Search - Adrian Rollini :: Trio, Quartet and Quintet

GOOD MUSIC. BAD RESTORATION

martin emiliano arias | Spain | 07/07/2006

(3 out of 5 stars)

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Music on this CD is very interesting, but two considerations must be made.



1) Rollini doesn't play reeds on none of these sessions, just vibes.



2) Sound restoration is the worst I've heard in many years. This label's particular technique is VERY intrusive and to avoid certain noises inherent to the original source they manipulate different sections of each song separately, which maybe eliminates the unwanted noise, but creates a variable sound quality all throughout that clearly is more disturbing than the original problem. Sometimes, source even seems to be a badly shaped tape rather than a 78 (or, perhaps, what they tried to avoid was a regular noise or skip in the original 78, but to eliminate it we loose regularly fidelity and the sound of the instruments changes from second to second.



Same must be said about the Nat Shilkret CD on this label. Filter techniques are so intrusive that vocals sometimes seem to be taken from outer space.



On the Bubber Miley issue, it is a pity they included so many well known Ellington recordings present on lots of compilations and ommited Miley's only recordings made under his own name, during two 1931 RCA sessions.



A pity. I hope this label goes on, but uses less intrusive restoration techniques. We all known the historical interest of these records, so nobody will be to much distressed by an original unavoidable noise in a source."