Thoughts on Blue Note’s Classic Vinyl Series release schedule for 2023-2024
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2024
- A rundown of all 16 releases just announced by Blue Note for the Classic Vinyl Series calendar from September 2023 through April 2024.
00:00 - Introduction
01:33 - Horace Silver Quintet - Blowin the Blues Away
04:57 - Jimmy Smith - Midnight Special
08:40 - Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Mosaic
10:32 - Hank Mobley - No Room For Squares
12:50 - Tina Brooks - Tina Blue
16:18 - Wayne Shorter - Night Dreamer
19:00 - Sonny Rollins - Newk's Time
20:44 - Grant Green - Green Street
22:33 - Bud Powell Volume 1
24:48 - Clifford Brown Memorial
27:10 - Lee Morgan - Search For the New Land
28:46 - Joe Henderson - Mode For Joe
30:56 - Miles Davis - Volume 2
33:17 - Donald Byrd - A New Perspective
35:31 - Bobby Hutcherson - Happenings
37:10 - Herbie Hancock - Speak Like a Child
40:01 - Closing Comments
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The 75th anniversary titles were all cut from files. Classic vinyl is cut from tapes. That’s a huge difference.
Man id love to put the same recording from each series together and blind test you on them 😂
@@tomwebb7091warps, non-fill, and scuffed records were endemic to the 75th (pressed at United) and would surely give it away.
I enjoy the High Res files direct from Qobuz...no surface noise
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@@carlitomelon4610no surface noise here on my analog rig
@@dariuszsalamon9441
That's incredible!
You must be able to hear all the way down to the tape hiss noise-floor;-)
Not that there's anything bad about that.
As Miles said about the mic picking up the double bass induced snare rattle on Kind of Blue:
"That goes with it"
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PS I have often wondered whether the brushed snare in quieter jazz recordings was not just there to subtly keep time, but also mask tape hiss?
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Great video. Your brain is like a steel trap!
Excited by a handful of these titles. Thanks for the thorough review.
Thank you for this great overview. Every time I see a new video by you, I am so excited! You help me grow my collection in a smart way!
Thanks!
Thanks for the overview. Looking forward to a lot of these. In Arctic Norway where I live, it is almost impossible to find original Blue Notes, so I am very happy to get these reissues.
Thx for all the qualified artist information ... True added value and advice. Great to listen to. Cheers from Germany, Klaus
It’s crazy that Roy Haynes played on that 1949 Bud Powell session and as of today he’s still alive (not sure if he’s still playing now but he was still performing a few years ago, well into his 90s).
absolutely. i saw him perform at the Village Vanguard some years ago and he definitely still had it
Saw him at Sonnys 80th concert- played beautifully.
Great presentation! I'll have to save!
Another valuable video, excellent job! I made a playlist of all of them on ROON and highlighted the tracks you mentioned, so I listen to them while working from home. I’ll be collecting all of them as I’ve been doing since last year. It’ll be interesting to hear how Kevin Gray’s remarkable improvement in mastering equipment is reflected on these albums. I’ve heard you talking about the Tina Brook’s album before so I need to dig deeper into it. I have the MM version of it that I bought just before vinyl hibernation from 2016 to 2022. I see your collection is becoming so rich in jazz masterpieces, very encouraging for people who are starting. Thank you very much for the tremendous effort you put in this video!
Thanks man, this was very intersting, lot of info.
Great titles. Looking forward to Mosaic.
Tremendous synopsis, thank you
A most welcomed video with great references that is already helpful in my novice journey into jazz. Filling up my notebook. Thank-you.
