Smith, Jimmy - Any Number Can Win - Super Hot Stamper

Smith, Jimmy - Any Number Can Win - Super Hot StamperThis is one of Rudy Van Gelders triumphs and one of the best Jimmy Smith albums weve ever heard. All of side one and the last cut of side two sound stunning! This is dynamic, big speaker sound. Lots of old Verves werent mastered right, but this one was. Its as good as it gets its right up there with Bashin. RVG did not record this entire album. Some songs are recorded by other engineers and dont have the dynamic slam that his do but the best tracks

Jerry Jeff Walker

If anybody knows "big rock sound

produced mostly by Elvis Costello) and the darker but equally brilliant Sweets from a Stranger (1982)

Prelude-enhanced LPs sound dramatically open

We used to think that "the biggest problem with the average copy of this record was grit and grain

With Eddie Kramer and Robert Ludwig on the payroll

connected to each other through this crazy story sung by men pretending to be women

We've been really digging this CTI jazz stuff for years

John McLaughlin's Birds of Fire

The better copies have prodigious amounts of deep

Seeing into the mix is a way of seeing into the mind of the artist

I’ve been listening to this album since the mid-70s and have never tired of it