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(Some musicians, in their peak years, made only truly perfect recordings, one after the other; the recorded heritage of jazz, it should be reëmphasized, is an inestimably great and vast treasure).
I've wondered for years — while feeling uncomfortable with the wondering — whether there are any "perfect recordings".
Perfect recordings, though, are shot through with some spiritual cement that never loses its adhesive power.
My colleague Sasha Frere-Jones's inspiring list of perfect recordings threw down an implicit gauntlet: he expressly excluded jazz.
In his list, Frere-Jones explains that his perfect recordings "had to have had an acute and lasting effect on the community of musicians".
When I spoke to Ben Sterling, of Cookies, for a piece in this week's Goings On About Town, we came upon the subject of perfect recordings.
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I'd like to read the perfect-recordings lists of writers and musicians who are inside the scene, who know what isn't yet known and who see the future of jazz.
What follows is a short list of what sound to me like perfect orchestral recordings.
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