To save me searching…where else has Mirrors featured on a BN album? It’s such a great ballad. Joe Chambers was a great writer as well as drummer.
You’re right, but I don’t have that. Best look for it!I think there's a Joe Chambers record titled Mirrors.
I have both those other versions of Mirrors, and yea, I specifically looked them out because its such an amazing track on Breaking point - for me, neither of those other tracks reached the same heights, but it did seem the "right" thing to do to get the Joe Chambers version, as he was the writerYou’re right, but I don’t have that. Best look for it!
Interview with Kevin Gray where he seems to give the game away as to what to expect with the Tone Poet John Coltrane - Blue Train due in September. At about 13.5 minutes in he mentions it as being 2 stereos (one of unreleased tracks) and a mono. The two stereo’s as a package and the mono packaged separately. Kevin prefers the mono because of how Rudi had handled the added reverb on it and the wide separation with little centre fill.
Interview with Kevin Gray where he seems to give the game away as to what to expect with the Tone Poet John Coltrane - Blue Train due in September. At about 13.5 minutes in he mentions it as being 2 stereos (one of unreleased tracks) and a mono. The two stereo’s as a package and the mono packaged separately. Kevin prefers the mono because of how Rudi had handled the added reverb on it and the wide separation with little centre fill on the stereo.
Quite a lot of other interesting stuff in this interview as well. Base roll off V volume reduction for long sides. Cutting from digital etc.
I had been looking at this as well and I streamed the first track on Chapel, Billy Strayhorn’s Blood Count, that is on YouTube and pre ordered that one from the set that is due here next week. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like the signed box set will be available in the UK it seems it is exclusive to the US. It is not on the Blue Note UK store. Sorry to miss it as it is signed, but at least the lack of the box will help with my storage space problems even if I get all 3 records. Not a Tone Poet as you say and I’m not sure who mastered. I doubt it is AAA, but the sample streamed track sounds good. UK ones are pressed in Germany so probably pressed at Optimal. So like you I’m hoping the pressing is OK.I don't think this is part of the Tone Poet series, but hopefully the quality of the pressings will be up to that standard.
https://store.bluenote.com/collecti...ts/charles-lloyd-trio-of-trios-signed-box-set
Am a big fan, so preordered and am really looking forward to it.
Graham,Warning - off topic.......
I first heard the Ellington/Strayhorn Blood Count driving to work one morning many years ago when Elvis Costello played it as one of his Desert Island Discs. Stunning piece.
So, here’s a question - is there a good reissue LP of And His Mother Called Him Bill that anyone can recommend? I only know the Bluebird CD (which is OK, perhaps a bit anaemic).
So, here’s a question - is there a good reissue LP of And His Mother Called Him Bill that anyone can recommend? I only know the Bluebird CD (which is OK, perhaps a bit anaemic).
Ah...Ellington. I am simply appalled and perplexed that there seems to be relatively so little interest in Ellington these days.
Graham,
I looked at this as well after my post above. The UK 1968 first pressing is available from UK sellers on Discogs even the ones marked as near mint. My experience of RCA Dynagoove pressings from this period (Classical) though is not good. Very light weight and noisy. The early RCA’s US pressing (non Dynagroove) are though excellent. The CD may be the better bet. Amazon has the 2016 Sony RCA at £3.99 that has the original cover, but I don’t know if that is the same mastering as your 1987 Blue Bird one. These seem to be from Austria and Italy.