The original 6-eye mono version of Miles Davis "Porgy & Bess" is amazing along with the new Classic Records "Kind of Blue" and "Sketches of Spain". The Blue Note original (or reissue) Eric Dolphy "Out To Lunch" and Cannonball Adderly "Somethin' Else" are simply amamzing. The "Original Jazz Classic (OJC)" pressings are great for the price, usually $9, the Blue Note reissues and Classic Records versions are always top quality. One thing I would reccomend to stay away from are those $10 Columbia reissues, ie Kind of Blue, Mingus' Ah Um, Brubeck's Time Out, etc. I think these pressings are a conspiracy by Sony (half joking) to make people think that LPs are not really better then cds. They are "180g virgin vinyl, from analog tapes" but they sound like they are from 5th generation mix tapes pressed with most worn out stamper they could find. Nothing like the 40 year old original pressings, which in my opinion are unrivaled.
Jazz recommendations on lp
can anyone provide some recommendations for jazz on vinyl.
i can't afford to waste my money on poorly mastered recordings.
recently i have found some nice columbia 6eye pressings from the Brubeck catalog (58 newport, the riddle, etc) and some of brubecks catalog from fantasy.
i'm looking for recs from the mingus, coltrane, davis and monk catalogs. horace silver, cannonball adderley, bill evans also.
if you think i'd like a particular artist, by all means let me know.
if you could be so kind would you differentiate between a vintage pressing and a re-pressing. i have no objections to buying reissues if the sound is dead-on as it was intended, but i would rather not be victim to an engineers notion of what the artist and original masters should sound like if they got it right in the first place.
thanks in advance to those that answer my plea for help
i can't afford to waste my money on poorly mastered recordings.
recently i have found some nice columbia 6eye pressings from the Brubeck catalog (58 newport, the riddle, etc) and some of brubecks catalog from fantasy.
i'm looking for recs from the mingus, coltrane, davis and monk catalogs. horace silver, cannonball adderley, bill evans also.
if you think i'd like a particular artist, by all means let me know.
if you could be so kind would you differentiate between a vintage pressing and a re-pressing. i have no objections to buying reissues if the sound is dead-on as it was intended, but i would rather not be victim to an engineers notion of what the artist and original masters should sound like if they got it right in the first place.
thanks in advance to those that answer my plea for help