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Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd – Jazz Samba
44,00 €The words "bossa nova" are often synonymous with the name Stan Getz. But North Americans might not have ever known the bright sound of bossa nova had it not been for Charlie Byrd. In 1961 Byrd…
André Previn And His Pals, Shelly Manne & Red Mitchell – West Side Story
44,00 €Craft Recordings and Acoustic Sounds are proud to announce the Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds series, which continues for 2023 with seven album releases from the Contemporary Records catalog,…
Wynton Kelly Trio and Wes Montgomery – Smokin’ At The Half Note
44,00 €This important historic jazz record pairs guitar virtuoso Wes Montgomery with Miles Davis' rhythm section — featuring Paul Chambers on bass, Jimmy Cobb on drums and Wynton Kelly on piano. This is…
Benny Carter – Jazz Giant
44,00 €Craft Recordings and Acoustic Sounds are proud to announce the Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds series, which begins with six album releases from the Contemporary Records catalog, celebrating 70…
Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto – Getz and Gilberto
44,00 €"The Acoustic Sounds LP under review isn't the first audiophile LP reissue. I have a 200-gram LP version of Getz/Gilberto from Mobile Fidelity. To me, there are subtle differences. Listening to 'The…
John Coltrane – Crescent
44,00 €"...the pressing is solid — manufactured at Quality Record Pressings — with dark black 180-gram vinyl that is well centered. It sounds great and sounds like what I would expect a 1964 Impulse Records…
Charles Mingus – The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
44,00 €"A comparison between this reissue and an original Impulse produced a sonic draw with each having its own attractive qualities — warmer original versus more transparent reissue — but the reissue is…
Oliver Nelson – Blues And The Abstract Truth
44,00 €"Another superb release from the Acoustic Sounds Series of reissues for Verve/Universal Music Enterprises! Mastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound, supervised by Chad Kassem himself, and pressed…
The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds (Stereo)
82,00 €“I just received my copy of the 33 1/3 RPM AP stereo version of Pet Sounds from you, and it completely blew me away in overall sound quality. Excellent job, Chad! BTW, the album cover is also…
Norah Jones – Come Away With Me
92,00 €"The entire project from the songs to the superb recorded sound and packaging just reeks of good taste. And it couldn't have come cheaply. The label or someone made a major financial investment in an…
Cowboy Junkies – The Trinity Session
88,00 €"Regardless, sonics are first-rate, as is Analogue Productions' knockout reissue. The sound is exceptionally ambient and airy, with a remarkable sense of depth and a seemingly endless stage.…
The Beach Boys – Little Deuce Coupe
58,00 €"These are the best sounding and best-looking versions of the Beach Boys records that have ever been produced. We want everything about these to be better than the original." — Chad Kassem, owner and…
Henryk Szeryng – Henryk Szeryng in Recital
58,00 €Analogue Productions' RCA Living Stereo Reissue Series No. 2, with 25 newly remastered mainstay classical albums, will delight and astound your ears with their clarity and warm, rich tone. As with…
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman – John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman
44,00 €A match made in heaven! This 1963 Impulse! LP is a career highlight for Johnny Hartman's beautiful baritone voice and John Coltrane's exploratory yet empathetic tenor sax. John Coltrane and Johnny…
Elmo Hope – Informal Jazz (Mono)
58,00 €Overshadowed throughout his life by his friends Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk, Elmo Hope was a talented pianist and composer in his own right. He recorded in New York as a band leader (starting in…
Alice Coltrane – Journey In Satchidananda
44,00 €"Satchidananda means knowledge, existence, bliss. Listen with your inner ear to Alice along with Pharoah Sanders, Charlie Haden, Rashied Ali, Cecil McBee, and others." — Downbeat Alice Coltrane had…
Eric Dolphy – Outward Bound (Stereo)
58,00 €Eric Dolphy has sometimes been described as an iconoclast, but in Outward Bound, he was not overturning his idol, Charlie Parker; he was building on Bird’s legacy. So deep was Dolphy’s musicianship,…
Julie London – Julie Is Her Name Vol. 2
