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Review by DeSelby May 22, 2005 (2 of 6 found this review helpful)
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| very good old sound
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Review by stvnharr April 25, 2004 (1 of 1 found this review helpful)
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Not much to add to the other two reviews. This is just a really nice piece of music, and a nice job on the disc by Analogue Productions. At 34 minutes it is rather poor value for the price, however it's just as enjoyable if played again a second time. Although I must say it would have been nicer if another one of the other OJC recordings had been put on the disc to make it a better value.
Still it's some of the nicest 34 minutes of jazz you can have in your collection. As the other reviewer wrote, this is not the innovative, avant garde, or even the sheets of sounds Coltrane, this is just bit back and relax music, played by a group of very fine musicians.
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Review by madisonears October 12, 2003 (1 of 1 found this review helpful)
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I seriously doubt that you could make this old recording sound any better than it does on this SACD. Not to say there's anything wrong with the sound--it isn't modern by any means, but it is very good for its age. Recording techniques were not very sophisticated in those days, but sometimes their simplicity allowed for better overall sound characteristics than the massive amounts of noodling done on current recordings. The instruments all sound perfectly natural, with lots of tonal and spatial information readily apparent. Perfect extension of the highs, with no glare whatsoever.
The music is superb jazz: maybe not Coltrane at his most innovative, but still on a higher plane than most of his contemporaries, and the backing is classic. One of the sidemen is the incomparable Wilbur Harden, who made only a handful of high quality recordings and then pretty much disappeared.
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