Na celebração do 80º Aniversário da Blue Note Records em 2019, a Classic Series apresenta reedições de alta qualidade a custo acessível e capas standard masterizadas por Kevin Gray na Cohearent Audio e prensadas em vinil 180g na Optimal Media da Alemanha. Estas edições são totalmente analógicas sempre que existam as fontes analógicas, e o corte é directo a partir das Fitas Master Originais.

• Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series
• LP Vinil Audiófilo 180 Gramas
• Masterização totalmente Analógica
• Corte a partir das Fitas Master Originais
• Corte por Kevin Gray na Cohearent Audio
• Prensagem na Optimal Media, Alemanha
• Mono

The Classic Vinyl Reissue Series is the continuation of our acclaimed Blue Note 80 Vinyl Reissue Series, which was created in celebration of the 80th anniversary of Blue Note Records in 2019. The series presents affordable, high-quality reissues in standard packaging that are mastered by Kevin Gray of Cohearent Audio and manufactured on 180g vinyl at Optimal Media in Germany. The pressings are all-analog whenever an analog source is available, with Gray mastering directly from the original master tapes. Blue Note Records has recorded the legends of Jazz and has traced the entire evolution of the music from the early days of Boogie Woogie, Hot Jazz and Swing, through the innovations of Bebop, Hard Bop, Post-Bop, Soul Jazz, Avant-Garde, and 70s Fusion, and into the vibrant sounds of Jazz’s many modern-day incarnations. The Classic Vinyl Series is curated by Don Was and Cem Kurosman and is broad in its scope. The series reissues the best-known Blue Note classics from the 1950s and 60s, but also goes deeper, exploring the many different eras and styles of the legendary label’s eight-decade history with the aim of telling our story and fully representing the Blue Note motto: The Finest In Jazz Since 1939.

Trombonist J. J. Johnson took the language of bebop and adapted it to his instrument winning the admiration of Fats Navarro, Dizzy Gillespie, and Charlie Parker. After appearing on Miles Davis’ first Blue Note session in 1952, Johnson was given the chance to lead his own dates in 1953 and 1954. The first featured a sextet with Johnson joined by the brilliant trumpeter Clifford Brown, saxophonist Jimmy Heath, pianist John Lewis, bassist Percy Heath, and drummer Kenny Clarke who perform a varied program with up-tempo burners like “Turnpike” and beautiful ballads like “Lover Man.” For his next session Johnson went back into Van Gelder Studio to cut memorable takes of “Old Devil Moon,” the percolating original “Coffee Pot,” and more with a quintet featuring Wynton Kelly on piano, Charles Mingus on bass, Clarke once again on drums, and the conguero Sabu Martinez. The two sessions were later combined for the 12” release The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, Volume 1 (BLP 1505).

This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is mono, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original masters, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.

Músicos:

Clifford Brown - trompete (Lado 1)
Jay Jay Johnson - trombone
Jimmy Heath - tenor & baritono sax (Lado1)
John Lewis - piano (Lado 1)
Wynton Kelly - piano (Lado 2)
Percy Heath - baixo (Lado 1)
Charlie Mingus - baixo (Lado 2)
Kenny Clarke - bateria
Sabu Martinez - congas (Lado 2)

Lista de Faixas:

A1: Turnpike
A2: Lover Man
A3: Get Happy
A4: Sketch 1
A5: Capri

B1: Jay
B2: Old Devil Moon
B3: It's You Or No One
B4: Too Marvelous For Words
B5: Coffee Pot

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