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
• 2LP Vinil Audiófilo 180 Gramas
• Corte por Kevin Gray na Cohearent Audio
• Prensagem na Optimal Media, Alemanha

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.

The sound of Blue Note Records has been embedded in hip-hop since the music’s early days with artists like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, J Dilla, Beastie Boys, and more mining Blue Note’s rich catalog for inspiration and sampling from tracks by Grant Green, Lou Donaldson, Lonnie Smith, and others. In the early 1990s, Blue Note invited Us3 into the vaults for a jazz/hip-hop remix album that produced the smash single “Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)” and in 1996 went even further with The New Groove: The Blue Note Remix Project featuring remixes by Guru, The Ummah, The Roots, and more. It was Madlib who raised the bar next when the acclaimed DJ, producer, rapper, and multi-instrumentalist invaded the Blue Note vaults to create his 2003 masterpiece Shades of Blue. Madlib’s deep love of jazz (his uncle is trumpeter Jon Faddis) is apparent throughout this visionary album which features remixes, reimaginations, and reinterpretations of classics by Donald Byrd, Bobbi Humphrey, The Three Sounds, Ronnie Foster, Bobby Hutcherson, Andrew Hill, Wayne Shorter, and more.

Músicos:

Madlib beats, scratches
DJ Lord Such scratches, cuts, vocals
Morgan Adams Quartet Plus Two vocals
M.E.D. vocals
Sound Direction vocals
Yesterdays New Quintet vocals
Ahmad Miller vibraphone, vocals
Joe McDuphrey electric piano, keyboard
James King flute
Morgan Adam III organ
Dan Ubick guitar
Jeff Jank acoustic bass
Monk Hughes acoustic bass
Russel Jenkins bass
Otis Jackson Jr drums
Derek Holman percussion, synthesizer
Lefty Houston drums
Malik Flavors percussion

Lista de Faixas:

Introduction
Slim's Return
Distant Land
Mystic Bounce
Stormy
Blue Note Interlude
Please Set Me At Ease
Funky Blue Note
Alfred Lion Interlude
Stepping Into Tomorrow
Andrew Hill Break
Montara
Song For My Father
Footprints
Peace / Dolphin Dance
Outro

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