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I absolutely love Marc Johnson's Bass Desires, here is a track called Samurai Hee Haw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ML3Pj5AijY

Quite well produced too... on vinyl

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Fran wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2019 9:17 am

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Oh yes. Particularly #2

This has incredible sound quality, dynamic as hell. Pretty damn good for 1959

Fran wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2019 9:37 pm This has incredible sound quality, dynamic as hell.

That was the peak of music recording, vast amounts of money spent on studios and good producers as the labels all tried to oudo each other.

It caught me by surprise when I stuck it on. There is a fair bit of percussion on it - but hey manage somehow to catch the range of it. Interestingly, his next release after this was that fantastic "back to back" album with Johnny Hodges. Another cracker.

Fran wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2019 11:07 pm It caught me by surprise when I stuck it on. There is a fair bit of percussion on it - but hey manage somehow to catch the range of it. Interestingly, his next release after this was that fantastic "back to back" album with Johnny Hodges. Another cracker.

"Back to Back" is stunning.

Did I ever bore you with the story how Bing Crosby, and in particular his love of golf, is responsible for the quality of equipment and recording standards in teh late 40s early 50s? Basically Bing didn't want to "waste" time doing live radio shows when he could out on the fairways.. so he researched how he could record his shows.. turns out the recorded ones were better quality than the live ones! And so... That was the dawn of serious tape recording and editing. Verve, Blue Note, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Columbia all followed.

https://theaudiophileman.com/bing-crosb ... evolution/