I listened to my Analogue Productions 45 RPM version of Blowin’ The Blues Away yesterday, and it’s really nice. As a former trumpet player, it’s my opinion that Blue Mitchell is extremely under-rated. I have never heard a recording where he didn’t have a consistently beautiful sound and right up there with Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard and of course,”Pops”. Miles and Donald Byrd could have their bad days but because of their overall greatness they are forgiven😊
No offense to you but I think the term 'under rated' or 'didn't get enough recognition' or anything like that gets thrown around so easily. I don't think Mitchell is underrated. Anyone with an expanded love and interest in jazz will recognize his quality. Miles wasn't the greatest trumpet player from a technical standpoint but there's obviously more to the story than just his playing. What would it have looked like if Mitchell wasn't, as you say, underrated? Would more people (without an interest in jazz) know his name or be talking about him? Should Blue Note have given him more dates as a leader back in the day? Better marketing? Wake up any jazz aficionado in the middle of the night and ask them to list their 15 favorite trumpet players and Mitchell is probably in there. Fame doesn't equal greatness I think.
@@Digginbehindthedikes Well taken😊
I also agree about Miles it was said that he realized his limitations and worked magic with the abilities he had.👍
Great video, thank you. You've hit the nail by saying "what they did before, but do it better". Exactly my thoughts when I saw the release schedule and compared it to the 75th series. All but two of them were released in that somewhat unlucky 75th series. However, the titels itself are great, but I was hoping for other, rarer titles.
Subscribed even tho my vinyl collecting days are practically over.
I enjoy your enthusiasm for this MUSIC and am happy to enjoy vicariously via high Res streaming on Qobuz.
Nice to see the Kef Ls50 speakers in your listening room. I hope you pull them out away from the corners and walls, flush with the front of the record shelf for serious listening?
I use mine (with stout amplifiers) on stands a foot away from the wall behind with REL subs.
Playing Tina Brooks' True Blue right now.
Love it!
Thanks
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No Room For Squares is my big wanteee!!
Great video with a ton of useful info, thanks for doing that one. Glad you got some beer in-between segments. One small point I would raise is that when you describe the BN Classic and 80th anniversary series, is that they are all mastered from all-analog sources. I was disappointed that you omitted that important factoid. Anyway, I feel that a lot of collectors, care more about that fact of being AAA, than being pressed on 180gram vinyl. Not saying that AAA sounds better than digital, but that many folks want a reissue to be done in as close a fashion to the OG as possible, plus it speaks of a certain level of authenticity and commitment to the craft to produce it in AAA. Just thought I would point it out. Cheers and keep up the great videos sir.
Really great rundown. Thank you. I was tempted to buy the Music Matters version of Newk’s Time, so now don’t have to. Sonny Rollins behind you approves.
WCB thanks so much for your video, this is great news! I have a bunch of the Blue Note 75 releases and they all sound amazing. ❤ Yes, they are sourced from digital files, however an important note is that the majority of them were mastered by Bernie Grundman. They got a bad rap because there were some pressing issues. I only had 1 that I needed to return. The Classic Vinyl Series are AAA and sound superb. But, I am very happy with my Blue Note 75th Anniversary reissues and have no desire to replace them or should I say upgrade. I have the Tina Brooks "True Blue" as a 75th Anniversary release and is one of my favorites of the bunch. I will be buying many of the others that I don't own. Looking foward to the months ahead! ❤
Going to be taking home at least one of these per month, cannot wait, True Blue particularly
Extremely helpful vt, thanks
Man what a list - so many great albums
Thanks - am wel jel of your collection. v nice!
That Wayne Shorter Night Dreamer was also done as a reissue in about 1973 as a blue with the black B liberty repress. That’s the version that I have. Those early reissues in the 70’s, the dark blue with the black B’s and the light blue with the white B’s sound (sometimes done in 2-fors or double albums) sound fantastic as well, much better than the 75th and rivaling the Classic series. A ton of the Bluenote reissue were done this way, (including some of the ones shown in your video) it was a cheap way to get into Bluenote. Great Video, we all look forward to your work.
These are exciting releases as many [Most? All?] of the Music Matters releases are quite a bit more than I am able to pay. The fact that we still get Tone Poet-lite mastering and sound for a very affordable price is where this hobby needs to be!
