Os melhores álbuns do catálogo lendário da Blue Note Records recebem o tratamento audiófilo pela Analogue Productions, corte a 45rpm para qualidade de som absoluta pelos igualmente lendários engenheiros de masterização Kevin Gray e Steve Hoffman na AcousTech, preservando toda a glória analógica das Fitas Master Originais para dar vida a estas sessões de forma espectacular como merecem.

• Edição Limitada
• Edição Numerada
• Corte a partir das Master Tapes Analógicas Originais
• Masterizado por Kevin Gray e Steve Hoffman
• Masterizado na AcousTech
• 2LP 45rpm Vinil Virgem 180 Gramas
• Prensagem na RTI USA

"…As much as I'd love to relay all kinds of anecdotes about the challenges Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray encounter during the mastering sessions, I witness none. These boys know the sound of the facility and the Van Gelder masters like the backs of their hands…Back home a month later, I unpack some test pressings Chad Kassem has sent me…I hear the most realistic-sounding drums ever reproduced by my system. It's as though I'm sitting at the point of creation, experiencing the same high that brought such gifted musicians together as one. Steve Hoffman, Kevin Gray, Chad Kassem, and Don MacInnis have done Rudy Van Gelder and his Blue Note artists proud." – Jason Victor Serinus, Stereophile

In the late fifties and early sixties, alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson recorded primarily with his own quartet with pianist Herman Foster or with organ trios. Occasionally, he'd break the mold as he did on this February, 1960 session that was strictly a hard bop affair which includes trumpeter Bill Hardman and pianist Horace Parlan. There's still plenty of funk in evidence as "Goose Grease" bears out, but "Hardman's Politely," "Softly As In A Morning Sunrise" and "The Man I Love" find Lou digging deep into his bop roots.

Músicos:

Lou Donaldson, alto sax
Bill Hardman, trompete
Al Harewood, bateria
Laymon Jackson, baixo
Sam Jones, baixo
Horace Parlan, piano

Lista de Faixas:

1. Blues for J.P.
2. The Man I Love
3. Politely
4. It's You or No One
5. The Truth
6. Goose Grease
7. Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise

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