Vince Guaraldi's "Jazz Impressions Of Black Orpheus" SACD vs. DCC Gold CD

I have a copy of this coming. I've never heard it, but I'll give it a shot. If I don't like the music watch the classifieds.

 

Ouch! I love hearing info about things like this, but sometimes it really hurts to think of what almost was...

Oh well, in for a penny, in for a pound. Can you share with us what you wanted to substitute?

 

That would've been nice. The Black Orpheus Suite is a great showcase for Bola's guitar talent. I hadn't listened to this disc for a while. It's really beautiful stuff, but there is certainly room for improvement in the mastering (I'm listening to the 2000 CD combo of Live at El Matador and Vince Guaraldi, Bola Sete and Friends.) Not that it's 'that' bad, but relative to my DCC Black Orpheus, well... Did you have a chance to listen to the master for Live at El Matador?

 

Gotcha! Thanks.

 

Just had a DCC copy arrive in the mail today. I've got much of Vince's Charlie Brown output on CD, but am almost ashamed to admit that I'd never heard this album in any form.

Wow.

Just wow.

I've clearly never heard anything of his except from those midrangey EQed cutting tapes before. This is a revelation. And it's wonderful music.

 

I spent the weekend getting a turntable dialed in and have this the AP 45 RPM on now. This is just fantastic and one of my favorite jazz LPs. I also have the DCC Gold CD but almost never play it (didn't realize the DCC was a SH master until now).

Love the severe buzzing noise. Sounds like a bass fiddle to me.

 

Maybe his system was so bad -- or badly setup -- that it couldn't resolve the bowed bass, and really sounded like buzzing.

 

The magic of the CD EXPERIENCE. When I worked in retail someone brought back a Kind Of Blue CD complaining about a fuzziness we listened to and figured out was the sound of how the trumpet actually sounds as you are in the very first part of applying breath.

 

I have heard the DCC remaster and the 1990 Fantasy CD of this title and the DCC is much more lifelike sounding although the OJC isn't bad at all.

 

I still have my red vinyl copy.

 

what does he mean nothing over "7000 cycles". i dont know abt this stuff....

 

Contemporary Records included the following information on their releases: TECHNICAL DATA: 30-15,000 cycles.

 

Having finally sprung for a copy of this, I can agree that it exceeds any digital version I've heard (although I would not put it in the greatest-sound-quality-ever category; there's still quite a bit of fuzziness/distortion/overload on the piano in some of the tracks, even though it's a lot better in that respect than whichever OJC I previously listened to, where it seemed pretty much non-stop).

The one thing I'm most curious about is why AP elected to use Steve and Kevin to cut the 45 version, while, right around the same time, they also had Doug Sax do the SACD. Why not use the same team for both projects, to try to get as consistent a sound as possible across them? At the very least, if AP had set it up so they were working more closely, at least Sax might have found out about the "missing" side one master tape. Why have it done right on one release, and wrong on the other?

 

Just ordered a nice used copy of this DCC. Can't wait to hear it. I've never heard this album before.

 

Thanks, Steve. I recently created two wishlists on amazon, both for DCC titles I do not own. Many are going for crazy prices, but luckily this one was under 40 shipped, with slipcase.

 

Hmmm...I bought a copy in the 90s at a local record store and never realized it's in such demand. Maybe I should check it's worth and sell it. I have the AP 45RPM LP. I'd rather get some more vinyl.