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Acoustic Sounds Series reissues from Verve/Universal Music Enterprises!
Monthly releases highlighting the worlds most historic and best jazz records!
Mastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound from the original analog tapes
180-gram LPs pressed at Quality Record Pressings!
Stoughton Printing gatefold old-style tip-on jackets
Series supervised by Chad Kassem CEO of Acoustic Sounds
Seeking to offer definitive audiophile grade versions of some of the most historic and best jazz records ever recorded, Verve Label Group and Universal Music Enterprises new audiophile Acoustic Sounds vinyl reissue series utilizes the skills of top mastering engineers and the unsurpassed production craft of Quality Record Pressings. All titles are mastered from the original analog tapes, pressed on 180-gram vinyl and packaged by Stoughton Printing Co. in high-quality gatefold sleeves with tip-on jackets. The releases are supervised by Chad Kassem, CEO of Acoustic Sounds, the worlds largest source for audiophile recordings.
Included in the December title releases for the the series is the iconic Peggy Lees first 12-inch album, Black Coffee (1956). Black Coffee was Peggy Lees album smash for Decca (she left Capitol in 1952 over creative, artistic differences) and it offered her an intimate stage with a small jazz combo, exchanging her usual jazz-pop style with a big band or orchestra. This smaller combination worked to perfection.
Encouraged by longtime Decca A&R Milt Gabler, she hired a small group including trumpeter Pete Candoli and pianist Jimmy Rowles (two of her favorite sidemen) to record an after-hours jazz project similar in intent and execution to Lee Wileys Manhattan project of 1950, Night in Manhattan. While the title-track opener of Black Coffee soon separated itself from the LP to be taught forever after during the first period of any Torch Song 101 class the album doesnt keep to its concept very long; Lee is soon enough in a bouncy mood for Ive Got You Under My Skin and very affectionate on Easy Living. (If theres a concept at work here, its the vagaries of love.) Listeners should look instead to It Aint Necessarily So or Gee, Baby, Aint I Good to You? for more examples of Lees quintessentially slow-burn sultriness. Aside from occasionally straying off-concept, however, Black Coffee is an excellent record, spotlighting Lees ability to shine with every type of group and in any context. AllMusic
Each step in our production process from title selection to mastering, pressing and packaging is designed to meet the highest standards, and we want everyone who hears these albums to feel the love and hard work we put into everything we do, says Chad Kassem CEO of Acoustic Sounds.
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