Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Billie Holiday Available Now
One of our good customers had this to say about some Hot Stampers he purchased recently:
Hey Tom,
Wow. Such crystalline clarity. Such range. It filled my room with champagne. Heretofore, only on 78s did [Billie Holiday’s] voice sound so authentic and dramatically expressive. Brilliant copy. Thank you.
Phil
I expected our amazing sounding original seen below to win the shootout, but it didn’t!
It sounds as bad as any fake stereo record I can remember playing. What were they thinking?
Naturally, the highest quality vocal reproduction has to be the main focus on a Hot Stamper pressing for any Billie Holiday record we would offer. Her voice should be rich and tubey, yet clear, breathy and present.
In addition to being tonally correct and natural, the pressings we offer must also be highly resolving. With the right room and the right equipment, properly set-up and adjusted of course, you will hear everything that these vintage recordings have to offer, including the three-dimensional space of the studios in which the various sessions were recorded, under the auspices of Norman Granz.
The Sound of the Original
The original Trumpet Player Verve mono we had on hand to play suffered from an EQ problem we run into frequently in our shootouts for vintage vocal albums. Actually, to be clear, there were two main problems in the case of All or Nothing At All: a boosted midrange and occasional sibilance issues. (more…)