Miles Davis 60s Quintet on CD

[Teasing the Korean]

I now have the the Miles 65-68 box set. Not only do I have this music on CD for the first time, but it's also the first time I've heard some of it in stereo.

My LPs of ESP and Miles Smiles are mono. Listening to tracks from these albums on CD, I'm kind of surprised to hear the bass panned all the way to one side on some tracks. While I realize that there were no shortage of lame-ass stereo mixes in the 50s and 60s, this is kind of a surprise, especially considering the late recording/release dates.

Is this how these were mixed on the stereo LPs?

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

i will make a youtube video of chewy physically destroying every miles davis releated jazz recording date* in my collection, in trade for the '59 blakey/morgan/hank/timmons/merritt studio session

*Dates which include Hank Mobley (ts) notwithstanding

[Bluerein]

Well that's an offer I hardly can resist (but will do because of a promise I've made)

[Teasing the Korean]

i will make a youtube video of chewy physically destroying every miles davis releated jazz recording date* in my collection, in trade for the '59 blakey/morgan/hank/timmons/merritt studio session

chewy, I will give you that date if you promise to wear a French maid outfit and fish nets in the video.

[Teasing the Korean]

Does anyone know the deal with the mixes on this set?

[CJ Shearn]

they are all remixed from the original three track tapes for the box and subsequent single CD reissues.

[sidewinder]

i will make a youtube video of chewy physically destroying every miles davis releated jazz recording date* in my collection, in trade for the '59 blakey/morgan/hank/timmons/merritt studio session

chewy, I will give you that date if you promise to wear a French maid outfit and fish nets in the video.

[Teasing the Korean]

they are all remixed from the original three track tapes for the box and subsequent single CD reissues.

Thanks. But did the original stereo LPs have the same dodgy bass placement as these? Again, I have most of these in mono. It's surprising to me that by the mid-60s Columbia wasn't centering the bass, as they did with previous Miles LPs, Brubeck, etc.

[CJ Shearn]

they are all remixed from the original three track tapes for the box and subsequent single CD reissues.

Thanks. But did the original stereo LPs have the same dodgy bass placement as these? Again, I have most of these in mono. It's surprising to me that by the mid-60s Columbia wasn't centering the bass, as they did with previous Miles LPs, Brubeck, etc.

I dunno, I never have heard the original LP's. I had a tape of "ESP" when I was little but I don't remember any weird bass placement, of course I was really young.

[jazzhound]

they are all remixed from the original three track tapes for the box and subsequent single CD reissues.

Thanks. But did the original stereo LPs have the same dodgy bass placement as these? Again, I have most of these in mono. It's surprising to me that by the mid-60s Columbia wasn't centering the bass, as they did with previous Miles LPs, Brubeck, etc.

I dunno, I never have heard the original LP's. I had a tape of "ESP" when I was little but I don't remember any weird bass placement, of course I was really young.

bass was panned hard as was drums on stereo lps. very cool cause if you want to isolate the drums or bass to dig the complex lines they were playing you can pan to one speaker and really get it. I was listening to Tony on Miles Smiles like this the other day and it was a revelation. Its amazing how bad the cds sound compared to the original lps.

[porcy62]

Its amazing how bad the cds sound compared to the original lps.

Damn! Does it mean that I have to replace my Mosaic Lp sets with the original Columbia stereos?