{"title":"Acoustic Sounds Series","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"coleman-hawkins-the-hawk-relaxes-moodsville-acoustic-sounds-series-lp","title":"Coleman Hawkins - The Hawk Relaxes (Moodsville Acoustic Sounds Series Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMoodsville Acoustic Sounds Series 180 Gram LP in Tip-On Jacket\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Hawk Relaxes is one of the three titles that launched the Moodsville Acoustic Sounds Series, the partnership between Craft Recordings and Acoustic Sounds devoted to Prestige's early-1960s Moodsville imprint. Matthew Lutthans of The Mastering Lab cut this edition with all-analog mastering from the original tapes, and it is pressed on 180-gram black vinyl at QRP. The tip-on jacket reproduces the original artwork and Joe Goldberg's back-cover notes, and carries the catalog number CR00955. The distributor lists the edition with an OBI.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCraft describes Moodsville, active from 1960 to 1963, as a home for expressive ballads for late-night listening, with leading players of the day taking melodic readings of standards. Hawkins made this, the imprint's fifteenth volume, on February 28, 1961 at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Esmond Edwards supervised the date and Van Gelder engineered it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe band around him is pianist Ronnell Bright, guitarist Kenny Burrell, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Andrew Cyrille. The program is seven standards, among them \"Moonglow\", \"Just a Gigolo\" and Kurt Weill and Ogden Nash's \"Speak Low\". The back cover lists his other Prestige-family albums of the period, including At Ease With Coleman Hawkins, Moodsville's seventh volume, and Coleman Hawkins with the Red Garland Trio on Swingville.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in St. Joseph, Missouri in 1904, Hawkins spent 1923 to 1934 in Fletcher Henderson's orchestra and 1934 to 1939 in Europe, then recorded \"Body and Soul\" in October 1939. In February 1944 he led the first bebop recording session, with Dizzy Gillespie and Don Byas in the band. He died in New York in 1969.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTracklist\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSide A\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI'll Never Be The Same\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhen Day Is Done\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnder A Blanket Of Blue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMore Than You Know\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSide B\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col start=\"5\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMoonglow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJust A Gigolo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpeak Low\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 888072754652\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Craft Recordings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9.18.26\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Craft Recordings","offers":[{"title":"NEW \/ NEW","offer_id":48226550415518,"sku":"EVP-016E9F7D-NEW-NEW-NONE0000","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/8801\/1422\/files\/Coleman_Hawkins_The_Hawk_Relaxes_Pack_Shot_No_Sticker_LP.png?v=1789985146"},{"product_id":"the-red-garland-trio-with-eddie-lockjaw-davis-moodsville-volume-1-moodsville-acoustic-sounds-series-lp","title":"The Red Garland Trio With Eddie \"Lockjaw\" Davis - Moodsville, Volume 1 (Moodsville Acoustic Sounds Series Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMoodsville Acoustic Sounds Series 180 Gram LP in Tip-On Jacket\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoodsville, Volume 1 is the record that opened Prestige's Moodsville imprint, and it returns as one of the three first titles in the Moodsville Acoustic Sounds Series from Craft Recordings and Acoustic Sounds. This edition is cut from the original tapes with all-analog mastering by Matthew Lutthans of The Mastering Lab and pressed on 180-gram black vinyl at QRP. Its tip-on jacket reproduces Emmett McBain's original cover design and Ron Eyre's notes, and carries the catalog number CR00956. The distributor lists the edition with an OBI.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrestige started Moodsville in 1960, alongside its Swingville line. In Craft's account the imprint set out to sit between fully improvised jazz and formula mood music, asking leading players for melodic readings of standards meant for listening late at night, and it ran until 1963.