What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Kevin Bresnahan]

14 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Pacific Jazz DG stereo

Drummer Doug Sides resident and gigging over here in the UK !

Not that it means that they are right about this, but the denizens of the Hoffman forums are saying that the new Tone Poet reissue of this sounds very good. Several of them are claiming that it's the best-sounding Tone Poet yet. I would take that with a grain of salt because they always seem to elevate each new release above the previous one and because I don't see how the sound could top that Kenny Burrell Tone Poet, which sounds pretty damn good.

[Rabshakeh]

21 minutes ago, bresna said:

Not that it means that they are right about this, but the denizens of the Hoffman forums are saying that the new Tone Poet reissue of this sounds very good. Several of them are claiming that it's the best-sounding Tone Poet yet. I would take that with a grain of salt because they always seem to elevate each new release above the previous one and because I don't see how the sound could top that Kenny Burrell Tone Poet, which sounds pretty damn good.

Sorry to be very naive and childlike, but i had the uninformed idea that Tone Poet was for rereleases of the Blue Note back catalogue. Is whichever megacorp operating subsidiary that has the rights to monetarisation of their legacy IP just throwing in Pacific titles into the mix now too?

[mjazzg]

Not just reissues either.  The recent Charles Lloyd release was a Tone Poet, imaginatively titled 'Tone Poet'

[Rabshakeh]

I like it.

[mjazzg]

So do I

[Dub Modal]

1 hour ago, bresna said:

Not that it means that they are right about this, but the denizens of the Hoffman forums are saying that the new Tone Poet reissue of this sounds very good. Several of them are claiming that it's the best-sounding Tone Poet yet. I would take that with a grain of salt because they always seem to elevate each new release above the previous one and because I don't see how the sound could top that Kenny Burrell Tone Poet, which sounds pretty damn good.

Grains of salt and tons of skepticism are mandatory for perusing that forum. Less than half of what's said there should be believed, and that's probably generous. 

[Dan Gould]

6 minutes ago, Dub Modal said:

Grains of salt and tons of skepticism are mandatory for perusing that forum. Less than half of what's said there should be believed, and that's probably generous. 

and on top of that, a grand total of one person has come from Hoffman to my Percy France website.

 

 

 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

1 hour ago, Rabshakeh said:

Sorry to be very naive and childlike, but i had the uninformed idea that Tone Poet was for rereleases of the Blue Note back catalogue. Is whichever megacorp operating subsidiary that has the rights to monetarisation of their legacy IP just throwing in Pacific titles into the mix now too?

The Tone Poet series is being curated by Don Was and Joe Harley and they have not limited it to the Blue Note catalog. There have been Solid State ("Now He Sings, Now He Sobs"), Pacific Jazz ("Katanga", "Chet Baker Sings" & "New Bottle, Old Wine") and United Artists ("Money Jungle") releases sprinkled in there.

[Rabshakeh]

14 minutes ago, bresna said:

The Tone Poet series is being curated by Don Was and Joe Harley and they have not limited it to the Blue Note catalog. There have been Solid State ("Now He Sings, Now He Sobs"), Pacific Jazz ("Katanga", "Chet Baker Sings" & "New Bottle, Old Wine") and United Artists ("Money Jungle") releases sprinkled in there.

Thanks, good info.

[sidewinder]

2 hours ago, bresna said:

Not that it means that they are right about this, but the denizens of the Hoffman forums are saying that the new Tone Poet reissue of this sounds very good. Several of them are claiming that it's the best-sounding Tone Poet yet. I would take that with a grain of salt because they always seem to elevate each new release above the previous one and because I don't see how the sound could top that Kenny Burrell Tone Poet, which sounds pretty damn good.

Yeah, I saw that. The mania exhibited on that thread is only rivalled by the 2021 RSD thread on that forum. Reminds me of the ‘Messiah’ sketch on Life of Brian.

Good sounding session though !

Edited June 18, 2021 by sidewinder

[sidewinder]

1 hour ago, Dan Gould said:

and on top of that, a grand total of one person has come from Hoffman to my Percy France website.

 

 

 

A heretic ! 

[JSngry]

What would be cool would be to get 10" Tone Poets of the original Pacific Jazz LPs.

[sidewinder]

More Pacific Jazz on the Jazz West Coast imprint. This series had some good compilations.

[Dan Gould]

1 hour ago, sidewinder said:

A heretic ! 

Someone of taste and sophistication, not to mention an interest in music, not just sound reproduction.

 

[LWayne]

Spinning Herbie Hancock "The Prisoner". Tone Poet version.

LWayne

[mjazzg]

Billy Harper - Knowledge Of Self [Denon, 1979]

[mjazzg]

Billy Harper - The Believer [Baystate, 1980]

[Pim]

6 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Billy Harper - The Believer [Baystate, 1980]

 

 

 

great repress! Lovely music.

Edited June 19, 2021 by Pim

[mjazzg]

Billy Harper - Trying To Make Heaven My Home [MPS Spain, 1980 repress]

3 hours ago, Pim said:

 

 

 

great repress! Lovely music.

Thanks for the reminder, copy ordered.

[porcy62]

Just settled up my TT after moved in a new flat. First record: Kind Of Blue, mono.

[sidewinder]

6 minutes ago, porcy62 said:

Just settled up my TT after moved in a new flat. First record: Kind Of Blue, mono.

Hernia? 

[porcy62]

1 minute ago, sidewinder said:

Hernia? 

Spent two months lifting weight in a gym with Arnold as prevention

[sidewinder]

3 minutes ago, porcy62 said:

Spent two months lifting weight in a gym with Arnold as prevention

and what’s that about a Columbia Kind of Blue mono? Surely you don’t want to slum it with that - on the Hoffman Board you are nobody unless you have the Super High Definition whatsit in its leatherette case. 

Edited June 19, 2021 by sidewinder

[porcy62]

1 minute ago, sidewinder said:

and what’s that about a Columbia Kind of Blue mono? Surely you don’t want to slum it with that - on the Hoffman Board you are nobody unless you have the Super High Definition whatsit in its leatherette case. 

Spent six months boxing in a gym before meeting the SH board members

[mjazzg]

52 minutes ago, porcy62 said:

Just settled up my TT after moved in a new flat. First record: Kind Of Blue, mono.

That's a great way to christen a new flat. Hope you're happy there