"To obtain more wood sound from the bass, this album recorded without usage of the dreaded bass direct" first appeared on brother Branford's Renaissance (Columbia, 1987), and became the single sentence to define the recorded quality of many acoustic jazz recordings since the late 1980s.
The phrase "To obtain more wood sound from the bass, this album was recorded without relying on direct bass input" first appeared in Branford Marsalis's Renaissance (Columbia, 1987) and became a widely used descriptor for acoustic jazz recordings since the late 1980s.