Past Perfect is an imprint of TIM The International Music Company AG, a German company that specializes in multi-disc sets of unlicensed recordings by vintage artists, taking advantage of the 50-year copyright limit on recordings in Europe. Past Perfect's Hall of Fame series presents five-CD box sets that, as the cover note claims, "incl. 40 page booklet." Thus, here we have more than four and a quarter hours of early Sarah Vaughan, recordings made between 1946 and 1954 (the compilers having cheated a little bit on that 50 ...
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Past Perfect is an imprint of TIM The International Music Company AG, a German company that specializes in multi-disc sets of unlicensed recordings by vintage artists, taking advantage of the 50-year copyright limit on recordings in Europe. Past Perfect's Hall of Fame series presents five-CD box sets that, as the cover note claims, "incl. 40 page booklet." Thus, here we have more than four and a quarter hours of early Sarah Vaughan, recordings made between 1946 and 1954 (the compilers having cheated a little bit on that 50-year limit). The material has been transferred from records originally released by such labels as Musicraft, Columbia, MGM, and Mercury (as well as the Mercury jazz subsidiary EmArcy). The booklet does indeed run 40 pages, and the 30 of those pages devoted to prose are closely printed. But the unsigned biographical essay is an odd one, and not only because the phrasing is sometimes stilted (as if it had been written in a language other than English and then translated), but also because it contains factual errors, and the text and other credits are littered with typos, misspellings, and other minor errors. (For the All Music Guide, the song titles, songwriting credits, and musician credits have been augmented and corrected by reference to the book Sarah Vaughan: A Discography, compiled by Denis Brown, Greenwood Press, 1991, but the buyer should be warned not to rely on any of the information in the package.) Also, the track selection and sequencing is haphazard, with two recordings, "The Nearness of You" and "Can't Get Out of This Mood," being repeated. Sound quality and sound volume vary wildly. Needless to say, a jazz fan looking for a comprehensive box set of Vaughan's work with coherent commentary should look elsewhere. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi
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