Blue Note Records Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissues. Joe Harley co-founder of the acclaimed Music Matters Jazz audiophile vinyl label is the producer of this new series, handpicked titles mastered from the original masters on 180g Vinyl in deluxe covers. Mastering is done by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio and vinyl is pressed at Record Technology Incorporated, RTI in the USA.

• Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series
• Blue Note 80th Anniversary 
• Cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio
• Cut From the Original Masters
• Reissue supervised by Joe Harley
• 2LP 180 Gram Vinyl 
• Pressed at RTI USA
• Deluxe Gatefold Cover

The Blue Note Tone Poet Series was born out of Blue Note President Don Was’ admiration for the exceptional audiophile Blue Note LP reissues presented by Music Matters. Was brought Joe Harley (from Music Matters), a.k.a. the “Tone Poet,” on board to curate and supervise a series of reissues from the Blue Note family of labels.

Extreme attention to detail has been paid to getting these right in every conceivable way, from the jacket graphics and printing quality to superior LP mastering (direct from the masters) by Kevin Gray to superb 180-gram audiophile LP pressings by Record Technology Inc. Every aspect of these Blue Note/Tone Poet releases is done to the highest possible standard. It means that you will never find a superior version. This is it!

"Per Don Was's direction, everything about this reissue series closely mirrors the Music Matters releases that so impressed Was..." - Michael Fremer, Analogplanet

"The LPs are mastered directly from the original masters by Kevin at his incredible facility called Cohearent Mastering. We go about it in the exact same way that we did for so many years for the Music Matters Blue Note reissues. We do not roll off the low end, boost the top or do any limiting of any kind. We allow the full glory of the original Blue Note masters to come though unimpeded! Short of having an actual time machine, this is as close as you can get to going back and being a fly on the wall for an original Blue Note recording session." – Joe Harley

Tone Poem is the third album by Charles Lloyd & The Marvels, the genre-straddling quintet that features the master saxophonist with Bill Frisell on guitar, Greg Leisz on pedal steel guitar, Reuben Rogers on bass, and Eric Harland on drums. The nine dynamic tracks here include new Lloyd originals along with pieces by Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk, Leonard Cohen, Gabor Szabo, and Bola de Nieve. The Blue Note Tone Poet Series reissues feature all-analog, remastered 180-gram vinyl in a deluxe gatefold package. The Lloyd album Tone Poem is a hig-resolution digital recording. Fittingly, it was Lloyd who first dubbed Harley the "Tone Poet."

Lloyd debuted his collective The Marvels-featuring Bill Frisell on guitar, Greg Leisz on pedal steel guitar, Reuben Rogers on bass, and Eric Harland on drums-on the 2016 album I Long To See You with special guests Norah Jones and Willie Nelson, and reconvened the band for 2018's Vanished Gardens which featured Lucinda Williams on half the album.

Musicians:

Charles Lloyd - tenor saxophone, alto flute
Bill Frisell - guitar
Greg Leisz - steel guitar
Reuben Rogers - bass
Eric Harland - drums

Track Listing:

Side A:
1. Peace
2. Ramblin'
3. Anthem

Side B:
1. Dismal Swamp
2. Tone Poem

Side C:
1. Monk's Mood
2. Ay Amor

Side D:
1. Lady Gabor
2. Prayer

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