounding at all to my ears, e.g. the Hot 5s & 7s sound just fine the way(s) they are IMHO. Now the King Oliver Creole Jazz Band with Louis and Dodds could definitely stand a miracle upgrade, as could just about all the blues (Patton, House, etc.) on Paramount from the '20s-'30s, and there's this Howlin' Wolf boot from Cambridge in '66 that I love in spite of it's not even good for a boot sound... Quote
Matthew Posted May 30, 2004 Report Posted May 30, 2004 All of the recordings of Otis Redding sound terrible to me (not the music! just the sound). In fact, anything by Stax could use a sonic upgrade pronto. Quote
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