Stan Getz in Stockholm, audio defect on "Over the Rainbow"?

[Guy Berger]

Hey guys, two years ago or so I got Stan Getz in Stockholm from yourmusic.com and finally started listening to it last weekend.

It's a great album, but I noticed that the beginning of the track "Over the Rainbow" has some funky audio noise going on for the first 2-3 seconds. Sounds almost like tape flutter if I have my terms correct. Is this unique to my disc, specific to this reissue, or on the original recording?

Thanks.

[brownie]

Not on the Japanese Verve LP reissue from the 80s.

[Big Beat Steve]

I may be mistaken in interpeting this but my LP copy (Japanese Verve MV 2614) does have a slight distortion at the very begining of this track (during the first 2 or 3 notes played by the sax). Even after repeated listening, I am not quite sure whether this is a tape or pressing distortion or a fluff of Stan Getz' reed (or both), though.

Edited April 2, 2013 by Big Beat Steve

[Guy Berger]

Thanks Steve and Brownie! Anyone else? This is the Original Masters CD reissue from a few years ago. I'm trying to figure out whether I should get a replacement.

Edited April 2, 2013 by Guy

[jazzbo]

I have both the Japanese cd and the Verve Original and don't remember any difference between the two. Both are packed in a POD and out of my hands for three weeks or so. Can't listen and compare. . . .

[king ubu]

Just checked mine (Verve Originals, 2008, seems to be a US copy as it has all the FBI crap printed all over) - the noise instability goes on for quite a bit longer, 20 or so seconds.

No need to get a new copy, Guy!

But too bad they couldn't fix it. However, as Big Beat Steve says, it's really hard to tell if it's a reed (too much saliva) issue or an audio issue - but brownie's post and my ears suggest it's indeed the later!

[six string]

I have a Stan Getz Quartet "the Stockholm Concert" cd on Gazell under license by Sonet Records Ltd. from a Feb 18.1983 concert and it doesn't have Over The Rainbow on it. Different show or different concert?

[Guy Berger]

I have a Stan Getz Quartet "the Stockholm Concert" cd on Gazell under license by Sonet Records Ltd. from a Feb 18.1983 concert and it doesn't have Over The Rainbow on it. Different show or different concert?

We are talking about a Verve album recorded in 1955.

[six string]

_{I'm not sure I'm familiar with that one. Sorry for the confusion.}