One of The Most Underrated Albums of Art Blakey!
One Of The Most Underrated Titles of Art Blakey!
A Night In Tunisia - Art Blakey on RCA Victor
One Of The Most Underrated Titles of Art Blakey!
A Night In Tunisia - Art Blakey on RCA Victor
I love Jackie McLean and in many years of his career, early McLean also plays very well. I know the style he played is too authentic some times but, it is still great especially imaginig how he progressed and changed in the later years. This titile, Jackie McLean Fat Jazz on Jubileeis one of the…
I think, this Blue Note reissue by Toshiba EMI is a kind of RARE and interesting.Sabu Paolo CongoYes, this Sabu’s album was reissued twice here in Japan and King Record NEVER REISSUED, only Toshiba EMI did.More over, Toshiba EMI reissued it as STEREO in the mid 80’s and MONO in the early 90’s as one…
I talked about the greatness of Japanese reissue series a lot but this time, the US Pressings!I sometimes get these Blue Note UA Blue White Label pressings and always blown away by the pressing quality and the sound quality especially MONO.Visually scuff is there but not that bad…I should say minimal.And the sound…wow, GREAT!These Blue…
I already talked about VIJJ Series of Victor Music Japan in the past. They reissued many titles on Prestige, New Jazz, Riverside, and Jazz Land.Among the titles reissued, there are some which are really GREAT ALBUMS but Not Known and Underrated. I happened to obtain those namely,Bobby Timmons Soul Time RiversideWalter Benton Quintet Out of…
Yes, I think not many Jazz collectors know about this Japanese Jazz label, Venus Records Japan.The founder is called Mr. Tetsuo Hara who used to work at RCA, Victor Music Japan and some other major music companies as a producer. He founded his own Jazz label, Venus Records in 1992.Since then, he has produced and…
This is a recap of what I talked about in the Behind the scene stories of golden Jazz.Toshiba EMI Japan released this interesting ORIGINAL STEREO REISSUE OF CANDY LEE MORGAN in 1990.The liner notes say that they used the ORIGINAL STEREO MASTER TAPE (it doesn’t mean they acquired the original tape, but the source is…