In San Francisco (Hybr) [Hybrid SACD - DSD]

Cannonball Adderley | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 27, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Hybrid SACD - DSD
• Label: Riverside
• ASIN: B0000YTP66
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #336,333 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. (A Few Words by Cannonball... And) This Here

2. Spontaneous Combustion

3. Hi-Fly

4. You Got It!

5. Bohemia After Dark (aka Birdland After Dark)

6. Straight, No Chaser [*]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Performance, January 23, 2007

By 

D. Allen "Mr. Mojorisin" (North Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: In San Francisco (Hybr) (Audio CD)

This review is for the CD layer only.

I think the reviewer before me is probably accustomed to hearing the mono mix, so things don't sound right to him. I have read that in the late 50's and early 60's many jazz labels recorded using two tape machines; one mono, the other stereo. The mono feed was what was usually monitored in the control booth, and the stereo feed was often allowed to run unmonitored. At that time, the record companies were still primarily selling mono records, so this is what they mostly cared about. This turned out to be very short-sighted since the record buying public was soon to purchase stereo equipment, and they wanted stereo records to play on it. The record companies began pressing records utilizing the imperfect and neglectfully recorded stereo masters, and incredibly, many mono masters were eventually discarded.

On this stereo recording, the instruments aren't always mic'd optimally, sometimes there is crowd noise (it's a live recording), and the bass drum distorts due to it being recorded at too high a level, but all things considered, it's a good recording with a lot of presence. This is a very good performance, and overall, a pretty good recording with some warts. I wouldn't pass it up.

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Super audio sucks!, January 18, 2007

By 

Hudson Alan Auberlin - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In San Francisco (Hybr) (Audio CD)

I 1st. heard this album in 1962,it is an all time favorite of mine.Remastering ,superaudio, hybrid stero, or whatever else they have done to this latest CD has damaged rather than enhanced.This Here and Spontaneous Combustion are not to bad thus the four stars.The other cuts are ruined with discordinate sounds and very poor mixing. The Best of Lester Young another remastered album was simarily denigrated. Discordinate sounds,and a severe muting of the marvelous base and drum tracs. apparently these sound engineers are tone deaf with no ear for music.