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| CLIFORD JORDAN QUARTET: Live At Ethell's |
Nothing I’ve recorded is closer to my heart than this, my first collaboration with Clifford. We recorded live at a posh jazz club in Baltimore for three great nights. Fresh off the New York jazz circuit, Clifford’s quartet was locked-in, relaxed and happily inspired by a house full of enthusiastic fans. Everyone from JazzTimes toBound For Sound has heralded this as one of Clifford’s very best, most appealing recordings. Stereophile called the CD “simply one of the most natural-sounding jazz discs I have heard.” The crystal-clear ambience (the occasional squeak of the hi-hat, the click of a wine glass, the audience’s chuckles of delight) make this CD a pristine vignette of jazz as it was meant to be heard: live. A Fi SuperDisc and a Bound For Sound Recording of Exceptional Merit. (#56292) Clifford Jordan, tenor sax Kevin O'Connell, piano Ed Howard, bass Vernel Fournier, drums |
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Listened to this for the first time with my B&Ws. Sounds really good (it's electronic after all). Like 95% of electronic music today, it's really compressed but not in the worst possible way and I found I could turn this up at least a couple of dB higher than some other electronic albums I have. Not sure how I would rate the album overall. The good songs are really good, but the weaker ones are really weak. What's bad about all of them is that they all feel really long… and they all are really long, so listening to the entire album in one sitting is quite a challenge. Quite a mixed bag a guess… If one took just the good songs and edited them down to half their length, this would possibly make a really good EP. After saying all that, I'd still say that my overall impression of the album is still quite positive. Just let me use the skip button when I listen to this and all is fine.
Deadmau5's latest album is even weaker. Putting all the good stuff in a smaller package definitely wouldn't hurt in his case.
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Always forget what a blinding guitarist J Mascis is when I haven't listened to this for a while!