Kind Of Blue

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This music lives and breathes behind and in front of my loudspeakers, and my speakers get lost somewhere in the middle of the stage. Whichever plant had possession of these acetates had a local print supplier who set the title in one line using an extra-condensed font. Side 2 has the uncorrected listing : 1) flamingo sketches 2) all blues, DG and black and white inner. The large number of high matrix values probably reflects a large volume of sales of stereo copies which occurred towards the end of the six-eye label period.

It’s worth adding that each tape is painstakingly produced, copied with as much care as if it were the original master.This is something I’ve discussed before (and often), but I’d like to mention it here because of a response that a reader of a previous blog post sent me about these releases, which went along the lines of “remastering: no thanks”. My ambition is more shallow: I want to produce the definitive Vinyl Collector’s Guide, which I don’t think has been done, or at least not for free. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience.

As Francis Davis points out, and jazz scholars have long noted, at least two numbers (in whole or in part) on Kind of Blue are directly attributable to Evans: his “somber” piano intro to “Flamenco Sketches” (“identical to [Evans’] own ‘Peace Piece,’ which he’d recorded the previous December, together with Leonard Bernstein’s ‘Some Other Time,’ the show tune on whose intervals it was based”); and “Blue in Green” (“which sprang verbatim from his introduction to ‘Alone Together’ on an earlier recording of that standard by Chet Baker”).A previously unreleased live recording of drum legend Art Blakey with a classic line-up of the Jazz Messengers, featuring trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Bobby Timmons, and bassist Jymie Merritt. It opens with the effortlessly cool track ‘So What’ and had a big influence across pop and rock artists through the 1960s and 1970s. Like the Adderly misprint, sellers often talk it up as though something significant has been being found, like a rare penny black stamp misprint, worth millions! To go back to the 3-track tape would be to undo the original creative process, and all of the decisions made that created the sound and the space of the original that we know and love. slow) was folded down to two channels, the centre channel being folded to both left and right channels.

IPS / Dolby SR analog remix master to DSD 256 to analog console to lathe Seven Steps to Heaven arrived at a crucial junction in Miles Davis' career. The pinnacle of high-quality vinyl — the Ultra High Quality Record (UHQR®) from Analogue Productions! The user is informed that they have the possibility of configuring their browser so that they are informed of the receipt of cookies, and may, if they wish, prevent them from being installed on their hard drive. Long held as the jazz album that even non-jazz fans will own, Kind Of Blue not only changed the way people regarded Miles, it changed the very face of music itself.Though Miles was a big seller by jazz record standards, its still small beer, I guess may be 20,000 copies? According to Billboard, KoB is the fifth largest-selling album on vinyl since 2010 (143,000 total over six years).