One More History of Prestige Reissues In Japan!
Victor World Group
Victor World Group
You know Nippon Columbia Japan reissued many Impulse titles in the 70’s and the pressing quality, sleeve quality and sound quality are really great.BUT!!The label design is horrible…They used the lime green ABC label and I hate that, really. In the 60’s and early 70’s, King Record SH and SR series used the original orange…
I believe this is a unique Jazz reissue and not known series by King Record,The Last Jazz LP SeriesKing Record picked up mainly Savoy and its related labels like Regent and so on.There are Part 1 up to Part 9!! and in each Part, there are 10 albums reissued. These reissued titles were released from…
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 love Jackie McLean and in many years of his career, early McLean also plays very well. I know the style he played is too authentic some times but, it is still great especially imaginig how he progressed and changed in the later years. This titile, Jackie McLean Fat Jazz on Jubileeis one of the…
Peculiar RVG pressings again…this time, 2 of them!Sonny Stitt Bud Powell Prestige PRLP 7024Esquire UK and Barclay France released the same album in the 60’s with the same matrix,PRLP 7024 RVG Hand Etched!Matrix is the exact same. That means they used the same metal stamper to press these copies. That is a fact.BUT!What happened to…
Wow….I didn’t know this amazing 10′ reissue of Miles Davis Ascenseur Pour L’echafaudby Sams Record in France, pressing was done by Pallace in Germany.I tell you, I was just blown away by the sound quality as well as the quality of the pressing, and sleeve!To me, everything is nothing but PERFECT! the pressing quality, the design…