I have to say that ‘Moanin’ by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers is my favorite jazz song of all time. The whole album is a fantastic piece of art. The album is over sixty years old, but sounds better as a high resolution 24 bit/192 KHz download than anything I’ve heard recently.
I say the same for many older jazz albums from the later 1940s through the 1970s. Along comes the advent of digital CDs. It was like an overnight hit to good sounding, well engineered music. Digital is distant and cold. All hope is not lost because things are changing. Now that there are DACs as separate components or factory installed in decent gear, digital sounds a whole lot better. I predict this is the decade where high resolution digital streaming and downloads kick CDs to the curb. Well recorded, amazing sounding jazz albums may not be dead after all.
I say the same for many older jazz albums from the later 1940s through the 1970s. Along comes the advent of digital CDs. It was like an overnight hit to good sounding, well engineered music. Digital is distant and cold. All hope is not lost because things are changing. Now that there are DACs as separate components or factory installed in decent gear, digital sounds a whole lot better. I predict this is the decade where high resolution digital streaming and downloads kick CDs to the curb. Well recorded, amazing sounding jazz albums may not be dead after all.