Sound Battle Bill Evans Portrait In Jazz Polydor Japan vs Victor Music Japan!
Bill Evans Portrait In Jazz Polydor Japan reissue in the mid 70's and Victor Music Japan reissue in the mid 80's.
Polydor Riverside reissues sound great.
Bill Evans Portrait In Jazz Polydor Japan reissue in the mid 70's and Victor Music Japan reissue in the mid 80's.
Polydor Riverside reissues sound great.
Welcome to the JBJ Jazz lab!You maybe remember what I did the same kind of sound battle with Midnight Blue Kenny Burrell, right?Last time the battle is in between Liberty, Blue White Label RVG Pressing and King Record Premium Reissue.This time, John Coltrane Blue Train Liberty Blue, White Label (no RVG) Pressing and King Record Premium…
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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…
Nowadays, the price of these Toshiba EMI Blue Note Premium Reissue titles is skyrocketing on the market here in Japan…the series isBlue Note Premium Reissue SeriesThese reissues were released in 2004 in Japan. The unique point of this series is that they usedThe RVG MasterWhen I saw that for the 1st time, I thought that…
Art Blakey released many titles Blue Note especially, and Riverside and some other minor Jazz labels.Many of them are popular but…many of them are underrated as well.I featured some, “UNDERRATED” albums before, but this time, I want to feature this title,CARAVAN – ART BLAKEY AND THE JAZZ MESSENGERS ON RIVERSIDEI don’t know why but Caravan…
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…
T’ the polydor has better sound quality the instrument are to the beats….crisper….clearly 👌
Chas, yeah, the range also is deep I feel, and the bass sound of Lafaro is great! Thanks for your great observation!
I agree with you Takashi, both sound perfectly acceptable, but the Polydor issues seems to have greater clarity and presence. I recently upgraded my rather poor copy to a Mofi Super Vinyl, which is rather special….
Tom, again thank you for your great observation!