Jazz At The Pawnshop Volume 2

Legendary audiophile recordings, now available on Super Audio CD.

Arne Domnérus, alto saxophone, clarinet
Bengt Hallberg, piano
Lars Erstrand, vibes
Georg Riedel, bass
Egil Johansen, drums

"...Today (1992) in my fifties, I can look back on over thirty years in the recording business, and I am thus also able to survey my whole career in a certain perspective. I recognize my quest for that tight and harmonious sound of those early records in my childhood. Maybe they have been there in my sub-conscience all the time, directing me in my "sound pictures" in a way that makes musicians feel comfortable. After years in multi-track studios with all their over-emphasis on the very latest technology, such as overdubbing and that painstaking splicing that nearly made me a legend, I simply, in the mid-seventies, withdrew to only two Neumann U47 microphones and a Nagra stereo recorder. For several years I recorded only folk music all over Scandinavia and - once - even in India! These recording activities have given me invaluable experiences of exposure to living sound in full dimensional stereo. I started to challenge myself in trying to focus the microphones so close to the music that I could catch the same recorded sound that I remembered from the old records. I said to myself; if they could do it over 60 years ago with just one single microphone it must be possible for us with our utterly sophisticated technology also..."
(Gert Palmcrantz, Recording Engineer)