Ray Charles Live In Concert due on April 5

So will it be a remix like Sam Cooke's Night Beat and the Miles Davis SACDs (such as Someday My Prince Will Come)?

 

Oh man I am TOTALLY on the fence on this now. Do I want that great SACD sound, or the awesome bonus tracks? Or BOTH?!?

 

you want the whole show..

 

If you're like me (and probably most of us here) you'll end up with both

 

yeah, well, there's always that...

 

*sigh*

Sadly, I have a feeling you are right and that is exactly what will happen...

 

ah, just get the whole show now so you can enjoy it...then decide...its only money...and this is Ray effing Charles live...gotta have it..

 

I just picked this up; and the sound; as well as the performance are both top notch!

 

It's amazing to me how great this tape held up after all these years. Somebody really, really cared about this sucker. Everything lined up perfectly all the way through the chain from the recording, to Ray and then popping out of your speakers. A true treasure......

 

It must have been 1966 or so when I bought "RC Live in Concert". A Dutch pressing, manufactured by Bovema, that was on sale for Dfl 11,90 instead of Dfl 18,90. It still has a sticker showing this. Over the past 45 years, I have regularly played this LP, washed it recently and it still sounds remarkably good partly due to the audience concealing surface noise. In the early nineties I picked up a bootlegged Italian Cd version only to find out that my old LP sounded better. With this new release, that I purchased immediately when it came out, this is no longer the case. It sounds great and the extra tracks are really a bonus, although their inclusion and the slightly different sequencing of the songs confuses me a bit after so many years. Knowing myself, I will probably buy the SACD and new vinyl releases as well.....

 

so who is cutting this?
http://store.acousticsounds.com/d/75752/Ray_Charles-Live_In_Concert-45_RPM_Vinyl_Record

 

The SACD from AP is not showing in stock at Acoustic Sounds. It's only the original album tracks though -- not the bonus material on the 2011 CD.

 

Saw this in the shop yesterday, Kevin did it. Very tempting.

 

What to do? I have been reading these threads and the sound of the 2011 is generally well regarded. SACD is the original 12 songs.

 

It's like a Double FAIL. Concord didn't remix the whole show, only the outtakes. Then they spliced the new mixes with the vintage mixes -- and you can hear the difference.

AP uses the original album master. It would have been cool had AP remixed the entire concert (original album tracks and outtakes) in sequence from the 3 track reels -- just like the Sam Cooke Night Beat SACD.

It's like neither approach is really satisfying. But a couple of years ago, it looked like this title was never going to get a CD reissue. Apparently, Ray hated it. At least it is now available in digital form.

 

And I know that I am going to want the "whole"album. Maybe get the $10 remaster and wait for some reviews on SACD.

 

Intresting the performance and recording sound great to me. Any insight on the hate?

 

I own "Uh Huh". Is there a list of the other Ray DCCs available?

 

I don't contribute much, but read the forum all the time. Huge audiophile. Anyway, I picked up this SACD at the NYC audio show, and it may be one of the best RC CDs I have heard. The music, and the sound, are top notch. Highly recommended. Ross

 

Thanks Steve! Very interesting to me too. Some of those I do have via various DCCs and the Uh-Huh comp, but not:
My Baby Don't Dig Me
My Baby, I Love Her So
Who You Gonna Love
...am I forgetting a title?

Does the art exist?

Other titles off the top of my head:
Genius + Soul = Jazz
Greatest Country Western Hits
Ray Charles and Betty Carter
Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul

 

I think "My Baby, I Love Her So" is actually "My Baby (I Love Her, Yes I Do)", which is on Ingredients... as one of the bonus single sides.

I can't think where the other two are found mastered by Steve unless I'm forgetting/missing something.

I'd love to see the original art for this cancelled LP

 

Could be.

 

Has anyone picked up the new hybrid SACD of this title? If so, how does the mastering on the CD layer compare with the same tracks on the Concord CD?