Reedições Vinil Audiófilo Blue Note Records Tone Poet. Joe Harley co-fundador da aclamada editora de vinil audiófilo Music Matters Jazz é o produtor desta nova série, títulos seleccionados masterizados a partir das fitas master originais em vinil 180g e capas deluxe. Masterização por Kevin Gray na Cohearent Audio e vinil prensado na Record Technology Incorporated, RTI nos EUA.

• Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series
• Masterização Totalmente Analógica
• Corte por Kevin Gray na Cohearent Audio
• Masterizado a partir das Fitas Master Originais
• Reedição supervisionada por Joe Harley
• Prensagem RTI USA Vinil 180 Gramas
• Capa Gatefold Deluxe

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 master tapes) 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 analog master tapes 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

Alto saxophonist Jackie McLean’s 1960s output ran the gamut from hard bop to the avant-garde with his 1964 post-bop dates It’s Time! and Action splitting the difference. Trumpeter Charles Tolliver had appeared alongside McLean in the horn frontline on It’s Time! and returned once again for Action the next month, with McLean opting for Bobby Hutcherson’s vibraphone in place of piano, as well as Cecil McBee on bass, and Billy Higgins on drums. The albums leaps out of the gate with McLean’s searing title track followed by two pensive Tolliver originals: “Plight” and “Wrong Handle.” On a highly original version of the standard “I Hear a Rhapsody” the melody is answered by discordant interjections from the horns before the album comes to a close with McLean’s grooving minor key piece “Hootnan.”

This stereo Tone Poet Vinyl Edition was produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray (Cohearent Audio) from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at Record Technology Inc. (RTI), and packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket.

Músicos:

Charles Tolliver - trompete
Jackie McLean - alto sax
Bobby Hutcherson - vibrafone
Cecil McBee - baixo
Jan Arnet - baixo
Billy Higgins - bateria

Lista de Faixas:

A1: Action
A2: Plight

B1: Hootnan
B2: I Hear A Rhapsody
B3: Wrong Handle

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