Mysterious Emarcy Reissues
MG-36004
MASTERDISK
MG-36004
MASTERDISK
You may have remembered that I talked about the mysterious serial FRP of Blue Note reissues by King Record.I got one last yearCannonball Adderley Somethin’ ElseI got another one this yearJohn Coltrane Blue TrainBoth have the serial FRP…There is GXF and GXK of Somethin’ Else and Blue Train but! I had never seen FRP!That is…
I really don’t know why but Japanese companies like Toshiba EMI or King Record were not able to acquire the original master to cut their Bue Note reissues for many years.Great series like LNJ or BNJ from Toshiba EMI, GXF and GXK series from King Record were not cut from the original master from the…
I sometimes get this US reissue of a great jazz title,Gerry Mulligan Night LightsThe sleeve looks like original, label design almost identical to the original, surely it is a Mercury US pressing but what year they reissued? What kind of master they used?There is no concrete info…Looking at the deadwax, PHS 600108A-PR3, PHS 600108B-PR3Stamped. And…There is…
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…
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…
I must admit that I didn’t know these great Blue Note reissues until recently…QUIEX SV-P Blue Note Series by Classic Records USYes, it is true…The vinyl has Deep Groove and Flat Edge disk.The mastering was done by Kevin Gray.The sound quality is really really great!I don’t know about the US or any other countries but…
The 7-logo red Mercury label was used between 1972 and 1974. Plus, according to Discogs, Masterdisk started using the name in 1973. Furthermore, Discogs lists a Trip label special market release of this Sarah Vaughan record from 1974. Together, the clues tells us that this reissue is likely to be from 1973.
As for the source, since Masterdisk was the main mastering studio for Mercury, the release probably used the original tape or its direct copy. The fact that the sessions were recorded in the same city (NYC) adds to the likelihood of the guess.