Graham Central Station: Ain't No 'Bout-A-Doubt It Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		3.5
Video		0.0
Audio		5.0
Extras		0.0
Overall		3.5

Graham Central Station: Ain't No 'Bout-A-Doubt It Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman March 9, 2026

Rhino’s latest aggregation of Quadio Blu-ray releases includes four artists who have all had previous Quadio releases. Curtis Mayfield: Roots, Spinners: Spinners and The Spinners: Pick of the Litter, Graham Central Station: Graham Central Station and The Modern Jazz Quartet: Blues on Bach have already seen the lossless four channel light of day, and kind of interestingly if tangentially, several of the above linked efforts were released almost exactly a year ago in that particular bundle of Quadio offerings. Graham Central Station never really had a huge impact on either the album or singles charts, but this energetic 1975 album offers the band's biggest single, Your Love, which got to the Number 1 position on the R & B chart, while also just barely cracking the mainstream Top 40 chart at number 38. While there is definitely a rhythm and blues aspect to the album, there are maybe just a few nascent background indications that 1975 was peak "disco" era.

The album's track list can be seen in the screenshots of the (static) disc menu I've uploaded to accompany this review.

Graham Central Station: Ain't No 'Bout-A-Doubt It Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

As mentioned above, while there is video content here, like most of Rhino's Quadio line of audio Blu-rays, it's simply a static menu. Longtime readers of my reviews know one of the bugaboos that tends to bother me is inconsistent authoring of these discs in terms of toggling between audio codecs, and in this particular instance, you can not use the color buttons on your remote to choose which audio codec to utilize. Just as unfortunately, navigating to the links on the main menu then starts the song over if a different codec is chosen. If you parse through the screenshots, you can see how the font colors change depending on whether your use the chapter skip or toggle down buttons on your remote to navigate from track to track.

Graham Central Station: Ain't No 'Bout-A-Doubt It Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

Graham Central Station: Ain't No Bout-A-Doubt It features DTS-HD Master Audio 4.0 and DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 options. This album is arguably the showiest in terms of actual directionality and discrete channelization of the four albums in Rhino's latest batch of Quadio releases. From the opening cacophony of effects and instruments almost erupting from the rear channels in The Jam, which is soon followed by engagement of the front channels for even more mayhem, there is some really fun movement throughout this album in terms of instrument placements. Massed vocals tend to be anchored more toward the front channels, but even they can spill invitingly into the rear, helping to surround the listener with both solo and choral moments. But it's the punchy instrumentation that will probably be most immediately apparent, and all of the traditional band instruments like keys, guitars and percussion are placed variously around the soundstage throughout the album. I mentioned in the The Modern Jazz Quartet: The Last Concert Blu-ray review how that particular Quadio production tended to offer more of a "wall of sound" where everything is everywhere all at once (so to speak), and this album's quad version is quite different in that regard, achieving the same "monumental" cohesive quality but this time more by building the edifice out of clearly channelized elements.

Graham Central Station: Ain't No 'Bout-A-Doubt It Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

As usual with Rhino's Quadio line, there are no on disc supplements. The insert booklet reproduces cover images and also includes credits and the typical verbiage on "bass management" along with the traditional photos of master tape boxes.

Graham Central Station: Ain't No 'Bout-A-Doubt It Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

Of the four (returning) artists offered by Rhino in this latest bundle of Quadio offerings, it may be understandable if Graham Central Station doesn't attract the same level of attention as some of the others. That said, this album may be this particular bundle's real standout in terms of a winning quad presentation. Recommended.