SEALED!!!!!!

Miles Davis

Miles Davis with Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Horace Silver,

Milt Jackson, Kenny Clarke and Percy Heath

Analogue Productions Ltd. Edition # 18 of 1,000

180g Virgin Vinyl, 2 LPs at 45rpm (AJAZ-7109)

Mastered by Steve Hoffman for Analogue Productions from the original Mono master tape in 2002.

Fantasy Jazz 45rpm Series Master Tape Background

All 100 of the classic Jazz recordings (four sets of 25, with two released per month over a period of about four years) reissued by Analogue Productions beginning in 2002 were from the original Master Tapes, which were tracked down by Concord/Fantasy Records in-house expert archivist Stuart Kremsky (search “Kremsky Iron Mountain” on Hoffman forum for more details). 

In 2007, to cut costs, Concord let Mr. Kremsky go (along with many others) and moved all of the Fantasy Record Label tapes to a facility called “Iron Mountain”, where they were entered on a computer database without regard to which boxes contained original masters and which boxes contained copy tapes.  Many of the boxes are not properly marked to begin with, and the people who understood the decades old filing and storage system are now gone.

All of which makes any reissue from 2007 onward of albums on the Fantasy, Riverside, Contemporary, Prestige and Specialty Labels, at least from the actual Master Tapes, highly unlikely.  That won’t prevent any reissue label from claiming they used the real tapes, but I wouldn’t believe it without a photo of the Master Tape box next to the front page of a current Wall Street Journal, and a testimonial quote from the mastering engineer.

Fortunately, this series was mastered and pressed before these events occurred.  Some of the original LPs of this album can sound great, but many don’t, for a variety of reasons.  Most often condition will be a problem, but even a Mint example won’t sound its best if it was pressed from a worn stamper.  If you really like this music, you owe it to yourself to hear it at the best it has ever sounded — on quiet 180g premium vinyl, from the real original Mono master tape, cut on an all vacuum-tube system, at 45rpm.

Still Sealed, Long Out of Print

This title is from 1st Set of 25, issued in 2002 by Analogue Productions.  

One of the hardest to find early titles from the 45rpm Fantasy Jazz Series, rarely offered or even seen in Sealed condition anymore.

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Condition: Record LPs

Sealed, factory new.

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Track Listing:

Record 1

1. Bags’ Groove (Take 1) (side A)

2. Bags’ Groove (Take 2) (side B)

Record 2

3. Airegin (side C)

4. Oleo

5. But Not For Me (Take 2)

6.  Doxy (side D)

7.  But Not For Me (Take 1)