[78-L] Columbia audio quality, was Re: Miles Davis etc [was Thelonious Monk [was Leonard Feather's Inside Jazz]]

[Julian Vein]

Doug Pomeroy wrote:
> There's no disputing matters of taste.  But I'm astonished that
> you feel the Columbia record of Kind of Blue "isn't that well
> recorded".  I'm curious to know of jazz recordings you
> consider well recorded.
> 
> Doug (who has tried very hard to make good sounding jazz recordings)
> 
> =========================================================
Many of E,D, Nunn's Audiophiles. The Columbia Buck Clayton Jam Sessions. 
The French Black & Blue label. The Mercury label upto about 1956. 
Contemporary. Pacific Jazz. I used to believe that West Coast bass 
players were better than their East Coast counterparts until I realised 
that most of the East Coasters were recorded by Rudy van Gelder! Take a 
West Coast Prestige, "B,B.B+Co" (Benny Carter, Barney Bigard, Ben 
Webster etc) and compare it with van Gelder's efforts. It's not a great 
record, but it's so easy to listen to because you're not straining to 
hear the bass player.

Perhaps Davis's music doesn't lend itself to an "up-front" sound?

      Julian Vein


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