Vinyl Me Please Anthology

keylime_5 said:
Hoping it's QRP or RTI on all-black vinyl like the Stax and Blue Note Anthologies were. RKS probably as mastering engineer. All we know about it is from a picture of someone holding it in an email.
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Bear in mind that there are very, very few Impulse master tapes that survived the fire. All Alice Coltrane are gone. Many John Coltrane, all the Archie Shepp, all the Pharoah except Karma, Gato Barbieri, John Klemmer, and so on - all gone. The best they can do would be to get the second generation tapes from Japan, but many titles were never released in Japan.
 
RHANDMJ said:
Bear in mind that there are very, very few Impulse master tapes that survived the fire. All Alice Coltrane are gone. Many John Coltrane, all the Archie Shepp, all the Pharoah except Karma, Gato Barbieri, John Klemmer, and so on - all gone. The best they can do would be to get the second generation tapes from Japan, but many titles were never released in Japan.
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If the masters are gone, then they are gone; which is obviously unfortunate.
But honestly, after this past year with VMP, I would prefer well mastered, digitally-sourced records pressed at QRP, than AAA pressed at GZ. I got lucky with my Herbie box and only needed one replacement, but based on the Essentials, R&HH, and Country tracks, I feel pretty fortunate I didn't have to ask for half a box of replacements.
 
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