MILES DAVIS KIND OF BLUE 2-TRACK TAPE

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MILES DAVIS KIND OF BLUE COLUMBIA RECORDS GCB 60 STEREO TWO TRACK ORIGINAL LEADER   Miles Davis (tp) Cannonball Adderley (as -1,2) John Coltrane (ts) Wynton Kelly (p-1) Bill Evans (p-2,3) Paul Chambers (b) Jimmy Cobb (d)
Columbia 30th Street Studios, NYC, March 2, 1959
So What
All Blues
Blue In Green When Columbia released the Lp in 1959, the company also issued a reel-to-reel version of the album, that was a  truncated (three songs only) TWO-TRACK version of the tape. This was unusual for a number of reasons: firstly, the reel tape players were rather expensive and scarce in the late 50s. The second oddity is even more baffling, though: for some odd reason, the 2-track version of the magnetic tape managed to avoid the mastering problems the record suffered from: namely, this bizarrely rare reel-to-reel version was mastered AT A PROPER SPEED, being the only such original version in existence.   About two years later, Columbia terminated the 2-track format (GCQ-60) and replaced it with a more conventional, 4-track reel-to-reel (CQ-379), which  supported a longer length of the program, so the new version was able to accommodate THE ENTIRE album, not only three tracks (on this 2-track version, two tracks were missing: Flamenco Sketches and Freddie Freeloader).    Unfortunately, the new format had a major disadvantage: Columbia used the same production tapes for the 4-track version they used for the record, meaning that the 4-track tape suffered from the exact same problem as the record: it was mastered at wrong speed.   This is the first Release of Kind of Blue that is mastered at the correct speed.  THIS TAPE WAS AQCUIRED FROM  THE ESTATE OF TONY SCHWARTZ, MEDIA GURU AND PIONEER. TO PRESERVE TONY'S HISTORICAL LEGACY HIS FAMILY DONATED MOST OF HIS LIFE'S WORK TO THE SMITHSONIAN. IF YOU HAVE SOME TIME PLEASE CHECK OUT  http://www.tonyschwartz.org/      CONDITION    TAPE - I DON'T KNOW HOW TO GRADE THE TAPE, WE DON'T HAVE A PLAYER OURSELVES. THE LEADER ITSELF IS STILL FULLY INTACT,  CHECK OUT THE PHOTOS BELOW. COVER - VG+/+ THE FRONT OF THE BOX SHOWS SHELF WEAR, (JUST LIKE THE LP COVER ALWAYS DOES. THE CORNERS AND PAPER HINGE ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION WE USE STANDARD GOLDMINE GRADING           IF YOU WIN ONE OF OUR AUCTIONS, PLEASE WAIT UNTIL WE SEND YOU AN INVOICE. 
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