OPUS 3 Hybrid SACD-22071: Eva Taylor Live At The Pawnshop

Description: ****Welcome to our listing, thanks very much for looking!****Shipping cost is only an estimate - it depends on the actual weight and size of the package as well as the service required. We do not profit from shipping costs, so if we overcharge, we will refund the difference back to you. We will combine shipping for multiple items purchased.Background -This music was recorded way back before digital recording at a jazz club in Stockholm, Sweden that has since been immortalized in hi-fi lore, it features a performance by the octogenarian Eva Taylor who enjoyed her heyday five decades earlier in the company of jazz giants such as Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet. She is accompanied by the Maggies Blues Five which were named after Eva’s husband Clarence Williams’ band made up of talented Swedish musicians, to these ears at least they play the material with considerable authenticity and panache. What makes this such a great sounding disc is the combination of fabulous acoustic instrumentation, only the voice is amplified, a great venue and real being there ambiance in the sound. The presence of Taylor undoubtedly heightened the experience for the audience and band alike with the resulting joy coming through loud and clear on this fabulous transcription. This even was recorded in 1976 but thanks to the quality of engineering and equipment at the time, the tape recorder was a modified Sony TC-756, and that used to transfer it to DSD, EMM Labs converters, it sounds like it could have been made twenty years later. Interestingly the multichannel mix is in 4.1 omitting the center channel and specifying that bass below 60Hz is allocated to the LFE or sub output. It was certainly a magical night at the Pawnshop in March 1976 when a young lady of 81 completely captured and entranced the audience with her stage presence and vibrant personality. Her communication with the musicians and audience combined to elevate her artistry beyond the aural level to include that indefinable ingredient…atmosphere. This atmosphere was retrieved from the Opus 3 vaults from 31 years ago and like a good wine has aged well as lovers of jazz from the '20s will appreciate. Eva Taylor is a direct link with the great era of jazz when she was singing with the Clarence Williams Blue Five and also with Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet, who were coming to their peak as influential jazz geniuses in the mid-'20s. It looks like a CD. It plays on all your CD players. But this Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) is much, much more. Created by Sony and Philips – the people who invented the CD – this is actually a two-layer disc. And both layers pack an incredible story. From the earliest digital recordings and 16-bit Compact Disc on up to even the latest 24-bit recordings, digital audio has always used multi-bit PCM technology. Until now. Now there is Direct Stream Digital recording. A one bit system that´s fundamentally different. Thanks to an amazing 2,822,400 samples per second, you get audio performance that no other format can deliver. Where CD frequency response extends to 20,000 Hz, DSD technology can theoretically reach 100,000 Hz. Where CD has a dynamic range of 96 dB, DSD recording can achieve 120 dB across the entire audible range. Thanks to DSD technology, the SACD difference is breathtaking. If you care passionately about music, then SACD will inflame that passion as never before. Even the SACD´s 16-bit layer can sound better, if it´s based on a Direct Stream Digital or an analogue studio master. The Super Bit Mapping Direct process can be used to down-convert to the 16-bit CD format, which enables you to hear more of the original master. So by all means, enjoy this disc on a standard CD player. But for an unforgettable audio experience, you have really got to hear it on a new Super Audio CD player. The Opus 3 label needs no introduction to most audiophiles as this Swedish company has been around for a very long time - issuing high quality performances with amazing sound to appeal not only to the audio freak among us, but to music collectors as well. This listing is for a very rare audiophile Hybrid SACD title - a FACTORY SEALED Hybrid SACD (can be played on all types of CD players) PRESSED and ISSUED by Opus 3 Music of a highly collectible title from the Opus 3 catalog - a great jazz music title featuring - Eva TaylorEva Taylor, vocals Tomas Ornberg Bent Persson Jens "Jesse" Lindgren Andreas Heymowski Hans Hultman-Boye Goran Stachewsky Lennart Bohm Margaretha Thalen Hybrid SACD Title - The Legendary Eva Taylorwith Maggies Blue Five - "Live At The Pawnshop"Track Listing -1. Everybody Loves My Baby 2. I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate 3. I Found A New Baby 4. Papa De-Da-Da 5. Cake Walkin' Babies From Home 6. Of All The Wrongs You've Done To Me 7. Are They Pickin' On Your Baby 8. Mandy, Make Up Your Mind 9. High Society 10. I'm A Little BlackbirdThe Hybrid SACD is from the ultra-rare OPUS 3 Music series of audiophile HYBRID Multichannel SACDs. Hybrid SACD catalog # CD 22071Hybrid SACD - plays on all SACD and CD playersHybrid SACD made in GERMANY Hybrid SACD issued in 2007 The Hybrid SACD, JEWEL CASE AND INSERTS are all assumed to be n MINT overall condition as this item is actually FACTORY SEALED! This CD is an audiophile quality pressing (any collector of fine MFSL, half speeds, direct to discs, Japanese/UK pressings etc., can attest to the difference a quality pressing can make to an audio system). Do not let this rarity slip by!

Price: 49.99 USD

Location: New York, New York

End Time: 2024-04-22T12:02:35.000Z

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OPUS 3 Hybrid SACD-22071: Eva Taylor Live At The Pawnshop - GERMANY 2007 SEALED

Item Specifics

All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted

Features: Made in GERMANY, DSD - Direct Stream Digital, FACTORY SEALED, Audiophile Collectible Hybrid SACD, Pictures are of the ACTUAL ITEM, Hybrid SACD issued in 2007, Limited Edition, Special Edition, Enhanced, Import, Remastered, SACD

Catalog Number: SACD-22071

Custom Bundle: No

MPN: OPUS 3 Hybrid SACD-22071

Format: CD (SACD)

Modified Item: No

Occasion: none

Era: 2000s

Country/Region of Manufacture: Germany

Material: Polycarbonate

Edition: Hybrid SACD, Collector's Edition, Deluxe Edition, Limited Edition

Record Label: OPUS 3

Case Type: Jewel Case: Standard