KARRIN ALLYSON Ballads COLTRANE Blue Vinyl TEST PRESS
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KARRIN ALLYSON Ballads Remembering John Coltrane (NM/NM) Vinyl 2 LP Set
Record label/brand: Pure Audiophile PA-001 (2) upc/mpn: None year: 2001
RARE 180 gram Limited Edition Clear Blue Vinyl Test Pressing. No. 0164
Sleeve is in NM (near mint) condition. Looks like new.
Vinyl is in NM condition. Both albums look as new and play beautifully.
Songs:
Side 1 1. Say It (Over And Over Again) 2. You Don't Know What Love Is 3. Too Young To Go Steady
Side 2 4. All Or Nothing At All 5. I Wish I Knew 6. What's New
Side 3 7. It's Easy To Remember 8. Nancy (With The Laughing Face)
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Side 4 9. Why Was I Born? 10. Everytime We Say Goodbye 11. Nature Boy
Review: More than most tribute albums, singer Karrin Allyson's remembrance of John Coltrane makes a genuine attempt to relate to its subject... not only in retracing his 1961 offering, Ballads, song by song and luxuriating in the deep, swelling tenor sounds of Bob Berg and James Carter, but also in giving the tunes plenty of room to breathe. Resisting the temptation to dress them up with overt displays of style, she approaches them in a straightforward, emotionally understated fashion, capturing their essence with taste and intelligence.
About Pure Audiophile label: Dennis Cassidy has teamed up with Stan Ricker (yep, that's right, Mobile Fidelity's Stan Ricker) to cut some classic music on thick, lush, virgin vinyl. Your probably thinking, "Yeah right, just another couple of guys trying to capitalize on the resurgence of vinyl.". Well, I'd like to be the skeptic here too, but after listening to Ray Browns, Soular Energy and Karryn Allison's, Ballads, nothing could be farther from the truth.
Here's a couple of quick examples that make these guys stand out. First, Dennis and Stan decided to use Blue vinyl to cut their albums on. Their decision to go blue seems to have started a mini craze. Some of the other guys have found out how good this stuff sounds and they are now offering their product in blue also.
Why blue vinyl? Well according to Dennis, it's the only way to insure that you get pure, virgin vinyl (if you can be assured of anything anymore). If you buy the black vinyl (pellets) that we are all used to, there is no way to tell if you are getting reground (recycled) vinyl or not. Any of you that have vinyl from the days of yore can attest that reground vinyl adds loads of surface noise and generally sounds….well, crappy to put it mildly. The other reason is (apparently) their blue vinyl is harder than the standard black. This harder vinyl formulation allows for better, crisper, and more extended highs.
After talking to Dennis, he mentioned that Stan had found some new "trick" (I've been sworn to secrecy) in the mastering process. Believe me, Stan is doing something different. I've got 10 or 15 MoFi's plus a few others of Stan's handy work. Most notably the original issue of the 1812 on Telarc. I'm here to tell you, this new "process" Stan is using, equates to one damned fine sounding piece of vinyl.
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