Bill Evans Sunday At The Village Vanguard MFSL One-Step Vinyl Box Set MOFI LP
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Amazing limited to 3000 2 x 45rpm vinyl.
Gram Virgin Vinyl - 8217972001
AAA 100% Analogue - Ultradisc One Step Pressing UD1S
3000 Numbered Limited Edition - 45RPM - Box Set
Half Speed Mastered on the Mobile Fidelity The Gain 2 Ultra Analog System
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The transparency and detail resolution here are absolutely spectacular. Astonishing, really, especially in terms of natural instrumental attack. This is after all a rhythmic power trio. No other version I've heard comes close to expressing the speed and precision of La Faro's playing—the clarity and finesse with which he attacks the strings. The same is true of how the mastering and one-step plating capture Evans'and Motian's playing.Assuming your system can do it, anyone who has been to the small basement venue that is The Village Vanguard will feel as if they are traveling through time and seeing into the space. I doubt Mobile Fidelity made a "killing" here, though they've produced a killer reissue!
Michael Fremer Sound 11/10 Music 11/10 www.analogplanet.com
The results are indisputable. From the moment the stylus touched down these were some of the quietest surfaces I’ve heard, and they permit low level cues and transients to emerge from the grooves with stunning clarity and focus. Piano timbre and textures are gorgeous yet unpretentious with a harmonic rightness that tickles and sweet-talks the ear. Cymbals and snare sparkle with light and warmth. There’s no better example of the musical mind-meld between players than Gershwin’s “My Man’s Gone Now,” which has LaFaro’s acoustic bass lines darting and diving between Evans’ playful melodic invention and single-note digressions. Quieter sections during Miles Davis “Solar” succumb to chit-chat noise and dish clatter, but, as if on cue, LaFaro’s string-slapping bass solo silences the audience mid-chew. This is jazz as a collaborative exchange of equals, each serving the music, taking the lead and unselfishly releasing it back. Sunday has received the same white glove presentation as MoFi’s initial One-Step release, Santana’s Abraxas, which Wayne Garcia reviewed in Issue 269. Pressed at RTI and limited to 3000 numbered copies, the 180-gram, 45rpm, 2-LP box includes original notes and a pair of Steve Schapiro 8 x10 photos. A technical and artistic landmark for the ongoing analog revival. Sound 5/5 Music 5/5 TAS Neil Gader
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