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Title: Missed opportunity
Review: I too was gravely disappointed by the sound quality. I owned many of these tracks on the Everest label years ago. In fact, I'm glad I kept those LPs because I cannot find a CD reissue that can beat them for sound quality, particularly on the sessions he did with Charlie Parker. Now, documentation--that's a different matter. But here, Proper even cut off the first two notes of Dizzy's intro to "Blue and Boogie." That's just plain shoddy, and frankly unlistenable. It was really a let down, after being so excited to finally see the Dizzy/Parker sides (Shaw 'Nuff, etc.) on one set, only to hear what they had done to them.
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