What Jazz or Blues are you spinning?

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Just 'discovered' or rather finally paid proper attention to a time in music that I'd always adored, 50s/60s Jazz. Been buying quite a lot of Blue Note cds off Ebay, after advice that the Ron McMaster remastered ones from the 80s were the best. Current stand out favourite is Horace silver 'Song for my father', Art Blakey - Moanin, Cannon ball adderly - something else, Sonny Rollins - Newks time - track 3 'Wonderful wonderful!'. Finally hearing Lee Morgan 'Sidewinder' properly, its much more laid back and sophisticated than I'd remembered. And an absolute revelation on CD is 'Out to Lunch' (Eric Dolphy), it puts my cheapo vinyl reissue in the shade to put it mildly, love this LP, and this CD version is an absolute joy.

Some great music you list there mike
Can I ask about the remastering, where did You gleen Ron McMaster remasters were better?
I have always had the understanding that Rudy Van Gelder remasters , later, were where it’s at.
After all if anyone should know how that music was to be presented, it would have been RVG, the chap who originally recorded the sessions?

IMHO the early CD masters of the late 80s on Blue Note were pretty poor. Hence later the massive task Blue note undertook in persuading RVG to remasters vast amount of the Blue Note catalogue.

I know some of the RVGs are criticised for being overly bright but I think it’s a title by title thing.
Some are good some not so. Rudy had good gears though.