Peculiar Tribe
Peculiar characteristics of Jazz collectors in Japan
The Peculiar Tribe!
Peculiar characteristics of Jazz collectors in Japan
The Peculiar Tribe!
This time, OBI!!I got a VERY RARE and INTERESTING OBI.The album with this RARE OBI isWayne Shorter Soothsayer Blue Note King Record Blue Note Unissued Master SeriesUsual OBI with this series is just Blue, plain OBI. But this particular copy has a kind of white stripe part attached.In the past, I got double OBI with…
Nowadays, I get many SMJ titles…Prestige and Riverside reissues by Victor Music Japan.In the past, I did a sound comparison between SMJ Series and VIJ Series of the same title by Victor Music Japan. I said VIJ sounds much clearer than SMJ.That is true,BUT!I think…as I listen to many SMJ titles like this Blue Mitchell…
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…
I already talked about this PJ Series before but I just want to dig much deeper this time because this PJ series is really, really great in many ways.Talking about Prestige/New Jazz reisues in Japan, most of you guys know SMJ, VIJ or VIJJ series Victor Music Japan manufactured, right?SMJ in the mid 70’s (some…
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 always wanted to do this kind of sound comparison!Welcome to the JBJ Jazz Lab!Yes, now I have the same 2 copies ofKenny Drew Undercurrent Blue Note GXK 8120 King RecordThe difference is one is a normal copy and the other is a white label promo copy.Do these 2 same serial copies sound different?I used…
Regarding unused, and un-played Japan pressed Blue Note copies, have seen that here in the US with buyers who purchased Classic Records Re-Issues of Jazz, classical, rock, pop titles. Classic Records pressed Kind of Blue at least 4 times, with various vinyl formulations, some at 33, some at 45 RPM.
When Classic Records were pressed in the mid 1900s up through the early 2000s (by RTI in CA), many collectors I know would buy a “six pack” (6 copies) of the titles they really liked and would play a lot, since everyone knew there would be one pressing run and likely not another, so grab them while you can. Once the inventory was sold off that was it.
Today with the vinyl resurgence and so many younger people buying vinyl, some of the prices on the Classic Records 180 and 200 gram pressings have sky rocketed. As an example, Classic pressed the Led Zeppelin Box set all at 45 RPM on 200 Gram virgin vinyl. Average selling price for the box set is 6K USD, and a sealed copy recently sold for 25K USD.
John
Thanks for your comment! Really? I can not believe that…As I see the fats that you pointed out, I have a mixed feeling, happy to see young generations discovering the greatness of analog recording, at the same time, worried that the price is going up unreasonably high….