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This is a TMR release, so Jack White is the client!

There are TONS. Pretty much all the major metal bands do fabulous vinyl. Dream Theater, everything on Relapse, Neurot, Temporary Residence, Southern Lords, etc. etc., Monster Magnet, Mastodon, Ghost, so many others. Anything on Rune Gramophon, Gondwana, Edition, etc. Fantastic sound.

Depends on how you define 'pond'.

LOL - Neil Young! There's the antithesis - an artist who for the past decade has put more effort into the sound than the music! Do you really expect an active artist to attend the cutting session for every subsequent lacquer, or even listen to every test pressing? And - all my Radiohead were...

It's not that they don't care about sonic quality. Radiohead put a fair bit of effort into their vinyl, for example. It's more that many artists don't care for the 'audiophile' esthetic and the aura of exclusivity or elitism in the collector arena.

The person who buys it is too stupid to know the difference.

Baltimore is just a terrible record, even Simone disavowed it. Nuff Said is a classic, essential record.

Hint - there are two magnificent volumes of Blue Note photography edited by Michael Cuscuna, one a large size hardcover, the other softcover, and yet another on YellowKorner. They have just about every photo used in any gatefold and more. The idea to put photos in the gatefold originated with...

The only reissue is the Speakers Corner which is very good and pretty easy to find at a reasonable price. Truly magnificent record.

You could look at it that way. But Bitches Brew is very electric and Odyssey of Iska acoustic. I would look at it also as a precursor to the first iteration of Weather Report.

Yes I am!

42307 is the RTI pressing (which is what I have), 61812 is the EU pressing (both black). The clear US is a crap Nashville (United) pressing while the clear EU is a Record Industry pressing, with some lack of clarity in the lacquers used for each disc.

It's not a store by store thing, in Canada stores buy from the label or a single distributor, Fab. Fab basically buy from labels too, just a wider range including indies, which can be hard for stores to order from due to minimum quantities. The label for the most part sources wherever has...

Ptah, like 90% of Impulse, Verve, etc. aren't missing, they went up in smoke. Titles like Kwanza, Psychicemotus, etc. aren't going to be picked up by an audiophile label. Couldn't anyways - digital file only.

The Scofield is a 16/44 master. So, basically, it is for all intents mastering the CD files. I am fine with the VBR I have bought, which are the Alice, Lateef, Shepp, Brooks and Land. In the first three cases, there are no tapes. RKS did a sterling (no pun) job with whatever digital source is...

That's kinda what I was getting at. You can look at Odyssey of Iska as part of a late BN trilogy - along with Super Nova and Moto Grosso Feio, and although IMO it is better than those two, still pretty self-conciously artsy and abstract. Interesting that the next album following those three is...

Some gems, some clunkers IMO. Gems - Midnight Creeper, Polycurrents, Dialogue, Let Freedom Ring, Taru, Total Eclipse, Tex Book Tenor. Clunkers - Good Move (bingo hall music), Inta Something (neither McLean nor Dorham really near their BN peaks), Kofi (kind of a mish-mash of two very different...

Polycurrents and Midnight Creeper drop on January 5. Excellent titles.

Never a bad choice.

I believe the consoles at BGM are solid state. There are both SS and tube amps/preamps feeding the consoles, in different engineer's rooms.