Recommend Well-Recorded Hard Bop Jazz on CD?


Can you recommend some well recorded Hard Bop Jazz CD's? (Remasters) I have some of the JVC 20bit K2's, as many as I could find. Many have been sold out for years. Have some JVC k2 Cd's of Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, Coltrane, Miles, Bill Evans etc. Not many out there left to be had. The Columbia jazz recordings (Miles etc) are for the most part excellent recordings. Example: "Miles Davis Qunitet. 1965-68-- if you listen to CD's and don't have this box set, you are missing out on an excellently recorded cd set of great music. Another: the "Miles Davis and John Coltrane, The Complete Columbia Recordings" is another set of excellent music and excellent recordings. Individually too, many of the Columbia CD recordings on jazz are very nice. For sound quality, the Blue Note jazz and RVG Remasters series is hit and miss (mostly miss imo). The music itself is awesome, but many of the recordings are tilted up in the highs and lacking overall sonic weight and bass,(the recordings sound thin), but I own quite a few of these recordings because the artists were too great and their contributions to the Hard Bop genre and Jazz in general are too significant to pass up.

Any suggestions of other well recorded, good sounding, Hard Bop Jazz on CD? (that are still available) Thanks.
foster_9

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Foster 9,You should check the ANALOGUE PRODUCTIONS,they have just remastered and published some clasic blue note editions on hybrid sacd.Men behind that project are Steve Hofman and Kevin Gray and with Alan Yoshida from xrcd,probably ones of the best experts.The cost is around 30USD per cd,check their site.Did not want to look smart in my last post,hope this will help you more.
I guess a good way to start your journey wold be to buy some very thick book of jazz,and than when you got the time browse threw recomended albums in some good cd store.
Personally,its something that gives me great pleasure,specially when I travel,to search and discover shops and editions in them.But,just to name few most popular or ones that you will probaably like at first listening:on guitar,Kenny Burell,Grant Green,on sax,Coleman Hawkins,Ben Webster,Ike Quebec,Stan Getz,Paul Desmond,on trumpet,Dizzy Gillespie,Clark Terry,Miles Davis,Chet Baker,Blue Mitchell,F.Hubbard,on piano,Oscar Peterson,Duke Ellington,Count Basie,Art Tatum,on organ J.Smith,L.Smith,Ruben Wilson,on vocal Johnny Hartman,Lou Rawls,Ella Fitzgerald,Sarah Vaughn...etc.The list is long,or the book is thick,and hope that quality of music will come before of the qulity of recording.