Ella On Our Mind (2 Track Analog Recording)

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Ella On Our Mind (2 Track Analog Recording)

Label 2xHD

Artists The L.A. Network, Aubrey Logan, Bill Cantos, Chris Colangelo, Jamey Tate, Josh Nelson

€29,99 EUR

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Ella On Our Mind is the second release by The L.A. Network from 2xHD Mastering and Resonance Records. The album also features Aubrey Logan on Vocals and Trombone along with Bill Cantos on Vocals. As with the L.A. Network's first release, this is a new Analog Jazz Recording. It was recorded 'off-the-floor' in 2 Track Analog at 15 ips with no overdubs or edits. Using the purest audiophile analog techniques, this recording of Ella Fitzgerald's favorites. It captures the dynamics of singer, composer, and trombone player Aubrey Logan and composer, pianist, and singer Bill Cantos plus friends from the L.A. Network's outstanding pool of Jazz Musicians and Singers. Ella On Our Mind is available in Stereo DSD (up to DSD 1024) at the NativeDSD Music Store. It is a DSD Exclusive, Not Available on SACD release. NativeDSD Music also has The L.A. Network's first album, Dave Brubeck Redux, at the store (linked below). On August 6, 2021, NativeDSD Music released the first-ever commercially available music in Stereo DSD 1024. This album was one of those 6 very first albums. If you would like to give DSD 1024 listening a try, check out NativeDSD's sampler: 5 Tracks in DSD 1024 (also released on August 6, 2021).

Artists

The L.A. Network with Aubrey Logan & Bill Cantos Aubrey Logan - Vocals, Trombone Bill Cantos - Vocals, Keyboard, Piano (Tracks 2,4) Josh Nelson - Piano (Tracks 1,3,5,6,7) Chris Colangelo - Bass Jamey Tate - Drums

Tracklist

Total time: 32:16

1. Our Love Is Here To Stay

05:03

2. We'll Be Together Again

05:33

3. Lush Life

05:09

4. Hernando's Hideway

04:41

5. How Long Has This Been Going On

04:24

6. Too Darn Hot

03:09

7. Summertime

04:17

Additional Information

Label

2xHD

SKU

2XHDRE1168

Qualities

FLAC 96 kHz, DSD 64, DSD 128, DSD 256, DSD 512, DSD 1024, DXD 24 Bit, FLAC 192 kHz

Channels

2ch Stereo

Artists

The L.A. Network, Aubrey Logan, Bill Cantos, Chris Colangelo, Jamey Tate, Josh Nelson

Composers

Gershwin, Porter, Carrack, Ross, Adler, Strayhorn, Fischer, Lane

Genres

Jazz

Original Recording Format

Analog

Instruments

Bass, Drums, Keyboard, Piano

Release Date

April 30, 2020

Higher Rates Program
Not Available on SACD

Reviews

HiFi Critic

James Parker

As if to prove the ‘DSD is Analog’ maxim, this is an all-analog recording, released in a range of DSD Stereo formats, and the latest release from 2xHD. 2xHD is best-known for its remastering and releases in DSD of classic jazz recordings over the past five years.

The project, led by 2xHD’s André Perry and Resonance Records’ George Klabin, branched out late last year with new trio recordings of the Brubeck catalogue (Dave Brubeck Redux, 2XHDRE1162), and now follows up with a set paying tribute to Ella Fitzgerald.

Like the Brubeck set, this one was recorded ‘off the floor’, live and with no overdubs, onto 15ips analog tape in stereo, using a Nagra-T recorder modified with valve electronics and a custom-built carbon-fiber damped head-block, wired directly with silver cable to a valve preamp.

Transfer to DXD is via 2XHD’s custom ADC, with the whole mastering system powered by a super capacitor supply. All impressive stuff, and the performances more than live up to all the technology, with vocals by Aubrey Logan, who also plays trombone, and Bill Cantos, also on keyboards. Additional pianism is by Josh Nelson, who also played on the Brubeck set, while the engine room is Chris Colangelo on bass and Jamey Tate on sticks ’n’ skins.

It works, and spectacularly well, whether on the plaintive Lush Life or the swing of Too Darn Hot, with Logan channeling the younger Ella in an almost uncanny fashion, or the sultry reading of Hernando’s Hideaway.

Best of all, the recording has a wonderful immediacy and lack of artifice about it, and some fabulous musicianship.

Ella On Our Mind (2 Track Analog Recording)

Ella On Our Mind (2 Track Analog Recording)

€29,99 EUR

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