Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article i,
Iain Churches wrote:
But the Ray Charles/Count Basie project does not fall into this
category at all. The vocals, brilliant performances from the 70s
when Ray Charles was at his peak, are an entity in themselves, and
the band has been added to turn this into one of the best albums I
have ever heard.

Dunno if you heard the recent R4 prog about Bing Crosby, but he refused
to be placed in a vocal booth or work with a pre-recorded track which
ruled out over-dubbing. He insisted on being 'in there' with the orchestra
despite some recording engineers later in his career telling him it
wouldn't work. His reply was 'it always used to'...

I've long been a lover of the recorded 'all in one' warts and all - when
it works well it usually has far more of a sense of occasion than the
sanitized multi-track studio stuff. Indeed sometimes a genuine live
performance in front of an audience. Although these are more rare. And
tend to be restricted to some artists that actually enjoy performing to an
audience.


I've bought a fair few albums off the back of a Jools Holland 'Later'
performance and been pretty disappointed with the CD version, or LP come
to that. The sound often seems 'unbalanced' compared to the live version.

Rob