[TPIN] Proper Records cd sets

[RickTrumpetMan at aol.com]

I have the Shorty Rogers and the Chet Baker Proper box sets and  they're 
pretty good.  There's a tempest in a teapot brewing in some of the  audiophile 
forums that many of the JSP, Definitive Proper and Absolute  Distribution 
packages may have used Mosaic CD's for their sources and  actually don't have anymore 
remastering costs other than a cheap EQ  job.  (They also tend not to have 
alternate takes because those are more of  a "smoking gun" in terms of being 
able to backtrack access to the  masters.....)
 
They don't sound quite as good as the Mosaic sets (The notes while  good 
,aren't quite as "uptown" as their Mosaic counterparts, but  they are pretty good 
actually) to my ear but there not  "bad".  They also do not always reproduce 
the  same discographies.  (The Rogers set includes his recordings  with Andre 
Previn but excludes the British release and Pacific Jazz  rareties found on the 
Mosaic set.)  The Mosaic sets are more exhaustive and  tend to get more (but 
not all) of those elusive rarities.  For example  The Yesterdays/Indiscreet 
and Her Face/Blue-Bird Land singles don't appear even  on the Mosaic Ferguson 
set.  All that being said, with The Basie  Studio Roulette set selling two weeks 
ago for nearly 1700.00 and the Rogers  set hanging at $250.00, The sound 
quality doesn't have to be indistinguishable  to make them attractive.  I've got 
the JSP Louis set on order but it hasn't  arrived yet.
I'll let you know how it sounds when I receive it.
 
Hope this helps....
 
Rick Price
Legacy Brass Ensemble
Charlotte, NC
 
 
In a message dated 2008-01-01 4:31:26 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
Trptplr644 at aol.com writes:

Has  anyone purchased these low-priced 4 cd sets?  Looking at their   catolog 
I'm finding several of interest (Louis, Bix, Shorty Rogers, Monk,  Bird,  
Oscar 
Peterson, etc), but I'm unfamiliar with them.  Are  they poor quality  
recordings, hence the low  price?



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