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Numbered, Limited Edition Hybrid SACD! Mastered from Original Master Tapes!
1969 Double-Album Debut Broke the Ground for Rock, Pop, and Jazz Fusion
Mastered from the Original Master Tapes: Longtime Audiophile Favorite NowPossesses Reference-Caliber Separation, Tonalities, Balance
Instrumental Interplay and Dialogues Between Musicians Yield Unprecedented SonicSynthesis
Includes the Hits Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?, Beginnings,Questions 67 and 68
As the Sixties prepared to give way to the Seventies, a myriad of artistsexplored the idea of fusing together several seemingly disparate styles. Yet noband bridged so many gaps and did so with such precision, vision, and skill asChicago. One of the only groups to ever release a debut filled with suchambition, greatness, and enthusiasm that it got the go-ahead to make adouble-album, the ensemble parlayed jazz, classical, rock, and pop elements intoan eclectic blend that appealed equally to both mainstream tastes as well ashardcore music aficionados. The set also launched the ongoing career of thesecond-most commercially successful American rock band in history.
Mastered from the original master tapes, Mobile Fidelitys hybrid SACD lavishesChicago Transit Authority with a clarity, transparency, and detail no previousdigital edition has ever enjoyed. Pulling back the curtain on the recordings,this collectors version exponentially expands the soundstaging dimensions,imaging proportions, and dynamic information, allowing the songs to breathe andenjoy a roominess that enhances the stellar interplay and complex arrangements.Everything from tautly sculpted material such as Listen to the adventurous,free-form 14-plus-minute Liberation emerges anew, anchored by lifeliketonalities, full-range frequency responses, and stellar balances.
Featuring a virtuosic lineup that counted a trombonist, trumpeter, keyboardist,guitarist, drummer, bassist, woodwind expert, and several vocalists, Chicagoperuses territory on its multiplatinum 1969 effort that remains singular inexecution and delivery. Here, hard-driving rock gets paired with a similarlyforceful power brass section that yields energetic aural cross-sections thatmarry loose improvisation and focused creativity like nothing heard before.
Chicago Transit Authority has its cake and eats it, too, traversing bothavant-garde approaches and pop techniques. Such pioneering methods earned thegroup three hitsDoes Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?, Im a Man, andQuestions 67 and 68all longtime standards. Breaking down borders, the unifiedjazz and R&B strains speak to compositional possibilities that, arguably,initiated fusions entrance into the mainstream.
An entrenched sense of chemistry and cohesion is tethered to the landmarksongwriting. Peter Ceteras high tenor voice, Terry Kaths trailblazing guitar,and the horn sections colorful accents function as a whole, not independentlyof one another. Indeed, its this amalgamation of such unified playing andpersonality that comes across with unprecedented vibrancy on Mobile FidelitysGold CD. And its why Chicago Transit Authority is a must for fans of jazz,rock, pop, and/or R&B.
Also Available from Chicago on Mobile Fidelity SACD:
ChicagoII (MOBSA2133), and ChicagoVI (MOBSA2132)
Features:
Super Audio CD
SACD Stereo SACD Layer
This Hybrid SACD contains a ‘Red Book’ Stereo CD Layer which is playable on most conventional CD Players!
Numbered, Limited Edition
Mastered From Original Master Tapes
Selections:
1. Introduction
2. Does Anybody Know What Time It Is?
3. Beginnings
4. Questions 67 and 68
5. Listen
6. Poem 58
7. Free Form Guitar
8. South Carolina Purples
9. I’m a Man
10. Prologue (August 29, 1968)
11. Someday (August 29, 1968)
12. Liberation
