This is not about the artist or music, just a few thoughts on stereo recordings. For many releases up to the late sixties mono was it and stereo sounding like a weird deviation - either fake made from the one-channel tapes or the result of some lonesome studio engineer's late night experiments. Listening to this I wonder what happened. It's a fiftyfive year old live recording and the warmth, width, depth, dynamics and absolute reproduction trumps any sixties stage LP and most after that. I've bought a few more fifties stereo's since I found this a while ago and most of them have fantastic audio and capture the act naturally in a way you don't get later on. Everything changes with time, but in this case it's certainly to the worse. Some of it may depend on the new generation studio staff entering with the pop boom in the early sixties, but also use of new equipment - like going from tube/valve to transistors. Another explanation can be stereo in the late fifties was a novelty, much dearer than mono in many countries, and issued in small quantities to a specialist audience. So there was probably less stress in the making and more time to polish the gem. In any case this album is an audiophile dream and highly recommended to all sound freaks. Early press had ridged label as shown here with "Recording First Pubished 1958" and thin laminaded cover with crescent flips and blue "ffrr" rim on rear. (CLÄZ*)
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