2. music
  3. 1171725466

Rudy Van Gelder Remasters

Anyone have the opportunity to hear any of these from the Concord Music Group? The liner notes indicate they were remastered by RVG himself at his studio using the analogue master tapes at 24 bit digital resolution. I picked up Gene Ammons "Boss Tenor" used the other day just to check out one from the series. Very impressive. I've been picking up as many of the Acoustic Sounds 45 RPM "Greatest Jazz" series as I can afford but this would seem a much less expensive alternative that gets pretty close. I think next I'll buy one of the RVG Remasters that I already own as a AS 45 and do a little comparison--anyone done this?
128x128dodgealum
cmo
471 posts
 
OK, so where does one purchase these puppies??

CHris
foster_9
1,638 posts
 
Unfortunately the Blue Note RVG's I have are almost all lean sounding CD's. I plan to try some of this series from Concord Music Group.
pmotz
412 posts
 
Check out this thread for a different point of view! http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?gmusi&1169403296&read&keyw&zzgelder
davemitchell
253 posts
 
The RGV remasters on Blue Note generally sound lean and sterile compared with any other CD versions and especially when compared with the LPs. After trying about a dozen of the RGV's, I gave up on them.

Some of the best sounding Blue Note CDs are the Japanese HR2088 EMI reissues. Otherwise, the standard American 1980s reissues are actually the ones to get.
grimace
624 posts
 
We were discussing this a few weeks ago. I'm no fan of the RVG productions - at least not on CD. A lot of them do sound thin and tinny. But if you listen to jazz you just can't live without them because the music was so amazing. I'm told that the original vinyl is better soundwise, but being all bits and bytes I don't know first hand.
More to discover