MILES DAVIS Kind Of Blue CLASSIC RECORDS 2LP PITCH CORRECTED & 45 RPM SEALED

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MILES DAVIS Kind Of Blue
New & Sealed Audiophile Vinyl 2 Record Set

Record Label: Classic Records/Columbia CS 8163

Limited Edition Audiophile. All-Analogue Half Speed Mastering from the original Master Tapes. Proprietary High Quality, Virgin Vinyl, 180 gram Pressing. Record One is the traditional Kind Of Blue. Record Two is the speed adjusted Side One and 45 RPM version of alternate take of Flamenco Sketches.

Classic Records pride themselves for releasing each album with the original artwork, LP labels and any other materials which were included with original pressings. Classic Records have gone out of business and all of it's releases are long out of print. Their extensive catalog of half-speed mastered reissues are regarded by audiophiles as some of the best sounding LPs ever produced.

Condition: New and still sealed in it's original plastic sleeve. Perforation is completely intact. Corners are sharp and unbent. Spine, top and bottom are solid and free of chipping or splits. Mint.

Side One (Original Speed)
1. So What
2 Freddie Freeloader
3 Blue In Green

Side Two
4 All Blues
5 Flamenco Sketches

Side Three (Corrected Speed)
6. So What
7 Freddie Freeloader
8 Blue In Green

Side Four
9. Flamenco Sketches (Alternate take, previously unreleased, 45 RPM)

Review: Classic Records released a vinyl collector's edition of Kind of Blue, spread over two 180-gram LPs. The first album is Kind of Blue as you remember it, at the original speed. The second album contains the first three songs at the corrected speed, plus a previously unreleased alternate version of "Flamenco Sketches" (which also appears on the new Sony CD), cut at 45 r.p.m. for optimum sound quality. In an A-B comparison, the vinyl pressing blew away the new Sony CD. There was literally no contest. Let me elaborate on this a bit.

From the moment the needle settled into the groove on Classic Records' stunningly quiet vinyl pressing, I knew the CD was soon to be retired. The channel separation was consistently better than the CD, as was the bass response and dynamic range. On the album's leadoff track, "So What," the overall sound was much warmer than the CD. John Coltrane's solo has a fuller, more vibrant tone on the vinyl. The CDs bass response on all the tracks seems nonexistent when compared to the Classic Records pressing.

Pitch Correction: One problem that always plagued the original album (and you probably wouldn't notice it unless you're a musician and tried to play along with the record) was that the first side was slightly off-pitch. Here is what happened. Most of Columbia's recording sessions during the 50's and 60's were recorded simultaneously on two machines. At the first session for the album (which produced the first three songs), the machine used for the master tapes was running slightly slower than it should have. As a result, those three songs have always appeared in sharp pitch.