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I was gazing at a Eric Dolphy LP from the "Back to Black" series and was wondering what folks thought about this reissue's qualities or negatives. Anybody familiar with the label?
Tom B.
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The only experience I have is with Kiss Alive. Bought it used for 15.00 USD and after 1 play I sold it for 20.00 USD. It paled in comparison to any old LP.
A quick research reveals in the first round of links via Google is that it was a label that was introduced in 2008 to celebrate 60 years of the LP and is a part of the UMG umbrella, so likely includes Blue Note material as well as other labels from UMG and this was found via Discogs, one of the first 5 links from my initial search.
As to its quality, who knows?
Further looking at the links shows a thread from 2013 over on Steve Hoffman's site and while it's from Universal and covers jazz, blues, rock etc, it also covers country specific releases like from France and Germany and ONLY sold in those countries, a few are now hard to track down on CD are released by this. It's not a label in and of itself, but was conceived to reissue stuff as a celebration of the 60th anniversary of the LP.
By the looks of the responses, it's a hit or miss thing as far as quality is concerned, some releases are superb, others, not so much.
In other words, YMMV.
Thanks for the heads up on the Back to Black. I think I'll take my chances the. I'm always wary of newer issues having a digital source instead of an analogue. I just found out to my horror that my "Idle Moments" by Grant Green was digitally remastered.....yikes
Never again....if I can help it
Tom B.
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"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
No, I didn't. This was due to a good friend bringing an original as well as an audiophile 180 gram pressing. Both issues showed me that the digital had a harder and more brittle sound. My copy is simply a 12" CD.
That's just my view on the subject. Don't get me started about how 1st or very early 2nd pressings simply sound better ( or maybe just different) than a reissue from the 70s or a contemporary reissue. All those dark backgrounds and crystal clear instrumentation of the new issues are NOT what I'm hearing on my first pressings. I love the fuzzyiness and warmth of the oldies. Yeah...Blue Notes have their bass rolled off a bit and there's a pump in the higher registers to compensate for the the record players of the day. I don't care. I love originals.
Tom B.
To be honest, I've never been that concerned if digital is part of the chain as some of that was due to the nature of the time it happened, like rescuing older LP's that were recorded on failing Ampex 456/457 etc tape and the ONLY way to save the recordings was to bake them and then transfer them digitally to preserve the sound quality as much as possible. If they had done so in the analog form, then there would be another generation down from the original and thus a degradation of the sound quality (a bit more noise, reduced dynamics, etc).
Besides, digital won't change anything, but copy exactly as it was on the master tapes and now we can make remasters and not have to worry about adding tape hiss etc to the new master.
I see it more as a way to preserve what we have than it is anything else, especially with at least 24/96 being available.
Later Gator,
Dave
Digital transfers can be excellent and the only way to preserve many older recordings.
-Wendell
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