musicangle.com - By Michael Fremer -- Music * Reviews * Audio * Sound * Vinyl... 05.08.09 12:34

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 05, 2009

In Heavy Rotation::: ALBUM REVIEW: Jackson keeps his cool in this August 2009 collaboration with Peterson's simmering Trio With (reissue) trio Gil Melle Patterns In Jazz

Georgie Fame Verve/Speakers Corner V8-8429 Cool Cat Blues Produced by: Jim Davis New Audiophile Vinyl Engineered by: Val Valentin Music for Torching LPs Mixed by: N/A All genres - Jazz, Blues, Iggy Pop Mastered by: Kevin Gray at AcousTech Rock 140-Gram Vinyl & Raw Power Heavier! Dan Auerbach www.jazzloft.com Keep It Hid Review by: Michael Fremer 2006-04-01 John Hart John Hart Camtasia Studio 6 Web-ready Flash From The first time I recall hearing a vibraphone was on a record at E.J. Korvette's. I was Gil Melle PowerPoint Patterns in Jazz perusing the vinyl back in 1960 something or other when the store clerk put on a copy of Terry Gibb's That Swing Thing (Verve V6-8447), cuing up Bobby Timmon's catchy as Presentations & Audio. the flu "Moanin'" which this clueless suburban adolescent had never heard. Free Trial! Sings For Only the Lonely www.TechSmith.com/CamtasiaStudio The Ramones The tune plus the shimmering bell-tone of the vibraphone sucked me right in. Of course I It's Alive bought the Gibbs album, followed by a string of Modern Jazz Quartet albums. Hey, if Rare Vinyl Records ZZ Top you're gonna start smoking a pipe at 17, you'd better be listening to some button down, Fandango cool jazz! Are You Looking For Quality &Value More Another record I picked up back then was this one, originally issued in 1962, which I Than 18,000 Titles In The Look of Love enjoyed greatly when I got to it around 1964, but with zero context to apply to what I Stock was hearing. www.audiophileusa.com In Heavy Rotation::: Listening today, it's amazing to hear how Oscar and company submitted to Milt's vibe, 2009 literally and physically, on their first collaboration. Nokia Comes with Music July Peterson could be a pounder, but here he lays back, almost sounding like John Lewis, with the rhythm section of and Ed Thigpen also falling under Jackson's Mobiltelefon kaufen und June musical spell. ein Jahr lang unbegrenzt viele Songs laden! May The song selection is safe: "On Green Dolphin Street," Nat Adderley's "Work Song," www.comeswithmusic.de April "John Brown's Body," and "A Wonderful Guy" from "South Pacific" among them. "Heartstrings," the second track, might as well be the MJQ, so far does everyone go to fit Rare Vinyl & Re- March right into Jackson's style. masters February The quartet simmers onn side one, finally coming to a boil on "Work Song," which fades RedSparkMusic, your January out to end the side. space for new & old music of exceptional This was never what one would consider a great recording. It was merely adequate, with quality the vibes and drums hard right and everyone else hard left. It's probably better heard in www.RedSparkMusic.com/WorldWide mono, which is also probably how it was intended to be heard, with the "stereo" version being the "unfolded" work tape.

Aside from the spatial limitation, the piano sound was never particularly good either, suffering from mud, boxiness and occaisonal overload. But you know what? If that stops you, out goes much of the jazz catalog from that era as the difficulties recording the piano are evident on many, if not most recordings from that time.

Brown's bass in nicely rendered as are Thigpen's drums, particularly the cymbals.

Unfortunately, compared to the original pressing, this edition mastered by Kevin Gray probably from a copy of the master (which was also probably used for the original pressing: both issues are "hissy"), adds additional boxiness to the piano's bottom octaves, which only exacerbates the occasional overmodulation and break-up built into the recording.

I have three editions of this: the original, this Speakers Corner reissue and Mobile Fidelity's 200 gram vinyl from a decade ago (MFSL 1-243). The Mo-Fi is easily the best of the lot. It has the most detail and the greatest transparency, while being warm without becoming muddy.

This Speakers Corner edition isn't one of Kevin Gray's greatest efforts, though I'm not sure of the quality of the transfer from which he had to work.

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Hearing this reminds me of how little of the Modern Jazz Quartet has been reissued on vinyl, for reasons I can't begin to understand. Would someone please do Pyramid or the two disc Live in Europe, both on Atlantic?

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