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George Slv 22nd Mar 2015		CD Album Duke Ellington - The Essential Duke Ellington (2005)	I notice that this same set was reissued in later years too. Sony here had the rights to his RCA recordings as well as Columbia.
George Slv 22nd Mar 2015		CD Album Duke Ellington - The Essential Duke Ellington (2005)	Amazon.com review (June 8, 2010) "I own the original 78s and if people could hear what these records are supposed to sound like, they would angry with remasters like this. ... More odd remastering tricks that died in 1962. What is wrong with these people?!! This music is supposed to be monaural, bright and punchy with deep bass. Yes, there is surface noise. However, if re-mastered properly, there is also great music. This is over filtered and processed, and it sounds like rubbish. As Louis Jordan said, "BEWARE". "
George Slv 22nd Mar 2015		CD Album Duke Ellington - The Essential Duke Ellington (2005)	Review Amazon.com review (July 30, 2006) Fantastic compilation...pretty good (not great) sound. ... In late 2004, Sony acquired distribution of the BMG catalog. Which means Sony controls nearly all of Ellington's output. As far as I know, this is the only CD collection out there of this post-merger thing that CAN condense nearly his whole career into a comprehensive set (without buying one of those dubious sounding bootlegs out there, imported from other countries...RUN from the Proper UK box set). Ok, now on to the SOUND of the music. When compiling and remastering music from the pre-tape era (everything up until the late '40's), engineers need to combat surface noise (distortion, clicks, pops, hiss). Generally, the older the recording, the more surface noise on the original master. The worse the surface noise, the more distracting it is while listening to the music. However, as you remove surface noise, you also lose a little bit of the clarity and "airiness" to the music. So, engineers have to walk a fine line between making the music sound tolerable by removing noise, but not take off too much, so as to lose the punch & clarity to the music. In the early CD era, they failed miserably. In the last 5 or 6 years, nearly all results have been good, but some better than others. So, on to this collection. The tracks on this collection certainly have less surface noise than any other Ellington collection i've heard. And although they've done a pretty good job maintaining much of the musical integrity, i believe the sound has been a little over-reduced. A little too much of the clarity is lost. If you weren't comparing it (which I was doing) to other semi-recent collections, you may not notice the difference. So, yes, there is very little noise, but the music sounds a tad too rounded, and not as vibrant. Also, this set has deepened the bass some, but it seems a little unnatural, and takes away from a tad of the clarity of the bottom end of the music. Maybe some of the difference in sound from different compilations also comes from this: In the liner notes to this collection, it says that songs have been remastered from 78's from private collections. Nowhere does it mention "original masters/parts" or anything like that. However, on a couple box sets that came out around 2000 from BMG & Columbia, it is indicated that THOSE were remastered from original metal & glass parts & some early safety tests. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 21st Mar 2015		CD Album Duke Ellington - The Essential Duke Ellington (2010)	With Sony now owning the RCA catalog they can provide all of Duke's hits in one release. These were "remastered" [phoney term] from 78s. (digitally copied and then processed for noise). Previously Columbia and RCA had issued sets of their own which they digitally mastered from original hard masters (whatever the right terms are). Columbia had The Duke: The Essential Recordings (1927-1962), RCA had The Duke Ellington Centennial Edition.
George Slv 19th Mar 2015		CD Album Nancy Sinatra - The Essential Nancy Sinatra (2006)	That's the name I found at Discogs. It's a combination of entities, mergers etc. Someone should change it if it's wrong, submit correction.
George Slv 19th Mar 2015		CD Album Nancy Sinatra - The Essential Nancy Sinatra (2006)	The booklet contained a few of her personal photos, otherwise unavailable. The CD has become scarce.
George Slv 19th Mar 2015		CD Album Nancy Sinatra - The Hit Years (1986)	This would parallel to the LP "Boots: Nancy Sinatra's All-Time Hits". So I just got to know if the LP was made from this same digital master. I'm giving up hope of them using analog masters for analog releases.
George Slv 26th Dec 2014		CD Album Various Artists - Kissing Jessica Stein (2002)	Okay jaimeeduardo, you left out the possibility that I never expected that info to be there. I tracked it down anyway, and I've ordered this single: http://www.45cat.com/record/930059 An obscure but valuable release, which apparently was not on any album at the time. I had checked for a rerecording on Bewitching-Lee, but not.
George Slv 17th Dec 2014		CD Album Various Artists - Kissing Jessica Stein (2002)	This recording of Peggy Lee - I Don't Know Enough About You - which year was it recorded, and where found? It's not the early original and I can't find another. Sounds like ~1960, much better production.
George Slv 10th Dec 2014		CD Album Teresa Brewer - Down The Holiday Trail (1993)	Cross-ref to cassette.
George Slv 10th Dec 2014		CD Album Duke Ellington And Teresa Brewer - It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing (1993)	Link to vinyl LP.
George Slv 10th Nov 2014		CD Album Jimmy Velvit [Mullins] - The Original Jimmy Velvit (1995)	This is a fascinating temptation for those who know this subject. There would be some around his territory of Dallas and Oklahoma who would have this CD.
George Slv 10th Nov 2014		CD Album Jimmy Velvit [Mullins] - The Original Jimmy Velvit (1995)	Images are photocopies from a Collectables catalog page.

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