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 ART BLAKEY & THE JAZZ MESSENGERS CARAVAN 45 RPM AUDIOPHILE TREMENDOUSLY RARE OUT OF PRINT LOW NUMBERED 140 EDITION

COLLECTORS NOTE: THESE LP'S ARE OUT OF PRINT AND THESE VINYL RECORDS DON'T EVEN HAVE A BARCODE ON THE JACKET FOR A COLLECTOR PRISTINE JACKETS.

  Sold Out everywhere else -- Our Last SET FOREVER. 

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Here's How it was done: ON THE 45 SPEED LP SET 

Using only the original analog master tapes, the renowned team of Steve Hoffman & Kevin Gray remastered and cut all of the titles at AcousTech Mastering, which features a pure Class-A disc-cutting system. AcousTech is located at Record Technology, Inc. the plant where the vinyl was pressed. It is a tremendous sonic advantage to have the pressing plant plating department & mastering room in the same facility as Steve & Kevin could cut a lacquer and plated immediately. This prevents the degradation of the grooves in a lacquer which is very fragile to quick deterioration.

And of course cutting at 45 speed is the audiophile choice for the highest quality. A 45-RPM record is sonically superior to a 33 1/3 variety because of a 35 percent reduction of groove curvature compared to a 33 1/3 cut.. It means that while you can't fit as much music into a 45, the undulations of the groove that your cartridge has to track are stretched over a longer distance. For these reissues, the music was displaced onto four sides, meaning each side contains about 10 minutes of music.

This is the ultimate reissues. The only way you'll get closer to this classic music is to listen to the master tapes or have been in the studio with the artist originally during the actual session.

 You should never pass up the opportunity to upgrade your collection. They're each very limited in their pressings and disappear with extraordinary quickness from the vinyl market. This causes prices to skyrocket because once they are gone, they are gone forever! Don't second-guess yourself with this chance to upgrade your collection  because before you know it, the opportunity will have passed forever.

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers CARAVAN 180 GRAM 45rpm 2LP LOW NUMBERED 140 OF THE 1000 PIECES EVER PRESSED

This album was given to me as an assignment to study the form of the tunes and phrasing of solos. My teacher has listened to my comments heard me play, and usually tries to recommend albums that open me up to something I can connect to. This wasn't the first album I have studied by his assignment so I trusted his selection without reserve. For example, he had passed me Crescent (probably the best studio recording John Coltrane ever did), Art Pepper meets the Rhythm Section (Philly Joe Jones solos here are ones I...and maybe every other drummer has memorized), and Somethin' Else (Miles as a sideman...sort of).

Caravan has taken its place amongst the recordings I hold close to my soul. "This is for Albert" alone is an incredible tune, and I have spent enough time to justify buying this album ten times over with only that song. The tune is difficult to navigate and Art Blakey, like a master moves the song along with delicate rhyth-melodic phrasing. The sound attracted me.
Listening to Freddie Hubbard on the whole album he is so energetic, so nineteen years old! And he interacts with the group so well. Art Blakey was an incredible leader, putting such youth and experience together and coming out with a monumental recording.

Thermo is a premonition to the F Hubbard sound which has carved its own place in the history of jazz.
The title track is also a masterful accomplishment. Art Blakey is a hard drummer, but that is Art Blakey....you try it and make that musical, because he does. It isnt just showmanship, there is more there to recognize.

Mr Gray's sentiments are not mine to contradict or disregard, I just want you to know that what he wrote is not the end definition for this record. 

Musicians: 
Art Blakey, drums
Freddie Hubbard, trumpet
Curtis Fuller, trombone
Wayne Shorter, tenor sax
Cedar Walton, piano
Reggie Workman, bass

Selections:
Side One:
1. Caravan
2. Sweet 'n' Sour
3. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
Side Two:
1. This Is for Albert
2. Skylark
3. Thermo

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