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Welcome to the JBJ Jazz lab!I made another interesting experiment.Sound Comparison of King Record Blue Note Reissues, GXF, GXK and FRPAs you may have already known, King Record reissued Blue Note titles with GXF, GXK mainly. There are some other like DY as bonus records and K18 and K23 series, and premium 15 title reissues…

Welcome to the JBJ (Jazz Blues Japan) Jazz Lab, haha!I made the 2nd experiment, sound comparison of Lee Morgan Candy, between King Record GXK and King Record Premium.I already talked about the premium reissues by King Record in the late 70’s saying that that series is one of the most underrated Blue Note reissues.I still…

**CORRECTION!**In the video I was saying King Record GXF series was in the late 90’s. But it should have been in the late 70’s!! Sorry…I did a kind of interesting experiment.To compare the sound of Blue Note Reissues in JapanI did explain about the history and maybe, how the sound is different from each other….

Now, The history of Impulse reissues in Japan!It goes back to the early 60’s.Impulse itself was founded in 1960, and King Record Japan started importing the Impulse records in the early 60’s with OBI and Japanese inserts.At the same time, they had a  license to reissue the titles and started manufacturing the series called, SH…

I listened carefully side 1 and 2 and compared how they sound differently….and here is what I found.Side 2 – RVG STEREO side has much clearer and deeper low especially bass sound than side 1.But with high and middle, I don’t see any big difference, maybe high is stronger in RVG side but not that…

I have sometimes got this kind of Blue Note Liberty copies…Here is the listing page at eBay.https://www.ebay.com/itm/184649048011One side RVG the other no RVG stamp…I just wonder if both sides are RVG pressings or not…Does anyone know about it?Please help!

Now, the history of Riverside Reissues in Japan Revealed!You know, Riverside reissues in Japan has a little interesting story…Basically, Victor Music Japan has been the licensee for many years since the late 70’s. But…for some years in the 70’s, another company owned the license….That company is Nippon Grammophon, later the name changed to Polydor Japan….

I just talked about the history of Prestige reissues in Japan. But…I found out that there is more story…haha!In 1991, Swing Journal (one of the most popular Jazz magazine at that time) and Shinseido (one of the biggest Music stores at that time) joined together and made a Jazz Reissue series called,Gold Of GD 100GD…

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…