The Sound of Jazz CBS 1957

[Wireduck1]

The legendary TV series apparently coming to blu ray on April 13th.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Various-Soun...z+think+visual

[Wireduck1]

Further details now on this one:
"...Highlights from a CBS TV special, originally broadcast from New York on 8 December 1957. Includes performances by the Count Basie All Star Orchestra, the Red Allen All Stars, the Thelonious Monk Trio, Billy Holiday, the Jimmy Giuffre Three and the Pee Wee Russell-Jimmy Guiffre Quintet."



First time on a Blu-Ray format. This classic jazz film was a 1957 CBS TV show which reunited some of the genre s greatest stars for a one-hour performance that was presented with no editing. Includes a final meeting of Billie Holiday and Lester Young. Also included are follow-up shows featuring Miles Davis, Ahmad Jamal and Ben Webster on different sets. An extra bonus is the 1944 short, Jammin the Blues showcasing Lester Young plus the only TV clip of Charlie Parker known to exist.

Blu-Ray DVD plus CD of The Sound of Jazz album

01. Open All Night / Blues
02. The Count Blues
03. Wild Man Blues
04. Rosetta
05. Dickie s Dream
06. Blue Monk
07. I Left My Baby
08. Fine And Mellow
09. The Train And The River
10. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me
11. Darn That Dream
12. Ahmad s Blues
13. Chelsea Bridge
14. Duke s Place
15. The Midnight Symphony
16. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
17. Jammin The Blues
18. Hot House
19. So What
20. The Duke
21. Blues For Pablo
22. New Rhumba

[strom]

Just wonder why they boasts of "First time on a Blu-Ray format" if no HD content there?

[bigshot]

it was shot on film, wasn't it?

[strom]

Originally Posted by bigshot

it was shot on film, wasn't it?

I have no idea what source material was being used but result is inappropriate.

[Miles]

This seems to be a european public domain release, i.e. the label did not license the material but then also did not have access to the original material but compiled it from previously available releases. So it might have been upscaled from DVD. The european jazz CD reissue market is full of such releases, mostly coming from Spain.

[DJ KNIGHT XIII]

Does anyone actually have this and if so whats the PQ like ?

[Miles]

I don't have this, but I have the material on DVD

http://www.amazon.com/Jazz-Masters-V.../dp/B00008V6YW

It looks hardly better than this Youtube video

The Sound Of Jazz (Cbs 1957) Count Basie,Red Al.. - YouTube

These shows were not caught on film, so there will never be a "HD-worthy" reissue.

As “The Sound of Jazz” was presented live, there was no opportunity for a repeat broadcast. Apparently, CBS had a kinescope recording of the show, but it was lost by the mid-60s. There are at least two surviving sources of the show, one of which is said to be Herridge’s copy. The show appeared without a copyright notice and has been considered public domain material for many years.

http://jazzhistoryonline.com/Sound_of_Jazz_1.html

[DJ KNIGHT XIII]

Thanks for your response Miles, will probably get it because of Billie Holiday.

[BluVinyl]

Anyone pick this up? I ordered from Amazon US based on some reviews of the BD PQ being improved from the DVD. Of course Amazon is out of stock, so hopefully this is not actually OOP.

[bigshot]

I have it. Lots of great stuff on it, but I wouldn't bother if you already have all of it on DVD. It still looks like a DVD.

[BluVinyl]

Originally Posted by bigshot

I have it. Lots of great stuff on it, but I wouldn't bother if you already have all of it on DVD. It still looks like a DVD.

I probably have about a third of it on several different DVDs. Did you have it previously on DVD? A couple of the Amazon reviewers said it was better PQ than the DVD, but due to the source material it is never going to look very good.

[bigshot]

I didn't have the DVDs, but the improvement of quality over the DVD is likely to be in the area of bandwidth rather than the source elements or transfer. The blu-ray is as good as it's ever going to look. It appears that they evened out some of the brightness problems, but the sharpness is what it is. If you only have a third of the content here, then the answer is simple. Get it. Every single thing on this disk is golden and will have your jaw resting on the floor.

[BluVinyl]

Originally Posted by bigshot

I didn't have the DVDs, but the improvement of quality over the DVD is likely to be in the area of bandwidth rather than the source elements or transfer. The blu-ray is as good as it's ever going to look. It appears that they evened out some of the brightness problems, but the sharpness is what it is. If you only have a third of the content here, then the answer is simple. Get it. Every single thing on this disk is golden and will have your jaw resting on the floor.

Cool, hopefully my backorder at Amazon gets filled. Really love the jazz of this era, two of my favorite sax players in Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young and favorite jazz singer with Billie Holiday. Looking forward to it.

[BluVinyl]

So Amazon US cancelled my order on this a couple of weeks ago. Anyone have an idea on whether this might get reissued? Seems like they were only selling for about a year, but they were gone when I noticed. So at least someone bought them.

[BluVinyl]

I have been watching a lot of concerts lately and just did another search seeing if this had been reissued anywhere worldwide. I have DVD and love it. Although knowing this was never filmed and would never look good, I have looked at some fan made machine learning upscale from DVDs to something looking like HD (mainly thinking of some Star Trek DS-9 efforts I watched from you tube on my pj with 120 inch screen that looked passable). It makes me wonder if someone could ever do anything with this show, which is the finest jazz concert by far I have ever seen, to make it look less hideous.