Lincoln Mayorga and Distinguished Colleagues

Product as described and timely shipment.

This album became a classic, one-of-a-kind performance a long time ago. The sound quality is spectacular, although not quite as good as my original, super-hi-fi, vinyl album (if your sound system is good enough, the vinyl will always sound better).I bought this CD for use in my car (which has a really excellent sound system). It absolutely rocks! and it makes my car audio system sound spectacular!

Always a fan of these albums, I got them as LPs when they were released in the '70s. It's nice to have the convenience and sonic clarity of CDs (as great as the albums sounded, surface noise was always a culprit.) For the drummers out there, Jim Gordon and Jim Keltner really shine on these tracks!

I had the original vinyl for this, and it is so nice to have a CD of the same music on a CD. This is a favorite selection of tunes done incredibly well by LM and Colleagues. Makes me smile every time I play it! Great vendor! Thank you!

Some interesting things to note. I have treasured my copy of "Volume III" since I bought it direct from Sheffield in the '70s. As far as I know, this has never appeared on CD before so I thought I'd take a listen to this. To my surprise, although the songs are the same, it's not the same "take" that is on the LP. Obviously the musicians played the songs more than once, and both were recorded -- what's not clear is if the take on the CD was also cut to vinyl. There could be different versions of the vinyl floating around for all I know.Similarly, Volume II was previously released on CD (Sheffield CD-S10), but it was also a different take from the vinyl -- at least the vinyl copy *I* have. Ironically, the version of Volume II that appears on THIS CD is the same take that's on my original vinyl. Talk about confusing!As for the sound quality, I must agree with the disappointment of others. Discounting surface noise, the vinyl copies are better -- most notably for me in the area of bass. The bass drum on the vinyl has a nice, round, thump -- the CD version is lacking in the lower-frequency components. This is very evident at the end of "Limehouse Blues" on Volume II -- there are two final bass drum kicks that are positively thunderous on the vinyl version, but a muted thud on the CD. The low frequency components are not there. It completely lacks the thrill of the LP. Same for the bass and drum solo potion of "Camarillo" (Volume III) beginning at around 2:15. It sounds incredible on the vinyl, but just "okay" on CD. It would be fine for anyone that hadn't heard the LP, but disappointing to those who knew how it SHOULD sound.

This CD is a jewel. It contains the very rare S9 album (Volume 1), the LP version price of which is priced like gold. Volumes II and III are also in this CD.

Read other reviews It about 2-3 star. Yes it is FLAT. The only reason I got it was to get vol 1. When I got the LP I worked in acoustics and used our labs equipment to measure frequency responses. You can hear each player and background of people in the room. With this CD there is little above 8k, It was supposed to be recorded of the LP. Where other CD were made of the 2 track tape made the same time as lathe cut the master, there have a good dynamic range unlike this.

This is a digital remake of one of a group of fantastic Sheffield albums recorded direct to disc in the '70s by lincoln Majorga and some very talented musicians and vocalists.Since the originals were recorded directly to a master disc with no tape tape master in between for well meaning engineers to mess with,these records were the closest thing to a live performance I've ever heard and sonically brilliant.They were very expensive at about $18 per album...an incredible amount for a vinyl LP in 1975. Unfortunately,The advent of the digital CD pretty much did in Sheffield. As my records wore out, I tried to replace them but this album:Lincoln Mayorga and Distinguished Colleagues,is not nearly as good as the original nor are the other Sheffield CD replacements. I don't why but I suspect that the meticulous recording techniques used for the original direct to disc recordings such as close miking everything...even putting microphones inside drums and pianos had a lot to do with the live sound of the original but didn't adapt well bto digital remastering.If I had never heard the original, I might be happy with this album.