88,00 €She was the sultry film starlet-turned-torch singer-come-TV actress whose dusky alto captivated a generation. Julie London was "discovered" while running a department store elevator in Hollywood.…
John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
44,00 €"I picked up the new Acoustic Sounds (Series) reissue of A Love Supreme, John Coltrane's classic album originally released in 1965 on Impulse! Records. I've owned it on CD (Impulse! Records GRD-155)…
Bill Evans – Trio ’64
44,00 €There's scarcely a more towering figure in modern jazz — save Miles and Coltrane — than the great Bill Evans. His relaxed and emotional style at the piano would prove influential to not only his…
Art Pepper – +11
44,00 €Craft Recordings and Acoustic Sounds are proud to announce the Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds series, which begins with six album releases from the Contemporary Records catalog, celebrating 70…
Bill Evans – Trio ’65
44,00 €There's scarcely a more towering figure in modern jazz — save Miles and Coltrane — than the great Bill Evans. His relaxed and emotional style at the piano would prove influential to not only his…
Sonny Rollins – On Impulse
44,00 €"If anything, Sonny Rollins on Impulse! feels as if it were a recording Rollins had to get out of his system. But thank goodness for us because it's a winner through and through." — AllMusic Seeking…
Ernest Ansermet – The Royal Ballet Gala Performances (2 LP + Book)
108,00 €"Analogue Productions' Classic Records buyout brought with it metal parts for many albums, cut by Bernie Grundman, including for this record. ... AP chose to produce a new stamper using the "mother"…
Pharoah Sanders – Karma
44,00 €Verve and Universal Music Enterprises are continuing their analogue-only reissue series this year. The 2022 calendar for Acoustic Sounds includes refreshed releases from a lineup of jazz greats. This…
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong – Ella & Louis
44,00 €"As with all the Acoustic Sounds releases I've reviewed here on Analog Planet thus far, this new production company is exemplary overall. The pressing is top-notch, manufactured on thick, dark black…
Muddy Waters -Folk Singer
58,00 €Follow along as writer/professor Wayne Goins explores the creation of Folk Singer, and leads a visual tour of the former Chess Records studios, here. There are a handful of landmark albums in any…
Eric Dolphy – Out There (Stereo)
58,00 €In 1960, the free jazz pioneered by Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Horace Tapscott and a very few others was rejected by many musicians and most listeners. For the visionary saxophonist, clarinetist…
John Coltrane – Ballads
44,00 €"(Ballads) is an album that will never go out of style and never be unwelcome on any jazz lover's turntable. ... I compared this Ryan K. Smith cut with an original pressing (so happy to have) and…
Oscar Peterson – We Get Requests
44,00 €This reissue delivers on so many levels, and is in every way better than my original 1960s-era vinyl pressing. The LP was mastered in stereo from the original analog tapes by Ryan K. Smith at…
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Couldn’t Stand The Weather
88,00 €The 45 RPM Analogue Productions reissue of Stevie Ray Vaughan's Couldn't Stand The Weather is so good, as are its 45 RPM companions — Texas Flood and Soul To Soul — that they truly represent what…
Joan Baez – Recently
58,00 €In 1987, the "Madonna of Folk" returned to U.S. record shops with a vengeance, delivering here interpretations of songs by Dire Straits, Johnny Clegg, U2 and Peter Gabriel — performers, writes…
John Coltrane – Standard Coltrane (Stereo)
58,00 €“The title could not have been more accurate. By 1962, Coltrane’s leadership role was undeniable; he was a standard-bearer of musical commitment, and intense, bold exploration. As well, all four…
Billie Holiday – Songs For Distingue Lovers
44,00 €It is undeniable that Billie Holiday's singing changed in her later years. Her voice darkened and shifted to a lower range. Her economy of means distilled her sound to its expressive essence — a kind…
Charles Mingus – Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
44,00 €"The album features the two sides of Mingus' compositional genius: the beautiful balladry that I always feel has a bit of a film-noir feel to it, alongside those joyous upbeat numbers that are filled…
Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins – Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins
