First Time! The Count Meets The Duke (Redux)
There are few moments in jazz when history doesn’t just move forward, it pauses, turns back, and salutes itself. First Time! The Count Meets The Duke is one of those rare occasions. Recorded in July 1961 at Columbia’s famed 30th Street Studio in New York City and released the following year, the album brought together two orchestras that had written the very grammar of swing: the Count Basie Orchestra and the Duke Ellington Orchestra. The 30th Street Studio, a converted church with high ceilings and remarkable natural acoustics, was the perfect setting for such a summit. The mood was reverent but charged. Everyone in the room understood that this wasn’t merely a session, it was an event. Engineers and producers knew they were preserving a moment when two dynasties of jazz would share the same stage.
Artist(s): Orchestra – Count Basie Orchestra, The Duke Ellington Orchestra
Duke Ellington, Count Basie – piano
Cat Anderson, Willie Cook, Eddie Mullens, Ray Nance, Sonny Cohn, Lennie Johnson, Thad Jones, Snooky Young – trumpet
Lou Blackburn, Lawrence Brown, Henry Coker, Quentin Jackson, Benny Powell – trombone
Juan Tizol – valve trombone
Jimmy Hamilton – clarinet, tenor saxophone
Johnny Hodges – alto saxophone
Russell Procope, Marshal Royal – alto saxophone, clarinet
Frank Wess – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute
Paul Gonsalves, Frank Foster, Budd Johnson – tenor saxophone
Harry Carney, Charlie Fowlkes – baritone saxophone
Freddie Green – guitar
Aaron Bell, Eddie Jones – bass
Sam Woodyard, Sonny Payne – drums
Recording Info: Producer – Teo Macero
Recorded at CBS Studio in New York, July 6, 1961
Sourced from a 4-track tape
Components used for Transfer: Analog: Transport - Nagra 4SJ modified with Flux Heads
Preamp - Custom Tape Pre-amp designed by Victor Khomenko of Balanced Audio Technology
Digital: Merging Hapi Analog to Digital Converter clocked by an Antelope Audio 10MX Atomic Clock
Software: Merging Pyramix v15
Power Conditioning: Shunyata Research Everest 8000 for all components
All components are grounded to Shunyata ALTAIRA Hubs
1 Battle Royal 5:43
2 To You 4:02
3 Take The "A" Train 3:54
4 Until I Met You 4:58
5 Wild Man 6:20
6 Segue In C 8:34
7 B D B 4:10
8 Jumpin' At The Woodside 3:18
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then the DXD edited master was used to generate the final DSD files using
Merging Technologies Album Publishing.
DXD (352.8KHz 24/32 bit PCM) is one of the best and least destructive formats for post-processing DSD originated digital recordings
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