Sonny Clark Trio SACD on Audio Fidelity!

Sonny Clark SACD!

Another great effort from Steve for the AudioFidelity label.

First of all a very natural smooth sound with piano - front and center, bass - firm right (but more on that in a minute), drums - firm left.

Back to the bass - Wow, what a sound. Even though the drums seem to be "trapped" a bit in the right speaker, the bass, even though directly right - seems to come from somewhere behind the speaker and in the room with you. The bass sound is clean and clear, and doesn't overpower or sound bloated.

Steve, if you read this, how did you get such a great bass sound? Did you master this disc specifically to make the bass sound so good?

Anyway - I have a lot of the AudioFidelity releases - and all are winners in my book.

 

This is a GREAT release! It is my first Sonny Clark disc and the performance and sound are fantastic. Nice work Steve!

 

Were these preorders. Which suppliers have them in stock?

 

Acoustic Sounds just announced all 3 of the new Audio Fidelity SACDs as being in stock today. Their price is $14.98 per SACD.

 

I got mine from Red Trumpet

 

The Sonny Clark SACD is superb but I hear the Bass on the Left - Piano Center and Drums Right. . .

RED TRUMPET

 

Yes, I just listened to the Sonny Clark SACD earlier this evening. Very clean and well done sound.

 

I'm eagerly awaiting this SACD, but for those of you just hearing Sonny Clark for the first time, please be sure to check out his Blue Note albums. They're really his best work...

Ray

 

Jazz fans will like this one. And at the $14.98 price the web stores are selling the Hybrid Stereo SACD for, it's hard to lose !

 

Yep, try COOL STRUTTIN, LEAPIN" AND LOPIN" (my favorite) or SONNY'S CRIB (with Coltrane) for starters. He played as sideman on many a BN project as well. Check out the Grant Green / Sonny Clark Sessions for a double-disc set of lovely music!

Unfortunately Sonny only played in the mainstream for about 8 years. The needle cuts another one short iat the age of 31.

 

I love 'Cool Struttin' (also a great cover!!). I picked up the Classic Records 45 of this several years ago...

Todd

P.S. I agree 31 is just too short a life...

 

Well, the first group of Blue Note SACDs are due out in April. So it may not be too early to drop by the Blue Note web discussion forum and request SACD versions of some of these as future BN SACD releases !

 

I wonder if Mosaic Records will one day soon make the bump to Hybrids?

Todd

 

That would be very nice indeed. My concern is that their price would be well upgraded as well.

 

I just put in an order at Acoustic Sounds for the Ritchie Valens and John Lee Hooker SACD's from Audio Fidelity in adddtion to the Dave Alvin Blackjack David SACD from Mobile Fidelity. I might have to put a deep gaping puncture wound in my wallet and pick up this Sonny Clark SACD after having read these rave reviews here.

 

a question for one of you jazzers-

"Sonny Clark Trio" was on the Time label?
the blue note stuff, is after, or before this?

 

Most of the Blue Note sides were recorded before this. (1960)

He had a couple more leader sessions for BN which didn't see the light of day until the last few years. Sonny also recorded a number of sides as a sideman before his untimely death.

 

You are right - these were "typos" when I wrote this.

I had a very tough day at work - and my brain was probably not functioning correctly.

The bass is on the left and drums on the right. Sorry for the confusion.

 

How did you master this album if you didn't have a mix to work with?

 

1959? Hmmm...

My discography (which may be incorrect) has the session as shown below...

Sonny Clark Trio

Sonny Clark (p) George Duvivier (b, 1-7) Max Roach (d, 1-7)

NYC, March 23, 1960
1. Minor Meeting
2. Nica
3. Junka
4. Sonia
5. Sonny's Crib
6. Blues Mambo
7. Blues Blue
8. My Conception

I wonder which is correct...

It's great to see the alternate takes! Gonna pick this one up asap.

 

Thanks for going the extra mile on this one. I assume that if a multi track recording isn't mixed that you would not have been able to do this because you would have needed compression and other outboard gear to do a mix, correct?