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Red Norvo, Volume 2 by Red Norvo-Charles Mingus-Farlowe Trio - Amazon.com Music
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I bought this CD primarily to listen to Charles Mingus's first work with major players, but the transfer to CD is so bad that his bass is barely audible, and the overall sound is quite muddy for 1949-50 when the trio tracks, that are the meat of this CD, were recorded. Musically it isn't all that interesting either -- all the tracks are quite short, even for the '78 era.
This disc collects 30 transcription recordings of the Norvo/Mingus/Farlow trio, a great little combo that had tightly worked out arrangements and two first-class bebop soloists (Farlow and Mingus). The trio is a nice balance of elements that will appeal to fans of groups like the Gerry Mulligan-Chet Baker Quartet and the Oscar Peterson Trio featuring Herb Ellis and Ray Brown. It's chamber bebop--light and frothy, but definitely not mindless musical wallpaper.
While I have no problems in general with 78-era studio recordings or transcription discs, for this particular group, the lack of care in either microphone placement or some other aspect of the recording makes these records suffer. In particular, Mingus' bass is very distant, and Farlow's guitar amp sounds like there's a pillow in front of it (Tal Farlow's style doesn't benefit from rolling off the treble the way Jim Hall's style makes use of this effect--Farlow always used enough treble to make his fleet-fingered bop lines jump out of the amp). Hence, Norvo's vibes here become too prominent in the mix, and the arrangements don't come off as well because of these imbalances. Mingus is even less well served than Farlow.
While the single-disc "Savoy Sessions" collection from 1995 only has 20 songs to the 30 presented here (the last three on this disc are not the 1950s trio, but instead are vocal recordings from the early 1940s), the music on the Savoy disc is still to be recommended over this collection because it gives so much more vivid an impression of what this group could do. If you really like the group, you'll want both, but these transcriptions don't really do justice the sound this group achieved. The transcriptions are better than airchecks or audience recordings from this time, of course-I don't mean to imply that the CD is unlistenable. But you have to listen more closely and work on hearing the big picture.
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