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NEW SEALED Miles Davis Kind of Blue UHQR 200 Gram 45rpm Vinyl 2 LP Box Set Definitive Limited Run Reissue Ultra High Quality Record 200g 45rpm 2LP! Purest possible pressing and most visually stunning presentation and packaging! Dream team of Davis, Adderley, Coltrane, Evans, Kelly, Chambers, Cobb make history Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 31/500! Tracking Angle Rated 11/11 Music, 11/11 Sonics! Legends have a way of sticking around. If there was ever an album
awaiting a high-fidelity, custom-pressed vinyl treatment at the highest
level, it is Miles Davis' Kind of Blue. The top-selling jazz
album of all time, it has been lauded, entered
into "Best Of" lists and Halls of Fame, and universally acknowledged
as a landmark recording - a five-track masterpiece of melancholy mood
and melody. It continues to be one of the most listened-to and studied recordings
of all time, a required primer for many young musicians, and one of the
most transcendent pieces of music ever recorded. Davis played trumpet
sublime with his ensemble sextet featuring
pianist Bill Evans, drummer Jimmy Cobb, bassist Paul Chambers, and saxophonists John Coltrane and Julian "Cannonball" Adderley with Wynton Kelly playing
piano on "Freddy the Freeloader." Now Analogue Productions, together with Quality Record Pressings, is putting Kind of Blue
where it belongs: the Ultra High Quality Record (UHQR) pressed on
Clarity Vinyl with attention paid to every single detail of every single
record. The 200-gram records will feature the same flat profile that helped
to make the original UHQR so desirable. From the lead-in groove to the
run-out groove, there is no pitch to the profile, allowing the
customer's stylus to play truly perpendicular to
the grooves from edge to center. Clarity Vinyl allows for the purest
possible pressing and the most visually stunning presentation. Every
UHQR will be hand inspected upon pressing completion, and only the truly
flawless will be allowed to go to market.
Each UHQR will be packaged in a deluxe box and will include a booklet
detailing the entire process of making a UHQR along with a hand-signed
certificate of inspection. This will be a truly deluxe, collectible
product. For this 45 RPM 2LP edition they've set the bar for excellence
higher. Lifelike distinct detail that was palpable enough in 33 1/3 RPM
is holographic at 45. Four glorious sides of 200-gram vinyl from QRP
reduces distortion and high frequency loss as the
wider-spaced grooves let your stereo cartridge track more accurately. Kind of Blue is more than Miles Davis' most enduring
recording, it's a testament to Miles' experimental approach, drastically
simplifying modern jazz by returning to melody unlike the chord
complexity more often heard at the time. "The music has
gotten thick," Davis complained in a 1958 interview for The Jazz Review. "... There will be fewer chords but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them." Kind of Blue is, in a sense, all melody - and atmosphere. None of the musicians had played any of the tunes before heading into
the first of two recording sessions in early spring of 1959. In fact,
Miles had written out the settings for most of them only a few hours
before the session. Miles also stuck to his
old recording procedure of having virtually no rehearsal and only one
take for each tune. Miles remained proud of the album, performing at least two of its
tracks - "So What" and "All Blues" - for years after, until his musical
path took him in a different direction. History was on the side of Kind of Blue; it was born in 1959,
at the peak of the golden age of high-fidelity, featuring innovations in
studio equipment (magnetic tape, high-quality condenser microphones),
matched by advancements in home audio reproduction
(long-player records - LPs; high-end turntables, and other stereo
components). Kind of Blue also benefited from Miles' being signed
to the leading major record company of the day - Columbia Records, a
part of the CBS media conglomerate. Columbia
had the means and wisdom to invest in cutting edge recording
technology, and their own professional recording studio. A minor audio complication with Kind of Blue has been
addressed with this UHQR edition. The motor on the studio's 3-track
master recorder was running slowly the day of the album's first session.
This speed issue affected the album's first three
tracks, "So What," "Freddie Freeloader" and "Blue in Green," making
them a barely perceptible quarter-tone sharp. Before now, it was only
addressed in 1995 for the Classic Records edition and by Columbia
Records - or their latter-day parent, Sony Music
- on a CD reissue in the late '90s. Sixty years have passed; this LP bridges that time span in the best way possible, struck from the master reel of Kind of Blue,
free of speed issues and replete with all the instrumental detail,
sonic environment and minimal noise. As Analogue Productions
set out to make their UHQR series the world's best-sounding vinyl
records, they have also used Clarity Vinyl, which is free of any carbon
black pigment which might introduce surface noise. All-in-all this
edition of Kind of Blue meets the highest
audiophile standards and offers the truest sound for the most enjoyment.
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Features
Limited Edition - 25,000 Copies Ultra High Quality Record (UHQR®) 200g Vinyl 45rpm Double LP Mastered by Bernie Grundman from the Original 3-Track Master Tapes Pressed at Quality Record Pressings using Clarity Vinyl® Purest Possible Pressing Hand Inspected Upon Pressing Completion Packaged in a Deluxe Box Booklet Detailing Entire Process of Making a UHQR Hand-Signed Certificate of Inspection
Best-Selling Album in Jazz History - Limited to 25,000 Copies!
Mastered by Bernie Grundman from the Original 3-Track Master Tapes!
Pressed at Quality Record Pressings using Clarity Vinyl®!