Tadd Dameron- Mating call

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

The UK RCA pressings of the Prestige 2LPs sound distinctly better than the French !

The only French one I have is Jug's "The 78 era" - a bit difficult to tell.

MG

[sidewinder]

More surface noise than the RCAs, in my experience. I have quite a few of each type.

[JohnS]

The French Carrere and Musidisc pressings were generally inferior imo.

[sidewinder]

Edition Carrere - that's the ones I have. Mole Jazz used to have tons of those in the deletion racks !

The early UK RCAs were on heavy-ish vinyl - I try to pick them up whenever I can find in good nick.

[Shrdlu]

I liked the late 60s Prestige LP reissues. As was said above, they often reorganized the music in a nice, all-in-one-place, way, compared with the original issues. (For example, the "Bags' Groove" session by Miles, collected onto one LP.) It's a pity that the OJC CDs follow the first LPs. There was the occasional hazard of added fake stereo, though it was fairly mild, and nothing like the appalling echoey Columbia ones.

I had a debate with Fantasy over that, as the OJC CD of Trane's album "Settin' The Pace" used the late 60s LP master with the fake stereo, instead of the original tapes. The Fantasy engineer denied it. The 16 CD Trane box set used the session reels.