Os melhores álbuns do catálogo lendário da Blue Note Records recebem o tratamento audiófilo pela Analogue Productions, corte a 45rpm para qualidade de som absoluta pelos igualmente lendários engenheiros de masterização Kevin Gray e Steve Hoffman na AcousTech, preservando toda a glória analógica das Fitas Master Originais para dar vida a estas sessões de forma espectacular como merecem.

• Edição Limitada
• Edição Numerada
• Corte a partir das Master Tapes Analógicas Originais
• Masterizado por Kevin Gray e Steve Hoffman
• Masterizado na AcousTech
• 2LP 45rpm Vinil Virgem 180 Gramas
• Prensagem na RTI USA

"…As much as I'd love to relay all kinds of anecdotes about the challenges Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray encounter during the mastering sessions, I witness none. These boys know the sound of the facility and the Van Gelder masters like the backs of their hands…Back home a month later, I unpack some test pressings Chad Kassem has sent me…I hear the most realistic-sounding drums ever reproduced by my system. It's as though I'm sitting at the point of creation, experiencing the same high that brought such gifted musicians together as one. Steve Hoffman, Kevin Gray, Chad Kassem, and Don MacInnis have done Rudy Van Gelder and his Blue Note artists proud." – Jason Victor Serinus, Stereophile

"A soul survivor in every sense of the term, this alto saxophonist is one of the few remaining jazz artists who made a major impact on the jazz community via an extensive run with producer Alfred Lion and the Blue Note label (Horace Silver being another Blue Note legend that comes to mind). From his first recordings for the label with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, it was clear that Lou Donaldson put melody and sound at a premium, coming up with an amalgam that combined the creamy smoothness of Johnny Hodges with the quicksilver bop inflections of Charlie Parker." – All About Jazz

Músicos:

Blue Mitchell, trompete
Lou Donaldson, alto saxofone
Horace Parlan, piano
Laymon Jackson, baixo
Dave Bailey, bateria
Ray Barretto, conga

Lista de Faixas:

01. Lou's Blues
02. Be My Love
03. Idaho
04. The Nearness Of You
05. Mack The Knife
06. Crosstown Shuffle
07. Tangerine

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