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...just can't bring myself to buy a compact-disc player until I have something in writing that says that's the last thing they're going to invent," says comedian Rita Rudner. Sorry, Rita. Now there's a major new format to agonize over: digital audio tape. Sony's model DTC-75ES, the first mass-market DAT recorder available in the U.S., began arriving in stores last week...
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ: RECORDINGS 1930-1951 (Angel/EMI). This is the three-disc set to which posterity will turn to rediscover Horowitz's genius. In much of his later recording, musical lines are twisted into pretzels and strewn with the salt of neurotic fussiness. Here, both in large-scale major works (Liszt's Sonata in B minor) and smaller pieces (Chopin's mazurkas), the phenomenal technique and unmistakable sonority serve the music, rather than the other way around...
BUNK JOHNSON: THE KING OF THE BLUES (American Music). For New Orleans jazz purists, this may be the most eagerly awaited reissue of the past three decades. These classic 1944 sides -- first recorded on acetate and now available on compact disc -- capture the remarkable tone and timing of the man who was Louis Armstrong's early idol and whose comeback in the '40s helped launch a traditional-jazz revival...