Kind Of Blue

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These cookies are strictly necessary for the operation of the site, you can disable them by changing the settings of your browser but you will not be able to use the site normally. None of the musicians had played any of the tunes before heading into the first of two recording sessions in early spring of 1959. If there are indeed only a handful of albums that marked their own times in the way that Kind of Blue did, there are even less which, 60 years later, continue to bear the same importance.

LJC says: please feel free to weigh in if you think I’ve got something wrong (which you can put straight), or you can add something to the story, speak up, perhaps your promo doesn’t fit with my m. I think we have increased the amount of stuff we know, but at the same time, increased the amount of stuff we don’t know. I have a 6-eye mono with a matrix on Side 1 of: XLP47324-1B and Side 2 of: XLP47325-1A which is exactly what you show in your first two pictures on this page. Another fingerprint, the plant in question tended to issue copies with symmetrical matrix codes – 1D/1D and 1J/1J – unlike other plants, which pressed with unmatched stampers e.Johnson at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, California, Break The Chain has twelve new MacLeod songs.

Then again I don’t have perfect pitch so the ¼ semi-tone or whatever it was supposed to be off doesn’t register with me, but the corrected version just loses something of its impetus.In the end, I find that listening to different versions of an album to see which one has what SQ tends to alienate me from immersion in the mood and tone of the music. If a third press was employed, Side 1 was chosen from a third lacguer, and married up with Side 2 from another available lacquer at the time.

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. Mastered from the original master tapes, pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl at RTI, and strictly numbered and limited, this definitive reissue enhances every element of a double album that established new possibilities for studio recording techniques.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). The large number of high matrix values probably reflects a large volume of sales of stereo copies which occurred towards the end of the six-eye label period. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. The highest matrix value was 1BH/1BJ, and towards the end, copies with the CBS overprint start to appear, fixing these to around 1962/3. Then each and every copy is hand made by mastering engineer Pietro Benini before being signed off, serial numbered and packaged for sale.