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I'm Jim
The problem with most of the 'preferred issues?' mentioned both by Hockman and Kevin is that there is a 'gentleman's agreement' between Joe Harley and Don Was not to reissue things that are still available or there is outstanding licenses for on Music Matters, at least for the Tone Poet series. They seem to have applied the same agreement to Analogue Productions reissues as well. There have been a couple on the cheaper BN80's, Basra and Introducing Johnny Griffin that that are on MM, but generally I think they still feel that these premium 'audiophile pressings' have a limited market and it is in no ones interest to duplicate, especially as Universal owns and sells the Blue Note Licenses. MM usually pressed 250 to 500 copies to start and still have copies left of many after up to 10 years of sales.Tone Poet pressed 500 at the start, probably taking into account MM sales history, but clearly they under estimated the demand at the lower price of the MM and AP reissues and now they have higher initial runs. So clearly price is a strong factor, but production costs are high on these limited runs.
I have most of those mentioned on MM 2x45rpm's or other pressings that are probably as good or perhaps in some cases slightly better than the Tone Poets.
Kevin I don't have Grant's Street of Dreams, but I do have the MM 2x45 of Matador, Solid and Talking About. Matador, Solid and Talking about are still available from Music Matters. Matador & Solid in both the 33 and 2 x 45 versions. Street of Dreams is out of stock, but may appear as an SRX eventually as I believe they have space on their license. The only problem is the prices from MM are now very high when you take into account shipping and import duty, as mentioned previously.
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Personally I like to explore recordings by great artists that are lesser known and in top quality pressings rather than see the same 'classics' reissued again and again that I probably have a good copy of already, but the downside is you can end up with somethings that eventually you may not play again.
I have most of those mentioned on MM 2x45rpm's or other pressings that are probably as good or perhaps in some cases slightly better than the Tone Poets.
Kevin I don't have Grant's Street of Dreams, but I do have the MM 2x45 of Matador, Solid and Talking About. Matador, Solid and Talking about are still available from Music Matters. Matador & Solid in both the 33 and 2 x 45 versions. Street of Dreams is out of stock, but may appear as an SRX eventually as I believe they have space on their license. The only problem is the prices from MM are now very high when you take into account shipping and import duty, as mentioned previously.
https://www.musicmattersjazz.com/SearchResults.asp?Search=Grant+Green&Submit=
Personally I like to explore recordings by great artists that are lesser known and in top quality pressings rather than see the same 'classics' reissued again and again that I probably have a good copy of already, but the downside is you can end up with somethings that eventually you may not play again.