Neither of these records is worth owning. The sound is at best mediocre, as is the music.

Bud Shank recorded a large number of “white bread” jazz albums as a leader. The music on these albums is worthless.

He of course played on many of our favorite albums as a sideman.

We play mediocre-to-bad sounding pressings so that you don’t have to, a public service from your record-loving friends at Better Records.

You can find this one in our Hall of Shame, along with others that — in our opinion — are best avoided by audiophiles looking for hi-fidelity sound. Some of these records may have passable sonics, but we found the music less than compelling.  These are also records you can safely avoid.

We also have an Audiophile Record Hall of Shame for records that were marketed to audiophiles for their putatively superior sound. If you’ve spent

much time on this blog, you know that these records are some of the worst sounding pressings we have ever had the misfortune to play.

We routinely play them in our Hot Stamper Shootouts against the vintage records that we offer, and are often surprised at just how bad an “audiophile record” can sound and still be considered an “audiophile record.”