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe session was recorded on December 11, 1959 at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, with Esmond Edwards producing, and issued in 1960 as MVLP 1. Garland's trio here is bassist Sam Jones and drummer Art Taylor. Eddie \"Lockjaw\" Davis plays tenor saxophone on three pieces, \"We'll Be Together Again\", \"Softly Baby\" and \"When Your Lover Has Gone\", as the jacket marks them, and the trio plays the other five alone. Garland wrote \"Softly Baby\" and \"The Red Blues\"; the rest are standards, including \"Stella By Starlight\" and Rodgers and Hart's \"Blue Room\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGarland, born in Dallas in 1923, joined Miles Davis's quintet in 1955 and played on its Prestige albums Workin', Steamin', Cookin' and Relaxin'. Between 1956 and 1962 he made some 25 albums for Prestige and Moodsville. Davis, born in New York in 1922, recorded prolifically for Prestige in the same years, co-led a quintet with Johnny Griffin from 1960 to 1962, and played with Count Basie's orchestra over several decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTracklist\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSide A\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe'll Be Together Again\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStella By Starlight\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Heard You Cried Last Night\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSoftly Baby\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSide B\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col start=\"5\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhen Your Lover Has Gone\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWonder Why\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlue Room\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Red Blues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 888072754898\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Craft Recordings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9.18.26\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Craft Recordings","offers":[{"title":"NEW \/ NEW","offer_id":48226565816478,"sku":"EVP-2791688D-NEW-NEW-NONE0000","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/8801\/1422\/files\/Moodsville_Vol_1_Pack_Shot_LP.png?v=1789985150"},{"product_id":"koko-taylor-koko-taylor-chess-acoustic-sounds-series-lp","title":"Koko Taylor - Koko Taylor (Chess Acoustic Sounds Series Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChess Acoustic Sounds Series 180 Gram Vinyl in Tip-On Gatefold Jacket\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKoko Taylor's self-titled 1969 album for Chess is her first entry in the Chess Records Acoustic Sounds Series, reissued here under catalog number ACHE 46720. The original analog tapes were remastered by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab and pressed on 180 gram vinyl at Quality Record Pressings. The tip-on gatefold jacket carries the original front: Don Wilson's illustration of Taylor under a crescent moon, the Chess Stereo LPS 1532 banner, and the line \"Produced by Willie Dixon.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn Cora Ann Walton in 1928 and raised outside Memphis, Taylor moved to Chicago in 1952 and was singing in the city's blues clubs when Dixon heard her in 1962. She signed to Checker, the Chess subsidiary, in 1964. On December 7, 1965 she recorded his \"Wang Dang Doodle,\" which reached No. 4 on the Billboard R\u0026amp;B chart and No. 58 on the Hot 100, sold a million copies, and in 2023 entered the Library of Congress National Recording Registry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album gathers sessions from 1965 to 1968 at Ter Mar in Chicago, with Dixon producing and Gene Barge sharing the arrangements. Buddy Guy plays guitar on several tracks, alongside Walter \"Shakey\" Horton on harmonica, Lafayette Leake and Sunnyland Slim on piano, and Clifton James on drums. Dixon wrote eight of the twelve songs, including \"Twenty Nine Ways\" and \"Insane Asylum\"; \"Nitty Gritty\" is Taylor's own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChess's notes call her Chicago's undisputed Queen of the Blues. She went on to record nine albums for Alligator from 1975, won the 1985 Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album, collected 29 Blues Music Awards, entered the Blues Hall of Fame in 1997 and received a National Heritage Fellowship in 2004. She died in Chicago in June 2009.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTracklist\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSide A\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLove You Like A Woman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Love A Lover Like You\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDon't Mess With The Messer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Don't Care Who Knows\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWang Dang Doodle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI'm A Little Mixed Up\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSide B\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col start=\"7\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNitty