Insane Complete Sound Comparison of John Coltrane Blue Train reissues in Japan!
John Coltrane Blue Train, Toshiba LNJ, Toshiba BLP, King Record GXF, King Record GXK, and King Record Premium reissue!!
John Coltrane Blue Train, Toshiba LNJ, Toshiba BLP, King Record GXF, King Record GXK, and King Record Premium reissue!!
Scott Lafaro is a legendary Jazz bassist and known for playng for Bill Evans at his peak. I still remember when I first listend to his play on Bill Evans albums like Waltz for Debby, Portrait in Jazz and the rest with awe. I was just blown away.BUT…his own album like thisScott Lafaro The Legendary…
I think this LPJ Series, Prestige reissues by Toshiba EMI Japan is not known among the Jazz collectors especially outside of Japan.This LPJ Series was produced and manufactured in the mid 70’s the same era as the legendary LNJ series of Blue Note was manufactured.I believe the same engineers making LNJ were also involved in…
Toshiba EMI in the early 90’s did a great job reissuing 10 inch Blue Note series, known as BLP 5000 series.Original 10 inch Blue Note BLP 5000 series CollectionThat is the name of the series.I believe they are the 1st company did that approach all around the world. Later years Universal Music US did the…
Blue Mitchell is a great trumpeter and Jazz musician. But his albums are not that many on Blue Note to compare to the other legendary trumpeters like Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Donald Byrd and the rest.Among few available titles of Blue Mitchell on Blue Note, this Japanese reissue is the only available reissue on the…
You know, this Japanese Band is really unusual to you guys, but I am excited to introduce to you… The group is called “Minyo Crusaders” “Minyo” in Japanese means traditional folk song/s. They revive and interprete “Minyo” in a modern way mixing Jazz, Afro Beat, Cumbia and Afro Cuban. The leader Katsuumi Tanaka, a guitarist was playing…
I already talked about this PJ Series before but I just want to dig much deeper this time because this PJ series is really, really great in many ways.Talking about Prestige/New Jazz reisues in Japan, most of you guys know SMJ, VIJ or VIJJ series Victor Music Japan manufactured, right?SMJ in the mid 70’s (some…