Boz Scaggs - But Beautiful, Standards: Volume 1
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Artist: Boz ScaggsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-05-06
Music Label: Gray Cat Records
Soundtracks:
- What's New
- Never Let Me Go
- How Long Has This Been Going On?
- Sophisticated Lady
- But Beautiful
- Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
- Easy Living
- I Should Care
- You Don't Know What Love Is
- For All We Know
Music reviews of But Beautiful, Standards: Volume 1
Music Review: Thumbs Down on the percussions
Rating: 3 Stars
Concerning one reviewer who mentioned about shooting the drummer. Better alternative is probably to find a different studio. One reviewer mentions the drummer being one of the best from the Bay area. Well, the results don't show it! I agree with other reviewers who complain about this aspect of the recording. Anybody suggesting otherwise should listen to better jazz recordings and pay close attention to percussions.
With any great jazz vocalists like Joe Williams, Ella Fitzgerald or Shirley Horn, you can hear the percussions are there to support the vocalist - excluding the solo passages. This recording ignores the possibilty that the audience is more likely interested to hear Boz Scaggs - not the best drummer from the Bay area!
Without variation the percussions sound as loud and up-front as the vocalist. This IMHO ruins an otherwise fine recording. What was the engineer thinking and how could Boz Scaggs let this thing go out the door?
On the vocals aspect, Boz Scaggs's voice is still enjoyable to listen. The interpretation and phrasing on some of the well known jazz ballads sound a bit hollow and he does not sing like he believes in the lyrics but his voice is still euphonic and romantic as ever. Transparency of the vocals and the instruments are good but the percussion work is out of step from rest of the music. It is obtrusive, artificial and behaves like it wants to stick it in your face. Many of the tracks have this annoying brush noise like FM static.
No doubt, with better audio equipment the listener will hear the brush work with more realism - I just question the way it is put together. Probably the best track is number 7 which has no percussions.
I listened to this CD number of times and I find it enjoyable if I can block out the annoyances. Each time I have to make an effort to ignore the percussion work - played like some amateur is practising on a Casio keyboard.
I hope Boz Scaggs finds another studio and drummer for future projects to do justice to his fine talent.
The other day I listened to 'Middle Man' from Boz Scaggs which is by far more superior in terms of audio engineering. Some of the tracks sound a bit dated but as a whole, it still shines as high quality pop+rock material. I was curious and read the insert to find out that it was digitially remastered by Doug Sax. If you don't know who he is just check out the 'The Weavers Reunion at Carnegie Hall: 1963 [LIVE]'. This is a legendary recording and even if you are not a fan of American Folk, you will enjoy the whole package (music+performance+audio quality).
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