One More History of Prestige Reissues In Japan!
Victor World Group
Victor World Group
I really didn’t care about these premium reissues until recently. I thought they used the digital process, BUT I found out that they NEVER USED digital process reissuing these Atlantic titles!They used the original MONO master and mastering, cutting were done here in Japan. The pressing was done in Germany at Optimal.This premium reissue series…
Welcome to the JBJ lab!Now it is time for the sound battle, haha.I just made a sound comparison between the same – Paul Chambers Whims Of Chambers Blue Note Toshiba reissue in the mid 80’s and King GXK reissue in the early 80’s.I don’t want to ask you to judge which one sounds better than…
Talking about Blue Note Reissues in Japan, in the late 60’s, Toshiba EMI started importing Blue Note Liberty pressings with OBI, sometimes Sticker and Japanese Inserts. They also reissued some EP Blue Note titles like Art Blakey Moanin’ and Le Morgan The Sidewinder but not full albums.In the early 70’s, they started reissuing full…
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…
Even though Sonny Clark was a great Jazz pianist, he had many sessions unissued on Blue Note. As you know, Alfred Lion was a very strict man and a kind of perfectionist and little things made him decide not to issue those sessions I guess…King Record and Toshiba EMI did a great job to uncover…
I think Barry Harris is a great jazz pianist but…he is somehow underrated…He is one of the few jazz musicians who lived the golden jazz era, be bop and hard bop era and just died recently.He played with Miles Davis in the early 50’s. He also played with Charlie Parker in the 50’s as well.Obviously…