The sound and mastering is equal between both its purepy a packaging thing and keeping the Classics low rent to not upset Music Matter buyers from a few yrs ago
@@tomwebb7091 The Classics are pressed at a different plant than the Tone Poets, right? I believe I read that somewhere... Which might explain why we hear about more pressing defects such as non-fill on the Classic releases.
@@sixergixer Yes RTI for the Tone Poets and Optimal for the Classics. Ive got over 100 combined and would say i have to swap out alot more Classics to get perfect ones whereas RTI has higher QC but when Optimal nails it their pressings are superior to the RTI jobs... cleaner and quieter vinyl just as long as the dreaded non fill is avoided. RTI tend to be mildly dishwarped which is likely because they wabt to make sure non fill doesnt occur. So assuming the pressing quality is nr silent from each plant, the KPG tape cut mastering is done on equal terms that purely leaves the packaging which is beautiful on the TP but basic as can be with the BN Classic (which at first even went as low as using the worst paper inners ever invented!).
@@tomwebb7091 Great info. Thanks!
The other Blue Note album where McCoy Tyner appears on the cover as 'Etc', for contractual reasons (as he was signed to Impulse at the time) , is Joe Henderson's 'Page One'.
yes! that's the one I couldn't come up with, thanks
I really enjoy your vids and great insight! I know when something sounds great but can’t analyze what I’m hearing the way you can. Thanks! I am lucky because I have almost all the ones you showed either from Analogue Productions or Music Matters.😊
Nice, you were grabbing them at the right time then!
I spoke too soon when I said I had almost all as there are quite a few I don’t have.🤔
It was Young Man With A Horn BN 5013. I have a sealed Classic Records two pack BLP 5013 33/45 with the 10
Sorry sent
(Sorry, sent to quick)10” and a LP @45 and also the MD volume 3 ABNC 5040 still sealed. Don’t ask 🤔me why I never opened them. They are pristine and going for good bucks on Discogs.
I own several 75th anniversary series titles and they sound great, don't believe the online chatter saying there is a lack of quality!!
I'm definitely interested in the Horace Silver, Hank Mobley, Sonny Rollins and Miles Davis releases. So many different jazz reissues coming out now that it is hard to get them all.
Great video, and thanks for the preview of these upcoming releases. I'm especially excited to get the Wayne Shorter, the Hank Mobley and the Sonny Rollins. But hey, quick question: I happened to come across an album called "Landslide" by the Curtis Counce Group, recorded in L.A. in 1956 on the "Contemporary Records" label, and I'm wondering if you've ever heard of this album or this group before? Since I picked it up at my local vinyl store I've listened to it over and over, and it is great. Do you know about this group or this bass player?
I will be getting all of these titles, four of which will be replacing 75ths.
IMO is a continuation of the 80th , not 75th that was digital and pressed by Universal?
yea that seems to be the evolution: 75th -> 80th -> Classic Vinyl Series
I've got the Clifford Brown Memorial white border that has never sold, but is listed on discogs. From what I understand it came out with the teal border pressing, it's deep groove lexington, but there's not a lot of info on how the two were released.
They do gatefold for this series. Madlib and Robert Glasper at least.
Brother Jack McDuff's "Moon Rappin'" and Herbie Nochols' "The Prophetic Herbie Nichols Vol. 1 & 2" are also BNC gatefolds.
…and Lee Morgan „Caramba!“ has exactly the same kind of gatefold as the upcoming Herbie Hancock 👍
Good stuff Horace Silver, Tina Brooks day one pick ups for me. I'd prefer Bobby Hutcherson Dialogue instead of Happenings.
By the way, there have been a few BNC gatefolds: Jack McDuff - Moon Rappin, The Prophetic Herbie Nichols, Lee Morgan - Caramba, and possibly a few others.
oh very interesting, i didn't know that! so maybe they will for Herbie?
