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Helluva a Job Brownie!
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 01, 2010  |  1 comments

Even if this record evaporated in a cloud of smoke after one play like the "Mission Impossible" tape it would be worth buying just to hear young Clifford Brown's suave take on the ballad "Easy Living", reproduced with such graceful authority on this double 45—especially if your previous reference was either the CD or the 1974 UA/ Blue Note compilation Brownie Eyes (BN-LA267G), which was all I've previously had. 

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Album Reviews
Krall Sings Classics
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 01, 2010  |  1 comments

How many Diana Krall albums does one need? That's a personal decision of course. However, if you have more than three but no Shirley Horn albums in your collection, you have a few too many. Ditto Sarah Vaughan, Ella, etc. That's not meant as a slight against Krall. In fact I think she'd probably agree with me.

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Album Reviews
Band From Down Under Have Rota Covered
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 01, 2010  |  1 comments

The problem with an album like this is that there are two basically disinterested constituencies: Nino Rota fans who want to hear the actual soundtracks and people who don't know who Nino Rota is, or Fellini for that matter, and don't really care who they are or what The Umbrellas have done to interpret Rota's music.

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Album Reviews
Supergroup Put the Pedal to the Metal
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 01, 2010  |  0 comments

It's an unacceptable prejudice and this review has nothing to do with me, but I admit to having had a problem with Lionel Hampton because he was a Nixon supporter. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean having a problem with it, not that Hamp supported tricky Dick. His politics are his of course, but this prejudice took hold during the 1970s.

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News
ABKCO Box Preserves Dynamic Range!
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 11, 2010  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
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News
Uh Oh! UMG's Stones Box Appears to be Compressed LIke "Exile...."
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 11, 2010  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
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CORRECTION AND APOLOGY!!!!!!!New Deluxe "Band on the Run" WAS "Mastered at Abbey Road"!
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 07, 2010  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  1 comments
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Phono Preamp Reviews
Abbingdon Music Research PH-77 Phono Equaliser
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 07, 2010  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
Why bother with three phono preamps most of us can't afford? For the same reason the enthusiast automobile magazines cover the newest Ferraris and Lamborghinis: just reading about them is fun.
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Features
Round and Round: The Sound of The Rolling Stones on Record
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 01, 2010  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  1 comments

Originally in issue 4 of The Tracking Angle, this dated discography still offers a bumpy roadmap to the best sounding Stones LPs

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Album Reviews
Costello Sees the World
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 01, 2010  |  2 comments

Elvis Costello took a quantum songwriting leap on his third album and with a generous six weeks in the studio following a world tour with new songs written, came up with intricate arrangements and sonically sophisticated production that while complex, was not detrimental to the intense propulsion of the music.

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