Here's an album which I am obsessed with: New Orleans Suite, by Ellington
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One of the tracks - Portrait of Wellman Braud - is a favorite (all the others are great as well).
Bassist Joe Benjamin is in the spotlight here, accompanied at first by Ellington's piano, before the band kicks in. Cootie Williams has a trumpet solo, followed by Russell Procope on clarinet, and finally Harry Carney on bass clarinet paraphrasing the bass line, after which Benjamin finishes up with Ellington.
I have always been curious to compare the sound quality of various versions.
Here's a needle drop I made of my LP (with my M2Tech Joplin ADC) - my copy is not "mint":
My turntable is a Technics SL 1200 GR, which I use with an Ortofon 2M cartridge. Obviously, this is not "What's Best", but it lets me appreciate vinyl.
Unfortunately I stopped the recording just before the end, and realized only after uploading it to my computer - did not bother to do it all over again.
Here is a a playlist with various versions available on YouTube (include mine):
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I always found that the CD versions sounded a bit "thin", but YMMV.
There is a quadraphonic version now available on BluRay, which I purchased, out of curiosity. I don't have a quadraphonic setup, but I plan on extracting the various audio channels anyway to just to know how they sound. Those who have listened to it in a multi-channel set up have praised the sound quality... I believe the disc also contains a stereo version.
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