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Jeff Lerner said:
"Expect big-voiced singers, multi-instrument masterpieces, and the beginnings of free jazz."

Any Prestige experts care to offer any predictions?
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The header said this on VMP's page (emphasis mine). Sounds like the only difference between these and existing reissues is a color variant, maybe packaging?

"In honor of the label’s 70th anniversary of bringing iconic jazz releases from artists like Etta Jones, Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis and more, Vinyl Me, Please is partnering on four color reissues of gems from the Prestige catalog."
 
Wolfman Jack said:
Signs point to the 2011 OJC (digitally remastered), SH/KG, pressed at RTI

likely the same thing Newbury did in 2015

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Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2015 Vinyl release of "Saxophone Colossus" on Discogs.
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It is not a digital remaster. The description, which was incorrect in the first place, has been carried over from the first OJC pressing in the 1980s. Over the years, Fantasy and later Concord have used the same jacket design.
 
According to Jason through the Customer Service chat feature, it is just a color variation. Didnt have any insight into whether the other 3 options in the set would be harder to get or just a color variant. so yeah. not sure what i want to do...
 
doncornelius said:
It is not a digital remaster. The description, which was incorrect in the first place, has been carried over from the first OJC pressing in the 1980s. Over the years, Fantasy and later Concord have used the same jacket design.
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I'm trying to get some clarification, that pressing has some odd remastering stuff going on with Gray/Hoffman being scratched out of the deadwax on the 2012 Prestige pressing. So I have no idea what master it's using... Appears to be one from 87.
 
Mather said:
I'm trying to get some clarification, that pressing has some odd remastering stuff going on with Gray/Hoffman being scratched out of the deadwax on the 2012 Prestige pressing. So I have no idea what master it's using... Appears to be one from 87.
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The current master is DCC 95 by Hoffman and Gray. The stampers from 87 are probably worn out. When the 95 is no longer usable, they will either grab another one (AP?) or commission a new remaster from the original tape.
 
doncornelius said:
The current master is DCC 95 by Hoffman and Gray. The stampers from 87 are probably worn out. When the 95 is no longer usable, they will either grab another one (AP?) or commission a new remaster from the original tape.
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Okay makes sense, so do you know why their names were scratched out on the 2012 Prestige deadwax? Why would they do that?
 
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sjaygray said:
It was long enough that I don't recall the details, but he came in guns blazing with that sort of attitude and pissed off just about everyone. He also walked it back and was fairly cool for the remainder of the time the forums existed. But clearly, this kind of attitude is a just a part of who he is.
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And he was the king of "can dish it out but can't take it."
 
Mather said:
Okay makes sense, so do you know why their names were scratched out on the 2012 prestige deadwax? Why would they do that?
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I think they started using the stamper probably because it was already at RTI, and at first they didn't scratch out the info. (The Newbury variant carried the DCC matrix.) So maybe they just didn't like people talking about their use of old DCC stampers.
 
doncornelius said:
Multi-instrument masterpiece must be one of Eric Dolphy's albums on New Jazz (a free jazz imprint of Prestige Records), but Kirk's Work, Roland Kirk's lone Prestige album, and one of Yusef Lateef's albums (either Cry! - Tender or Eastern Sounds) are also possible.

Now that I think about it, Dolphy's Outward Bound is also the best candidate for the phrase "the beginnings of free jazz."
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Yeah I really can’t think of another album on Prestige that would really fit that at the moment. Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz came out in 1960 and he already had released The Shape of Jazz To Come a year prior to that which I kind of consider the beginnings of free jazz... I suppose Outward Bound (1960) would fit even though it’s one of Dolphy’s most straightforward bop sets.
 
doncornelius said:
I think they started using the stamper probably because it was already at RTI, and at first they didn't scratch out the info. (The Newbury variant carried the DCC matrix.) So maybe they just didn't like people talking about their use of old DCC stampers.
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hmm makes me wonder if I should just wait for a reasonably priced AP to pop up if the stampers have been used that many times.
 
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