I was supicious of CEDAR too, but the results speak for themselves. Maybe CEDAR has come some way since it was used to turn everything to vanilla.
I don't know what the source of the Jasmine set was, but John McDonough's notes are interesting. There was some hanky-panky about possession of the original "acetates" (if that's what they were) and apparently Columbia still doesn't possess them (although Goodman had sold them to Columbia in 1950), but had access to them and botched the job in the 1999 issue. Howard Scott, producer of the 1950 set, had helped himself to them and still has them, I guess.
DC
On Jun 19, 2013, at 8:10 PM, Clark Johnsen wrote:
"CEDAR... to restore the warmer sound of the original LPs." Oh dear. I
don't like the sound of that (as it were).
clark
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Donald Clarke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Don't know anything about the Phoenix, but the Jasmine set is quite
> wonderful; I doubt if the quality of that transfer will be exceeded. A
> British company, transfers done by a Swede (Bjorn Almstedt), CDs made in
> Czech Republic; the notes say that after 18 months and close to 200 studio
> hours of work using "CEDAR and countless hard disc edits to restore the
> warmer sound of the original LPs without the clicks" is the result, but I
> had the vinyl set in the mid-1950s and this is superior to what I remember,
> plus it's more complete. Some said it was still not complete, a bit of
> somebody's solo missing, but I can't remember what it was. Where is Phoenix
> Jazz? I would be suspicious.
>
> Donald Clarke
>
>
> On Jun 19, 2013, at 5:17 PM, Thomas Stern wrote:
>
> I notice a forthcoming "Phoenix Jazz" 2-CD set, billed as COMPLETE
> recording.
> Sony, Jasmine and some other labels have also issued these recordings.
> Anyone have a
> detailed breakdown of differences if any, sound quality of transfers,
> editing, annotation, etc.
> of the various releases ???
> Thanks!
> Best wishes, Thomas.
>
|