Higher resolution Jazz

Look for the Concord recordings made at Penny Lane studios in NYC with Ed Trabanco as engineer.There was a run of a few years that Concord did most of their NYC based recordings with this studio and this engineer. Sensational,organic,living,breathing recordings that capture the music in all it's acoustic splendor.A good one to start with is the Gerry Mulligan/Scott Hamilton-"soft lights and sweet music",great music and a recording that captures it perfectly.
Stepping back into the time machine...Most of the Japanese produced albums,notably Eastwind and Atlas from the 70's and 80's were carefully miked in the studio and the musicians played what they wanted to and it was a notable combination.
How will the ECM recordings stand up to time? They are like sonic icebergs to me and steer my boat clear of them,and I do own some but the music sounds frozen,they had a good long run,now those lp's seem to find their way into the bargain bins.Time has a way of sorting things out.

"Older Jazz recordings are of poor quality".......?
In the 1950 film "Sunset Blvd." Struggling screenwriter Joe Gillis meets the former silent film star Norma Desmond,"you used to be big". Desmond replies,"I am BIG,it's the PICTURES that got small".
Vintage Jazz recordings just keep getting bigger and bigger,it's just the I pods and DACS that got small.

Pity that "Jazz at the Pawnshop" performance turned out like grandma's jello mold.Arne Domnerus (alto saxophone) and Bengt Hallberg (piano) are so much better than that recording portrays. Both were leading lights of Swedish Jazz since the 50's.Domnerus(d.2008) was an exceptional player with a distinctive sound and Hallberg (d.2013) was a true world class pianist.
Both were firmly rooted in the Bop tradition and as they became older they leaned more to a refined,mainstream formula.
Sadly,they WILL be judged by this one performance that says nothing about a distinctive and unusual approach to Jazz and improvisation that is based on the Swedish "Folksong" tradition, and can be heard on many of their other recordings and other recordings by Swedish artists.
What truly sets these musicians apart from most other international Jazz artists is their ability to integrate the haunting and forlorn quality of much of this Swedish music and base their compositions around these distinct melodies.Baritone saxophonist Lars Gullin may be the best example with his "Danny's Dream" for metronome Records in the 1950's.This performance was filled with great emotion, austerity and a profound detachment that merges with the visual images of Bergman's "Seventh Seal" from the same period.Like American Jazz,it defines a national Art experience,and a story of a time and a place.
OK,Back to higher resolution Jazz,and better than that,back to Mono.