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Stephane Grappelli

/McCoy

Tyner: "One

on One"

Label: Milestone

Produced by:

Eric Miller

Engineered

by: Rick Rowe

Digital

editing and transfers:

David Luke

Recorded at:

BMG Studio B

Mastered

by: George Horn, Fantasy

(Ber-

keley,

CA)

SPARS

Code: DDD

Comments:

This was recorded direct

to

Mitsubishi

X -80. It is basically

an album

of jazz

standards, all recorded with

just this

duo. Grappelli's playing

is enjoyable and

high-

spirited as usual;

Tyner's is sensitive

and

harmonically interesting

without call-

ing attention

away from

Grappelli.

Of

special interest: With

only two in-

struments playing,

the engineering

be-

comes

critical because everything

can be

heard.

The sounds

are captured smooth-

ly and

evenly. The subtle use

of

reverb

and

the

stereo imaging

on the piano are

ex-

cellent.

16 R E

P December

1990

Michael

Hedges: "Taproot"

Label:

Windham

Hill

Produced

by: Michael Hedges

Recorded

by: Michael Hedges and Stanley

Johnston

Assisted by: Hilleary Burgess,

Bryan Lans-

er, Steven Miller

Recorded at:

Speech & Hearing Clinic (Men-

docino, CA); the Record Plant

Mastered by: Bernie

Grundman

SPARS Code: AAD

Comments:

Brilliant and

diverse musi-

cal performance ranks this Windham Hill

recording with the highest

artforms from

this

artist to date. The "upfront" nature of

the mix (re: foreground and stereo field

positioning) is accompanied by tasteful,

yet not quite daring use of digital FX. Wit-

ness

the

nice touch of chorused reverber-

ation

on

"Ritual Dance

:'

Michael

Hedges

Of particular interest: The inventive

nature and performance of the TransTrem

guitar should prove positively exciting for

the fretted musician

and

listener.

Although

the compressed nature of this electric

(or

is

it electrified ?)

instrument

detracts from

the dynamic nature of Hedges' perform-

ance, the

accuracy of

the radical tuning

and scalar changes compensate for the

amplitude deficiencies.

Randy Travis:

"Heroes

and

Friends"

Label: Warner Bros.

Produced by: Kyle Lehning

Engineered by: Joseph Bogan, Tom Knox,

Kyle Lehning, Elliot Scheiner, Marshall Morgan

Mixed by: Kyle Lehning

Recorded at: Nightingale,

OmniSound,

Masterfonics, Javelina,

GroundStar Laborato-

ries (Nashville);

Ocean Way (Los Angeles); Mor-

ningstar Sound Studio

(Hendersonville, TN);

RMS

Studios (Las

Vegas)

Mastered by:

Doug Sax, Alan Yoshida, the

Mastering Lab (Los Angeles)

SPARS Code: AAD

Comments: An immediately likable

and thoroughly satisfying

effort from

country's best

new

traditionalist. Although

all -duet albums may seem gimmicky, Tra-

vis pulls this

off because of his sincerity

and enthusiasm for the material. The

en-

gineering is straight ahead

and clean. Tra-

vis

sings with Willie Nelson,

Conway

Twit -

ty,

George Jones, Loretta Lynn and

others.

Of special interest: With eight differ-

ent recording

environments,

the

potential

for a sonically

disjointed album is high, but

Lehning pulls it all together with consis-

tent and musical

mixes. Chet Atkins

reprises

his

role

as acoustic guitarist and

background singer on the Dolly Parton

tune "Do I Ever Cross Your Mind" (re-

corded on the RCA album "Chet and

Friends" 15 years ago).

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