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Mellifluous Cacophony: Blue Note Celebrates 80th Anniversary With Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series

February 27, 2019 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

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This year marks the 80th anniversary of Blue Note Records, the legendary label that continues to deliver some of the most striking jazz music ever recorded.  In recent years, Joe Harley spearheaded an audiophile vinyl reissue series called Music Matters which included many Blue Note classics.  Over a decade has passed since the inception of that project and now, Harley and Blue Note president Don Was  have launched a new initiative called the Tone Poet Audiophile Reissue Series.

The series will feature two new reissue titles every month from February to November, covering classic albums and overlooked releases from the entire span of Blue Note's 80-year history, selected by Joe Harley.  Each title is all-analog, mastered from the original master tapes, pressed onto 180-gram audiophile vinyl, and housed in deluxe gatefold packaging.  Mastering is being handled by Kevin Gray at CoHEARent Audio and the vinyl is being manufactured at Record Technology Incorporated.

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The goal, according to Harley is "to allow listeners to know what it would sound like to actually be in Rudy's living room in Hackensack or later in Rudy's studio in Englewood Cliffs, NJ."  To achieve that goal, he aims to bring listeners the most transparent-sounding vinyl reissues possible:  "We do not roll off the low end, boost the top or do any limiting of any kind. We allow the full glory of the original Blue Note masters to come though unimpeded!  Short of having an actual time machine, this is as close as you can get to going back and being a fly on the wall for an original Blue Note recording session."

As for the visuals, Harley promises that the gatefold jacket's cover graphics and printing quality will be unmatched, saying, "extreme attention to detail has been paid to getting these right in every conceivable way."

The first two albums in the series - Wayne Shorter's Etcetera and Chick Corea's Now He Sings, Now He Sobs - were released on February 8 and are available now from all fine record shops, as well as Amazon and Blue Note's online store.  Sam Rivers' Contours and Cassandra Wilson's Glamoured are on the way, due out on March 15.  Those two titles are available now for preorder.

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You can find the details and pre-order links for those four titles below, along with a full list of  2019 releases for the Tone Poet Series.

Wayne Shorter, Etcetera (originally Blue Note LP LT-1065, 1980 [recorded 1965] -- reissued 2019) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Side 1:

  1. Etcetera
  2. Penelope
  3. Toy Tune

Side 2:

  1. Barracudas (General Assembly)
  2. Indian Song

Chick Corea, Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (originally Solid State Records LP SS18039, 1968 -- reissued 2019) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Side 1:

  1. Steps - What Was
  2. Matrix

Side 2:

  1. Now He Sings - Now He Sobs
  2. Now He Beats the Drum - Now He Stops
  3. The Law of Falling and Catching Up

Sam Rivers, Contours (originally Blue Note LP BLP 4206, 1965 -- reissued 2019) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Side 1:

  1. Point of Many Returns
  2. Dance of the Tripedal

Side 2:

  1. Euterpe
  2. Mellifluous Cacaphony

Cassandra Wilson, Glamoured (originally Blue Note CD 7243 5 90951 2 7, 2003 -- reissued 2019) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Side 1:

  1. Fragile
  2. Sleight of Time
  3. I Want More

Side 2:

  1. If Loving You Is Wrong
  2. Lay, Lady Lay
  3. Crazy
  4. What Is It?

Side 3:

  1. Heaven Knows
  2. Honey Bee
  3. Broken Drum

Side 4:

  1. On This Train
  2. Throw It Away

Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series - 2019 Schedule:

February 8

  • Wayne Shorter - Etcetera (Blue Note, 1965/1980)
  • Chick Corea - Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (Solid State, 1968)

March 15

  • Sam Rivers - Contours (Blue Note, 1965)
  • Cassandra Wilson - Glamoured (Blue Note, 2003)

April 26

  • Gil Evans - New Bottle Old Wine (World Pacific, 1958)
  • Joe Henderson - The State of the Tenor: Live at the Village Vanguard, Volume 2 (Blue Note, 1985)

May 31

  • Lou Donaldson - Mr. Shing-A-Ling (Blue Note, 1967)
  • Lee Morgan - Cornbread (Blue Note, 1965)

June 28

  • Baby Face Willette - Face To Face (Blue Note, 1961)
  • Dexter Gordon - Clubhouse (Blue Note, 1965)

July 26

  • Kenny Burrell - Introducing Kenny Burrell (Blue Note, 1956)
  • Andrew Hill - Black Fire (Blue Note, 1963)

September 6

  • Donald Byrd - Chant (Blue Note, 1961)
  • Stanley Turrentine - Hustlin' (Blue Note, 1964)

October 25

  • Grant Green - Born to Be Blue (Blue Note, 1962)
  • Tina Brooks - Minor Move (Blue Note, 1958)

November 15

  • Hank Mobley - Poppin' (Blue Note, 1957)
  • Stanley Turrentine - Comin' Your Way (Blue Note, 1961)

Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Cassandra Wilson, Chick Corea, Sam Rivers, Wayne Shorter

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Sam Stone has been obsessed with catalog music ever since his folks gave him a Contours best-of collection for his fourth birthday. He quickly began to learn all he could about rock and roll history and beyond, a passion that continues to this day. Sam followed his love for music to the classroom, earning a B.A. from Towson University in Electronic Media and Film, concentrating on radio and audio production, as well as an M.A. in Audio Arts from Syracuse University. He has put his knowledge and skills to work at prominent reissue labels and is excited to bring his perspectives on catalog music to a broader audience. When he’s not writing for The Second Disc, Sam can be found researching about music, talking about Joni Mitchell’s career, and adding another box set to his Amazon wish list.

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