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These Quadromania sets are verrrry worthy!!

Emmett Miller | AUSTIN, TX USA | 04/11/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I've purchased 4 items from this series (Milt Jackson, Sonny Rollins, Art Tatum and Bud Powell), and I must admit first off, the sound quality is impeccable with the HDCD high-end type remastering (96/24) that blew me away! The colorful holograms, and smartly packaged styling are another great eye-catcher. Dont look for any booklets or photos within these sets, they're just original classics (masters?) from the heydays of jazz and beebop! Less than $10 for a package of nearly 80 classics on some of these sessions, impeccably remastered, you cant go wrong! NOTE: if you search Amazon for the word QUADROMANIA, you'll see a motherlod of fine jazz and classic boxed sets cheaply priced, and worthy of every cent! Gimme more!!"

Fleeting fingers

Matthew Watters | Vietnam | 05/04/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Compilations and greatest hits packages are typically anathema to jazz fans, but, as the other reviewer notes, the German record label Membran has almost made compilations hip again with the very cool Quadromania sets, which include smartly-chosen material that digs deep on a session-by-session basis while also slotting nicely between other albums available by these artists. Unlike most other compilations, which are frequently merely redudent, Quadromania sets fit nicely even into fairly extensive jazz collections. What the other review fails to do, however, is specifically address the music in this Art Tatum set, which is a lovingly chosen mix of solo piano, piano-guitar-bass trios and small-group material dating from the mid-1930s through 1953, with all of disc three devoted to trios recorded in 1944 and all of disc four to solos set down in 1953. Tatum is just breathtaking throughout, playing with lightning speed and astonishing invention and making lavish use of those full-keyboard arpeggios that Monk would later patent. Usually just hinting at the themes of tunes before launching into these astonishing improvisations, Tatum was able to switch from stride to two-handed workouts to making the piano sound almost like he's strumming it. It'll bring tears to your eyes."