44,00 €"One of the great Ellington albums, one of the great Hawkins albums and one of the great albums of the 1960s." — The New York Times Even though Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins had both been…
Coleman Hawkins – Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster
44,00 €As critic Nat Hentoff makes clear, Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster were larger than life. Formidable, even forbidding presences, they revealed a depth of feeling in their playing that spoke of their…
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane – Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
44,00 €The classic 1962 album Duke Ellington & John Coltrane introduces the rising jazz saxophone innovator performing with the long-established piano institution Duke Ellington. "Perhaps looking to…
John Coltrane – ‘Live’ At The Village Vanguard
44,00 €"I listened to both sides of the Coltane VV LP. The s/n ratio on these superb pressings makes the music come alive like never before. I've listened to this album in so many forms: original vinyl, the…
Ella Fitzgerald – Let No Man Write My Epitaph
44,00 €Considered one of Ella's greatest recordings, she's backed on this 1960 release by pianist Paul Smith. Let No Man Write My Epitaph was a 1960 Hollywood movie featuring Fitzgerald. The album hits at a…
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong – Ella & Louis Again
44,00 €This new reissue of Ella And Louis Again is a much-needed solution for audiophile-leaning jazz fans the world over. If you’ve ever gone looking for original pressings of this record, you know that it…
Louis Armstrong and Oscar Peterson – Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson (Remastered)
44,00 €"Recorded in July and October of 1957 by Verve's house recording engineer Val Valentin, the album was released in mono in 1959, followed shortly thereafter by a stereo release. This reissue comes…
Ray Charles – Genius + Soul = Jazz
44,00 €"Genius + Soul = Jazz is a winner, now sounding better than ever. I like this reissue so much I'll probably not play my original again since it isn't in quite as nice condition. In fact, I'm not sure…
Oscar Peterson Trio with Milt Jackson – Very Tall
44,00 €"Recorded in July and October of 1957 by Verve's house recording engineer Val Valentin, the album was released in mono in 1959, followed shortly thereafter by a stereo release. This reissue comes…
Roy Haynes – Out Of The Afternoon
44,00 €"One of the great Ellington albums, one of the great Hawkins albums and one of the great albums of the 1960s." — The New York Times Even though Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins had both been…
Nils Lofgren – Acoustic Live
88,00 €“Lofgren, no stranger to audiophiles, has standard recordings so good — the music, of course, warrants attention regardless of the sound quality — that ‘Keith Don’t Go’ has long been a show demo…
The Gil Evans Orchestra – Out Of The Cool
44,00 €"Out Of The Cool is nearly as striking an album now as it must have been when it hit the bins in 1961. Not only is it Gil Evans' masterpiece and his best album that didn't front Miles Davis as a…
Alexander Gibson – Witches’ Brew
58,00 €Of the most rare RCAs, Witches' Brew rates near the top of the heap of desired RCAs. ... The LP selections were recorded by Decca recording engineer Kenneth Wilkinson in fabled Kingsway Hall and…
Curtis Counce – You Get More Bounce With Curtis Counce!
44,00 €Craft Recordings and Acoustic Sounds are proud to continue the Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds series for 2023 with seven album releases from the Contemporary Records catalog, celebrating 70…
Barney Kessel, Ray Brown, and Shelly Manne – The Poll Winners
44,00 €Craft Recordings and Acoustic Sounds are proud to announce the Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds series, which begins with six album releases from the Contemporary Records catalog, celebrating 70…
Hampton Hawes – Four! With Barney Kessel, Shelly Manne & Red Mitchell
44,00 €Craft Recordings and Acoustic Sounds are proud to announce the Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds series, which begins with six album releases from the Contemporary Records catalog, celebrating 70…
Ornette Coleman – Something Else
44,00 €Craft Recordings and Acoustic Sounds are proud to continue the Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds series for 2023 with seven album releases from the Contemporary Records catalog, celebrating 70…
Ornette Coleman – Tomorrow Is The Question!
