Mysterious Blue Note Liberty RVG Pressings!
Bobby Hutcherson Happenings, Jackie McLean Bluesnik
Bobby Hutcherson Happenings, Jackie McLean Bluesnik
I think these King Record Blue Note Reissue titles are interesting…Freddie Redd Shades of ReddWalter Davis Jr. Davis CupLou Donaldson Sunny Side UpArt Taylor A.T.’s DelightKing Record reissued these 4 titles in the early 8’s with MONO, K18P Series.Toshiba EMI lalso reissued the same titles in the early 90’s BUT…they reissued them with STEREO not…
I sometimes get this US reissue of a great jazz title,Gerry Mulligan Night LightsThe sleeve looks like original, label design almost identical to the original, surely it is a Mercury US pressing but what year they reissued? What kind of master they used?There is no concrete info…Looking at the deadwax, PHS 600108A-PR3, PHS 600108B-PR3Stamped. And…There is…
Peculiar RVG pressings again…this time, 2 of them!Sonny Stitt Bud Powell Prestige PRLP 7024Esquire UK and Barclay France released the same album in the 60’s with the same matrix,PRLP 7024 RVG Hand Etched!Matrix is the exact same. That means they used the same metal stamper to press these copies. That is a fact.BUT!What happened to…
Wow….I didn’t know this amazing 10′ reissue of Miles Davis Ascenseur Pour L’echafaudby Sams Record in France, pressing was done by Pallace in Germany.I tell you, I was just blown away by the sound quality as well as the quality of the pressing, and sleeve!To me, everything is nothing but PERFECT! the pressing quality, the design…
I know King Record released these 2 albums in 1975.Gerry Mulligan Chet Baker Carnegie Hall Concert Vol 1 and 2 on CTI.But…I didn’t know that there is VAN GELDER STAMP on the vinyls!This is really interesting.Originally, these 2 live albums were released in 1975 in the US by CTI. Mastering was done by Rudy Van…
I used to think that there is only one company involved in reissuing Verve titles in Japan which is POLYDOR JAPAN also known as NIPPON GRAMMOPHON JAPAN in the early 70’s.But…I found out that long before Polydor Japan started reissuing Verve titles there is another company that was making Verve reissues in the 60’s.The company…