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long story made short, the version you have is basically the version engineer [and music-loving nuclear physicist] bill savory transcribed onto tape in 1950. with the crude tools he had back in the day [analog filtering and edit console consisting of oscilloscope, editing block, grease pencil, razor blade and adhesive tape], there were certain bits of the old phonographic recordings that were too worn or noisy to fix and too noisy to include, no digital noise reduction back then. so "sometimes i'm happy" (originally came after "don't be that way" which was the first track) and bits of "honeysuckle rose" were left out, the former because they also had to make room on the LP for other songs, and because of disc damage for the latter, as well as the 2nd-to-last song of the concert, "if dreams come true" - your 1986 columbia CD has the same limitations but they added some reverb to it in order to make it sound less like it was recorded in a telephone booth. so your version has more "space" or "air" in it but it's artificial. OTOH, the version i have [1999 columbia] is "more" complete but missing the parts i described due to the inept editing of it by its producer. your version is relatively veiled-sounding but at least isn't a punishment on the eardrums like the schaap version is. schaap said in the liner notes that "your ears are the best noise reduction system there is." which is nonsense esp. for those of us on the spectrum who tend to be incapable of ignoring loud noise. in 1993, 6 years before the 1999 remaster came out, sony released a CEDARed version of at least one song from the album, "sing sing sing," on a jazz compilation CD, it sounded much better which also puts the lie to the purists who say that any noise reduction "ruins the music."

Thank you for the explanation . I agree, I don't think all noise reduction is bad. It's certainly preferable to the obnoxious compression and limiting people use, and bass boost. I have a few jazz releases using CEDAR and don't have any major complaints about it. I also relate about not ignoring loud noise. Things tend to be sensory Heaven or sensory hell for us. At least that's the case for me.

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