Dinah Washington - Dinah Washington Sings Bessie Smith
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Artist: Dinah WashingtonEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-11-09
Music Label: Polygram Records
Soundtracks:
- After You've Gone
- Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair
- Jailhouse Blues
- Trombone Blues (AKA Trombone Cholly)
- You've Been A Good Ole Wagon
- Careless Love
- Backwater Blues
- If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight
- Me And My Gin
- Fine Fat Daddy
- Trombone Butter (Alternative Take)
- Carless Love (Master Take In Mono)
- Send Me To The 'Lectric Char (Live Version)
- Me And My Gin (Live Version)
- Backwater Blues (Live Version)
Free Music Notes for Dinah Washington Sings Bessie Smith
Free Music Review: Down with stereo
Hit: 4 Stars
No, I have nothing against stereo technology, but when an album is originally released in mono, it is wise to think twice and listen trice before releasing stereo tracks of the same material...
First of all, the concept of this album is musically conservative: Dinah (otherwise quite at ease with Terry Gibbs, Clifford Brown etc.) sings Bessie Smith's material, in openly conservative arrangements, reminiscent of the 20's and early 30's.
Rickety-clickety drums that annoy the reviewers are not as annoying at few tracks issued in mono on this CD, and stereo version of "Careless Love" is so poorely balanced that the company fulishly added the mono version as an added track, so that everyone can hear how wrong it was to opt for stereo in this case.
Although music is very good and often brilliant (Me and My Gin, Jailhouse Blues, Backwater Blues, Fine Fat Daddy...), 4 stars would be too much for such a bad "remastering" job, were it not for an added bonus of three live performances of the same material in the end of this CD.
These live tracks (Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair, Me and My Gin, Backwater Blues) are at least equal even to the best of the album's original recordings so, in spite of some terrible producing and remastering desicions, this is still a cd to own.
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