What Makes Jazz Great
There is no Jazz Music, there are only Jazzy people.
There is no Jazz Music, there are only Jazzy people.
What a design!Prestige has many great jacket designs but this album, Red Garland All Mornin’ Longis one of the best in album design.Picture, fonts, color they used…wow, everything is great.And, this particular reissue by Victor Music Japan, SMJ series did a great job to restore the original design, really.This SMJ is the only available reissue here…
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…
Nowadays, I talk about Art Blakey many times. Yes, but I have to feature this great album too!Kyoto By Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers on RiversideI talked about Caravan the same Riverside album which was released in 1963 originally. This Kyoto was released in 1964.So, the members are the same except Kyoto has one…
I love Charles Mingus. He was a great Jazz musician, composer and producer. Among huge volume of albums he issued, this titile,The Clown Charles Mingus on Atlanticis one of his best.The history of Japanese reissue of this titile, The Clown is a kind of interesting.The first reissue was done by Victor Music Japan in 1957….
Sawano DID IT AGAIN!!Yeah, that is the word I want to put when I listened to these 2 Jazz reissues, really.I already talked about Mr. Yoshiaki Sawano. He was a heavy Jazz collector when he was young. – actually up to now, he is a heavy Jazz lover and collector!!With his younger brother, in the…
Recently I talked about Toshiba EMI Blue Note Reissue Series especially LNJ and BNJ.But there is another interesting story you might like.In the early 90’s Toshiba EMI started reissuing many Blue Note titles of BLP 4000 Series. They reissued those titles as STEREO, BST Series. In between 1991 and 1993, they reissued…like crazy many of…