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Thanks Graham. I get his list I’ll go back and have another look at the recent ones.I seem to remember seeing one on a recent Jazz House mail list.
Thanks Graham. I get his list I’ll go back and have another look at the recent ones.I seem to remember seeing one on a recent Jazz House mail list.
Good to see that they are continuing with quality releases of less well known albums (in the Tone Poet manner) mastered by Kevin Gray and pressed by Pallas. I note it says “mastered from ....tape transfers” whatever that really means, but not too worried as I found Gerry Mulligan’s City Lights that they released really excellent both musically and for the mastering, sound quality and the pressing and it seemed to go down pretty well with many here.The New Land releases are expected 26th August and are available for pre-order. Blue Mitchell and Howard McGhee - Dusty Blue
https://www.facebook.com/newlandrecordsofficial/
Looks like more expenditure. £30 each, but reasonable if the quality is maintained. I am certainly in for the 1961 Bethlehem of the Howard Maggee Septet Of Dusty Blue as this has a great line up including Bennie Green, Pepper Adams and Ron Carter. Space is becoming more and more of a problem for me though.
Who are New Land Records?
My copy of Blues Walk arrived yesterday. It looks fine, but I haven’t had a chance to give it a spin yet though to fully check the pressing. I love the typo in the rear cover notes though where Charlie Parker is transformed into Porker! I’m fairly certain it is correct on the original issue.
Almost certainly on the original that was a mono. If you click on the rear cover photo of this one on the LJC website you can see it is spelt correctly as Parker. Although this is a slightly later stereo pressing the cover has one of the original Stereo labels stuck on of the type Blue Note used when they just used existing runs of mono covers.That’s a pretty big snafu if it was right on the original! I wonder if there is a pressing where it was spelled incorrectly. Reminds me of the Herbie Handcock misspelling on one of the versions of Oblique, almost like someone was havin a larf..
Almost certainly on the original that was a mono. If you click on the rear cover photo of this one on the LJC website you can see it is spelt correctly as Parker. Although this is a slightly later stereo pressing the cover has one of the original Stereo labels stuck on of the type Blue Note used when they just used existing runs of mono covers.
https://londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/lou-donaldson-blues-walk-1958-blue-note-stereo/
While the Tone Poets Do a recreation of the original art work I think all the Classics are just reasonably high quality scans from the best cover Blue Note has available. You would have thought that they have mint condition original covers of almost everything in their archive to use, but perhaps not. Things go missing, even Mastertapes and 1966 was only a short time after Liberty took over.Looks like Porker here in this 66 repress in a stereo sleeve. You'll need to save the image and zoom in. I thought it a bit odd that it would be reset rather than a facsimilie of the artwork
https://www.discogs.com/release/4420378-Lou-Donaldson-Blues-Walk
While the Tone Poets Do a recreation of the original art work I think all the Classics are just reasonably high quality scans from the best cover Blue Note has available. You would have thought that they have mint condition original covers of almost everything in their archive to use, but perhaps not. Things go missing, even Mastertapes and 1966 was only a short time after Liberty took over.
Time they got a decent proof reader I will saw it straight away (but it did a se me hence the post) I take the job for a couple of pressings of each one.I don't think there was a dedicated stereo sleeve until later and that is where the typo crept in
While the Tone Poets Do a recreation of the original art work I think all the Classics are just reasonably high quality scans from the best cover Blue Note has available. You would have thought that they have mint condition original covers of almost everything in their archive to use, but perhaps not. Things go missing, even Mastertapes and 1966 was only a short time after Liberty took over.
Paul,I've often wondered about this. I have this 1975 Japanese reissue of Mainstream 1958 with Tommy Flanagan's name get misspelt on the front cover. I guess they didn't have access to the artwork so had to recreate it.