"Jazz at the Pawn Shop" syndrome.
The music was well recorded, and so the album is used endlessly to demo equipment. Pity the performance is crap.
Jazz IS all about the performance, and the performers interacting. And not much about 'sonic candy'.
A huge amount of really great jazz was recorded on 78
s, and basically all you can do to hear those is to listen to a transcription from someone's old 78 to CD, or to LP reissues still from 78 sources.
Then the late 40's and all of the 50's is still mono.
To ignore that music? wow.
The music was well recorded, and so the album is used endlessly to demo equipment. Pity the performance is crap.
Jazz IS all about the performance, and the performers interacting. And not much about 'sonic candy'.
A huge amount of really great jazz was recorded on 78
s, and basically all you can do to hear those is to listen to a transcription from someone's old 78 to CD, or to LP reissues still from 78 sources.
Then the late 40's and all of the 50's is still mono.
To ignore that music? wow.