I've been listening again to some of the cuts from Jim's album "Gentleman Jim". I have not listened to it in a while, but each song was as fresh and clean and captivating as ever. Some great songs on that album. If you have it, or can get on YouTube, I suggest you take a listen. Its one of my favorite records.
Re: Gentleman Jim album
Posted by Tim Leggett on April 13, 2023, 12:13 pm, in reply to "Gentleman Jim album"
It is indeed one of my favorites also. The album cover picture is perfect also.
Yes,a great album,and still holds up well after almost 60 years. And the songs are far better than anything recorded today or in recent years. That certainly says a lot, and that's because a talent like Jim was blessed with could never be forgotten. Interesting to note that the 16-CD Bear set has unspliced versions of some master recordings. It is definitely the masters, but if you listen very closely, you can hear a few slight differences in certain words on some songs. For example, the very last line in the song "What's In It For Me": ...but what's life without your love...". Jim stretches out the word "your" longer on the Bear set than in the master on the "Moonlight And Roses" album. Back in Jim's day, mistakes in recordings could be what they called "punched in". A word or an entire line could be re-recorded and spliced into the master. Jim can be seen doing this in the rough studio B film footage recording the song "Blue Canadian Rockies". I could hear a fault in the horns at the very end of the song, but Jim doesn't point this out. He simply asks to do the last line over, as if the fault was his own. A true gentleman. And I could tell that the re-recording of this line is what's heard on the master. Jim was a perfectionist and it showed in the final results of every recording he did. Today- let's face it- music is rush released just to make as much money as possible. This method certainly has nothing to do with quality...
Jim didn't say anything captured on the film shot that day in Studio B, but you can certainly see a dour expression on his face after one of the two trumpets hits a sour note on the ending! :)