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Rod H.

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In Reply to: My DVD Wish List posted by rico on May 12, 2007 at 11:57:43:

LOL! I don't normally buy films on DVD, but I picked up a copy of One Eyed Jacks because it was just a buck at Walmart.
I do buy music DVDs though (mostly jazz), and I have the Scofield one.
I really like Scofield, and the performances are really good, but the sound quality is very poor. IIRC one of the three segments is the worst, and the other two aren't quite so bad.
Rod

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Re: My DVD Wish List - rico 09:03:49 05/13/07 (4)
The Sco laserdisc is in stereo, which my system converts to ersatz 5.0 using the Dolby Pro Logic II codec. It is really not bad but I was hoping that the DVD had good "real" 5.1 sound.
- Re: My DVD Wish List - Rod H. 10:16:11 05/13/07 (3)
  Ah, so you have the LD already.
  The complaint I have with the DVD is that it sounds like gross frequency response problems in the mids and highs. In comparison these problems swamp the more subtle spacial differences between stereo and surround sound IMO.
  I'm 2 channel, so can't comment on the surround sound execution.
  Rod
  - Re: My DVD Wish List - rico 11:32:07 05/13/07 (2)
    In any event, this was arguably the best band of the early nineties (the quartet I mean) although I do wish that the drummer here was the incredible Billy Stewart, who is on the CD of these tunes.
    - Re: Let's Get Lost is no hagiography; Chet Baker - grinagog 20:12:12 05/13/07 (1)
      isn't portrayed in a v. flattering light at all; he does deliver a couple of greats songs and while he's an old guy, he still has the pipes
      Art Pepper: Portrait of a Jazz Survivor
      Thelonius Monk: Straight, No Chaser
      are also excellent
      Grins
      - Re: Let's Get Lost is no hagiography; Chet Baker - rico 07:30:23 05/14/07 (0)
        
        In Reply to: Re: Let's Get Lost is no hagiography; Chet Baker posted by grinagog on May 13, 2007 at 20:12:12:
        
        The Baker CD from "Let's get Lost" is a long time favorite and I play it on my radio show (there is also a Terrence Blanchard CD by that name). There's a couple of tunes that Chetty did early in his career and the comparison is interesting (e.g., the later version of "Everything Happens to Me" sounds like it was was written for the old Chetty).

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