Search - Gene Kardos, Joel Shaw :: Volume 1: New York Jazz In The Early Thirties

Replacement CD is now available!

08/24/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Having checked out the replacement CD, the formerly worst tracks are now the best-sounding. The new CD (#121-A) is just fine. TOM is to be commended for producing a replacement CD. The Kardos/Shaw band is fantastic, and every volume of this series will be a must-have."

First wretched CD from this label

05/31/1999

(1 out of 5 stars)

"If you've ever wondered what your speakers would sound like if you put your foot through them, play this CD and you'll get a good idea. This is the first CD from The Old Masters to feature utterly wretched, distorted sound. Not surface noise, but hideous, added harmonics, even in quiet passages. A tragically botched CD--it should be withdrawn and redone before TOM issues further volumes in its projected four-volume set of Gene Kardos--whose records, by the way, are FANTASTIC!"

The first wretched restoration from this label

05/30/1999

(1 out of 5 stars)

"ZERO STARS! I own every single CD The Old Masters has produced. No reasonable person expects perfection on reissues of 78's from the 20's and 30's--but this CD will make your speakers sound as though someone had put a foot through them. It should be withdrawn and totally remastered from the ground up. I have a weekly jazz radio show, and absolutely cannot subject my listeners to the distortion and blast (none of which is present on the original 78's) present on this CD. Tragic."