What Makes Jazz Great
There is no Jazz Music, there are only Jazzy people.
There is no Jazz Music, there are only Jazzy people.
Welcome back again to the JBJ Jazz lab!Yes, this is my new discovery.It is my 1st time to obtain Gerry Mulligan Night Lights Fontana BT-2008 by Nippon Phonogram JapanI sometimes get the other Philips reissue EVER-1014 or SFX-10543 by the same Nippon Phonogram Japan. When I sound checked the BT-2008, I was astonished…What!? the sound is…
Prestige Reissue in Japan has the oldest history compared to the other labels like Blue Note, Verve and the rest.In the early 60’s Victor Music Japan started producing Prestige reissues with their label, called “TOP RANK”. I guess, they didn’t use the original Prestige label due to the licensing issue. TOP RANK MONO titles were manufactured…
You maybe remember when I featured a peculiar Blue Note UA Blue Black Tone label copy, Kenny Burrell Midnight Blue BST 84123.https://jazzbluesjapan.jp/another-peculiar-rvg-copy-found/Yes, I did ask Andrew of a famous London Jazz Collector LJC, and he responded to me with his new article. But I forgot to put it on my blog/email, haha!Let me just recap…
Toshiba EMI manufactured Hank Mobley Blue Note BLP 1568 MONO reissue in the late 80’s. Thereafter, they manufactured the same title in STEREO in 1990. They boasted saying (at that time) it is the 1st STEREO reissue in the whole world! I happened to obtain both MONO and STEREO and, both sound great, personally, I like…
I must confess that I didn’t care this Blue Note reissue series Toshiba EMI manufactured at the time of release in 1994. You now…that is the time CDs were selling good and analog vinyl records were not selling well.BUT!As I listened to the titles in this series one by one, I realized that the sound…
I love Charles Mingus. He was a great Jazz musician, composer and producer. Among huge volume of albums he issued, this titile,The Clown Charles Mingus on Atlanticis one of his best.The history of Japanese reissue of this titile, The Clown is a kind of interesting.The first reissue was done by Victor Music Japan in 1957….