Serge Chaloff ‎– Blue Serge Label: Capitol Records ‎– ECJ-50051 Series: Jazz Great 1800 –  Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue  Country: Japan Released: 1980 Genre: Jazz Style: Cool Jazz Tracklist Hide Credits A1A Handful Of Stars Composed By – Jack Lawrence (2), Ted Shapiro 5:32 A2The Goof And I Composed By – Al Cohn 4:45 A3Thanks For The Memory Composed By – Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger 3:45 A4All The Things You Are Composed By – Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II* 5:24 B1I've Got The World On A String Composed By – Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler 6:38 B2Susie's Blues Composed By – Serge Chaloff 5:02 B3Stairway To The Stars Composed By – Signorelli*, Malneck*, Parish* 4:46 Companies, etc. Manufactured By – Toshiba EMI Ltd Licensed From – Capitol Records, Inc. Credits Baritone Saxophone – Serge Chaloff Bass – Leroy Vinnegar Drums – Philly Joe Jones*  Piano – Sonny Clark Notes All tunes recorded in Hollywood, March 4, 1956 Cover: Lady's Wardrobe courtesy of Don Loper · Gentlemen's Wardrobe courtesy of Sy DeVore Manufactured by Toshiba EMI Ltd. 東芝EMI株式会社 Made in Japan  

JAPAN MONO PRESSING VINYL ALBUM WITH INSERT, GENERIC POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE BUT NO OBI.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+, JUST LIGHT SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR.  INSERT AND INNER SLEEVE VERY GOOD+ WITH NO SEAM SPLITS.

DISC: EXCELLENT MINUS. NO SCRATCHES, JUST A FEW LIGHT HAIRLINES. CLEAN LABELS.

Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?

First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.

First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are  clearer.

On first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant.  The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.  

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