by Bruce Eder
Although it has been superceded by the remastered, more extensively researched, and longer running Live at Carnegie Hall: 1938 Complete, this two-CD set issued in 1987 is still very worthwhile to the casual listener, and it has virtues that the reissue lacks. Mastered from a triple-LP set that had been cleaned up and edited at the time of release in the early-'50s, it is easy on the ear as far as sound quality, with none of the clicks and pops that intrude onto the remastered version. It is as valid a of a concert as any live album ever release, and it has about 90 percent of the music that is on the remastering, and what music! -- the versions of &Don't Be That Way,& &Sing Sing Sing,& and &One O'Clock Jump& alone are priceless (and arguably definitive, in the case of the first two), and they represent only a fraction of what's here. Thus, this set is not to be passed over, especially at the right price, for anyone who isn't an absolute Goodman fanatic.