The Best of the Past Wasn't Good Enough
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The best of the past wasn't good enough for Bang & Olufsen Most top quality amplifiers and re- range of woofer response, this dis- ceivers offer you less than 1% tortion is eliminated. harmonic distortion, but when the ABR System Provides signal reaches your speakers, there Bass Fidelity, Compactness HADLEY CALIMAN. Hadley Caliman (ten- is trouble. Many speakers produceThe 5700 contains one active 10" or sax and flute); Larry Vuckovich (piano); up to 5% distortion. Some popular John White, Jr. (guitar); Clarence Becton models run as high as 15%! At woofer and a passive 10" Auxiliary (drums); Bill Douglas (bass).Cigar Eddie; Bass Radiator that amplify each Bang & Olufsen, we don't stand for other for very low distortion and Comencio; Little One; Blues for L.L.; and two that type of performance. So, the others. MAINSTREAM MRL318 $4.98. improved transient response. The B & 0 Beovox Mode, 5700 now passive ABR permits tuning of the Performance: Coltrane revisited available in the United States offers Recording: Very good cabinet to a lower natural reso- you performance as distortion - nance in a small space. Caliman has respectable credentials as a mid- free as the rest of your system The passive unit will continue dle -period Coltrane -style tenor player and flut- . less than 1%. Here's how this ist. He's been around for a while, mostly on to oscillate further down the fre- remarkable accomplishment wasquency spectrum than the woofer the West Coast big -band scene, has spent some achieved. time at Synanon, and seems to have gotten his itself. This means that we can music together. Yet what he plays suggests B & 0 5700 Employs World's reproduce lower frequencies. Dis- so strongly another man's style that I find diffi- Largest Dome Speaker tortion, which is normally most cult to hear Caliman underneath all the Col- In a joint effort with the famous prcnounced around the bass reso- trane -isms. I suppose that's an inevitable conse- engineers of Rola Celestion of Eng- nance, is reduced to less than 1% quence of the strength and influence of a fig- because the woofer is now required ure as important as John Coltrane, but it's a land, Bang & Olufsen developed shame that players like Caliman can't find a the world's largest dome speakerto oscillate at only half the ampli- way to function creatively within the bounds for use as a midrange unit.This 21/4" tude. of what is, after all, a kind of classical jazz style. soft dome is employed from 5,000 The new Beovox 5700 by Bang In any case, my reaction is to want to pull out Hz all the way down to 500 Hz. The & Olufsen is a most unusual unit my Coltrane originals and listen to them. Too unique aspect of such extended designed for those who appreciate bad, because Caliman seems to have something response in the midrange allowsthe purity of uncolored sound. It's to say,if only he could work out his own use of a bass system that needjust one of four new models of language. D.H. not work over 500 Hz. Since coneB & 0 speakers. Ask your dealer for a demonstration. BOBBY H 13 TCH ERSON:San Francisco/ break-up can occur in the high Featuring Harold Land.Bobby Hutcherson (vibes, marimba, percussion); Harold Land BEOVOX 5700$285ea. ( tenor sax, flute, oboe); Joe Sample (piano, Brazilian Rosewood or Burmese Teak electric piano); John Williams ( bass); Mickey Roker (drums). ANight in Barcelona; Goin Down South; Procession; Ummh; Jazz; Prints Tie.BLUE NOTE BST 84362$5.98. Performance: Jazz lookingforrock Recording: Very good In its still -tentative efforts at revival, jazz is go- ing to have to avoid the temptation of follow- ing rock music down the primrose path of sim- ple-mindedness. Hutcherson and Land, musi- cians with years of creative credentials, come dangerously close to stepping onto that path on this new release. Almost all the tracks are trapped in the re- petitive ostinato patterns that make bad rock such a disaster area. Sure, I know that musi- cians from Miles Davis to John Coltrane have CD made much of similar patterns, but the empha- sis here seems to be upon simplicity for its own sake, and Hutcherson's superb vibes playing and Land's excellent tenor sax are lost in the process. I'd like to see jazz revived as much as 0 o o ot 'ar anyone, and I'm sure the process is healthily 10o oo o ol underway, but efforts like this can't help but wind up in an artisticcul de sac. D.H. (Continued on page 138) Bang &Olufsen of America, Inc. 525 East Montrose Ave., Wood Dale, Illinois In Canada: Musimart Ltd. I1113I R1971 CIRCLE NO. 13 ON READER SERVICE CARD 137.