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Blue Note traces the Tone Poet series to label president Don Was' admiration for the audiophile Blue Note reissues produced by Music Matters. Two earlier Rivers albums as a leader, Contours (1965) and A New Conception (1966), are already part of the series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe session took place at Van Gelder Studios in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, on March 17, 1967, and then sat in the vault. Its six tracks first surfaced in the mid-1970s on Involution, a double LP shared with music from an Andrew Hill session. The album did not appear under its own name, with its original catalog number and the intended Reid Miles cover, until 1986.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRivers plays tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone and flute across six of his own compositions. Donald Byrd on trumpet and Julian Priester on trombone appear on four of them, and James Spaulding plays alto saxophone and flute on five. Cecil McBee (bass) and Steve Ellington (drums), a grand-nephew of Duke Ellington, are the rhythm section throughout. Blue Note's notes describe Byrd's part as a rare foray into the avant-garde for the trumpeter. This was the last of the four albums Rivers led for Blue Note in the 1960s. 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Joe Harley produced it, and Kevin Gray of Cohearent Audio mastered it from the original analog master tapes. It was pressed on 180g vinyl at Record Technology Inc. (RTI) and is packaged in a deluxe tip-on gatefold jacket. Mono is how the album first appeared in 1957; the later stereo issue, BST 81558, was a pseudo-stereo transfer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe gatefold opens on black-and-white session photographs. The largest shows Rollins at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Hackensack, New Jersey, on April 14, 1957, and smaller frames show J.J. Johnson with Rollins, Horace Silver with Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey at the kit, and Rollins with producer Alfred Lion. A printed sheet reproduces the original back-cover liner notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlue Note President Don Was started the Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series out of admiration for the audiophile Blue Note LPs that Music Matters had issued. He brought in Harley, known as the \"Tone Poet,\" to choose and supervise reissues from across the Blue Note family of labels. Rollins's live set A Night at the Village Vanguard: The Complete Masters also has a Tone Poet edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRollins first played a Blue Note session in 1949 as a member of Bud Powell's Modernists. He came back in 1956 and made four albums as leader in less than a year. Vol. 2, his second album for Lion, was recorded in a single day and came out that October. Johnson plays trombone, Silver piano, Paul Chambers bass and Blakey drums. Johnson appears by courtesy of Columbia Records and Monk by courtesy of Riverside Records.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe set opens with two Rollins originals, \"Why Don't I\" and \"Wail March,\" and closes with the standards \"You Stepped Out of a Dream\" and \"Poor Butterfly.\" In the middle are two Monk compositions. On \"Misterioso\" both Monk and Silver play piano. 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(RTI). Joe Harley produced it, and Kevin Gray mastered it AAA at Cohearent Audio, working from the original analog master tapes. The tip-on gatefold jacket holds a booklet with new liner notes by Syd Schwartz, the original notes by Ben Sidran and Bob Porter, and Francis Wolff photographs that Blue Note describes as never seen before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe music comes from piano trio dates Clark recorded for Blue Note that stayed entirely on standards. His October 1957 session with bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Philly Joe Jones became the album \u003cem\u003eSonny Clark Trio\u003c\/em\u003e, issued in the spring of 1958. He went back to Rudy Van Gelder's Hackensack studio twice later in 1958: in November with bassist Jymie Merritt and drummer Wes Landers, and in December with Chambers and Landers. 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He had recently come home from two years based in Barcelona. The quintet is Charles Tolliver on trumpet, John Hicks on piano, Red Mitchell on bass and Lenny McBrowne on drums, with Ervin on tenor saxophone. Pacific Jazz issued it as PJ-10119 in mono and ST-20119 in stereo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe programme mixes his own writing with other people's: \"Boo's Blues\" is Ervin's, \"Franess\" is Tolliver's, and the rest draws on Randy Weston, Oliver Nelson and Billy Strayhorn alongside three standards. Ervin is best remembered for his work with Charles Mingus; Blue Note describe him as \"a distinctive soloist with an assertive and immediately recognizable sound.\" He died of kidney disease in 1970, at 39.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Tone Poet Series is produced by Joe Harley. Kevin Gray mastered this edition at Cohearent Audio from the original analog master tapes, Record Technology Incorporated pressed it at 180 grams, and it comes in a deluxe tip-on gatefold jacket. 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It is pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Record Technology Inc. (RTI) in Camarillo, California, and housed in a Stoughton Printing tip-on gatefold jacket that reproduces the Pacific Jazz PJ-18 cover. Blue Note issued it on December 2, 2022, under catalog number B0033674-01.