It is hard to be sure as Amazon don’t give a year of reissue as they often do. It seems to have been available for at least a little while so given that and the cover details compared to other recent reissues my guess would be that it’s probably 2011 the US reissue: https://www.discogs.com/release/3366242-Charles-Mingus-Presents-Charles-Mingus or possibly the 2,000 UK reissue. It may be good or the same as your 1987 copy. I would hope that if the new CD reissue is made direct from the analogue tape at the same time as the vinyl that the new one would be better.Hi, a question about the Mingus CD available on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09RQQCJJW/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21
Is this the version that's available on the Candid page?
I ask because I have a CD (Candid CD 9005, released 1987) of this album already but to be honest the version on Spotify sounds better (it does say there that it's remastered). My CD was bought via Discogs and is part of American Jazz Classics (Candid), distributed by Black Dog Records and manufactured in Germany.
If the version on Amazon is the new version from Candid I might buy another copy.
Peter
It is hard to be sure as Amazon don’t give a year of reissue as they often do. It seems to have been available for at least a little while so given that and the cover details compared to other recent reissues my guess would be that it’s probably 2011 the US reissue: https://www.discogs.com/release/3366242-Charles-Mingus-Presents-Charles-Mingus or possibly the 2,000 UK reissue. It may be good or the same as your 1987 copy. I would hope that if the new CD reissue is made direct from the analogue tape at the same time as the vinyl that the new one would be better.
I’ll start this thread off with these interesting new issues of ORT recordings from 1968 - 71 from Wallen Bink
Good call - plenty of other interesting releases in the catalogueOne for the wishlist - would be lovely if UMG reissued Lou Donaldson's albums for Argo/Cadet. Most of that them have been out of print now for 50+ years.
To be honest I’ve been disappointed with the quality of Now Again releases so often that I won’t consider buying any titles from the labelNow Again reissue of Tribe Records. Another interesting series of the hard to get Tribe Records albums. I love the music - 1970s 'Black Power/Black Awareness' protest jazz with a small original print run and distribution. These albums also don't get reissued that much.
https://www.nowagainrecords.com/the-story-of-tribe-records-box-set/
These are supposedly 'lacquered directly from the mastertapes by Bernie Grundman'. Issue is (& there's almost always an 'issue' isn't there?), the sound seems inconsistent and not entirely in keeping with what I am used to with Grundman's usual stellar work. I am not sure if the problem is with the tape, mastering or pressing. (I also found similar less than great Now Again reissues of other artists, allegedly done by Grundman also). Pressing is also of indifferent quality, as expected from GZ. Egon, the guy behind Now Again, puts out interesting & rare stuff and his heart is in the right place but he really needs to figure out how to do justice to this material.
Don't let me be too discouraging though. The music is great and the sound is decent but just not up to what I expect from a Grundman remastering. Pricing is very reasonable but finding a perfect pressing may be a crap shoot. And i feel it's important to support reissues of genuinely rare and expensive albums as opposed to the usual audiophile reissues of the same tired titles ala Chad Kassem.
In that case I’ll recommend a couple of recent CD reissues:
Tony Oxley - February Papers
Tony Oxley - Unreleased 1974 to 2006
Both immaculately recorded and mastered CD/DL releases only, by the heroic Martin Archer on his Discus label, presented in trifold digipacks with artwork by Mr Oxley - CDs that are actually nice to own. Let’s face it, Oxley is an individual genius of the type we’ll probably never see again. February Papers, recorded in 1977, is a classic, (originally released on Incus and these days commanding high prices), comprising of solo, trio and quartet studio pieces. Unreleased - as the title implies - are historical private tapes of various groupings from TO’s personal archive. The opening piece is stunning - hard to believe this was 1974, way ahead of its time.
I’ll start this thread off with these interesting new issues of ORT recordings from 1968 - 71 from Wallen Bink
https://wallenbink.com/
“Working with the best available mastering sources – mastering all analogue where possible – with support from Grammy award winning mastering engineers at Abbey Road Studios, we strive to meet the highest standards in audio quality.”
These Eric Kleinschuster recordings are all double LP’s and feature sessions with leading American Jazz musicians.
WB0014 Clifford Jordan and Charles Tolliver. https://wallenbink.com/index.php/sh...recordings/erich-kleinschuster-6tet-orf-wb014
... I’ll be opting out. Love Jordan, but hate trombones (excepting Mingus and Moncur - brilliant brass and woodwind arrangements par excellence).
Really? Albert Mangelsdorff? Robin Eubanks? Steve Turre? Curtis Fuller?