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Are female jazz vocals one genre or two? It was time to stop classroom grading and start appreciating the Sasha Vs on their own merits. A longtime go-to for me and others is Ella Fitzgerald’s definitive album Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!, from 1961. My LP copy is a fine, 200gm vinyl remaster from the late Classic Records (Verve V6-4053). The standout heartbreaker here has to be “Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most.” Listening to the Sasha Vs, I heard more subtle interplay between the softly mixed piano and the guitar than I’ve heard before. As for Ella, there was much velvet skin on the bone as she descended step by step from the first to the last statements of the refrain. When she lands on the word “most,” she is in alto territory, an E-flat below middle C. Delicious!

Sure, I’ve got some hard rock. I had preordered the four-LP box set of the freshly remastered Who’s Next (Polydor/UMC 35858531). The first LP is the original album, sequenced as it was released. The other three LPs contain a complete live performance by The Who at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium, on December 13, 1971. The live recording allowed me to continue playing my very own version of “Where’s Waldo?” I was there for that show, presented by Bill Graham, but I had never heard any of it on record until now. Glyn Johns, who mixed the studio album, was on hand to record the live performance to 16-track tape using the Wally Heider remote truck.

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