If you took a jazz-history course before 2000 or so, you almost certainly listened to The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz. Long out of print, the Collection has finally been supplanted
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Q&A: Film director Bob Smeaton on remastered Beatles albums
Remastered versions of the Beatles catalogue will be released on Wednesday, giving listeners what the remaining members of “The Fab Four” say is the closest reproduction ever of how their music sounded in the studio. CNN’s Peter Wilkinson went to EMI’s legendary Abbey Road studios and spoke to Bob Smeaton, who directed the Grammy-award winning Anthology series on the Beatles, about a series of mini-documentaries that are included on each of the remastered albums.