Max Roach - We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite FLAC

I have to respectfully disagree with the previous reviewer: the sound on Candid's CD reissue is pretty bad, you can hear the cracks and pops, and sometimes there's also the sort of irritating distortion you get with vinyl rips. Even though this album was originally released by Candid, it seems that at some point they've lost their original master tapes, so they were forced to release it on CD as a vinyl rip. And every other subsequent CD reissue released in UK/USA/Europe appears to be based on that original 1990 vinyl rip by Candid, so they all have the same sound problems. The only CD version I've come across that isn't a vinyl rip is the Japanese reissue by Victor; the liner notes to that Japanese CD say that it was remastered from Max Roach's personal master tapes. Since it isn't a vinyl rip, the Victor CD sounds *much* better than the other reissues. So it seems that Candid lost the original master tapes, and while Max Roach still had his personal masters, for some reason Candid didn't or couldn't use those for their reissue, so they had to do a vinyl rip, and only Victor's Japanese reissue is made from the actual master tapes. If you want to hear this seminal album on CD with proper sound, I wouldn't recommend buying any other reissue except the one by Victor. Seems like it hasn't been added to the database yet, I'll try to do that when I have the time.