44,00 €Craft Recordings and Acoustic Sounds are proud to continue the Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds series for 2023 with seven album releases from the Contemporary Records catalog, celebrating 70…
Phineas Newborn Jr. – A World Of Piano!
44,00 €Craft Recordings and Acoustic Sounds are proud to continue the Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds series for 2023 with seven album releases from the Contemporary Records catalog, celebrating 70…
Shelly Manne and Friends – My Fair Lady
44,00 €Craft Recordings and Acoustic Sounds are proud to announce the Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds series, which begins with six album releases from the Contemporary Records catalog, celebrating 70…
Leroy Vinnegar – Leroy Walks!
44,00 €Craft Recordings and Acoustic Sounds are proud to announce the Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds series, which continues for 2023 with seven album releases from the Contemporary Records catalog,…
Oscar Peterson – Night Train
46,00 €5 stars Downbeat Magazine! — 4.5 stars AllMusic! This release presents the complete original album Night Train (Verve V6-538), one of the many masterpieces recorded by the classic Oscar Peterson Trio…
James Gang – The Best Of The James Gang
58,00 €With the exception of one track, The Best of the James Gang was assembled from analog tape and sounds outstanding. The music demands to be played loud, and the fine mastering by Kevin Gray allows you…
Art Pepper – Meets The Rhythm Section (Stereo Version)
42,50 €Craft Recordings and Acoustic Sounds are proud to announce the Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds series, which begins with six album releases from the Contemporary Records catalog, celebrating 70…
Duke Ellington – Blues In Orbit
58,00 €It’s tempting for Blues in Orbit to be overlooked when Duke Ellington’s best albums are discussed, but truly it’s an undisputed gem. There are 11 tracks, none of them is longer than 4:50 and it is…
Eric Dolphy – Far Cry (Stereo)
58,00 €A half-century after his death at 36, the astonishing saxophonist and flutist Eric Dolphy is still influencing and inspiring the most adventuresome jazz musicians. Dolphy was daring and iconoclastic…
Bill Evans – At Town Hall Vol. 1
44,00 €Of pianist Bill Evans' many live albums, At Town Hall ... Vol. 1 has always been among his most delicate and elegant, writes Marc Myers for JazzWax. Evans' playing is taut and graceful, with lovely…
Sonny Rollins – Tenor Madness (Mono)
58,00 €Tenor Madness was the recording that, once and for all, established Rollins as one of the premier tenor saxophonists, an accolade that in retrospect, has continued through six full decades and gives…
Tennessee Ernie Ford – Country Hits…Feelin’ Blue
58,00 €“The sonics are the point here, or at least the main point. Ford’s deep, resonant voice, with a bit of reverb, is very well recorded. You could consider this a voice-fetish record of the…
Taj Mahal – Labor of Love (33 RPM)
78,00 €"In the late 1990s, Taj Mahal went on a 42-city tour with a gang of old, pure blues musicians. The producer, Tim Duffy, recorded several sessions on audiophile gear, but the tapes were stashed away,…
Ella Fitzgerald – Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas
44,00 €"Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas album is a secular holiday delight sure to please every listener, even atheists and agnostics. Originally released in 1960, the sound here is warm and inviting as a Yule…
Various Artists – The Wonderful Sounds Of Quality Record Pressings
125,00 €Celebrate the technical expertise of the world’s finest LP pressing plant — Quality Record Pressings — with the finest LP sampler ever assembled! The Wonderful Sounds Of Quality Record Pressings…
Arthur Fiedler – Gershwin: An American In Paris / Rhapsody In Blue
58,00 €"This reissue cut by Ryan K. Smith from the original 3 track beats every original I have (four) in every way. It peels back layers of murk without adding brightness or spotlighting or anything bad.…
