Teasing the Korean Posted January 8, 2022 Report Share Posted January 8, 2022 What is the best available digital version of Duke Jordan's Les Liaisons Dangereuses? It looks like there are several grey market versions sourced from vinyl. Looking either for CDs or CD-quality downloads from places like Qobuz. Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stonewall15 Posted January 8, 2022 Report Share Posted January 8, 2022 A beautiful digital version is included as CD #2 in the 30-CD set of "The Charlie Parker Records" label. This box set was issued by Membran many years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted January 8, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2022 1 hour ago, Stonewall15 said: A beautiful digital version is included as CD #2 in the 30-CD set of "The Charlie Parker Records" label. This box set was issued by Membran many years ago. I was worried someone would say that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted January 8, 2022 Report Share Posted January 8, 2022 From where did Membran get it, though? Did they do their own work on that set? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted January 9, 2022 Report Share Posted January 9, 2022 It's overall a really interesting set, some fascinating obscuraties. Haven't listened to it in a few years, but my memory was that ths sound was certainly adequate. I doubt there will be any great sounding sources fir the titles on that label. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted January 9, 2022 Report Share Posted January 9, 2022 It was a good set. I just wonder where Membrane got their source material. They're not an outfit I associate with doing their own work, especially not on this scale. But who knows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted January 9, 2022 Report Share Posted January 9, 2022 2 hours ago, JSngry said: It was a good set. I just wonder where Membrane got their source material. They're not an outfit I associate with doing their own work, especially not on this scale. But who knows? I'm sure they didn't. Membran feels exceedingly shady overall, and the sound isn't all that good, but is adequate. Here's a useful overview: https://kendrasteinereditions.wordpress.com/2019/03/13/charlie-parker-records-the-complete-collection-30-cd-set-membran-germany/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark13 Posted January 9, 2022 Report Share Posted January 9, 2022 (edited) There was some discussion on this when Solid in Japan released a batch of titles from the Charlie Parker Records-catalogue in 2019. The common view in that brief thread was that there was not much to gain from any fancy remastering since the quality of the original recording was so poor to start with. However, @jazzbo posted that he knew better sounding versions of this than were included on the individual disks of the Membran-set, so maybe he can be of help. Since I don't have the set and was only interested in a few titles anyway, I picked up the Solid-edition (CDSOL-46516). To my ears it's pretty decent in this 'latest remastering' (according to the productinfo provided by CDJapan), but unfortunately I have nothing to compare it with. Maybe you missed this release? It's not listed on Discogs, but stll available. CDJapan has it on backorder. Edited January 9, 2022 by Mark13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted January 9, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2022 4 hours ago, Mark13 said: There was some discussion on this when Solid in Japan released a batch of titles from the Charlie Parker Records-catalogue in 2019. The common view in that brief thread was that there was not much to gain from any fancy remastering since the quality of the original recording was so poor to start with. However, @jazzbo posted that he knew better sounding versions of this than were included on the individual disks of the Membran-set, so maybe he can be of help. Since I don't have the set and was only interested in a few titles anyway, I picked up the Solid-edition (CDSOL-46516). To my ears it's pretty decent in this 'latest remastering' (according to the productinfo provided by CDJapan), but unfortunately I have nothing to compare it with. Maybe you missed this release? It's not listed on Discogs, but stll available. CDJapan has it on backorder. I will see if I can find this. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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