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Duke Ellington Blanton-Webster band recordings re-issued

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Did A-B-C Ko-Ko comparisons with…

99 Centennial Collection (with the fix Chuck noted)

95/96 Jazz Greats (done by John R.T. Davies)

And then Ko-Ko + two whole discs with the Fremeaux box.

If you have an obsession with this material, and the resources, this may be the one. It sounds excellent. Blue Goose is also a great track to compare with imo. The sequencing is, of course, subjective. I like their choices.

Mark will have to tell us how it stacks up to vinyl.

 

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Here's the booklet for the set: https://www.fremeaux.com/img/cms/Livret 32P Duke at his very Best FA5869.pdf

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For the present set I have used, where possible, multiple copies of the 78 rpm discs. I have applied a minimum of filtering and digital processing to the transfers, at the modest expense of a little surface noise and slight occasional distortion. The priority has been to convey the dynamic range and musicality of the Ellington orchestra. Some 82 of the 94 tracks in the present set are direct transfers from 78 rpm masters, while 12 others are taken from secondary analogue sources. Tony BALDWIN
© FRÉMEAUX & ASSOCIÉS 2024

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  On 4/19/2024 at 2:29 PM, mr jazz said:

email reply said FLAC and mp3 both were available.

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I ordered the download just now and the choices were WAV and mp3.  WAV is a 1.9 gigabyte zip file.

I ended up converting the wav files with foobar2000 to m4a.  Bit easier to get it into iTunes. The sound really is pretty good.  Have not yet compared to the 2003 release.

edit: well, scratch the conversion with foobar2000.  For some reason it cut down the file size enormously.  Will figure out another approach!

further edit: I guess wav files are just really large and when converted to other formats turn out smaller.

Question for somebody who has the disks: when you look at the files, are they small, like 9 or 10 megs for Koko?

booklet for the set: https://www.fremeaux.com/img/cms/Livret 32P Duke at his very Best FA5869.pdf

 

--As of now I would not recommend getting the download.  They appear to have gotten the formats all messed up and some are wav, some are flac ....wtf!

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  On 6/11/2024 at 3:26 AM, Stompin at the Savoy said:

 

--As of now I would not recommend getting the download.  They appear to have gotten the formats all messed up and some are wav, some are flac ....wtf!

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Ok, but easy to convert both types to either format using Traders Little Helper I would think.

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  On 6/11/2024 at 2:01 PM, mr jazz said:

Ok, but easy to convert both types to either format using Traders Little Helper I would think.

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Yeah I suppose I have got it straightened out now.  That WAV format and the way they handled the metadata are sort of a pain.  Apparently these are roughly 200 megabyte disks.

Now that I have listened to the first disk and compared with the 2003 RCA release, I like this one and find it listenable but it is not head and shoulders above the 2003 release.  Some tunes sound better, some are just different.  I think they have done an excellent job with a rather old technology approach.

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  On 4/18/2024 at 6:43 AM, hopkins said:

I also compared a few tracks of that latest Fremeaux release, which is now also available on streaming services (I use Qobuz) and it does sound very nice. 

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In looking at the release on Qobuz, it says2018?  Is there a link for the newest release?

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  On 6/11/2024 at 6:22 PM, hopkins said:

 

This is the release I was referring to:

 

Listen to the release Duke At His Very Best - The Jimmy Blanton, Billy Strayhorn, Ben Webster Sessions - Legendary Works, 1940-1942 by Duke Ellington on Qobuz

https://open.qobuz.com/album/c3c47ggxpx2wa

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I cannot seem to find the download.  When I click on this link, I get the Qobuz home page.  If I search via that name, nothing.

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  On 6/11/2024 at 7:31 PM, hbbfam said:

I cannot seem to find the download.  When I click on this link, I get the Qobuz home page.  If I search via that name, nothing.

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Strange. Could it be a question of subscription "region" (I am in France) ? It is on the top of the list of "Releases" when I search for "Duke at his very best".

Edit: I have a subscription to the streaming service so I am not looking in their "store". Perhaps it is not available for download.

 

 

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I purchased the files and downloaded the wav version first in firefox and then chrome. Both versions won't play on my Oppo 205-only white noise. Anyone else had this issue?

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