So pleased you posted this video. I am a huge fan of Blue Note and a participating advocate of the vinyl revival. Some of these releases are going straight into my blossoming collection. Great channel, great personality and great content. Keep it up!
These actually sound better than the original issues in my book as the low end is there as it should be. Bought all 16 till now and can't wait for the next batch in February.
I am so happy with blue note releases this year, not only the tone poet serie, but even (some) Blue Note 80 Vinyl Edition is all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal, for about €23.
It’s really cool that you are talking about this. I’m a big fan of the tone poet series. I have been discussing this a lot. Though I will say the sound is a bit different from the OG pressings as mentioned in mastering notes. I still prefer the OG pressing sound quality of Cornbread vs my tone poet pressing (I didn’t want to). I would love if you did a sonic comparison of one of the records. NO ONE has done this yet. Could be super cool! Thanks for all you do.
Thanks for posting the info about this series of records. I ordered 4 which are Cornbread (already have on CD and love this album), Face to Face (Baby Face Willette, I am a big fan of the Hammond B3 sound), Introducing Kenny Burrell and lastly Hustlin' Stanley Turrentine which releases on Sept 6 and features Shirley Scott on the Hammond B3. I couldn't be more pleased with the sound of these records. The sound is full and accurate with no distortion. The pressings are excellent. I have yet to find any flaws in the pressings which is rare for "new" vinyl recently. Ordered on Amazon Sat morning and they arrived Sat before dinner time for free shipping. Can't beat that! Thanks for the great content on your channel. I always learn something new in your videos.
This is what I’m talking about and this is why I told you about them, because you would do them justice and review them in a totally different way than most others have done. Your way is the best way. Just so you know the 80th Anniversary reissues are also available and done by Don Was and Cem Kurosman. It has been said that these will be Analog also whenever the Analog source is available. The 80th Anniversary, which marks bluenotes 80th Anniversary, will also be master by Kevin Gray and done from the original master tapes with a total of 38 listed through 2020. If you like Herbie Hancock, Inventions and Dimensions will be reissued Oct 11th of this year, along with Joe Henderson’s In n out. Pete la Roca Basra in Jan 2020 as well as some Larry Young in April 2020. I have all of the Tone Poets except Cassandra Wilson and some of the 80th Anniversary. Check a couple of the 80th Anniversary out, the covers are not as thick as the Tone Poet and there is no real art work to speak of, but the cost should be about ten dollars less. I was hoping you would take the ball and run with it and you didn’t disappoint, great job here and I’m waiting for your Rudy Vangelder video, he was a genius and I know you will do him justice. Vangelder’s technique was he ran his Mics hot. Thanks for the credit, I’m just happy that you are enjoying them because I knew you would. The 80th Anniversary is so much better than the 75th Anniversary, which was garbage. Keep up the good work here as you do our analog community proud.
Thank you again Sid for your suggestions! Yes the 75th releases were not good at all. Looking forward to try the 80th releases as well! Thanks again for your nice comment and enthusiasm!
The Place to listen to good digital Rudy is Tidal ❤️. I'm loving everything I'm earing from him on mqa. It seems they got it right on there and use the best éditions.
Its nice to see them continuing these fine reissue series. But most of it is from stuff Ive never even heard of. Wish they did one last round for the classic albums so that I didnt have to pay insane prices for Music Matters or Analog Production reissues of them.
It is a shame the Music Matters jazz titles are very expensive i wanted the John Coltrane Blue Trane pressing but its now cost in the hundreds of dollars. This new Tone Poet series is great. I bought Kenny Burrell Introducting Kenny Burrell and the record sounds fantastic and the packaging is top notch. I have about three more records on my Amazon wish list and will be getting those releases in a month. Great video.
70.00 but they are going to be worth 1000.00’s Timeless masterpieces Tone Poet is the way to go, I’m going to buy them all because I don’t think they will go to repress They will be highly valuable
Tone Poets Series are 18 albums in total. Not all of then are made from ANALOGUE MASTERS. Cassandra Wilson is a 2003 original launch (analogue? I don't think so) And Joe Henderson original lauch is 1985 (analogue) maybe but I don't think so) Gil Evans - New Bottle Old Wine has distortions issues in Side A. My copy has it, and I know via Amazon users other cases. But they are in general beautiful and mesmerizing sounding reissues. I live in Spain (Europe) and Music Matters records a ultra expensive! Tone poets bring us this kind of magic but without having to mortgage us! The records. The discs themselves are fabulous but the covers are several steps below those offered by Music Matter. I buy them as they go on sale I only have to buy the one of Cassandra Wilson that is very expensive and that of Andrew Hill. Let's see if you make a review of the 80th anniversary series much cheaper on the covers but infinitely better than the (digital) series of the 75th anniversary of Blue Note Records. Thank you. Greetings from Spain.
Cassandra Wilson and Joe Herderson are analog recordings and the original master tapes were used for the tone poet reissues. Wilson was AAA edition already in 2003. Something normal for jazz. As I showed two copies of Music Matters and s few from Tone poet, the packaging quality is identical. No doubt on that!
