Sophisticated Lady, Vol. I

Sophisticated Lady, Vol. I by the Sophisticated Lady Jazz Quartet pays homage to the Great Tradition of American Jazz but most of their repertoire is written by members of the quartet.

Unlike the majority of contemporary jazz recordings, which are carefully and surgically perfected in post production, this album remains raw and fresh. These tracks are complete takes, “Live to Analog Tape,” without editing.

Yarlung recorded this album directly to two tracks of RMGI 468 analog tape running at 15 ips, with no mixer. They used the Hapi converter and Pyramix software from Merging Technologies in Switzerland to make these transfers to Stereo DSD 256. Sincere thanks to George Klissarov and exaSound for making this release possible.