Sound Comparison Lee Morgan Candy King Record GXK and King Record Premium reissues, Do they sound different?
This is the art and masterpiece of Blue Note reissues.
What kind of master tape they used? or mastering process?
This is the art and masterpiece of Blue Note reissues.
What kind of master tape they used? or mastering process?
Art Blakey released many albums, especially on Blue Note as you know. But there many others he released other than Blue Note and are great as well.In the past I featured some but this title isOne Of The Most Underrated Titles of Art Blakey!The title is A Night In Tunisia – Art Blakey on RCA VictorAs…
This AUTOGRAPHED Blue Note Liberty Blue, White Label RVG is really funny and interesting…the title is,Andrew Hill CompulsionPopular title of Andrew Hill, right?King Record and Toshiba EMI never reissued this title. And…as you see the jacket, this is not the official jacket/sleeve, it is just an unofficial outer sleeve, the official sleeve is missing. But…
I am sure that you don’t know this Japanese jazz label.Norma JapanNorma Japan sadly is no longer there but it was a popular jazz specialized label here in Japan in the 90’s. They released and reissued many great but underrated jazz albums.This is the Norma Logo.Most legendary jazz critics at that time in the 90’s…
Welcome to the JBJ Jazz lab!I made another interesting experiment.Sound Comparison of King Record Blue Note Reissues, GXF, GXK and FRPAs you may have already known, King Record reissued Blue Note titles with GXF, GXK mainly. There are some other like DY as bonus records and K18 and K23 series, and premium 15 title reissues…
Toshiba EMI reissued this Kenny Burrell Midnight Blue three times.The 1st reissue was LNJ in the mid 70’s, the sample I am talkin’ here on the video. And that was the 1st reissue of Midnight Blue in Japan.After LNJ, they reissued it again as BNJ series in the mid 80’s. Thereafter in the early 90’s,…
This is another RARE Blue Note Title Toshiba EMI reissued,Fred Jackson Hootin’ And Tootin’King Record NEVER reissued this title and this is considered as one of the minor titles of Blue Note I believe.There is a change of trend from modern jazz style to more soulful, R&B style Jazz in the 60’s toward the early…
Sounded pretty good to me too…..whilst I don’t have the 2 King records to compare, I do have some of the standard GXK/F and the odd premium so will dig out and do some listening comparisons. Thanks for the information too – I didn’t realise that the King records were premium re-issues when they had non GXK/F labelling.
Tom, thanks for your comment! Yeah sure, you should compare them. GXF/Ks are also good but those premium ones are really superb. And…not many collectors outside of Japan know about them!
Great vid, love learning about the different Japan jazz pressings.
Cheers
Yeah, I am also having fun!