Search - Woody Herman :: Featuring Tito Puente and Charlie Par

So much potential...

03/29/2000

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Keep in mind that this is not Charlie Parker and Tito Puente together, but tracks of them seperately thrown onto the same disc.The music on this CD is incredible, but the quality of the recordings are not. The music sounds out-of-phase (where the music "cancels" itself out), leaving the listener with a sound that has a tremendous hole in the middle. I listened to this disc on a few different CD players, and the result was the same. Imagine this...being in a room with Charlie Parker, et al, and being able to only hear 5% of the music clearly, the rest an "airy" buzz. Only a few minutes of this disc was tolerable.It sounds as if this "project" was thrown together in order to make a quick buck, without giving any regard to quality. Do not waste your money."