Carl Pultz wrote:

> Although the CJM issues are mostly frowned upon, when the sources were
> decent, the discs sound okay, and this tune comes up great. It cooks, it
> steams, it almost boils over with energy. After the vocal intro, there's a
> long organ solo by Sir Charles Thomson, a bit understated but sharp, that
> builds tension. Then Buddy Tate enters like an after-burner and draws that
> groove even tighter up to Rushing's final chorus. It's about the most
> exhausting and joyous 5+ minutes I know of in recorded music.


I'm sure your observation is valid, but there's one other element which I think
often comes into play and that is that the first version of a recording makes an
impression on us which later ones may never completely match, "all other things 
being equal". I find this all the time with classical music, where the performance
with which I'm most familiar satisfies me in ways which "better" subsequent 
versions invariably do not.  I'm human, all too human!

Just an observation, perhaps obvious.

And, by the way, I always thought the engineer for Kind Of Blue was Fred Plaut,
not Frank Laico.

Doug Pomeroy
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