Insane Sound Battle Kenny Burrell Midnight Blue Liberty RVG vs King Record Premium Reissue!
Kenny Burrell Midnight Blue
Kenny Burrell Midnight Blue
This is a recap of what I talked about in the Behind the scene stories of golden Jazz.Toshiba EMI Japan released this interesting ORIGINAL STEREO REISSUE OF CANDY LEE MORGAN in 1990.The liner notes say that they used the ORIGINAL STEREO MASTER TAPE (it doesn’t mean they acquired the original tape, but the source is…
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…
Art Blakey has many underrated albums… I talked about them from time to time. This time, I want to feature this one,Art Blakey Quartet A Jazz Massage on ImpulseI love this album and the members present are also unique.-McCoy Tyner on piano-Art Davis on bass-Sonny Stitt on saxophoneVery classy right?All instruments are played well and well…
Toshiba EMI manufactured Hank Mobley Blue Note BLP 1568 MONO reissue in the late 80’s. Thereafter, they manufactured the same title in STEREO in 1990. They boasted saying (at that time) it is the 1st STEREO reissue in the whole world! I happened to obtain both MONO and STEREO and, both sound great, personally, I like…
Recently I got a bunch of Blue Note reissues and all of them have Japanese inserts or OBI. Obviously, if you see those in Japanese, you would think these are the Japanese reissues/pressings right?BUT!!All of these pressings are the US PRESSINGS!Actually, I received a question from some of the buyers saying…Hey Takashi, I see you…
Welcome to the JBJ Audio Lab!!It has been a quite while since I did the last sound comparison!You know…I never obtained this reissue before…Kind Of Blue Miles Davis by Sony Music Japan in 2020.They used the original STEREO master tape and the mastering was done by a great sound engineer, Mark Wilder in the US….