Gritty\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFire\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhatever I Am You Made Me\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwenty Nine Ways\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInsane Asylum\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYes, It's Good For You\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 199957924306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Chess\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9.18.26\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Chess","offers":[{"title":"NEW \/ NEW","offer_id":48226576728222,"sku":"EVP-6AD709BB-NEW-NEW-NONE0000","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/8801\/1422\/files\/koko-taylor-koko-taylor-180-gram-black-vinyl-uk-vinyl-lp-album-record-5792430-901784.jpg?v=1789977827"},{"product_id":"chuck-berry-after-school-session-chess-acoustic-sounds-series-lp","title":"Chuck Berry - After School Session (Chess Acoustic Sounds Series Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e180 Gram Mono Vinyl, Chess Acoustic Sounds Series\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter School Session was Chuck Berry's first studio album, issued by Chess in May 1957 as LP-1426, only the second long-player the label had released. This mono reissue, catalog number ACHE 45291, belongs to the Chess Records Acoustic Sounds Series and is Berry's third title in it. Matthew Lutthans of The Mastering Lab remastered it from the original analog tapes, Quality Record Pressings pressed it on 180 gram vinyl, and it ships in a tip-on gatefold jacket that reproduces the original Chess LP 1426 front cover, with two portraits of Berry across the inside spread.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBerry already had hits with \"Maybellene\" and \"Roll Over Beethoven\" when the album appeared, and most of what it holds had been issued on 45 first: only \"Roly Poly\" and \"Berry Pickin'\" were new to record buyers. \"School Day (Ring Ring Goes The Bell)\" went to No. 1 on the R\u0026amp;B chart and No. 3 on the pop chart in 1957, and the R\u0026amp;B chart also took \"Too Much Monkey Business\" to No. 4, \"Brown Eyed Handsome Man\" to No. 5, \"No Money Down\" to No. 8 and \"Wee Wee Hours\" to No. 10.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe songs were recorded between May 21, 1955 and January 21, 1957 at Universal Recording Corporation in Chicago, produced by Leonard and Phil Chess. Berry wrote every song. Johnnie Johnson and Otis Spann share the piano work, Willie Dixon plays bass, and the drummers are Fred Below, Jasper Thomas and Ebby Hardy; on \"Deep Feeling,\" Berry plays steel guitar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTracklist\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSide A\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSchool Day (Ring Ring Goes The Bell)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeep Feeling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eToo Much Monkey Business\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWee Wee Hours\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRoly Poly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo Money Down\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSide B\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col start=\"7\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrown Eyed Handsome Man\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBerry Pickin'\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTogether We Will Always Be\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHavana Moon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDown Bound Train\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDrifting Heart\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eComplete the Collection of 3:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/chuck-berry-chuck\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClick here to buy Chuck\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/chuck-berry-chuck-berry-s-golden-decade-vol-2\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClick here to buy Chuck Berry's Golden Decade Vol.2\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 199957734448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Chess\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9.18.26\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Chess","offers":[{"title":"NEW \/ NEW","offer_id":48226582888606,"sku":"EVP-7BAD13BD-NEW-NEW-NONE0000","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/8801\/1422\/files\/MainImage-LP.png?v=1789977827"},{"product_id":"the-frank-wess-quartet-moodsville-volume-8-moodsville-acoustic-sounds-series-lp","title":"The Frank Wess Quartet - Moodsville, Volume 8 (Moodsville Acoustic Sounds Series Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t1fpGRgkPDk?controls=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e180-Gram Black Vinyl LP in Tip-On Jacket, Moodsville Acoustic Sounds Series\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoodsville, Volume 8 is one of the three records that launched the Moodsville Acoustic Sounds Series, the Craft Recordings and Acoustic Sounds reissue line drawn from Prestige's Moodsville catalog, alongside Coleman Hawkins's The Hawk Relaxes and the Red Garland Trio's Moodsville, Volume 1. Matthew Lutthans of The Mastering Lab mastered it all-analog from the original tapes, and Quality Record Pressings pressed it on 180-gram black vinyl. The tip-on jacket reproduces the 1960 front and back, Ron Eyre's sleeve notes included, and the back carries catalog number CR00959. The distributor lists the jacket as a Stoughton tip-on and the package as including an OBI.