Format: SACD

These amazingly talented musicians with nerves of steel are: Thilo Wagner - piano, Jean-Philippe Wadle – upright bass, Florian Hermann - drums. They played Gershwin, celebrating and improvising this music breathtakingly – and swinging!

There are several ways to approach such a project. They decided to go strictly analog. To maintain this cohesion, They kept all recording paths, the mix and the signal path to the cutting head of VMS-80 cutting lathe analog.

Hans-Jörg Maucksch, Christian Struck, and Günter Pauler adjust the Direct-to-Disc mixes with the SONOSAX mixing desks - both analog - before the first direct cut.

What makes the result particularly interesting is the splitting of the analog stereo sum into three destinations. In addition to the direct analog signal for DMM cutting, they converted the mix into highest-grade DSD format (DIRECT STREAM DIGITAL/2,8224 MHz) - using a 1-bit converter - and into conventional digital audio format, 16-bit/44.1 kHz PCM, as well.

This SACD (DSD 2channel-layer) also contains a CD-hybrid-layer. This seems to be the first opportunity ever available to compare three formats originating from the same analog source and transferred unaltered into two digital formats.

Tracklisting:

1 Oh, Lady Be Good    8:50

2 Embraceable You    4:47

3 Strike Up The Band    3:47

4 Our Love Is Here To Stay    7:14
5 The Man I Love    7:05
6 I Got Rhythm    5:18

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