Further titles to released on December 6th Apparently all have bonus tracks and use 2017 remasters John Coltrane _ Blue Train ブルー・トレイン - ジョン・コルトレーン Paul Chambers_Whims Of Chambers ウイムズ・オブ・チェンバーズ - ポール・チェンバース Sonny Clark_Sonny's Crib ソニーズ・クリブ - ソニー・クラーク Johnny Griffin_A Blowing Session ア・ブローイング・セッション - ジョニー・グリフィン
Pre-ordered BLue train, got the platinum one which is fantastic, i bet they ll use the newly DSD transfer from this version
It is a 2017 transfer, so different from the 2016 platinum shm-cd. " First Press Limited Edition / SACD-SHM Specification】 <Current BLUE NOTE President / Don Woz supervised / Original from master Master using 2017 Newest DSD Master / 60th anniversary of "Blue Train" announcement, 50 years after collapse death Special plan> Top Site Product Display – UNIVERSAL MUSIC JAPAN で詳細を読む"
Yes, the "Blue Train" Platinum SHM is a Mono version.. I dare say this is stereo Interesting, maybe sourced from the US masters if Don Was involved Apparently Bernie Grundman has been archiving the analog masters to 24-bit, 192 kHz—"a labour of love" I wonder if these 2017 DSD masters are sourced Grundman's transfers
FWIW further confirming Grundman's transfers will be sourced..."Whims Of Chambers," "Sonny's Crib," and "A Blowing Session were released in MONO as 24-bit, 192 kHz downloads as part of the Sideman: Trane's Blue Note Sessions box set John Coltrane & Friends - Sideman: Trane | HDtracks - The World's Greatest-Sounding Music Downloads
IMHO, the APO's were topped in sound quality by the SACD's in this Esoteric box. ESOTERIC BLUE NOTE 6 GREAT JAZZ | ESOTERIC COMPANY Hoping these also sound better. Will await a review....
The SHMs are a bit of a mystery to me, but the ones I have sound nice. Is there a way to identify the 75th anniversary Blue Note SHMs when shopping on cdjapan? One Blue Note SHM I have is Search For the New Land UCCQ-5106, which is mastered really well - clear, transparent sound, detailed but not bright. Is that a part of 75th anniversary series? I see they now have another new Search For the New Land which is UCCQ-3001... would you expect that to be a different mastering?
UCCQ-5106 is indeed a 75th anniversary release: Lee Morgan - Search For The New Land The newest may be a new mastering. . . the jury is out and no one has reported hearing a copy yet. Most of those 75th anniversary releases are now out of print via cdjapan. Somewhere I have seen a complete listing of those releases and if I can find it I'll add it to this thread. Some of these were reissued this year in I believe the same mastering.
They are going to be expensive wherever you find them I'm afraid. They were too rich for my blood, I avoided buying them on release.
Yeah, they were expensive right from the get go. I only hope they are worth it in terms of the sound quality they offer.
thanks for the links! There are thousands of comments in there from people who take SHM seriously- very different from here!
I like the idea of collecting the complete Coltrane on Blue Note on SACD. I expect these to be very different from the AP remasters, those were true to the original tapes, IMHO, and the SHM SACD I have heard seem to 'goose' the sound a little. Goose in a good way, mind you. I followed these links, though, and the Sonny Clark says 1998 remaster next to the track titles... and one of the Griffin tracks says 1987 remaster!! Maybe those are typos?
I've ordered the whole 20 titles at a cost of over AU$1,000 from amazon.co.jp. Still time to come to my senses and cancel the bloody lot unless I get some more info regarding packaging, etc. seeing that they cost so much per title. Sound wise I think they will be very good. We'll see
I would strongly advise sampling this series before jumping all-in. We know next to nothing about the mastering.
Very true!! And is not like they will disappear as soon as they're released, and the price should stay firm at 4,300 yen while in stock. I'll cancel my pre-orders and wait till I see some reports on sound quality. Thanks!
