Blue Note Tone Poet Series


Here are a number of videos of Blue Note Tone Poet Series records playing on my system:

Andrew Hill ‎– Black Fire - Blue Note Tone Poet Series
https://youtu.be/L7JSfUGyivA

Donald Byrd ‎– Chant - Blue Note Tone Poet Series
https://youtu.be/oSqF6ZCtlas

Tina Brooks ‎– Minor Move "The Way You Look Tonight" - Blue Note Tone Poet Series
https://youtu.be/MXJRFojEFk0

Duke Ellington Charlie Mingus Max Roach ‎– Money Jungle - Blue Note Tone Poet Series
https://youtu.be/Botd2xjnzH0
https://youtu.be/_paYIWWUqjU


alexberger

Showing 3 responses by nitewulf

BN80 and Tone Poet (along with MM and Classic Records 200g series and Speaker's Corner but they don't issue Blue Notes) are all analog. Wax Time, and other Euro brands that issue cheaper Blue Notes and older jazz records are unofficial and sourced from CDs after the copyrights ran out. Keep this in mind. There's basically no reason to buy those other than aesthetics.

Best bang for the buck are also all the OJC (Original Jazz Classics) issued in the 80's, they are all analog and are easy to find for $5 - $25 range depending on condition and rarity. Typically cheap.

I have a pretty decent collection of BN originals, all three reissues: MM, BN80, and TP are excellent comparatively.
@billstevenson - they are fine as long as you know they are sourced from the CDs (hence the extra tracks). I mean they are cheap and you get the large format artwork. Plus they are new pressings so they are clean and noise free compared to used vintage albums. I am just saying people shouldn't confuse those with all analog productions which are harder to make and they are also remastered and all sound extremely good.
Bill,

I don't 100% agree there, it all depends on your digital chain right, so if your analogue chain is head and shoulders above your digital chain, then sure the vinyl sourced from CD could sound better.  I personally moved to lossless digital a while back (so files only, regular 16bit and high res as well), and with a good dac and good amp, the music sounds amazing. But I have a great analog chain as well and that's why prefer the all analog reissues because they demonstrate that difference. I'm a huge proponent of lossless digital files. CDs are another issue because then the CD player or transport has to be really good and so on.