Originally Posted by
44lombard
I was barely alive when Pure Desmond was released on LP, but I've had it on CD since the late 80s, and that first Columbia CD release from around 1987 blows the doors off of the CTI 40th anniversary edition CD that came out around 2011. Maybe you aren't a fan of any of the CD or LP editions, but they really screwed that album up on the "deluxe" CD remastering...very compressed and wearying sound. The re-release also uses the same take of Nuages for both "master" and "alternate", and on each version, the track is missing part of the opening section (something like 8 bars in one case, and 16 in another). It's such a hack job, literally and figuratively...I guess that's to be expected from a giant conglomerate like Sony Music that just wants to re-sell the album to meet some quarterly sales goal.
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