Complete Sound Comparison of King Record Blue Note reissues GXF, GXK and FRP!
Sound Comparison of King Record Blue Note Reissues, GXF, GXK and FRP
Sound Comparison of King Record Blue Note Reissues, GXF, GXK and FRP
This great album,Thelonious Monk Brilliant Corners Riversidehas an interesting reissue history in Japan.Brilliant Corners was released by Riverside US in 1957 and the 1st Japanese reissue of this album was released in 1958. Very quick release! The company reissuing this 1st Japanese reissue is King Record. Interesing, right? They did not use the Riverside master…
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Art Blakey released many albums, especially on Blue Note as you know. But there many others he released other than Blue Note and are great as well.In the past I featured some but this title isOne Of The Most Underrated Titles of Art Blakey!The title is A Night In Tunisia – Art Blakey on RCA VictorAs…
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…
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Hello Takashi,
Listening on my laptop, it seems that the GXF and FRP are more similar sounding. Surprisingly the GXK sounded a little less dynamic, and tonally different to the other two.
But on the larger scale, they are more similar than different.
Yeah, all of them are simular. As you commented, I assume that mastering of GXF era and GXK era – is different. But I don’t know FRP used the mastering of GXF or GXK? Hummm, mystery…