CTI ALLTIME COLLECTION (60 Titles) March '25

[JSngry]

 

[RiRiIII]

On 2/4/2025 at 6:24 PM, RiRiIII said:

You are welcome. I am trying to figure out which titles I am missing.

These are as follows:

1. Eric Gale - Forecast
2. Grant Green with Hubert Laws - The Main Attraction [Grant Green's only single leader album left on KUDU]
3. Joe Farrell - Canned Funk
4. Joe Farrell - Penny Arcade
5. Urbie Green - The Fox
6. George Benson, Joe Farrell - Benson & Farrell
7. Gerry Mulligan & Chet Baker - The Carnegie Hall Concert Vol.1 and 2
8. Kathy McCord / Kathy McCord
9. Jack Wilkins / Opal
10. George Benson / Pacific Fire
11. Johnny Hammond / The Prophet

What do you think?

Thank you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On 2/8/2025 at 12:14 AM, barnaba.siegel said:

Those Farrell's albums are the bomb. Canned Funk is great, but Penny Arcade is 10/10 to me.

From that list "Forecast" by Eric Gale was always a disappoint one. Great crew, great year, but the music is weird - but in a good, tripy way.

I just received four from these new CTI reissues (Wilkins, Benson, Hammond/Prophet, McCord). I was surprised by the Jack Wilkins / Opal CD: what a session with a great guitar player reminding me of Jim Hall. Highly recommended. Benson as expected: fabulous sound, arrangements and players - dream teams indeed. McCord is not jazz but still quite nice...! Prophet waits to be played.

Then I ordered the Farrell CDs as well as the Farmer/Tokyo and Green/Fox ones.

 

 

[brianissomo]

How is the mastering on these? Is there any brick-walling or clipping or peak limiting?

(I've been burned too many times by Japanese CD mastering)

[Dub Modal]

55 minutes ago, brianissomo said:

How is the mastering on these? Is there any brick-walling or clipping or peak limiting?

(I've been burned too many times by Japanese CD mastering)

From what I've read before when these came out, the mastering is the same as the 2013 King CTI reissue series on CD - at least where there's overlap. I have a couple of those 2013 reissues on Blu-Spec CD (Eric Gale's Forecast and Idris' Power of Soul) and I like them both SQ-wise. There are no issues of clipping for peak limiting that I noticed, but I'm not going to claim my take is definitive in any way. RVG's work on these CTI and Kudu albums were pretty lush, so someone would have to go out of their way to mess them up. I don't see the folks running King doing that. 

Were you burned on Japanese CTI reissues before?