Max Roach – We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite

This first and definitive edition, being licensed from Max Roach, benefits from not being processed or altered. A wider stereo image than this edition, Max Roach - We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite. and more space between the instruments. Primal, raging, essential.

This edition, too, is a needle drop, but unlike the early West German(same digital transfer)no barcode edition, this is wide open, and does not suffer from peak distortion. Likely taken from acetate disc.

Disappointingly, this edition is a needle drop, most likely from acetate disc, and is, unfortunately, compressed, and suffers from peak distortion throughout.

This edition utilizes the same source as this early edition, Max Roach - We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite, but has been mastered through the 20bitK2 SuperCoding process. Everything has been brought to the fore and centred. A different but worthy edition. The percussion work on this album informs so much going forward, especially this, M'Boom Re:percussion Ensemble. It's important to note that somewhere along the way artists started taking their master tapes rather than leaving them to the mercy of corporate execs, so the pilfering of those priceless reels has been going on for a very long time.

Grabbed this after listening to a friends recent 2022 recent rsd release of this on candid. There is no comparison between the two. This pressing presents a better remaster and a better pressing. I gotta say, I’ve never heard a bad pure pleasure release. Great stuff

It's a nice version. Sounds really good but it's pretty quiet.

Not centered and has background noise. These seem to be on markdown at a few places, could be a good deal if found for cheap but I wouldn’t pay more than $12

These Candid reissues have been very disappointing due to poor pressing. Lots of surface noise on both sides of the record. I recommend the Pure Pleasure release which is still in print, and pressed at Pallas.

It's insane how many great albums are being reissued by this bootleg,-label DOL. I almost hestitated. But I will look for an original and legal reissue.

Lot of noise on first track. Not the best pressing. Otherwise, great sound.