Jazz for aficionados

Pryso, will be short, do not want that this story becomes an 'audiophile' discussion. My point is, if we speak about RVG for example,is that BN editions (on cd) are much better done before than on later remasterings (end of 90's and begining of the 2000) and I try to buy all my editions from that,prior period of production. Even than, I was never 'happy' with sound of piano and bass on his recordings. I have also a numerous albums from other recordings,from that time and some are better, some worst,you except thema as they are, but, sometimes I try to imagine what they would sound if they were produced in a ECM way or simmilar, aldo I do not prefer neither the artists neither the sound of that house. You cant deny that there is a huge difference in a quality of sound of instruments between modern an old recordings, no matter that old ones have that feeling of intimacy, rawness and presence that modern perhaps lack. If I may joke,  that might be 'good' for potential audiophile because at one point investing in hi fi gear becomes useless because you just cant extract 'informations' that are not there. I have tried almost all editions including BN Sacd's that were mastered by Analogue Productions only to realise that they are just slightly different, maybe not even better, than original BN editions and 'miles'away form the sound of more modern music on Sacd (if done right) Of course, that is only my opinion, based on my experience 

Loosely related to the last few posts.  A pianist that's gotten a few mentions over the years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTPXCsxco3s

Probably a good move 😉.  

Thank you Frogman for your reply. Louis sings on this one also, as you would say, with the gravel in his voice but notice the quote from Duke Ellington on the beginning of the clip: "He was born poor, died rich, and never hurt anyone along the way."

I haven’t read much of his biography, if you don’t count what I’ve read along the way, but if he has such a reputation, so I admire him more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyLjbMBpGDA

On ’new sound and recordings’

I am probably not the right one to make any judgement on this one but looking from my personal perspective (there I can babble as much as I want still staying ’alive’ while doing it), mostly what I hear in ’new jazz’ I find a bit sterile (as if music is too clean). One could say that I haven’t heard much so cannot be competent but still what I hear is that a song sounds as if it could have been completely computer generated without human involvement - this I do not feel when listenin’ ’old jazz’. I guess too much technical work on piece of music kills the fun.