None of these tracks from the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival and alternate takes from later Pablo sessions have been officially released before. Vaughan's voice was one of the richest musical instruments of our time. Her taste is flawless, her texture voluptuous, her facility almost scary. Accompanists include Richard Davis, Jimmy Rowles, Joe Pass and Roy Haynes. It is said that music has been reduced to engineering.
Musicians now spin the same knobs, flick the same switches and push the same buttons.
But the public does not seem to care if synthesized sound is ''true'' or not. We have become habituated to false. From the '70s, these remastered recordings are that rare specimen, a contemporary adaptation of ''serious'' classical music that is as serious as the original. This box represents the first time that Carlos's virtuoso electronic performances of Bach, Handel, Scarlatti and Monteverdi are available as a set. Robert Moog, the originator of the commercially packaged synthesizer, worked on the project with Carlos.