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S.O.S.: Looking for the Next One

by John Kelman
September 12, 2013

With more and more archival “finds" hitting the shelves--real or virtual--it's becoming increasingly difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff. Just because an old, long considered lost recording has resurfaced doesn't inherently make it worthy of release: sometimes the sound isn't up to snuff--though, if it's a stellar performance, that can sometimes be forgiven--but other times, the performance itself is simply not that good. Sometimes a performance becomes lost for a reason.Not so with Looking for the ...