It's rare for me to be listening on a Saturday morning, however, when the opportunity presented itself I reached for the recently acquired hybrid SACD 3CD 30th anniversary release of this iconic live recording. I have both LP and CD previously released versions including Jazz at the Pawnshop Vol 2 on LP and in all honesty they all sound great. This 3CD release does have the benefit of greater clarity overall and less obvious tape hiss and is a little less "warm" sounding than the original LP and I mean this in the most honest way, it's not to disparage the CD version as "digital" but more a representation of the difference of the two formats at thier best. Akin to auditioning the same audio system and swapping between valve amplifiers and solid-state. I have not as yet played it on my SACD equipped Pioneer DVD player as I am still looking for the best option to connect this to the Wadia 321"decoding computer" ! So it was played as any other CD using my Lyngdorf CD1in transport configuration upsampling to 192k and fed via coax connection to the Wadia.
Originally released in 1977 as a 2 LP 180gram album by Proprius Records. It is a multi-session recording made by Gert Palmcrantz on December 6–7, 1976, at Jazzpuben Stampen (Pawnshop) in Stockholm, Sweden and is regarded by many audiophiles as one of the best sounding jazz recordings of the 20th Century. Suffice to say these are some of the great Jazz standards played by five artists at the peak of thier prowess and working in complete unison.
Personel:
The recording features Arne Domnérus, alto sax, clarinet; Bengt Hallberg, piano; Lars Erstrand, vibes; Georg Riedel, bass; and Egil Johansen, drums.
CD 1:
01 Limehouse Blue
02 I'm Confessin'
03 High Life
04 Jeep's Blues
05 Lady Be Good
06 Take Five
07 Everything Happens To Me
08 Barbados
09 Stuffy
CD 2:
01 Over The Rainbow
02 Now's The Time
03 Out Of Nowhere
05 Here Is That Rainy Day
06 Struttin With Some Barbeque
07 Poor Butterfly
08 Exactly Like You
09 Jeepers Creepers
10 How High The Moon
11 Things Ain't What They Used To Be
CD 3:
01 In A Mellow Tone
02 Gubben Och Källingen
03 Nancy With The Laughing Face
04 Struttin' With Some
05 It Don't Mean A Thing
06 Mood Indigo
07 Jeep's Blues
08 High Life (Take 2)
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Originally Posted by Macca
