Mitchell, Joni - Miles of Aisles - Super Hot Stamper

Mitchell, Joni - Miles of Aisles - Super Hot StamperWe recently had a chance to do another shootout for this album, and when you find a great copy the sound is out of this world. Not many live albums have this kind of "you are there" immediacy. Turn down the lights, crank up the volume, and you'll be right there in the crowd as Joni and the LA Express (Tom Scott, Robben Ford, and the crew) knock out jazzy versions of some of her best material. The brass sounds great you can really hear the breath

There you find something special

Fred Staehle – drums

we just play it and judge it based on what we hear in its grooves

but what makes the sound of these recordings so special is the weight and power of the brass and the timbral accuracy of the instruments in every section

If you want to hear the best George Benson record we know of

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one of the things you won’t be demonstrating with this record is 1950s Living Stereo Tubey Magical string tone

and orchestrated exactly like

like many of the Londons and Deccas we’ve played over the years

Perhaps "challenging" is a better term

Truthfully it’s the only Airto record I like