Press release | Audiophiles and music lovers alike have a special place in their hearts for classic jazz and standards, and Octave Records’ latest, Jazz Classics: 1950s from pianist/organist Tom Amend will be sure to delight with its inviting arrangements and stunning DSD sound quality. The album offers some of the most well-known jazz classics and standards of the 1950s, including Easy Living, Take Five, You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To, Round Midnight, and six others.
Jazz Classics: 1950s features Tom Amend on piano and Hammond B3 organ, vocalist Louisa Amend, Seth Lewis on upright bass, Braxton Kahn on drums, Gabriel Mervine playing trumpet, and Daryl Gott on alto saxophone. The playing is at turns passionate, relaxed, and always swinging. The sound is warm yet dynamic and detailed with extraordinary clarity, thanks to Octave Records’ Pyramix-based Pure DSD 256 high-resolution recording process, used with Neumann and Gefell condenser microphones and vacuum-tube Manley Labs mic preamps. The album was recorded, mixed and produced by Paul McGowan, with Terri McGowan and Jessica Carson assisting in the recording, mixing and production duties, and mastered by Gus Skinas.
Jazz Classics: 1950s features Octave’s premium gold disc formulation, and the disc is playable on any SACD, CD, DVD, or Blu-ray player. It also has a high-resolution DSD layer that is accessible by using any SACD player or a PS Audio SACD transport. In addition, the master DSD and PCM files are available for purchase and download, including DSD 256, DSD 128, DSD 64, and DSDDirect Mastered 352.8 kHz/24-bit, 176.2 kHz/24-bit, 88.2 kHz/24-bit, and 44.1 kHz/24-bit PCM. SRP 19 – 39 USD, depending on format.
About Octave Records
Octave Records was founded in 2019 to offer the finest-quality high-resolution recordings and compensate musicians fairly for their work using a business model where all production costs are paid for up front, allowing the musicians to directly share in sales revenues and retain ownership of their music. Chief engineer Gus Skinas has hundreds of recording credits and helped develop the state-of-the-art Sonoma pure-DSD recording system used exclusively by Octave Records.
About PS Audio
Founded in 1973, PS Audio has earned a worldwide reputation for excellence in manufacturing innovative, high-value, leading-edge audio products. Located in Boulder, Colorado at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, PS Audio’s staff of talented designers, engineers, production and support people build each product to deliver extraordinary performance and musical satisfaction. The company’s wide range of award-winning products include the all-in-one Sprout100 integrated amplifier, audio components, power regenerators and power conditioners.
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