I haven’t posted anything in the past several years. Many things have happened in my life – and I can’t believe I would ever say this, but my priorities have changed – and I haven’t been listening as much. As my record shelves needed to be moved recently, I paid some attentions to my collection. One thing led to another and I have started listening to my collections (both records and tapes) again.
Today, I randomly picked up an Eric Dolphy and boy was it good. As it was not really a famous album, I probably listened to it long time ago and never revisited. But oh, yeah! The music, the performance and the sound was so damn good. It is not a Blue Note, so no cool album arts, no Alfred Lion, no Francis Wolff, no Rudy Van Gelder. I only recognized Benny Bailey from the band (whom I like quite a lot!). I think it was pretty much just Dolphy, pure Dolphy.
My copy is a Japanese record that I bought many years ago. The original label is ‘enja’ and the record was licensed and manufactured by Nippon Phonogram. The serial number is SFX-10049-50 (double album).
I’ve compared the sound with the digital copy I found in my library, which is a 16-bit/44K FLAC version. It turns out my LP is infinitely better – bass, openness, clarity, musicality, fidelity and so on. I believe this is a good example how important the master is.
I think this is going to be my new project. Pick records that don’t impress me and look for gems!
P.S. Usually I scan the album arts, but these posted images are from Google Image search so, it’s not really mine.
P.P.S. The drum solo of ‘I’ll remember April’, I have to say, is outstandingly boring~
::Analog Jazz:: 