Hurray! More Blue Note SACDs on the way! *

Definitely one of my favorites from this batch, and from Blue Note overall. Soul Samba makes a great companion to this.

 

Soul Samba, by the way, is an Ike Quebec date, though Burrell is featured on it. Nice late night vibe.

 

The MIDNIGHT BLUE sacd is indeed great-sounding!

 

I second this opinion about Midnight Blue, but Grant Green's Idle Moments and Cannonball Adderly's Somethin' Else are way up on my favourites list as well.

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aleg

 

In general, I agree with your assessment. As a Chambers fan, I'm glad to have this SACD. The sound has always struck me as rather poor, too. The opening track, in particular, is quite harsh and blaring when the horns come in. Not much can be done, I guess.

 

Make me curious to hear it. It should be on its way by now.

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aleg

 

Though this has probably been discussed before somewhere on the forum, has anyone compared the Classic HDAD of Somethin' Else to this SACD?

The SACD is near the top of my list too but I can't make myself spend another $30 on the album (when I already have the HDAD) without knowing if it's an improvement.

 

As a matter of fact I have done this myself.

I prefer the SACD mastering over the HDAD one.
On the HDAD the Miles Davis trumpet comes over as overly sharp and is on the SACD much more (tonally) in balance with the rest of the instruments.

This is just from the top of my mind, because it has been a while since I put those two beside each other. But I know I did prefer the SACD.

 

Thanks for the information

Would you describe improvement as significant?

 

It's always difficult to give a definitive or objective answer to such a subjective issue, but for me personally yes, I 'never' play the HDAD anymore, but I must say I like these Hoffman remasters very, very much. To me it is a different sound on the SACD.