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.
Thanks to our JBJ member John who contributed this great info!Going back to the history of Prestige reissues by Victor Music Japan, say starting from the 70’s, PJ Series came in the early 70’s. Then SMJ Series came in the mid 70’s and VIJ Series in the 80’s.When Vitor Music Japan started reissuing Prestige titles…
I just talked about the history of Prestige reissues in Japan. But…I found out that there is more story…haha!In 1991, Swing Journal (one of the most popular Jazz magazine at that time) and Shinseido (one of the biggest Music stores at that time) joined together and made a Jazz Reissue series called,Gold Of GD 100GD…
I really appreciate Tom and John for the great information concerning the previous blog post. I learned a lot! Also thank Manuel for a great comment! This Hank Mobley Blue Note BLP 1568 session was recorded in 1957. That is the time of transition from MONO only recording to STEREO recording. John shared a screenshot of the…
Blue Mitchell is a great trumpeter and Jazz musician. But his albums are not that many on Blue Note to compare to the other legendary trumpeters like Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Donald Byrd and the rest.Among few available titles of Blue Mitchell on Blue Note, this Japanese reissue is the only available reissue on the…
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…
I somethimes get theseBlue Note UA Blue White Label Pressingsand most of the time, I was just amazed at the great pressing quality/condition and sound quality, especially MONO pressings.This is a sample of Blue Note UA Blue White label MONO pressing, Hank Mobley BLP 1560. The pressing quality, and sound quality are just amazing! like…
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!