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlue Note launched the Tone Poet series in 2019, the label's 80th anniversary year. The label traces the series to president Don Was's admiration for the audiophile Blue Note reissues produced by Music Matters, which led him to bring in Music Matters co-founder Joe Harley, known as the Tone Poet, to choose and supervise reissues drawn from across the Blue Note family of labels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe session took place on October 31, 1956, at Radio Recorders in Hollywood. 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Outside, Reid Miles's shattered-glass cover and the ST-84172 back cover, with the original liner notes AllMusic credits to Leonard Feather, are carried over.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlue Note's own notes trace the Tone Poet series to label president Don Was's admiration for the audiophile Blue Note reissues produced by Music Matters; Was brought in Harley, the \"Tone Poet\" himself, to choose and supervise titles from the Blue Note family of labels. The series launched in 2019, the label's 80th anniversary year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHubbard cut the album with his new quintet shortly after leaving Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, with Alfred Lion producing and Van Gelder engineering, and Blue Note issued it as BST 84172 in August 1964. It was Joe Chambers' first recording; he wrote \"Mirrors,\" and the other four pieces are Hubbard's. Blue Note's notes describe the title track moving from free-form playing into a calypso and back. 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Joe Harley produced the reissue, and Kevin Gray cut the lacquers at Cohearent Audio from the original analog master tapes. The record is pressed on 180-gram vinyl at RTI in Camarillo, California, and housed in a Stoughton Printing \"Old Style\" gatefold tip-on jacket. Inside the gatefold are black-and-white photographs from the sessions, among them Burrell at Audio-Video Studios in New York on March 12, 1956.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlue Note launched the Tone Poet series in 2019, its 80th anniversary year. The idea came from label president Don Was's admiration for the audiophile Blue Note reissues of Music Matters, the label Harley co-founded, and Harley picks each title in the series himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe original LP appeared in 1957 in Blue Note's 1500 series, with Alfred Lion producing. Its cover drawing is by Andy Warhol, the first of three Blue Note covers he made with designer Reid Miles. 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The album mixes his own tunes with lesser-known standards, recorded at two quartet sessions at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Six of the eight tracks come from December 5, 1959, with Wynton Kelly on piano, Sam Jones on bass and Roy Brooks on drums. The Lope and Stairway to the Stars come from January 23, 1960. Kelly returned for that date with Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb, who were Miles Davis's rhythm section at the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlfred Lion produced the sessions and Rudy Van Gelder engineered them. Reid Miles designed the cover, Francis Wolff took the photographs and Ira Gitler wrote the liner notes. Bluesville and Stay As Sweet As You Are were also issued together on a Blue Note 45. 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Joe Harley produced it, and Kevin Gray cut it at Cohearent Audio from the original analog master tapes. It is pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Record Technology Inc. (RTI) in Camarillo, California, and comes in a tip-on jacket with a single-sided liner notes insert. The labels keep the original Pacific Jazz number, ST-61. Blue Note's catalog number, B0033487-01, is printed on the back cover, the labels and the spine, and the runouts are etched.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe jacket goes back to the 1962 cover photograph and artwork. SoundStage Ultra notes that a 1981 reissue had swapped them for a generic sleeve carrying only the artist's name and the title. The Tone Poet jacket is heavy board with laminated, tipped-on art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlue Note started the Tone Poet series in 2019, the label's 80th anniversary year. It came out of label president Don Was's admiration for the Music Matters audiophile reissues, and he brought in Harley, a Music Matters co-founder, to choose and oversee the titles. Those titles come from across the Blue Note family of labels, Pacific Jazz included. Harley has said that he asked Wilson's son, Anthony Wilson, to come to the mastering session for this record.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilson's big band recorded the album at Pacific Jazz Studios in Los Angeles in August and September 1962, with Richard Bock producing. It was his second LP as a leader for Pacific Jazz. Wilson wrote seven of the nine pieces. The other two are Miles Davis's \"Milestones\" and \"Emerge,\" by the band's trombonist Lester Robertson. In a 2006 interview with the National Endowment for the Arts, Wilson said \"Viva Tirado\" is named for the matador Jose Ramon Tirado. 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Joe Harley produced it for release, Kevin Gray mastered it from the original analog phono reels, and Record Technology Inc. (RTI) pressed it on 180g vinyl. eCoustics lists the cut as mono. The two discs sit in a gatefold tip-on jacket with a booklet of rare archival photos and an essay by Will Friedwald, author of the Cole biography Straighten Up And Fly Right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross four sides it gathers all 18 performances from the four sessions Cole recorded at Capitol Studios in August and September 1956. That means the 12 songs of the original Capitol LP (W-782), the five further titles first issued as bonus tracks on Capitol's 1987 CD The Complete After Midnight Sessions, and an alternate take of \"You're Looking At Me\" that closes side four.