Analogue Productions announces May 21st release of ultimate Kind Of Blue LP

Got the email today that mine shipped and I can’t wait. I have an OG mono and stereo but both a bit noisy and also the Classic records version a friend bought for me in a used record store, because he was sick of my complaining about my noisy copies, which is excellent. I was recommending he buy it… but he handed it to me after he paid. Neither of us really knew what it was at the time and I think he secretly has always regretted it since.

So we will grill some steaks and play the new release and I bet he goes home with the second copy I bought “by accident”. An accident because the feeding frenzy on day of release caused me to log into two devices with the hope of securing at least one. I took no chances because I was burned three times with the Craft Yusef Lateef release and missed out.  As Pete Townsend says… I think ‘21 is gonna be a good year.

bdp24

Thank You for the additional information. How many copies of K.O.B. do you own?

Happy Listening!

Aw geez @jafant, your forcing me to admit in public I have never owned any copy of Kind Of Blue. ;-) 

I don't relate much to Jazz, nor do I understand it. There, I said it! I mean, I DO like Mose Allison, Count Basie, and Duke Ellington, but that Jazz is still basically song-orientated, which is my main interest in non-Classical music. I have heard KOB, and want to see if repeated listens to it on my system changes that situation. And if you're going to have only one copy of KOB, THIS is the one to have.

I have a few more Jazz titles I intend to pickup shortly: Cannonball Adderley, Coleman Hawkins, and Bill Evans (the favorite pianist of The Band's organist Garth Hudson, a favorite musician of mine). I have owned albums by Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane, and found them quite foreign to my musical sensibilities. 

like @pratorious, I ended up ordering two copies of the new Analogue Productions KOB because of it's limited-edition nature. On the day of it's availability, I went to all three audiophile LP websites: Acoustic Sounds, Elusive Disc, and Music Direct. KOB was not yet on the Elusive Disc site; Music Direct showed it, with free shipping; and Acoustic Sounds of course showed it, but was charging shipping.

So I placed an order for one copy with Music Direct, having no intention of getting a second. However, the next day I watched the 2-1/2 hour round-table discussion about the LP on the 45 RPM Audiophile YouTube channel, and heard Chad Kassem say they had so far pressed 6,000 copies of the LP, and had sold almost all 6,000 the day of release! He went on to say that they were not going to be able to supply the other online retailers (Elusive Disc and Music Direct) with any copies of the LP until they pressed the remaining 19,000 copies. I immediately went to the Acoustic Sounds site and placed an order there for the LP, wanting to insure I receive at least one copy.

So if I receive both copies I ordered, I'll have one to sell down the road if I choose to.

bdp24
Right On!   It seems that  you will start your K.O.B. journey at the top.
Most still consider the original 6-eye mono the best Vinyl. Opinions vary.

I think that I own 6 copies on CD/SACD combined. In other words, one could never own too many copies in any format !!!

I am a Bill Evans connoisseur.
Happy Listening!

@jafant: Sounds like Kind Of Blue is to you what The Band’s s/t (brown) album is to me, or Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks’ Smile album---even in it’s uncompleted, aborted form. I have a half dozen copies of each, Smile on bootleg LP’s before the 2011 boxset was released.

Pet Sounds is another album whose multiple copies take up considerable space in the record rack. I found my first copy (mono) as a sealed/punched-hole cut-out in early ’68, in a drug store for 59 cents! After the success of Sgt. Pepper, all the record company's were dumping their mono LP’s.