Are These Blue Note Premium Reissues Good?
Blue Note Premium Reissue Series
The RVG Master
Do they sound good?
Blue Note Premium Reissue Series
The RVG Master
Do they sound good?
I already talked about the greatness of Disk Union Blue Note Premium Reissues.But…Did you know that they also reissued some other great jazz titles apart from Blue Note?Together with Blue Note titles, they added some other titles from other labels in the same series as BONUS TITLES. Here below, you can see the brochure they…
Recently I got these mysterious Emarcy reissues…I believe they are the US pressings but no proper info is available.What I know is that Nippon Phonogram imported these, put their sticker on them and sold them here in Japan, most likely in the 70’s.The labels are orange Mercury labelOn the dead wax, the serial (in case…
UGETSU is one of the Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers great live albums but somehow underrated…Not many jazz collectors outside of Japan know UGETSU is a Japanese word and what about origin of this word?Ugetsu is taken from a Japanese novel – Ugetsu Monogatari written in Edo era over 300 years ago. It is…
Toshiba EMI reissued this Kenny Burrell Midnight Blue three times.The 1st reissue was LNJ in the mid 70’s, the sample I am talkin’ here on the video. And that was the 1st reissue of Midnight Blue in Japan.After LNJ, they reissued it again as BNJ series in the mid 80’s. Thereafter in the early 90’s,…
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…
Welcome back again to the JBJ Audio Lab!Yes, I did another sound comparison.John Coltrane Soul Trane Premium Reissue by Universal Music Japan in 2009I don’t think many Jazz collectors know this reissue…They used the original RVG master tape, and cutting, and pressing were done here in Japan. The pressing company they used is called Toyo…