Digging The Prestige/New Jazz Reissue Series PJ by Victor Music Japan
Prestige Jazz Golden 50
Prestige Jazz Golden 50
You maybe remember when I featured a peculiar Blue Note UA Blue Black Tone label copy, Kenny Burrell Midnight Blue BST 84123.https://jazzbluesjapan.jp/another-peculiar-rvg-copy-found/Yes, I did ask Andrew of a famous London Jazz Collector LJC, and he responded to me with his new article. But I forgot to put it on my blog/email, haha!Let me just recap…
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…
I already talked about the history of Prestige reissues in Japan some time back.But in there, I made a wrong statement about one of the series…sorry.The series that Victor Music Japan was releasing, called,PJ SeriesInitially, I thought this “PJ Series” was released in the 80’s here in Japan. Actually, the information about PJ series is…
This Blue Note Title is very popularHank Mobley And His All Stars Blue Note BLP 1544right?I love it and many Jazz collectors do.It is another myth that King Record NEVER REISSUED this popular title…WHY??Toshiba EMI reissued this title twice.In the mid 80’s, they reissued it as BLP Series, they reissued it again in the early…
Dave Pike is not that popular Jazz musician. But as I commented many times, Japan is a unique country that during the 70’s to the 90’s, major music companies like King Record, Toshiba EMI, Victor Music , CBS Sony and the rest reissued not only major titles but also minor titles like this,Dave Pike Quartet…
I really appreciate Tom and John for the great information concerning the previous blog post. I learned a lot! Also thank Manuel for a great comment! This Hank Mobley Blue Note BLP 1568 session was recorded in 1957. That is the time of transition from MONO only recording to STEREO recording. John shared a screenshot of the…