Original Jazz Classics Remasters - Sampler

Various Artists | Format: MP3 Download

Product Details

• Original Release Date: May 4, 2010
• Release Date: May 4, 2010
• Label: Original Jazz Classics
• Copyright: (C) 2010 Concord Music Group Inc.
• Total Length: 1:01:18
• Genres: Jazz/General
• ASIN: B003IV9U3G
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #857 Paid in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Albums)

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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Original Jazz Classics Remasters Sampler - A Top Notch Cross-Section Of Tracks, May 9, 2010

By	Mark "Technology, Music and Movies" (East Coast) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)    (VINE VOICE)    (2008 HOLIDAY TEAM)

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The Original Jazz Classics Remasters is one of those samplers that I would have gladly paid to purchase in an LP. It's got wonderful sound, a good mix of music and a very well put together cross-section of artists. The "Original Jazz Classics" imprint under Concord has given us a tremendous gift here.

Normally samplers are released to help sell records. In this case, they seem to be purposely making it difficult to link these tracks back to the albums they come from. Maybe they are just generous. Whatever the reason, I recommend you pick this up immediately. And if you like the music, look into the albums these tracks originate from as well.

The selections are mostly accessible jazz works relative to other releases by these musicians. The Coltrane selections, for example, are subdued compared to his later work. I am fairly certain they come from the re-mastered version of Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane, though only Coltrane is listed as an artist here. This is indeed a legendary recording session.

The Dave Brubeck Quartet selections are live recordings with strong chorded solos that are instantly recognizable. They come from the well regarded Jazz at Oberlin record which was recorded at Oberlin college.

The Sonny Rollins songs are typical Sonny - playful, a little sarcastic, but musically complex and beautiful. These tracks come from Way Out West.

And the two selections by Joe Pass are so technically clean and masterful that they could make your head spin. Those come from the re-mastered release of Virtuoso.

Rounding out the album are two tracks from legendary alto saxophonist Art Pepper. They are from the re-release of Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section.

These tracks are all the re-mastered versions. The MP3s themselves are mostly recorded at 320 Kbps, though the two Brubeck Quartet tracks are encoded at 224kbps and 192kbps respectively. I do not own all the original albums, but from most of the ones I do own the difference in the sound is noticeable. The difference in the sound of the Monk & Coltrane songs is less apparent compared to the original recordings based upon listening alone. I'll know more once I have more time to compare them in detail.

CONCLUSION

This is an excellent selection of high quality jazz recordings. I highly recommend it.

Enjoy.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars good jazz, and it's free, May 9, 2010

By	Walter Neff - See all my reviews

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This is high quality jazz by some of the giants of music history. Definitely worthwhile for you to download whether you don't know anything about jazz or you have many jazz albums.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A pro-active move that promises to be win-win-win., May 26, 2010

By	Samuel Chell (Kenosha,, WI United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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CDs and even CD players, if you haven't paid close attention of late, are rapidly becoming extinct. Many young people have little notion of the term "album" and all that it meant to those of us who remain attached to the hard-copy object itself, whether as a vinyl LP or compact disc that's been digitally encoded. In the face of CD sales declining 10% each year, Original Jazz Classics and Amazon have collaborated on a daring, imaginative, no-strings-attached experiment that just may entice new ears to old sounds that upon the re-hearing are fresher today than at the time of their release over 50 years ago.

Although Dave Brubeck's "Time Out" (containing the ever-popular "Take Five") continues to be among the CD albums that still ring up impressive sales every year, the recordings that the quartet made before this commercially successful studio album are arguably representative of both the legendary pianist and inimitable altoist at their absolute creative peak. The concerts recorded before college audiences first on Fantasy Records ("At Oberlin") and then on Columbia ("Jazz Goes to College") resonate with electric, extemporaneous music-making that should dispel any doubts concerning Brubeck's present-day stature or Desmond's reputation at the time as the alto player whose only contemporary rival was Charlie Parker, the putative all-time genius of jazz improvisation. Listeners who haven't heard the group at this stage had best lay aside any preconceptions about "cool West Coast jazz": both of these musicians are throwing off energy, heat and light in equal proportions, improvising with emotional intensity and headlong drive while integrating not just Gershwin and Irving Berlin but quotations from Stravinsky and Prokofiev into their heady flights. And not the least of the concert's rewards is the responsiveness of the audience: these college kids know the score and, when either musician succeeds in making a meaningful musical point, bristle with loud approval and vocal encouragement.

The other tunes are from albums with perhaps fewer surprises but no less deserving of that overused epithet "Classic." Listeners who know "Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall" may hear some of the mentoring that Monk administered to his brilliant protege before that landmark concert. Sonny Rollins fans will hear more than a little of Sonny on the tunes from his highly regarded pianoless, guitarless album. Jazz guitar fans will hear the Oscar Peterson of the guitar (Joe Pass, in fact, made some stunning recordings with Oscar), the player whose club dates were like classroom sessions for guitarists who drove from great distances just to sit at the master's feet.

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