Kind Of Blue

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Columbia was a major, not the sort of small operator that would “use up” wrong labels to save money. Like you stated…according to the list it should be a later press but it is misprinted on label and jacket. Columbia had the means and wisdom to invest in cutting edge recording technology, and their own professional recording studio. It doesn’t require as much (or indeed any) subconscious processing by the mind to coalesce into a unified sonic / musical experience, while also at the same time being clear and distinct in each of its parts.

The interesting part is the lacquer numbers associated with two-eye edition, commencing with the tail end of the 1BA-1BL run, and the start of the 1CA – 1CL run. It may seem ironic that the biggest-selling album in jazz history is such a subtle and understated beast - perhaps less so when you consider it as a sublime masterpiece of subtlety and understatement. First, as is well documented, the tapes are running at correct speed – something that wasn’t noticed for several years (1992 or so I believe). In the second session the two saxophones were reversed, so Coltrane appears on the right of the stage and Adderley on the left. A little icing on the cake, the Columbia two-eye KoB has a degree of chronology, so there are early and later two-eye.

The reverb tails and the decay of each note are so deliciously real, you just can’t do this on vinyl! The user is informed that they have the possibility of configuring their browser so that they are informed of the receipt of cookies, and may, if they wish, prevent them from being installed on their hard drive.

Beginning with the Byrds, the Doors, Carlos Santana, and the Allman Brothers, most rock improvisation has been modal. Centre stage, the bass is richly full-bodied, its weight and tunefulness also eclipsing anything you’ll hear on vinyl, and the ever so lightly brushed drums on the right are sweetly, spine-tinglingly soft. We could try to explain why it's the best Jazz album ever made, but the music itself will do that to you. It’s something that I don’t do either, nor do I need to do it as I can quickly hear if something sounds better. In any case, whilst the track listing appears different on this release it is in fact correct: it was the original that got it wrong.His sound is achingly spacious, bringing a familiarity with the intimate sound of his ‘Sketches of Spain’ album (which was still to come at this point). the depth and weight, the tone and texture, the tunefulness, the attack and decay of every single note. According to Billboard, KoB is the fifth largest-selling album on vinyl since 2010 (143,000 total over six years).