The Sai Ghose Trio: E-Motion.The Sai See Statement of Additional Information. Ghose Trio: E-Motion. Recorded in 2003, at PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, Studios, Westwood, Massachusetts Westwood is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 14,117 at the 2000 census. History Westwood was first settled in 1640 and was part of the town of Dedham (it was originally called 'West Dedham') until it was officially incorporated . Engineer: Peter Kontrimas. 58+ minutes. Summit 399. Although the group performs nominally as a jazz trio The term trio in jazz usually refers to a group comprising a pianist, a double bass player and a drummer. The pianist is usually considered the leader of these trios, and trios are usually named after their pianist. (and did so in a review of their India Looking West album that I reviewed some time ago), four of the eight tracks also feature a saxophone, giving us a jazz quartet for half of the program. Ghose, who is of Indian descent, plays the piano in this program of moderately progressive jazz material, and that instrument, as well as the drums and bass, are very well integrated. The sax also sounds vibrant and realistic. The sound is also well blended across the front. While the piano is a bit forward sounding, it is nice to hear an instrument that does not sound overbearing. My Yamaha RX-Z1 receiver's "classical/ opera" DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive surround mode (which features a derived center feed from the L+R part of the mix) worked quite well with this material, transforming a good sounding presentation into a very realistic sounding one. Dolby Pro Logic See Dolby Surround. II (available from either the RX-Z1 in the main system or the Yamaha DVD-S1500 player temporarily installed in my middle system) was equally good, with the soundstage being somewhat tighter than what the Yamaha DSP version delivered. The Yamaha jazz-club simulations I tried with my middle system (which has the center speaker mounted too high up on the TV monitor for it to be effective with music-only source material) were surprisingly good sounding as well. |
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