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In Reply to: RE: Yes indeed... posted by erik on November 21, 2015 at 13:29:54
>>So I assumed you returned most of MM pressing. What did you end up getting instead?
I suppose you can still get a few Classical Records reissues.
Did you have a better luck with Don Was Blue Note? <<
I was typing on the mobile, and somehow couldn't see the rest of your post.
So, ED refunded all of the money since they couldn't keep the promise of inspecting the replacements, and AS was able to send me normal records.
I assume by Don Was you meant the 75th anniversary edition. I didn't like it. Too sterile. There are also regular BN versions $20 a piece, which are horrible.
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but Don Was 75 issues are the same as the regular BN at 20 bucks a piece. For the markeing purpose htey just call them '75th Anniversary' but no difference from the ones without the sticker. All digitally sourced and the ones I have heard were gray sounding vinyl.
This Bud Powell pressing with a *75* Sticker was just about the worst reissue I have encountered in terms of production.
I am gagging on Don Was' copy: Irony!
This year, Blue Note - along with our friends at Universal Music Enterprises - is launching a major 75th Anniversary Vinyl Initiative that is dedicated to the proposition that our catalog should be readily available at a low cost - featuring high quality pressings and authentic reproductions of Blue Note's iconic packaging. Beginning in March 2014, we'll start rolling out five remastered vinyl reissues every month. Although this program begins in celebration of Blue Note's 75th Anniversary, our catalog runs so deep that we will faithfully be reissuing five albums a month for many years to come!
" A high qualtiy pressings' well, perhaps to Crosley users.
The ones with the sticker actually were/are a couple of bucks more expensive. The plain ones are 19.99, and sometimes I've seen them locally on sale for $12.99. Bought Cecil Taylor's Unit Structure with defective left channel (completely unlistenable), also Tony Williams's "Spring" warped and extremely noisy. Returned them both, of course, didn't even listen to the whole thing. With the sticker I had Tyner's' "Real McCoy" I think, and it was so sterile I can't even describe. No bass, no highs, no nothing. A joke. Also there are European "limited editions", but I never heard them, and I really doubt they're good. I'll never again try anything that comes from Blue Note records.
I was curious about that title cuz, that's remastered by Alan Yoshida since so far the Don Was Blue Note I bought were done by Bernie Grundman.
I can't help to think if they used the same Yoshida's XRCD Blue Note remaster file from a few years back to cut a lacquer .
Well, Music Matters is my saviour for Blue note catalogue and I am grateful.
Now if someone like that redo the Bill Evans Riverside/Fantasy catalogue... ( AP's reissues, whilst smooth, they really lack dynamics and it is criminal what they charged for the toilet paper packaging! )
Did you try Analogue Production Blue Note?
Interesting. Are you sure Yoshida did Real McCoy? I have 17 Audio Wave XRCDs by Yoshida, but the Real McCoy is not among them, and I didn't even know he did that particular title on xrcd. I'm going to re-buy that LP to listen again, I want to make sure if I had the same version a couple of months ago. The latest Japanese SHM cd version is really good.
Actually I have the Concord/Fantasy Riverside Evans records, and they sound very nice. I didn't even expect them to be like this. You'll be surprised. Of course you gotta try hard to get a flat copy.
I never had any of AP Blue Notes or anything at 45 RPM, because I'm too lazy:)
but the Don Was 75 Real Mccoy you had was done by Yoshida according to the Discog data.
And I vaguely recall looking at the back of that LP at a local record shop where they stock many Don Was Blue Note titles. There was another titles with no engineer names but the remastering was credited to Capitol Studio, IIRC...
Anyways, I have been listening to the latest from MM33 series
Mobley's 'Workout' sounds incredible. I hear nothing but a total blackness when the needle gets placed on a record. This pressing might be better than 'Soul Station' and 'Roll Call'.
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