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe quartet recorded on May 9, 1960 at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, with Esmond Edwards producing, and the album was issued on Moodsville that year as MVLP 8. Wess plays tenor saxophone and flute, with Tommy Flanagan on piano, Eddie Jones on bass and Bobby Donaldson on drums. Eyre's notes add that Jones joined Count Basie's band the same year Wess did, and that Donaldson had worked with Cat Anderson, Edmond Hall, Sy Oliver, Lucky Millinder, Andy Kirk and Buck Clayton.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe program is six standards and one original. Side A opens with Alec Wilder's \"It's So Peaceful In The Country,\" flute with piano; Wess's own \"Rainy Afternoon\" follows on tenor, a tune the notes say was given its name at the session; and \"Star Eyes,\" by Don Raye and Gene De Paul from the 1943 film I Dood It, returns to flute. Side B is four ballads: Victor Young's \"Stella By Starlight\" and Allie Wrubel's \"Gone With The Wind\" on tenor, Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen's \"But Beautiful\" and Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz's \"I See Your Face Before Me\" on flute.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWess was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1922. The jacket dates his arrival in Count Basie's orchestra to 1953, and he stayed until 1964; Eyre's notes call him one of the first jazz musicians to achieve success as a flute soloist, and name his earlier Prestige albums After Hours, with Thad Jones, and Wheelin' And Dealin', with Paul Quinichette and John Coltrane. He was named an NEA Jazz Master in 2007 and died in 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTracklist\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSide A\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt's So Peaceful In The Country\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRainy Afternoon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStar Eyes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSide B\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col start=\"4\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStella By Starlight\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBut Beautiful\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGone With The Wind\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI See Your Face Before Me\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 888072754423\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Craft Recordings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9.18.26\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Craft Recordings","offers":[{"title":"NEW \/ NEW","offer_id":48226591506590,"sku":"EVP-E803833C-NEW-NEW-NONE0000","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/8801\/1422\/files\/Moodsville_Vol_8_Pack_Shot_LP.png?v=1789992254"},{"product_id":"wes-montgomery-california-dreaming-verve-acoustic-sounds-series","title":"Wes Montgomery - California Dreaming (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVerve Acoustic Sounds Series 180-Gram Vinyl LP in a Tip-On Gatefold Jacket\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition belongs to Verve's Acoustic Sounds Series, whose titles are mastered by Matthew Lutthans from the original analog tapes, pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Quality Record Pressings and housed in tip-on gatefold jackets. The jacket is an old-style tip-on printed by Stoughton Printing, and it carries the original Verve catalog number, V6-8672. The single LP runs five tracks a side, as the 1967 release did.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWes Montgomery cut the album for producer Creed Taylor at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, on September 14, 15 and 16, 1966, with Don Sebesky arranging and conducting a large ensemble. Herbie Hancock plays piano, Richard Davis bass and Grady Tate drums, alongside Ray Barretto on percussion, Bucky Pizzarelli on guitar and a brass section that includes Bernie Glow and Bill Watrous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe program draws on the pop songbook of its day. It opens with John and Michelle Phillips's \"California Dreaming,\" a Top 5 hit for The Mamas and The Papas, and carries Bobby Hebb's \"Sunny\" and three Sol Lake tunes, with \"Sun Down\" and \"Mr. Walker\" from Montgomery's own pen. 