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCole sings and plays piano in front of his trio of John Collins on guitar, Charlie Harris on bass and Lee Young on drums. 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Joe Harley produced the reissue, Kevin Gray of Cohearent Audio mastered it from the original analog master tapes, and Record Technology Inc. (RTI) pressed it on 180-gram vinyl. It comes in a tip-on gatefold jacket that opens onto black-and-white session portraits of Quebec and each of his four sidemen. Blue Note issued it on August 7, 2026, with Jackie McLean's Vertigo as the other Tone Poet title that month.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe series started because Blue Note president Don Was admired the audiophile Blue Note reissues produced by Music Matters. Was brought in Harley, the \"Tone Poet\" the series is named for, to pick and oversee titles from across the Blue Note family of labels. Quebec's The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions has also been issued in the series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe session took place on October 5, 1962, at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, with Alfred Lion producing. 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Joe Harley produced it, Kevin Gray mastered it at Cohearent Audio from the original analog master tapes, and Record Technology Inc. (RTI) pressed it on 180-gram vinyl. It is housed in a deluxe tip-on gatefold jacket; the label's photography of the open gatefold shows a full-page portrait of Patton at the organ, captioned at Rudy Van Gelder's studio on the session date, facing individual portraits of all four players.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe series grew out of Blue Note president Don Was's admiration for the audiophile Blue Note reissues produced by Music Matters. Was brought in Joe Harley, known as the \"Tone Poet,\" to choose and supervise reissues drawn from across the Blue Note family of labels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album was recorded on April 29, 1966, at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, with Alfred Lion producing. The quartet pairs Patton's Hammond B3 organ with Grant Green on guitar, Hugh Walker on drums and Richard Landrum on congas. 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Joe Harley produced it, Kevin Gray mastered it at Cohearent Audio from the original analog master tapes, and Record Technology Inc. (RTI) pressed it on 180-gram vinyl. The jacket is a deluxe tip-on gatefold. The front keeps the original 84209 stereo cover design, and the inside spread carries session photographs taken at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, on June 18, 1965.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlue Note launched the Tone Poet series in 2019 under Harley, the \"Tone Poet\" of its name. Blue Note's own notes trace the series to Don Was's admiration for the Music Matters reissues. Mobley has turned up in the series before, most recently with Hank from 1957 and Third Season from 1967.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlfred Lion produced the session in a single day at Van Gelder Studio, and Blue Note issued the album in 1966 as BST 84209. Mobley leads a quintet with Lee Morgan on trumpet, Harold Mabern Jr. on piano, Larry Ridley on bass and Billy Higgins on drums. It was the second of nine Blue Note sessions pairing Mobley with Morgan during the trumpeter's second stint at the label. It was also the second of nine Mobley sessions in a row with Higgins behind the kit. The date fell in a productive 1965 for Mobley that also yielded The Turnaround and A Caddy For Daddy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFour of the six pieces are Mobley originals. The other two come from outside: \"Recado Bossa Nova\" by Luiz Antonio and Djalma Ferreira, and the Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz standard \"I See Your Face Before Me.\" Blue Note describes the set as spanning boogaloo, bossa nova, ballads and bop. The label's artist biography hears a funkier soul-jazz sound starting to creep into Mobley's work here. 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Joe Harley produced it for release, and Kevin Gray of Cohearent Audio cut it directly from the original analog phono reel master tapes. Record Technology Inc. (RTI) pressed it on 180-gram vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe package is a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket. Inside, the spread is given over to session photographs by William \"PoPsie\" Randolph, including the Miles Davis Nonet at WOR Studios on January 21, 1949. The inner credits name Pete Rugolo as original producer and Aram Avakian for the cover photo, with the reissue design by Terry Davis at Meat and Potatoes. A separate insert reproduces the original Capitol back cover, catalog number T762, and the disc carries a Capitol label.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlue Note's store traces the Tone Poet series to label president Don Was's admiration for the Music Matters audiophile reissues. Was brought in Joe Harley, known as the \"Tone Poet,\" to supervise reissues drawn from across the Blue Note family of labels. Harley calls this record \"an audacious gathering of sonic architects reshaping the language of jazz in real time.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe eleven sides come from three Capitol sessions in New York, held on January 21 and April 22, 1949, and March 9, 1950. Most were first issued on 10-inch 78-rpm singles, and Capitol did not collect them as a 12-inch LP called Birth of the Cool until 1957. The nonet's French horn and tuba gave the arrangements, by Gil Evans, Gerry Mulligan, John Lewis and others, a texture borrowed from impressionist classical music. Lee Konitz, J.J. Johnson, Kai Winding, Max Roach and Kenny Clarke are among the players. 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