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
fujindemon

Showing 1 response by marakanetz

Try to find Jacques Lousier "Play Bach Vol1","...Vol2"... original mono records to listen to the richest music reproduction. There were very few reussues of his records and they're not any different from original. The main thing that I know that all his early albums upto 1965 were pressed in mono versions. Thus in my collection I have Vol1 mono(1959) and Vol2 stereo.

I've also nice collection of Ben Webster original records. you can e-mail me for listing if you're interested. Every record is at least in very good condition.

The main difference I believe that vintage pressed records lived trhough at least half of the century even if visually graded with no scuffs or scratches will "fry a little bacon" during playback. The second main difference that vintage pressed records are pressed to live much longer than light vinyl reissues. To me original issue is the way to have something beyond music. It's like having a relique and you realy find more appreciation when you play it. Most-likely the musical info is transfered to vinyl from tape and the secondary task after primary studio recording to acurately transfer this info onto the vinyl surface. Having this in mind, you should understand that first pressing and reissue will sound slight different, even so slight that no human ear will realize.

The example where original pressing is different from reissues is DOORS(almost every album was poorly mastered).
The reissues of DOORS were remastered before pressing.