Kind Of Blue

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In the end, I find that listening to different versions of an album to see which one has what SQ tends to alienate me from immersion in the mood and tone of the music.

We present the original album in remastered form plus an extra LP containing 2 tracks that weren't available on vinyl before. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. In other words, my ‘ultimate reference’ here is still the original vinyl release, though the UHQR versions (remixed and remastered by Bernie Grundman) really do sound astonishingly impressive!The whole has a weightless and haunting quality, sustained by steady, unhurried tempos and a balance of sound that has rarely been equalled in the history of jazz recording. Benny Golson, who came to the attention of the jazz public with Tadd Dameron's band and Dizzy Gillespie's orchestra, was a member of the Jazztet — the group he had formed with Art Farmer — at the time of this recording.

There are around 1,000 copies a year coming to auction, that would be 1% of total, not an unreasonable ballpark figure.D) – Concert of Saturday, April 9, 1960: MD, CA, JC, WK, PC, JCB (at the Kurhaus, Den Haag, Holland).

Without doubt in my mind, the original version sounds the most natural and dynamic, albeit a “< Semitone” out in pitch. together with Quality Record Pressings, is putting Kind of Blue where it belongs: the Ultra High Quality Record (UHQR) pressed on Clarity Vinyl on a manual Finebilt press with attention paid to every single detail of every single record. Yes, there have been many and varied reissues and versions of Miles Davis’ seminal 1959 masterpiece over the years. Davis played trumpet sublime with his ensemble sextet featuring pianist Bill Evans, drummer Jimmy Cobb, bassist Paul Chambers, and saxophonists John Coltrane and Julian 'Cannonball' Adderley with Wyton Kelly playing piano on Freddy the Freeloader. In away, the story of Ben Webster's saxophone career is the story of jazz music itself through decades of experience.Recap (information taken from various engineering gurus) : 1959 is very early in the history of stereo.

The reverb tails and the decay of each note are so deliciously real, you just can’t do this on vinyl! If a third press was employed, Side 1 was chosen from a third lacguer, and married up with Side 2 from another available lacquer at the time. however I’ve since had the good fortune of being slightly re-educated on that position by a number of professional recording engineers whose knowledge of their art is, of course, far greater than mine.Equally notable, Seven Steps to Heaven marks the point at which the core of Davis' Second Great Quintet started to assemble.