Pablo Records was a jazz label founded by Norman Granz in 1973, releasing records by Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, and many more. This Analogue Productions series comprises 15 titles, all analog mastering, with the very best highlights of the Pablo catalog, hand-picked by Chad Kassem. Cut from the original master tapes and pressed at Quality Record Pressings.

• Analogue Productions Pablo Records Series
• LP 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl
• Cut by Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab
• Analog cut directly from the Original Master Tape
• Pressed at Quality Record Pressings, QRP USA
• Tip-On Old Style Cover by Stoughton Printing 

180-gram vinyl Pressed at Quality Record Pressings, Housed in Stoughton Printing tip-on jacket.

Mastered by Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab from the original analog master tape

"Demo disc quality IMO for timbral accuracy, sound staging, dynamics, you name it but especially for how the trumpets were recorded and how each horn players' distinct tonal and textural personality is so well captured. The closer, 'If I Should Lose You' might be the set's highlight, though it's hardly the showiest piece and there are no low lights. Its melancholic nature reminds us that they are all gone now, and that Gillespie, whose solos on the track stand out, passed away a short thirteen years after this was recorded." — Music = 9/11; Sound = 10/11 - Michael Fremer, TrackingAngle

For The Alternate Blues, producer Norman Granz set aside his rule against issuing what are variously called in the recording business outtakes, breakdowns, or alternate takes.

The reason was that despite missed cues and procedural problems in the rhythm section, Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, and Clark Terry played the blues at a level of passion and expressiveness the equal of the versions originally released on The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4. In addition, there are four standards not heard in the original album. With Joe Pass, Bobby Durham and Ray Brown.

Mastered by Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab from the original analog master tape. Pressed at Quality Record Pressings for superior sound quality, and housed in a handsome Stoughton Printing tip-on jacket.

Musicians:

Clark Terry - trumpet, flugelhorn
Freddie Hubbard - trumpet, flugelhorn
Dizzy Gillespie - trumpet
Oscar Peterson - piano
Ray Brown - bass
Joe Pass - guitar
Bobby Durham - drums

Track Listing:

Side A
1. Alternate One
2. Alternate Two
3. Alternate Three

Side B
1. Alternate Four
2. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
3. Ballad Medley
 3a. Here's That Rainy Day
 3b. Gypsy
 3c. If I Should Lose You

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