 [Larger view] | Benny Goodman - Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert
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 A Classic Performance - A Flawed Recording | |
| First off, let me say that this performance is one of the most historic in the history of popular music and that we are lucky to have any record of it at all.
That being said, it's painful to note that the recording quality of this set is just awful - all the scratches, hisses and pops of the original masters have been reproduced here without even the slightest attempt to clean up the sound. The performance itself rates 5 Stars but this recording rates a 1, if that. Hopefully someday in the future this recording will be cleaned up and made available to the public. | |
| Time for Charlie Christian to join Benny, and Lionel | |
| Very wonderful and historical 2CD set. I have a SONY/Legacy/Columbia set. I only rate the 2CD set at four.
>The set rates Five for just producing the set. For my ears, there is way too much "hiss", from the acetates, or from some scuffy 78rpms. This set should be digitally remastered, this time to 2005 audio technology. The set is still very much worth adding to your Benny Goodman library. To complete, I could suggest that you add either VHS, or DVD of "THE BENNY GOODMAN STORY." "Almost all 'the cats' are included, A true-to-life rise of some poor kid from Chicago to the epitome of music, "all that Jazz", both accentuate your Benny Goodman collection. "They didn't call him: GOOD, Benny blasts! Also, the 4CD Charlie Christian box set adds mono tracks, many off-takes, and stuff that wasn't "Good Enough To Keep", (Airmail Special. ________________________________good America First items____apa! | |
 Fantastic - A Gem! | |
| This is an amazing piece of musical history, and a superb display of talent that doesn't and apparantly can not exsist any longer. I grew up in the 70's and 80's with a certain listening ear. I bought both the Avid selection and the Live version from Sony. By far the live version is far superior, if not only because it is just as it was that cold winter night in 1938. The Avid version is fine for selected recordings, with the hiss edited out, but not all is.
One has to remember that this amazing musicians were playing with there own breath, and hands. Nothing synthesized here, or computer generated, or amplified. When you hear Krupa's drums, Goodman's incredible range on the clarinet, James' on the Trumpet, Duke Ellington's ryhthym section, and people whistling and screaming..well you would have to be lacking something not to thoughly enjoy and appreciate this. I guess this is why they are so unique. This isn't Lawrence Welk music, or similar to reincarnations of folks today playing what they think big band swing is. |
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