Search - Karrin Allyson :: Sweet Home Cookin (Hybr)

Beautiful phrasing

02/15/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I first heard Karrin Allyson on Piano Jazz on NPR. I didn't get the her name at first, so I spent the next three weeks trying to figure out who she was.I was so impressed with her voice that I bought a portable CD player and a car adopter just so I could listen to this album at my work and in my car.She has a sweet voice, but her phrasing is exquisite. Because of her, my 9 year old son has become a jazz fan, and "Yeh Yeh" is one of his favorite tracks."

Enjoyable vocal jazz, but NOT FOR STEREO SACD setups.

Hangya | Hungary, Europe | 07/05/2005

(3 out of 5 stars)

"This vocal jazz album of Karrin Allyson is enjoyable enough to be recommended to anyone with a taste for this musical style. This is a Hybrid SACD with three different layers. A multichannel SACD layer, a Stereo SACD layer, and a normal CD layer. The quality of the normal CD layer is not the best, high freqencies are somewhat muted, which robs the performance of much of its original spark. The multichannel SACD layer sounds a lot better, but you need a multichannel setup to play that correctly. There is problem, however, with the Stereo SACD layer, which is not of SACD quality, but it simply seems to be the copy of the content of the CD layer in SACD coding. (No kidding.) So if your equipment is stereo SACD only, BE WARNED, the quality of the Stereo SACD layer is very far below from what one would expect from a proper SACD recording."