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The eight up-tempo numbers were cut on September 6 and 7 with a fourteen-piece band. The four ballads followed on September 8, with Ben Webster's tenor, the rhythm section and a string quartet of James Getzoff and Joseph Stepansky on violins, Alvin Dinkin on viola and Eleanor Slatkin on cello.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe big-band dates put Art Pepper on alto saxophone and clarinet, Webster and Teddy Edwards on tenor and Bill Hood on baritone, with trumpeters Al Porcino, Ray Triscari, Stu Williamson and Jack Sheldon and trombonists Harry Betts and Bob Fitzpatrick. Andre Previn on piano, Barney Kessel on guitar, Leroy Vinnegar on bass and Shelly Manne on drums play on every track.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHumes, born in Louisville, spent four years as a vocalist with Count Basie's orchestra from 1938. \"Million Dollar Secret\" is her own song; her 1950 recording of it for Modern reached No. 6 on the R\u0026amp;B chart, and she cut it again for this album. 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Bernie Grundman cut the lacquers from the original tapes in an all-analog (AAA) chain, and Craft points out that Grundman is himself a Contemporary Records alum. The disc is pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Quality Record Pressings and housed in a Stoughton old-style tip-on jacket, catalog number CR00601, which carries Koenig's original liner notes, dated June 6, 1960, and Fred Lyon's cover photograph taken inside the club.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShelly Manne \u0026amp; His Men taped this set in September 1959 at the Black Hawk, a nightclub in San Francisco's Tenderloin district, and Contemporary issued it in 1960 as the first of four volumes from the engagement. Koenig's notes describe it as Manne's first recording made in a night club: Manne phoned the label from the Black Hawk, microphones were on the bandstand the following day, and a plan for one album grew to four once the playbacks had been heard back in Los Angeles. The jacket credits Summertime, Our Delight and Poinciana to the night of September 22, 1959, with sound by Howard Holzer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eManne leads from the drums with Joe Gordon on trumpet, Richie Kamuca on tenor saxophone, Victor Feldman on piano and Monty Budwig on bass. Per the notes, Feldman, then better known on vibes, filled the piano chair for Russ Freeman, who was away touring Europe with Benny Goodman. The five pieces are Gershwin and Heyward's Summertime, Tadd Dameron's Our Delight, Poinciana, trombonist Frank Rosolino's jazz waltz Blue Daniel, and Bill Holman's brief A Gem From Tiffany, which Koenig writes had been the band's theme since 1955, named for the Los Angeles club where Holman wrote it. 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It was issued on May 13, 2022 as catalog number CR00383, with all-analog mastering by Bernie Grundman from the original tapes. Quality Record Pressings pressed it on 180-gram vinyl, and it ships in a Stoughton old-style tip-on jacket. The series is supervised by Acoustic Sounds CEO Chad Kassem, and Audiophile Review's report on this pressing notes audiophile-grade plastic inner sleeves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe jacket follows the stereo Contemporary original: Roger Marshutz's cover portrait of Pepper, design by Guidi\/Tri-Arts, the front carrying the short title Art Pepper + Eleven and the back the full \"Modern Jazz Classics\" heading. The back cover reprints Nat Hentoff's liner notes, dated October 21, 1959, together with the label's original technical data panel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe music was recorded at Contemporary's Los Angeles studio over three sessions on March 14, March 28 and May 12, 1959, produced by Lester Koenig with sound by Roy DuNann and Howard Holzer. Marty Paich arranged and conducted twelve modern jazz standards by Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Horace Silver, Gerry Mulligan, Sonny Rollins, Jimmy Giuffre and others. Of the several dates Pepper and Paich made together in 1959, this is the only one under Pepper's name, and Contemporary first issued it in February 1960 as M3568 in mono and S7568 in stereo. 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Bernie Grundman, a former Contemporary employee, mastered it from the original tapes in an all-analog chain, and Quality Record Pressings (QRP) pressed it on 180-gram vinyl. It is housed in a Stoughton Old Style tip-on jacket whose front carries the Stereo Records imprint, \"In Association with Contemporary Records,\" and catalog number CR00384.