RSD April 2026

[B. Clugston]

He wrote an awful book on Miles Davis' electric period, which was full of errors, such as wrong personnel, confusing Jumma Santos for Juma Sultan and descriptions/opinions that had no relation to reality. The large list of errors was compiled here:  https://web.archive.org/web/20160427225113/http://www.miles-beyond.com/freemanerrors.htm

Edited April 23 by B. Clugston

[Pim]

Comments for the sound on the Mal Waldron and Bill Evans aren’t good as well. Glad I’ve ordered the Mal Waldron on cd. I already expected it.

[jazzbo]

I think the Mal Waldron cd sounds good. Haven't yet received the Evans but the review I did read that panned the sound seemed to come from someone with not much experience with the sound of a typical 625 performance.

[Clunky]

The Henderson set has his usual energy.  Sound is a little compressed to my ears. It’s not bad but isn’t as lively as I would have hoped for. 
 

A trio was probably his best setting. 

[barnaba.siegel]

On 4/23/2026 at 11:06 PM, B. Clugston said:

He wrote an awful book on Miles Davis' electric period, which was full of errors, such as wrong personnel, confusing Jumma Santos for Juma Sultan and descriptions/opinions that had no relation to reality. The large list of errors was compiled here:  https://web.archive.org/web/20160427225113/http://www.miles-beyond.com/freemanerrors.htm

 

Still, I liked his language. For ex. the Paul Tingen "Miles Beyond" is much more academic, Freeman was good at converting feelings into descriptions really matching the music. But obviously all of this needs to be filtered with with something... more "fact-oriented".

[felser]

Amazon has surprisingly good prices on the Zev RSD CD's.  I ordered the Henderson, Jamal, Cecil, Lateef, plus the Terry Callier.  All due in between tomorrow and Sunday.

[Pim]

On 4/25/2026 at 10:55 AM, jazzbo said:

I think the Mal Waldron cd sounds good. Haven't yet received the Evans but the review I did read that panned the sound seemed to come from someone with not much experience with the sound of a typical 625 performance.

I’ve listened to the Waldron but I could see why people aren’t happy with the sound. Lot of background noise, bass hardly audible and drums not very much either.

[jazzbo]

56 minutes ago, Pim said:

I’ve listened to the Waldron but I could see why people aren’t happy with the sound. Lot of background noise, bass hardly audible and drums not very much either.

I thought the Waldron sounded okay, it was the Evans I was referring to as persons not liking the sound. The first set has distortion that is unpleasant to hear. The second set sounds better.