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Review by JMCIII1 November 8, 2006 (2 of 2 found this review helpful)
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One of the first (and, from the original Mobile Fidelity only and last) hybrid SACD's to come to market. And you know what? It's still one of the best sounding. it's biggest drawback - besides the short playing time - is the left/right feel to the band. Ellington is center stage, but he doesn't play that much himself. But the depth is superb, and the instruments sound spot on tonally. Sure it's going to be expensive to find, as you have to look to the used market, but it'll be money well spent - especially if you, like me, are an Ellington Band fan.
John Crossett
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Review by JW April 7, 2003 (1 of 1 found this review helpful)
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This album was recorded in one night, directly after a tour in 1959. The story goes that the sheet music for these tracks was not available for some reason necessitating much improvisation that night. The music flows and flows and flows on this album. Ellington's piano is accompanied by trombone, sax, various reeds, violin, trumpet and naturally bass. The muted trombone on "Sweet And Pungent" is a sound for sore ears :-) - absolutely wonderful and on SACD the midrange is an audiophile's delight.
There is blues, slow blues, swing, jazz standards and jamming. Try and get this on Mofi if you can, but otherwise just buy the CD or LP.
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Review by Tom February 21, 2003 (1 of 1 found this review helpful)
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| This was the only Mobile Fidelity SACD prior to going out of business around 2000. The performance and sonics of this SACD are outstanding. The shortcomings are that playing time is just a little over 30 minutes, and only 5000 copies were printed. This SACD is very difficult to find. In 2002 Mobile Fidelity came back to life, but state that it will not reprint original MF releases. I've seen this SACD sell for over $125 on ebay.
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