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Wow,
What a jump in the number of SACD titles due to Japanese jazz SACD!!!!!
Incredible, and so much from Sony, the very people who seemed hell bent on nearly killing the format some time back!!!
Interesting indeed....
Cheers
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Post by Claude November 8, 2006 (2 of 7)
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These Sony titles are in fact a batch of reissues from Three Blind Mice, an audiophile label that recorded japanese jazz artists in the 1970's.
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Claude said:
These Sony titles are in fact a batch of reissues from Three Blind Mice, an audiophile label that recorded japanese jazz artists in the 1970's.
Any of those worth picking up? My credit card is ready :):)
Cheers
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Claude said:
These Sony titles are in fact a batch of reissues from Three Blind Mice, an audiophile label that recorded japanese jazz artists in the 1970's.
Ahhhh...
Okay!!
Cheers,
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Post by Julien November 8, 2006 (5 of 7)
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DrZhivago said:
Any of those worth picking up? My credit card is ready :):)
Cheers
Rather familiar with Japanese playing, I would say that especially in the 70s, imitation and not much creativity should be about most of it. It is the same with Suzuki's Bach recordings: not much creativity, no deep understanding of the style or the essence of the musical language (still a cultural problem I believe), and rather stiff musically, because they are afraid of taking initiatives that might be stylistically wrong while studying a style that isn't in their blood for most of them (Chinese musicians I talk with have told me about this problem many times, this is how they feel too)... To put it in a nutshell they hardly use the flexibility of time that basically is the key to natural phrasing in music. Which is very important even in a jazz beat...
But: the basic technical-musical level is usually very high, and the recording standard even higher. Still high quality, but if you need the artists' creativity or genius to "speak" to you, then you might want to find a few reviews about those who have a "great musician" reputation.
Hope I can be a little helpful.
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Post by Claude November 9, 2006 (6 of 7)
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