Aaron Burnett - Master Reel to Reel Tape Copy Recording

Original Recording
- Live Recording 
- Straight to tape - zero digital tools used
- Recorded on an Otari MX 80 at 15 Ips, on SM911 Tape, 0 VU =355 nWb/m IEC

Mix/Mastering
- Mixed/Mastered with 1/2 inch 1/2 track Otari MTR-10 (Brand new Flux Magnetics Heads)

Aaron Burnett is a saxophonist and composer whose music brings together deep jazz language, modern improvisation, and a strong sense of spiritual and emotional exploration. His playing is expressive, searching, and highly personal, moving easily between lyrical melody, harmonic complexity, and open-ended group conversation.

On this release, Burnett leads a focused ensemble featuring saxophone, keys, bass, and drums. The program includes original compositions alongside a classic jazz standard, giving the session both a contemporary voice and a clear connection to the broader tradition. The music has the feel of players listening closely to one another in real time: responsive, dynamic, and alive.

Burnett’s tone is central to the experience. His saxophone can feel warm and intimate one moment, urgent and exploratory the next. That range makes this recording especially well suited to a straight-to-tape reel-to-reel format. Captured live without digital tools, the session preserves the breath of the horn, the natural space around the instruments, and the subtle interaction among the musicians.

For analog listeners, this is the kind of performance that rewards attention. It is not simply a recording of notes, but a document of musicians creating in the moment, with the immediacy, texture, and presence that tape captures so well.