HD Tracks Best Jazz Recordings

[audioguy]

Bruce: If I were only allowed to purchase 5 CD's from the HD Tracks Jazz Library, which ones would you recommend for both performance and sound quality.

I love Jazz and want to investigate how much better 24/xx recordings are than their 16/44 counterparts that will be played from my music server.

Thanks (I may have asked this before but could not find my post!)

 

[Bruce B]

Several of the Concord Jazz files are great. The sampler is good. Ray Brown - Live at Loa is good.

I'd also try the Verve label... Ellington/Hodges is good. Getz/Gilberto, Oscar Peterson and Jimmy Smith are good as well.

 

[audioguy]

Thanks:

Are these recommendations made from analog master tapes, hi-rez digital master tapes or 16/44 and up-sampled to 24/XXX?

I ask because I have been told (correctly or otherwise0 that quite a few of the hi-rez recording are nothing but up-sampled original recordings.

 

[Bruce B]

Thanks:

Are these recommendations made from analog master tapes, hi-rez digital master tapes or 16/44 and up-sampled to 24/XXX?.

The Concord and Verve label came from analog tape.