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.
Yes, most Jazz collectors don’t know this fact and nobody talks about it…but I will tell you the truth.The Blue Note vinyl reissue series Toshiba EMI Japan made in the early 90’s, what they callBLUE NOTE RARE GROOVE COLLECTIONSare notorious to me.I have collected and sold many of these series and many have noise issue…unlike…
You know the Blue Note Unissued Master Series by King Record, right?This time, I want to talk about the greatness of this series.In the late 70’s, King Record started releasing un sessions of Blue Note recordings with GXF serial.If I count, there are more than 20 titles released at that time.Most of the titles released…
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 got a very interesting question from our member.He asked me,Why is it that most Japanese pressings vinyl Mint or NM and sleeve having a lot of stain??He points out that there is a gap between the vinyl condition and sleeve condition with most of the Japanese pressings.That is true…As you are our JBJ clan,…
**In the video, I was talking about BLP 1570, but I atually was talking about BLP 1560 instead of BLP 1570. Sorry…**If you look at this jacket design, you notice and think that this is Hank Mobley Sextet BLP 1560, right?But, it is not…This is the Toshiba EMI release of Hank Mobley’s Unknown, Unissued Sessions…
You know what?I didn’t know this Verve reissues by Polydor in the late 80’s up to the early 90’s. This is my 1st time to obtain these reissues.I tell you…despite the fact that most of the titles in this series are minor and not known to many Jazz collectors,The quality of the sessions and sound…
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!