Complete sound comparison of Blue Note Reissues in Japan!
To compare the sound of Blue Note Reissues in Japan
To compare the sound of Blue Note Reissues in Japan
I think this Bill Evans Live album is really RARE and Great but not known among the Jazz collectors.Bill Evans Jazzhouse MilestoneI also rarely get this album, a reissue? by Victor Music Japan VIJ 28141. These live sessions were oroginally recorded in Copenhagen Denmark in 1969 but the recording was not meant to sell commercially….
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…
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…
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…
I posted a video on Youtube you may have watched. It is about Peculiar characteristics of Jazz collectors in JapanRecently I was able to acquire many “UNUSED NEVER PLAYED” BLUE NOTE and other Major label reissues from one of the collectors here in Japan.He purchased 3 or 4 brand new copies of the same title when…
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…
I always wondered if japan releases were made from the original master tape and i thank you for making me know they were not. I have a few originals and many Japanese releases both King and Toshiba and also some us releases made from original master tapes back in the nineties such as the connoisseur series and I tell you very honestly I prefer japan releases than the nineties ones. Of course original rvg copies are stunning but I think Japanese are really really worth it. Salute to japan engineers!
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Regards from Italy.
Giovanni
Giovanni
Thank you so much for your great comment!
I believe the master tapes really matter since they are the source of the sound actually. But like movies made different by producers, the sound also would be made different with sound engineers. In that regard, those technicians from Toshiba and King did a great job really without the 1st grade master. In addition, the pressing quality of those Japanese reissues is amazingly superb. I really salute them for the professionalism they applied!