@xentakis I have the first press “Speak Like A Child” and it’s a cool gatefold. I’m hoping they replicate the original “SLAC” cover🤞🏻
Tina Brooks recorded 4 albums as a leader for BN, but not all were issued, True Blue was, and I thought his first album was also issued but not sure. He did record as a sideman on many other BN recordings. He dropped from the recording scene but continued to play in NYC in his really beat-down neighborhood (the Bronx?) until several years before his death. All of his albums were issued on a Mosaic as a box set, and True Blue has been issued many times on various BN labels (Connoisseur and others) ,
Might of have missed it, but aren’t some of these sessions available on Mosaic records too?
Thanks for the extremely helpful rundown. Looks like I'll be spending a bit of money at Wuxtry and Criminal Records. Honestly, the only one I'll pass on is the Bryrd and that's just because I don't care for the vocals. The rest are all top shelf.
Wasn't Blue Note going to release some Jack Wilson? From a previous video I remember that you were a fan.
Jack Wilson's 'Easterly Winds' is coming in the Tone Poet series, out November 3rd.
@@Bennyplays thanks
Great Video, Got to get better lighting.
Still no Duke Pearson Wahoo re-issue : (
@itsvladzino3246 I’m hoping we get “Wahoo” as a Classic Series in 2024, but I’m happy with “The Right Touch” Tone Poet.
Already making place.
If anyone has both a 75 anniversary edition and a classic series edition of the same title…I’d be VERY curious to know if you can tell the difference in a blind comparison.
75 is from digital source. Classic from Tape AAA
@@OTO_45 I’m aware of that. What I’m asking is if anyone can actually tell the difference in a side by side blind comparison
Great question. I bought the 75 of Lee Morgan - Search for a new land recently. It sounded like crap! I’ve heard some 75s sound better that others tho.. this was definitely not one of them. Sent it back. If your set up is even somewhat revealing, I don’t imagine it would be hard to tell the difference.
@@Jakeross123 Thx for this answer. Very helpful. The only 75 I have is True Blue and it sounds great on my rig.
@@albertguffanti8414 I have a 75 of Blue Train and it sounds pretty good too. I should compare with my Tone Poet. Fingers crossed I can hear the difference 😂
Has the list actually been put out. Can I get it on google. Thanks
Blue Note posted it by release date earlier this week: www.bluenote.com/classic-vinyl-reissue-series-2023-2024/
Speak like s child might still be a gatefold. blue note classic did it for lee morgan caramba, brother jack mc duff, lonnie smith turning point and the prophetic herbie nichols.
Great video! Have most of them in analogue form. I might pick up Speak like a child because it is the worst sounding BN ever.
As Ken McCallef said the 80th Classic Series is all analogue from master tapes not digital like the 75th series!!
Great, I have been pronouncing Mosaic wrong forever.
In my view this is a somewhat disappointing series of re-issues. The vast majority of the titles announced have been previously released in recent years. Either as part of the 75th Anniversary series or the 80th Anniversary series. Yes, they are cut from the original master tapes and maybe considered "audiofile". However there are so many albums in the Blue Note catalogue that have not had a recent reissue. These are now only available on vinyl, either as original pressings, or titles that were re-released in the 1970s, in small numbers by Blue Note, or by King or Toshiba in Japan. I think many of these titles are also deserving of a modern reissue.
Examples would be, "Wahoo" by Duke Pearson or Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music, just to mention two that come to mind.
The 75th-anniversary series were a big disappointment. Don't walk; run to get the Classics.
Great stuff Chris. Regarding the mono vs. stereo versions of Mode for Joe; haven't heard the stereo version but I have an original mono copy and the clarity, detail, punch and explosive but refined sound is utterly amazing and one of my best sounding albums. Each instrument is perfectly defined and not muddy at all. I use a true mono cartridge, the Miyajima Zero, which is a lovely cartridge capable of producing super clear, delicate and very detailed sounds out of the grooves of vintage mono pressings, especially from the later Blue Note catalogue. The large group format isn't a problem. It's all a matter of taste in the end of course, but don't discard original mono versions of later Blue Note titles. They all sound amazing to me. 🙂