Joni Mitchell's Transitional Masterwork "Hejira" on Mobile Fidelity Limited Edition UltraDisc One-Step 45 rpm LPs Tom Gibbs ...Blues," Abe Most played clarinet on "Hejira," and Chuck Findley and Tom Scott added horns to "Refuge of the Roads." Hejira peaked at number 12 on the Billboard album charts,...
Rhino High Fidelity Premium Vinyl Series Continues with Classic Albums from Van Morrison and Jaco Pastorius Tom Gibbs ...bass (of course!), Michael Brecker, Tom Scott, and Mario Cruz on saxophones, Chuck Findley on trumpet, John Clark on French horn, and Howard Johnson on tuba. Don Alias and Robert...
More Rare and Classic Top Shelf Reissue LPs from Jazz Dispensary and Craft Recordings Tom Gibbs Jazz Dispensary is one of the specialty imprints of Craft Recordings that's dedicated to mining the riches of Concord Music's vast catalog of labels. Jazz Dispensary employs "sound sommeliers" to...
Klipsch Heritage Heresy IV Loudspeakers: High-Efficiency, Magnificent Sound, and Gorgeous Mid-Century Modern Looks Tom Gibbs ...that's perfect for judging how a loudspeaker presents male voices and acoustic instruments. MoFi's recent reissue of Emerson, Lake & Palmer's catalog of classic albums is underway on both LP...
Craft Recordings' Record Store Day 2020 LPs Tom Gibbs ...reissue notable full albums from those same labels that are either sorely overdue for a repress, or are seriously underrepresented in the label's current offerings. While the focus is heavily...
Audio Art Cables -The Loom Effect Tom Gibbs ...Warnes' 1STEP reissue of Famous Blue Raincoat is an exceptionally good sounding release, but with the old cables in the system, it's much less so. Replace them with the Audio...
RAY Tubes Reserve EL34 and Select 12AU7 Vacuum Tubes: Elevating My PrimaLuna EVO 300 Integrated Amplifier's Performance to Unforeseen Heights! Tom Gibbs ...been reviewing a steady stream of new release and reissue LPs ever since, and the EVO 300 now sees almost daily use. The PrimaLuna EVO 300 tube integrated amplifier My...
More Classic OJC LPs from Craft Recordings, Featuring Cannonball Adderley with Bill Evans, Art Blakey, and Ron Carter Tom Gibbs ...with this excellent reissue series. The RTI pressings had beautiful, glossy surfaces that were free of defects and noise of any kind. Kevin Gray did a sterling job with the...
Patricia Barber's Clique! on 33.3RPM, HQ180 Vinyl from Impex Records Tom Gibbs ...say that Impex LPs are among the ne plus ultra of reissue albums. That extends not only to the incredibly detailed and musical sound of Impex LPs, but to the...
Wish You Were Here 50: Deluxe Edition - Celebrating Fifty Years of Pink Floyd's Classic Album with an Expansive Box Set Tom Gibbs Sony Music is celebrating the 50th anniversary reissue of Pink Floyd's landmark 1975 album Wish You Were Here with a multitude of sets repackaged as Wish You Were Here 50....
Vera-Fi Audio's Swiss Digital Fuse Box: Providing a Path to Unrestrained System Performance Tom Gibbs ...2007 reissue box set of his albums that were pressed in the Czech Republic and were absolutely awful. 1972's Pink Moon was his final album, and it's a stripped-down affair,...
Robin Trower's Classic For Earth Below, 50th Anniversary Edition, on 2-LPs and 4-CDs from Chrysalis Records Tom Gibbs ...with this reissue package—For Earth Below, 50th Anniversary Edition comes very highly recommended! Robin Trower robintrower.com Chrysalis Records chrysalis-records.com All images courtesy of Chrysalis Records and the author. ¹ The...
Chet Baker on Riverside: Four Iconic 180 gram LPs from Craft Recordings Tom Gibbs ...impressive contributions from Pepper Adams and Herbie Mann. Craft Recordings Reissue LPs Here's the really great news: the LPs were all mastered from the original analog master tapes by Kevin...
Yes, Close To The Edge - Super Deluxe Edition Tom Gibbs ...superb. Compared to my Atlantic label original, as well as several other reissue LPs I had on hand, the new SDE LP was among the best sounding of the bunch....
The First Drop of Craft Recordings Record Store Day 2021 LPs Tom Gibbs ...album's fifteenth anniversary, and this reissue appears to be only the second LP repressing since this title's original issue in 2006. While pre-billed as a 180 gram release, the set...
Patricia Barber's Nightclub 1STEP 45 rpm, 180g 2-LP Set from Impex Records Tom Gibbs ...were an impressive step up from my CD rips, and easily supplanted them for evaluation purposes. Other than the Impex 180 gram reissue of Patricia Barber's Clique!, which I recently...
The Yes Album: Super Deluxe Edition from Rhino Tom Gibbs ...incarnation of The Yes Album I've ever heard, bar none. Rhino's new remaster easily blows away my original LP, as well as a mid-2000's Rhino reissue I'd also collected along...
Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars: The Motion Picture Soundtrack (50th Anniversary Edition) on Gold Vinyl LPs from Rhino Entertainment Tom Gibbs ...and clarity that one hopes for from what is essentially an archival reissue. For Bowie fans, it's not only an important historical and artistic artifact, but a must-hear in terms...
Between the Buried and Me - 20th Anniversary Remix/Remaster Tom Gibbs ...and Tommy Rogers both chimed in regarding the reissue LP's release: to quote guitarist Paul Waggoner, "It's always a strange feeling when you bring faded memories back into focus and...
