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

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 1961 album Mosaic marked a pivotal moment in the story of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers with the drummer welcoming the arrival of trumpeter Freddie Hubbard (replacing Lee Morgan) and pianist Cedar Walton (replacing Bobby Timmons). The band also expanded to a sextet with the addition of trombonist Curtis Fuller who joined existing members tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter and bassist Jymie Merritt to establish a powerful new line-up that would perform together until 1964 and record several classic albums including Buhaina’s Delight and Free for All. Mosaic opens with a flourish as the band launches into the magnificent title track composed by Walton, and the set also includes memorable compositions by Shorter (“Children of the Night”), Fuller (“Arabia”), and Hubbard (“Down Under” and “Crisis”).

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

Músicos:

Art Blakey, bateria
Freddie Hubbard, trompete
Wayne Shorter, saxofone
Cedar Walton, piano
Jymie Merritt, baixo

Curtis Fuller, trombone

Lista de Faixas:

1. Mosaic
2. Down Under
3. Children Of The Night
4. Arabia
5. Crisis

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