The Pearls

Jelly Roll Morton | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B000002WA1
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #333,220 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars RCA should indeed be held to high standards, July 19, 2002

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bukhtan (Chicago, Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Pearls (Audio CD)

I thought this was OK until I heard better, namely the JSP 5-CD set. True, John R.T. Davies leaves in more surface noise, but he also leaves in more music. RCA's remastering is tolerable but very far from exemplary. Robert Parker's "Great Original Performances" series is also preferable. There are two of these for Jelly Roll Morton.
There's also some overlap with another RCA single CD product, "Jelly's last jam : original music from the motion picture". I don't know if that one's still available.
The "Victor" in RCA-Victor comes from the Victor which recorded Jelly Roll in the Webster Hotel in Chicago in 1926 with state-of-the-art electronic equipment. Suddenly we could hear everything the musicians were doing. And what musicians!
RCA-Victor (or is it "BMG" these days?)should live up to this heritage.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great song selection, but over enhanced sound, December 13, 1999

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Ken Doyle (Park Ridge, NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Pearls (Audio CD)

They made a muddy mess of the sound of these great recordings. There is no excuse for this shoddy restoration. Even the last 2 tracks (10 years newer-from the late 30's) are enhanced to pieces so they sound like the others. Come on RCA, you can do better than this!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid this, September 26, 2002

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Peter Gordon (Canberra, ACT Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Pearls (Audio CD)

Of course Morton's music is superb. The trouble here is that you hear so little of it because the transfers are strangled to death. A big disappointment. The JSP box offers far better sound and value and does justice to the music.