Jazz offer.

[Al ears]

Buy it, Al, buy it, it's only a fiver, any you'll be able to satisfy your curiosity. I have it on Columbia Legacy edition cd, but haven't done a comparison - yet.

And if you don't like it, it's only cost a fiver, and you don't have to buy any more? But I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Might just do that Geoffrey even if it's just to say I got a new 180g album for less than a fiver. Something I have never had in my collection. ;-)

NB. They still had a copy in stock so I bought it, not disappointed, the quality really is quite good. As for the music, well what can you say, there's a reason it's the best-selling jazz album of all time.

 

[chebby]

My 'Kind of Blue' CD is the standard 'vanilla' recording as far as I know. When I bought it years ago - to replace a vinyl copy - there were a whole raft of versions but I opted for the 'bog standard' one from Amazon for less than a tenner IIRC.

I tend - on the whole - to steer well clear of re-masters or any other kind of 'special' versions.

 

[Jim_W]

Someone is trying to sell a secondhand copy of 'Kind of Blue' for 96 euros, when the price of the new copies is only 16.82 euros.

I think they may be optimistic.

http://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B00XDCB9N4

It may be a mint edition of first pressing, who knows. Some people treasure such items even though some later remasters are sonically superior.

It's often a snob thing.

The Columbia '6 eye' stereo and mono, particularly the stereo, pressings of 'Kind Of Blue' are sought after by collectors because they are sonically superior to any reissues or cd transfers. Similarly, the UK Fontana mono pressing is excellent too and sought-after by some collectors. Why would 'some people' not treasure owning an original artefact of great historical importance? This is the stuff that record collectors dream of and I refute totally any idea of snob value; if you substitute the latter with 'pride of ownership' you'd be closer to the mark. There are those of us who are so bitten by this dreadful addiction that we would happily sell our grandma's wooden leg, not to mention her house, in order to acquire an original Blue Note first pressing of 'Hank Mobley' , perhaps the rarest and most sought-after jazz record. Nothing, but nothing, would beat the thrill of stumbling across even a battered copy of this record in amongst a load of dross whilst crate-digging: some would be breathless with excitement; others would shrug and say, 'So what?' Vive la difference.

 

[GeoffreyW]

There you go, then, Al, and I hope you are a bit impressed with the quality available on some modern vinyl? I recently bought a 180g Ben Webster, The Warm Moods, which also sounds really terrific, too, but cost considerably more than £5. Trouble is, high price is no guarantee of a quality recording.

I did a quick comparison between the vinyl and cd versions, and the difference was minimal, the breathy sound of the trumpet lipping at the beginning of So What being there on both discs. I'm happy.

Might be the start of a slippery vinyl slope, perhaps? Whatever, just enjoy your music.

 

[keeper of the quays]

Going to buy this tomorrow, I have quite a lot of the classical magazine pls and they are very well recorded and some of the best orchestras and record labels I also got a couple of jazz magazine records frim Italy and the recordings are superlative and one of those Italian lps I use as a reference record....

 

[keeper of the quays]

Cool comparison..i use a 640 p too...fine phono stage...i use dl 110..

 

[Al ears]

There you go, then, Al, and I hope you are a bit impressed with the quality available on some modern vinyl? I recently bought a 180g Ben Webster, The Warm Moods, which also sounds really terrific, too, but cost considerably more than £5. Trouble is, high price is no guarantee of a quality recording.

I did a quick comparison between the vinyl and cd versions, and the difference was minimal, the breathy sound of the trumpet lipping at the beginning of So What being there on both discs. I'm happy.

Might be the start of a slippery vinyl slope, perhaps? Whatever, just enjoy your music.

There is no slope Geoffrey I have been collecting vinyl since the seventies.

 

[Feral]

Just picked up my copy today, will be interesting to see how it stacks up against my other copy.

 

[GeoffreyW]

I meant buying 180g recordings, Al, but as you've been collecting for so long (almost as long as me, but I bet you've got far more) you already have loads of 180g records? I must have misunderstood your earlier post as saying that you haven't any.

 

[Al ears]

I meant buying 180g recordings, Al, but as you've been collecting for so long (almost as long as me, but I bet you've got far more) you already have loads of 180g records? I must have misunderstood your earlier post as saying that you haven't any.

Yes, what I meant was it's the cheapest 180g album I have ever bought.

Got plenty of others and 200g.

 

[Al ears]

Just picked up my copy today, will be interesting to see how it stacks up against my other copy.

It would be nice to know as my only other copy is on a SACD disc.

 

[thescarletpronster]

I thought I'd get myself a copy of this after reading the reports on the pressing. Popped into a newsagent and a Co-op mini-supermarket, but neither had it. Apparently newsagents don't get the 'part-works' (as in 'builds week-by-week in to a ...', I suppose). Where did those of you who bought this get it from?

 

[GeoffreyW]

They take up lots more storage room, too, don't they? Especially with more enclosures.

 

[GeoffreyW]

Got mine from WHS, but some supermarkets have had them, too. Issue 2 is due out next Wednesday, BTW.

 

[Al ears]

I thought I'd get myself a copy of this after reading the reports on the pressing. Popped into a newsagent and a Co-op mini-supermarket, but neither had it. Apparently newsagents don't get the 'part-works' (as in 'builds week-by-week in to a ...', I suppose). Where did those of you who bought this get it from?

Got mine in local newsagents, the last one. Cannot say I have seen them in supermarkets but might be worth a look.

 

[Feral]

I thought I'd get myself a copy of this after reading the reports on the pressing. Popped into a newsagent and a Co-op mini-supermarket, but neither had it. Apparently newsagents don't get the 'part-works' (as in 'builds week-by-week in to a ...', I suppose). Where did those of you who bought this get it from?

If you go to their website you can check for stockist near your postcode who have placed orders and other outlets who could order in copies if you ask.

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/222005945212?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

 

[thescarletpronster]

Thanks, everyone. I'll try again, elsewhere. And this:

If you go to their website you can check for stockist near your postcode who have placed orders

tells me of a newsagents not far from me who is listed as a stockist. I'll try them this afternoon.

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

There's supposedly a lot of stockists near me, so I'll pop out later and check some of them out.

http://www.retailfinder.magcafe.com/?ms=100603577

 

[Al ears]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/222005945212?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

What did you expect? Some are even asking £14.99. You have to pity the poor sods trying to sell genuine, more expensive pressings.

 

[thescarletpronster]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/222005945212?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

The label in that (stock) photo has a lime green label. I thought these were supposed to be facsimiles of the original Columbia release. Not to worry, as long as the pressing is good.

 

[GeoffreyW]

Judging by the responses to this pressing on this and other forums, DiAgostini must have shifted some vinyl? Wonder how much demand is going to tail off later? I also notice that digital online editions are available, which seems a bit of an oxymoron, perhaps.

 

[GeoffreyW]

The disc label colour is lime green on the website, too, but the label of my disc is a darkish red, with 6 "eyes", three on each side, and is, apparently, close to the original, but I don't have one of those aginst which to compare it. And the pressing is good.

Still haven't seen a B2B comparison against an SACD, though.

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

Went to two local stockist, not a sign of the record though.

 

[GeoffreyW]

Any chance that one of your local stockists could order one for you, BBB? Or have a ring round?