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Author: larryb
Date: 2005-08-11 14:22
I know this is a bit off subject, but I thought at least those who are passionate about Charlie Parker's saxophone playing would be interested.
There's a brand new CD (Uptown Records) out of Parker-Gillespie's June 22, 1945 concert at Town Hall in NYC. The performances and sound quality are unbelievably fantastic - it's studio quality sound (recorded on acetate at Town Hall's recording facility).
Anyone who digs Diz and Bird has to buy this. Anyone who doesn't or hasn't yet heard them at their absolute high point should buy it too.
What's more, the recording of this concert recently (re) surfaced, and this music has never before been released publically. There haven't even been any bootleg recordings of this stuff.
In a word, it's the jazz equivalent of the discovery of a never before seen manuscript of a second Mozart clarinet concerto.
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Author: BobD
Date: 2005-08-11 16:53
...one of the greatest things the invention of the computer has done is to enable ressurection of stuff like this....sounds great.
Bob Draznik
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Author: larryb
Date: 2005-08-11 20:30
Bobd,
not sure how the computer enabled this miracle.
apparently, the old acetate disks were found by someone picking through the bins at an old fashioned antique shop - amazing!
the remastering/restoration may have been computer assisted - certainly the digitization was. But the original production quality was so high, that not much was probably needed.
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