Count Basie & His Orchestra – 88 Basie Street [Stereo] (Analogue Productions Pablo Series Edition)

(AAA) — Lacquers cut from the original analog master tapes by Kevin Gray & Momchil Zanev at Cohearent Audio.

180-gram vinyl

Mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tape

Pressed at Quality Record Pressings

Housed in Stoughton Printing tip-on single pocket jacket

"Those introductory moments feature some of the purest piano sounds I've heard coming off a vinyl record, with an absolutely beautiful sense of the instrument and room, off a dead-quiet noise floor. This new edition was mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tapes, and it shows. ... the sound on 88 Basie Street is nothing short of outstanding. Demo-disc worthy? You bet!" — Music = 10/11; Sound = 10/11 — Mark Smotroff, AnalogPlanet.com. Read the whole review here.

One of the pieces on this album is called "The Blues Machine," which could stand as a description of the big band Count Basie operated for half a century. In the 1983 edition, Basie molded the talents of a mixture of veterans and relative youngsters to produce the immediately identifiable Basie sound and spirit.

Sam Nestico's arrangements, so vital to the band in Basie's final years, are featured on four tracks. On the remaining two, Basie heads up a small unit with saxophonists Chris Woods and Kenny King, the rapidly developing young trumpeter Bob Summers, and guitar wizard Joe Pass.

Mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tape, and pressed at Quality Record Pressings for optimal sound quality, this Analogue Productions 180-gram reissue is everything jazz fans expect from an audiophile reissue. Housed in a single pocket Stoughton Printing tip-on jacket.

(Above description from AcousticSounds.com)