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Billy’s recordings on Clef and Verve were not distinguished by neat sound engineering work, sometimes they came out blurred, sometimes they were recorded with overloads and the treble was twisted to a whistle. Billie is beautiful in spite of the second hand crackling vinyl. I Thought About You is amazing.
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Reissue of Django Sessions on Dial in 1947. Apparently, there were no original master tapes on Period, the tracks was recorded as from a household tape recorder, the original Dial tracks look much better. You can only imagine how cool Moppin’ the Bride sounded originally.
Clarinet Solo – Hubert Rostaing
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Lo-fi audiophile sound of Dinette. Django's musical extravaganza!
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Re-release of the 1947 recordings. The tracks are distinguished by a powerful drive a la Vendredi 13 and stunning clarity of sound.
Clarinet Solo – Hubert Rostaing
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The album was recorded by Django a month before his death. Contains unusual composition without a rhythm guitar and a second soloist. Django emphasised on sound extraction and gave rise to a surprisingly melodious, plastic and expressive guitar improvisations.
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Digitally remastered Impulse of 1986. The magic of the album is preserved but the timbres are liquid. ALS is the best avant-garde album – the last period of Coltrane's work and the best line-up he's ever played with.
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Warm, jazzy atmosphere of Atlantic studio, Hi-Fi 1950s. Coltrane is clearly out of shape and out of luck with the microphone, frequently blowing into idle. The rest of the participants are on top.
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Japanese reissue of 1984, thin, flexible and light LP with convex sides, such a pity. The tracks were recorded on Prestige in 1957-58, a collection of ballads was published in 1963 and sounded accordingly cool in the original. The Japanese certainly did their best, but they only got technical Hi-Fi. The Jazz, scrubbed and combed, was dejected, but not dead — Coltrane is in good shape, and so are his sidemen. I wish I could listen to the original though.
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Recordings from 1957-58, first released on Prestige in 1965 in stereo. Solidity in the sound is absent as a class, its remnants most likely died when they were translating tracks into stereo. But the Prestige studio of the 1950s is still audible and delivers in the middle range at its top, the hot jazz atmosphere is present and Coltrane’s sax is great.
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French reissue from 1940s Dial Records. Miles Davis plays trumpet, and Dodo Marmarosa plays grand piano. Bi-bop of the highest standard at the peak of its popularity. Audiophile Lo-Fi sound, precise and clear, without artificial additives, especially the first four tracks of 1946.The cool sound of the Davis trumpet is worth mentioning too.
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