Started off with this one again. Once you fully embrace the fact that this is a film soundtrack tribute album in important ways, and accept the instrumentation, arrangements and "drama," there is much to enjoy here, especially in the guitar and piano solos, and there's also a prog-rock feel to portions that appeals to the long-unprovoked old prog rock fan in me. It's definitely not geared towards audiophiles as far as mastering, reminds me of recordings that used to sound great when I had bookshelf speakers and now sound way too thick and rich. This does give an impact to the music that the arrangements and the engineers take advantage of.
Albare, "Dreamtime"
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Then moved on to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, "3 Blind Mice, Volume 2" Blue Note cd
This is an early cd and I heard that the moment I popped it in, I have Volume 1 in a better sounding version and wish I had this one as well. But no denying these are exciting performances and the band is putting it all out there to get on the record. I wish I could hear Jymie Merritt just a bit more.