HiRez Poll Ellington, Duke - NEW ORLEANS SUITE [Blu-Ray Audio]

[barfle]

Folks on discogs are sure having fun tweaking my entry!

 

[H.A.L.]

I thought I'd start at 7 because of the source, but -- whoa! Not only is this a tribute to my home area, but it sounds fresh like it was recorded for the tech of today! A 9, and I hate to give them out, but, damn. . . .

 

[BillTubes]

This is the easiest 10 I have given and possibly the best quad or surround mix of a big band recording I have ever heard. We are so blessed to get to hear a legend like the Duke with this level of fidelity

 

[dquad]

Vote: 10

Best use of Quad: Second Line

Big Band/Jazz at its best. I listened to this album on Apple Music before I purchased this and thought it was just alright. Hearing this in quad changed my perspective completely. I think the separation/hi-quality just adds to it. If you are skeptical, do not be. Give this this a whirl and you will not regret it. Very happy with this purchase and it was not an album which was on my radar. Some talented music being produced here. ForagingRhino, bring us some more Jazz please.

Sometimes, I wish people who rate certain mixes lower could experiene this on my sound system. I think it would change some minds.

 

[SomethingAnything]

Vote: 10

Best use of Quad: Second Line

Big Band/Jazz at its best. I listened to this album on Apple Music before I purchased this and thought it was just alright. Hearing this in quad changed my perspective completely. I think the separation/hi-quality just adds to it. If you are skeptical, do not be. Give this this a whirl and you will not regret it. Very happy with this purchase and it was not an album which was on my radar. Some talented music being produced here. ForagingRhino, bring us some more Jazz please.

Sometimes, I wish people who rate certain mixes lower could experiene this on my sound system. I think it would change some minds.

Does Apple have Quad and 5.1? I'm with Tidal and they only have stereo and Atmos.

 

[JediJoker]

Does Apple have Quad and 5.1? I'm with Tidal and they only have stereo and Atmos.

When Tidal still had Sony 360 Reality Audio, you could find some classic Sony quad mixes uploaded in that format. There are a number of quad and 5.1 mixes on Apple Music in "Dolby Audio," a.k.a. Dolby Digital (Plus). However, my impression was that @dquad listened to the album in stereo from Apple before listening in quad from the Blu-ray.

 

[dquad]

When Tidal still had Sony 360 Reality Audio, you could find some classic Sony quad mixes uploaded in that format. There are a number of quad and 5.1 mixes on Apple Music in "Dolby Audio," a.k.a. Dolby Digital (Plus). However, my impression was that @dquad listened to the album in stereo from Apple before listening in quad from the Blu-ray.

Apple Music doesn't have this in quad. I listened to it in stereo because I've never heard of the album before. I was on the fence about purchasing it until I read the ratings on this poll.

 

[aoxomoxoa]

Great sound. I'm not a huge New Orleans jazz guy so it loses a point for me.
There are other Ellington works that I like a lot better.
I gave it 9

 

[cornwall198]

Beautiful, just beautiful. And all in lovely quad!!

 

[cornwall198]

Isn't this just what we want from gorgeous, discrete, immersive, amazing sounding quad? The track "Second Line"? Music to make you smile, laugh, happy (and dance, if I was a lot younger!) - and really enjoy four full range B&W floor standers entirely on their own, without the other speakers or the subwoofer. I mean, it puts some of the Atmos mixes I've recently purchased to shame...

 

[Matt Wilson]

10
Yeah, this is pretty damned good, isn't it? I always feel guilty about owning so little of Ellington's music when I work at a continuation high school named after the guy.

 

[jhw59]

What a joy to have a Duke Ellington recording in excellent quad AND (sadly)Johnny Hodges last sessions. I don't give 10s very often but this quad gets it!

 

[FusionHead]

As many have said above, so great to hear Duke Ellington in this quality, and in quad. I love a lot of big band music and it's nice to hear the horns mixed so discretely in the side channels. However, having heard so many great immersive recordings in such high quality in recent years, I can't help but feel the recording sounds a bit dated, or at least a bit dry in its presentation. As an - albeit unfair - comparison, I just bought the Atmos MKV download of the Hilario Duran and his Latin Jazz Big Band album "From The Heart" (from Immersive Audio Album) which is a whole lot of 'wow' in terms of sound quality. Another equally mindblowing big band recording is Big Phat Band - XXL. So just on that basis, I've docked a point. And though some of the tunes are very cool, there's other Ellington music I'd prefer to hear in surround, though I realize that's not likely to happen. So I've arrived at a rating of 8, though I can understand why some folks here are digging this more.