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Title: Finally, you can hear the damn thing!
Review: I previously owned the 1987 CD set, and it suffered from really muffled sound. This remaster improves on that a great deal, and is a lot cheaper than the 4 CD box set of the complete sessions. The bottom end, the drums, the piano, Bennie Maupin's bass clarinet -- you can hear everything now.On the minus side, purists will probably be offended by a pretty radical remixing job. There were a few parts where I did a double-take from the difference. (Particularly some of the echo trumpet on "Pharaoh's Dance".) I personally don't think the differences matter though -- this album kicks a** through and through.If you're getting this album for the first time, make sure it's the 1999 edition. Buy it, you won't regret it.
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