@@nebulusnebulus6503 Hi. I live in Spain, too and this is the very first time I hear a damn thig about "Music Matters" (except that "music matters", at least for me). I wonder if that label releases CDs, SACDs and the like. I say this because I said "goodbye" to vinyl (NOT to analogue formats like tapes) a lot of time ago and have the strong purpose to remain well away from its "delicatessen" ("clics", "pops" and a variety of "musical" properties). ¡Saludos dede Madrid!
ventura rodríguez vallejo No, they only do expensive, ultra expensive and WTF-expensive series of vinyl records. (You van see Music Matters web and see what I mean with your own eyes) they do magnificent vinyl records but, at least in Europe almost unaffordable prices. If you want sacds you can take a look to Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, Analogue Productions and take a look to Fonè Records (jazz section) Greetings !
@@nebulusnebulus6503 Thanks for the advice! Actually, I have a good bunch of Mo-Fi redbook CDs and they sound light years better than their standard counterparts. I hope to find a good REAL NATIVE DSD player before buying a SACD without having to ask for a mortgage on my house. I have the old and (for me) superb Luxman DP 07 - DA 07 redbook combo, the best I've heard in its class. Believe it or not, for Hi-Res digital I'm using a LG V30 smartphone connected directly to the preamp and it does a nice job, much better than the PC sound card. Saludos.
1:40 Mindset of a time period has a big influence. Music is just like wine. If music (or wine) is quite dry or bright, people might like it for about a decade. And a decade later, deep and heavy sound (or wine) is what people want. Another decade later, the same people like the dry and bright sound (or wine) again. Bottom line is: people often want that very thing that they don't have, hear or taste, but once they have it, they get used to it.
Hello ! Thanks for this video. Few weeks ago, I saw this Grant Green record in a more expensive package in that particular RTI sleeves, and asked the seller what it was... he didn’t know... here is the answer. So thank you. I will buy some of them from now on. Do you know Sam Records a parisian label putting out limited reissues pressed in Pallas Germany ? They have in their catalog some 50s sessions from Donald Byrd, Barney Wilen... There is one record they pressed with an other label called Saga : Monk / Les Liaisons Dangereuses. It is the jam of a French film. The director refused the Monk music as OST and asked Art Blakey to make a alternative music he accepted. I think they pressed to much of the single version you can find for cheap in France at the moment. I have the boxset version but it is expensive and doesn’t worth musically the extra money. Take care. Bruno
A classic starting point is Kind of Blue by Miles Davis or Blue Train by John Coltrane, which indeed are classics. I want to add a record I love from "the president", Lester Young: The President Plays With The Oscar Peterson Trio limited edition LP all analog from Speakers Corners...I think even other labels made a recent AAA release of it...
I bought Kind of Blue this year new from the "we are vinyl" series for 15 euro. Don't know if it is audiophile, but I think it's great on my medium system. Definitely recommend it for a first try.
@@anadialog Yes, I double checked . that's his quote with regards to the TP Series "All are analog except for Joe Henderson State of the Tenor Vol 2. That was originally recorded by David Baker on an Mitsubishi X-80 digital machine so we sourced one of those for playback. As far as I'm concerned this gets a pass since the music AND sound is so incredible and because the resulting test pressings are truly spectacular sounding."
Hey man awesome video, I’m been looking for some clean records but this reissues are awesome. Can’t wait to buy some. Thanks for the info . By the way you ship shirt to the states? Let me know.
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Hi do you have any contact details for Kevin Grey or any other vinyl mastering engineer, I need to talk to an engineer could be a breakthrough in Mastering.
@@anadialog Thanks for your reply. These Blue note poet series are that price, regular Lps are 20 to 50 USD I buy some. You can get cassettes, even brand new from the 80s and 90s but prices can be high, sometimes you find some great prices. I have my father's Lps collection, and his turntable GRUNDIG PS 1020 and a MARANTZ 5020 cassette deck that I repaired a few years ago when I found out I was not the only one who still enjoy vinyl, tapes and cds. I love your channel. Greetings from Buenos Aires
Wait for "affordable" prices if peronists come to power again (how many times with this...?). As J. L. Borges said: "Peronists aren't good nor bad. They are incorregible".
RVG did some of the worst recordings I have ever heard! Verve,Contemporary and Riverside were waaay better for the era! Not to mention his crappy mastering...
Rudy Van Gelder did also unquestioned jazz milestones...BTW, he also worked for Verve and Riverside...are you sure those recordings you like from those labels are not RVG? ;-)
I partially agree with you. I really dont like how he recorded the piano sound. Thank god he did'nt record the bill evans vanguard sessions with scott lafaro (i think it was bill schwartau or ray fowler) seems like every piano had the same hard, metallic, reverb sound. You could'nt distinguish the pianists own sound. They all sounded the same. However i did like his ensemble sound. The horns sounded great. He still was a great engineer except for those things in my opinion. I loved ray fowler, bill schwartau, howard holzer, and especially roy dunan for their natural true sound...i had read that charles mingus refused to have van gelder record any of his albums after he saw and heard what he had done to thad jones.
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