Miles Davis Kind of Blue UHQR 200g 45rpm 2LP Box Set

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Definitive Limited Run Reissue Ultra High Quality Record 200g 45rpm 2LP!

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®!

Limited to Two Copies Per Customer Per Address!

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.

The best-sounding Kind of Blue ever, better than even the original... Everything is more present, more brassy, woody, or metallic, depending on the instrument. There's a more palpable sense of a human being blowing through a mouthpiece, plucking a string, coaxing a keyboard, or tapping a snare drum. There is more of a sense that you are with the musicians in the studio. In short, take any account you've read - or any memory you treasure - of this album's sonic glories, and embellish every admiring adjective with more, more, better, better.

-Fred Kaplan, Tracking Angle, Music 11/11, Sound 11/11

Features

Limited to Two Copies Per Customer Per Address

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

Musicians

Miles Davis         trumpet

Julian Adderley  alto saxophone

John Coltrane     tenor saxophone

Wynton Kelly      piano

Bill Evans             piano

Paul Chambers  bass

James Cobb        drums

Selections

Side A:

So What

Side B:

Freddie Freeloader

Blue in Green

Side C:

All Blues

Side D:

Flamenco Sketches

 PLUS  - Kind of Blue (50th Anniversary Box - 2 CDs + DVD (NTSC) + 180-gram Blue Vinyl) 51st Annual Grammy Awards Best Album Notes Kind Of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition ~ Francis Davis, album notes writer (Miles Davis) 

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE PLASTIC WRAP ON THESE PRESSINGS ARE VERY THIN AND CAN BE WORN OFF IN A CORNER BUT THE ITEM ITSELF IS PRISTINE NEW CONDITION WITHOUT ANY FLAWS IN THE ACTUAL BOX.

 

- Kind of Blue

 

 (50th Anniversary Box - 2 CDs + DVD (NTSC) + 180-gram Blue Vinyl)

51st Annual Grammy Awards
Best Album Notes
Kind Of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition ~ Francis Davis, album notes writer (Miles Davis) 

Deluxe 50^th Anniversary Collector's Edition

Talk about a Collector's Edition. This one's got it all. First, a CD of the original album, remastered with bonus tracks. Next, another CD of the first live session performed by the group (May 26, 1958), plus The Den Haag Concert and The Zurich Concert (over 60 minutes of music). Then, a DVD featuring an expanded Making Of Kind Of Blue documentary, as well as the historic television program The Sound Of Miles Davis, filmed in 1959. And finally, a premium, 180-gram BLUE vinyl companion record. Plus, a hardcover book with additional memorabilia. 

Originally recorded in 1959, Kind Of Blue is widely regarded as the definitive jazz album, a universally acknowledged standard of excellence. It is also the best-selling jazz album of all time. Representing the pinnacle of modal jazz, Miles Davis brought together John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderley, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb and assembled one of the greatest bands in history, spontaneously inventing a new musical style and language in the process. 

This release comes in conjunction with a major Miles Davis biopic theatrical release scheduled for 2009, starring Academy Award winner Don Cheadle as Miles Davis.

               1. So What

               2. Freddie Freeloader

               3. Blue In Green

               4. All Blues

               5. Flamenco Sketches

               6. Flamenco Sketches (alternate take)

               7. Freddie Freeloader (Studio Sequence 1)

               8. Freddie Freeloader (False Start)

               9. Freddie Freeloader (Studio Sequence 2)

               10. So What (Studio Sequence 1)

               11. So What (Studio Sequence 2)

               12. Blue In Green (Studio Sequence)

               13. Flamenco Sketches (Studio Sequence 1)

               14. Flamenco Sketches (Studio Sequence 2)

               15. All Blues (Studio Sequence)

               16. On Green Dolphin Street

               17. Fran-Dance

               18. Stella By Starlight

               19. Love For Sale

               20. Fran-Dance (alternate take)

               21. So What

               22. Miles Arrives - Beginnings

               23. The Band

               24. The Making Of A Masterpiece

               25. The Compositons 

VINYL TRACK LISTING

               26. So What

               27. Freddie Freeloader

               28. Blue In Green

               29. All Blues

               30. Flamenco Sketches 

 

  

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