Various Artists – The Wonderful Sounds Of Male Vocals
88,00 €"Analogue Productions returns with another in its very popular 'Wonderful Sounds' series that began with a Christmas compilation and followed up in 2018 with a female vocalist assemblage. Like those…
David Abel/ Julie Steinberg – Debussy/Brahms/Bartok: Sonatas For Violin And Piano
58,00 €“This is perhaps the most exquisitely natural recording ever made. All in all, this Wilson record is a triumph of the analog recording art.” — International Audio Review David Abel, violin. Julie…
Fritz Reiner – Festival
58,00 €“These records are definitive.” — Michael Fremer, editor, AnalogPlanet.com Winner of a Gruvy Award, chosen by AnalogPlanet’s editor, Michael Fremer, for vinyl records that are…
Jimmy Witherspoon & Ben Webster – Roots
58,00 €“… Kudos to blues lover Chad Kassem for recognizing the sonic pearl hiding behind a good but not stellar original recording. Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio has proven yet again why vinyl rules the…
Rickie Lee Jones – It’s Like This
88,00 €“This lovely set of intimately arranged and meticulously recorded covers, originally issued in 2000, is precisely the kind of semi-obscure album in need of a quality all-analog reissue…The…
Willie Dixon & Memphis Slim – Willie’s Blues (Stereo)
58,00 €Since the early 1950s, Willie Dixon has been the studio kingpin of Chicago blues, having written, produced, and played bass on countless classics by Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Otis Rush, Koko…
Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Out 180g
58,00 €"The results speak for themselves: the platters from QRP are in my experience the most consistently flat and quiet being pressed today ... at least for the foreseeable here and now, Analogue…
Fritz Reiner – Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
58,00 €"These records are definitive." — Michael Fremer, editor, AnalogPlanet.com Winner of a Gruvy Award, chosen by AnalogPlanet's editor, Michael Fremer, for vinyl records that are musically and sonically…
George Wallington Quintet – Jazz For The Carriage Trade (Mono)
55,00 €Besides his importance as one of the first bop pianists, a major jazz composer, and a prototypical trio player (as heard on The George Wallington Trios), for a time pianist George Wallington was also…
Herbie Hancock – Head Hunters
58,00 €"Columbia's LP release had decent sound, but Analogue Productions' new vinyl mastering by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound, takes the sound up several notches from there. The LP is housed in a gorgeous…
The Doors – L.A. Woman
88,00 €The title track from this, the last Doors album recorded with Jim Morrison, who died shortly after it was released, has, said one reviewer, “maybe the best Chuck Berry riffs since the Stones.” And…
The Prestige All Stars – Tenor Conclave (Mono)
55,00 €This unusual meeting of four tenor saxophone players from different "schools" was part of the Prestige Friday afternoon jam session series but far from a typical outing. The giant forebears of…
Phil Woods Quartet – Woodlore (Mono)
55,00 €Alto saxophonist Phil Woods had recorded with Jimmy Raney and with his own quintet featuring trumpeter Jon Eardley but this was the first date where he was carrying the load as the lone horn, and…
Phil Woods and Donald Byrd – The Young Bloods (Mono)
55,00 €For this early hard bop date, altoist Phil Woods and trumpeter Donald Byrd were co-leaders. In fact, the music had at one point earlier on been released with Byrd getting first billing. Yet Woods,…
Miles Davis – Someday My Prince Will Come
58,00 €Praise for our 45 RPM version "...The Analogue Productions sound is visceral and crisp in the best sense, and the quiet pressings ensure that no musical detail is even mildly obscured...with these 45…
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