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst released in 1958, Jazz Giant was produced by Lester Koenig and recorded by Roy DuNann at Contemporary's studio in Los Angeles over four dates between June 1957 and April 1958. Carter plays alto saxophone and trumpet and wrote the arrangements, joined by Ben Webster on tenor saxophone, Frank Rosolino on trombone, André Previn or Jimmy Rowles on piano, Barney Kessel on guitar, Leroy Vinnegar on bass and Shelly Manne on drums. 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The series is a joint program of Craft Recordings and Acoustic Sounds that returns albums from the Contemporary catalog to vinyl, begun to mark seventy years of the label, and every title is supervised by Acoustic Sounds CEO Chad Kassem. For this pressing Bernie Grundman cut all-analog (AAA) lacquers from the original master tapes, Quality Record Pressings pressed it on 180-gram vinyl, and it is housed in a tip-on jacket printed by Stoughton Printing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe jacket reproduces the 1960 front cover, including the \"Jimmie\" spelling of drummer Jimmy Cobb's name, and the black-and-gold stereo label lists the composer under each title.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePepper, on alto and tenor saxophone, recorded the album on February 29, 1960, at Contemporary's studio in Los Angeles, with Lester Koenig producing; it was his third album for the label. 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Titles in the series are remastered from the original analog tapes, cut to lacquer by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab, and pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Quality Record Pressings (QRP). Chess packages each disc in a tip-on gatefold jacket printed on high-grade board.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe front of the jacket reproduces the 1970 Chess Stereo cover with its LPS-1550 mark, and the center label repeats that number in the blue Chess design. Inside, the gatefold opens onto two full-panel black-and-white photographs of Berry with his guitar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBack Home was Berry's fourteenth studio album, issued by Chess in 1970, and its title points to his return to the label after several years on Mercury. Berry wrote all nine songs and produced the sessions at Ter Mar in Chicago, with Bob Baldori on harmonica and piano, Lafayette Leake on piano and Phil Upchurch on bass. 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The jacket is a tip-on gatefold reproducing the mono MG V-8316 sleeve, Verve's \"A Panoramic True High Fidelity Record\" banner included, with Burt Goldblatt's cover photograph. Universal's JazzEcho store names Stoughton Printing for the jacket and lists a padded inner sleeve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNorman Granz produced the session in New York in February 1958, just over a year before Young died in March 1959. Two trumpeters share the front line with him, Roy Eldridge and Harry \"Sweets\" Edison, over a rhythm section of Hank Jones on piano, Herb Ellis on guitar, George Duvivier on bass and Mickey Sheen on drums. 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It comes in a gatefold tip-on jacket printed by Stoughton Printing, with the original Impulse! stereo designation, A-27, on the front and spine. The series reissues titles from the Verve and Universal Music Enterprises catalog under the supervision of Chad Kassem, CEO of Acoustic Sounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHubbard recorded the album on July 2, 1962, at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, with Bob Thiele producing. It was his first record for Impulse!, issued in early 1963, and it falls between two of his Blue Note albums, \u003cem\u003eReady for Freddie\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHub-Tones\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe led a sextet: Curtis Fuller on trombone, John Gilmore on tenor saxophone, Tommy Flanagan on piano, Art Davis on bass and Louis Hayes on drums. Gilmore's appearance is a rare one away from Sun Ra's orbit. 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The mastering is all-analog, cut from the original analog tapes by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab, and the disc is pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Quality Record Pressings. The record plays in mono and comes in a tip-on gatefold jacket printed on high-grade board, with the original Chess LP 1469 front cover reproduced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst issued by Chess in 1962, the album gathered twelve sides the label had already released as singles between June 1957 and December 1961. Don S. Bronstein's illustration on the sleeve gave it the nickname The Rockin' Chair Album, which some later pressings printed on the cover. Willie Dixon wrote most of the songs and played bass on the sessions, alongside Hubert Sumlin on guitar, Otis Spann on piano and Fred Below and Sam Lay on drums, with Jimmy Rogers among the other guitarists. Ralph Bass is credited as producer and sleeve-note writer, Ron Malo as engineer. 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