For those of us who own decent systems and love the sound of jazz music played from vinyl, I think that most of us love and treasure the moments when we put on a record and the sound that pours out of our system is so startlingly real, pure, beautiful, quiet with regards to LP noise, and dynamic that it damn near takes your breath away. These are the moments when you mentally pat yourself on the back for putting together such a great sounding system which included setting up your table, arm, and cartridge. You just smile and bask in the inner glow of your profound wisdom as the music washes over you.
So, if you want to feel like a genius for being so smart to put together a system like you did and for making such a great choice with regards to your table, arm, and cartridge and what a great job you did setting it up, and you want to hear some incredible jazz all at the same time, go buy a copy of Ben Webster and Associates. And calling the rest of the band members on this recording "associates" is like calling the Beatles a pretty decent rock band. I might have raved about this LP before, but even if I did, I probably didn't rave hard enough. I don't think there are enough adjectives in the English language to describe the wonderful sound of this LP.
Now the version I'm ranting and raving about is the limited edition ORG reissue recorded at 45 RPM over two LPs. Normally when I buy limited edition LPs that only 5,000 were pressed, it seems like I always end up with pressing number 4,999. This time I got lucky and my pressing number is 178. I can't tell you how other pressings of the record sound in comparison to this one (maybe jazzdoc can). I can't tell you how any digital version of this recording compares either because I don't own any. I can only promise you that if you love jazz and buy this recording, you too will feel like Forest Gump when the drill Sargent looked at him after he finished reassembling his M-16 in record time and said, "Gump! You're a Goddamn genius!"
So, if you want to feel like a genius for being so smart to put together a system like you did and for making such a great choice with regards to your table, arm, and cartridge and what a great job you did setting it up, and you want to hear some incredible jazz all at the same time, go buy a copy of Ben Webster and Associates. And calling the rest of the band members on this recording "associates" is like calling the Beatles a pretty decent rock band. I might have raved about this LP before, but even if I did, I probably didn't rave hard enough. I don't think there are enough adjectives in the English language to describe the wonderful sound of this LP.
Now the version I'm ranting and raving about is the limited edition ORG reissue recorded at 45 RPM over two LPs. Normally when I buy limited edition LPs that only 5,000 were pressed, it seems like I always end up with pressing number 4,999. This time I got lucky and my pressing number is 178. I can't tell you how other pressings of the record sound in comparison to this one (maybe jazzdoc can). I can't tell you how any digital version of this recording compares either because I don't own any. I can only promise you that if you love jazz and buy this recording, you too will feel like Forest Gump when the drill Sargent looked at him after he finished reassembling his M-16 in record time and said, "Gump! You're a Goddamn genius!"
Glad to know that you have it too and feel the same way. Hard to believe this is a 1959 recording. All would be/wanna-be recording engineers should have to have a mandatory listening session with classic jazz so they could see how high the bar was set for them back in the 1950s with those terrible, primitive 2 track analog R2R decks and those terrible tube electronics that everything was recorded through.
