NAT KING COLE in special Vintage MONO MIXES from Analogue Productions on SACD/CD!

I guess it never hurts to ask! I can't wait for these releases.

 

Make it so, Number One.


On Love Is the Thing we have string orchestra no brass, on Just One of Those Things we have the other extreme with the brass and no strings and in St. Louis Blues we have both. Yet in all cases the whole deal is there in the mono in wonderful sound. After all at places like Capitol we have an excellent quality signal going right to a full track tape, a method capable of very high resolution. Hopefully folks buying these will also give the mono versions a dedicated listen. It may surprise some folks just how good the monos of the era can be if given a quality mastering.

 

I was truly blown away the first time I heard Stan Kenton's Roadshow in mono! Pure power! It was the first time that a mono recording gave me the impression of "being there". From the bite of the instruments to the richness of June Chisty's and The Four Freshmen's voices, it's all right there.

Thank you Chad for (soon) allowing us to hear these beautiful recordings! It is refreshing to see that those albums that were so passionately crafted are getting the same care and attention for this new release. These will be something to put in the next deep space probe for our far away neighbours to hear...

I've said it before and I'll say it again. This to me is more important than The Beatles' remasters (and I am a big Beatles fan).

 

Very good news indeed, for us music lovers.

 

Great pic of Nat!

 

Do you make the CD layer from the DSD transfer, or is the CD transfer made with another CD specific A2D converter?

If you use a different converter, are both transfers made simultaneously to save time, or do you go back and do the transfer for each digital format separately?

 

Let Chad know that here's someone else who will be pre-ordering these as soon as they become available.

 

Hey Steve, is all the mastering for all formats finished?

 

Steve,

A salute to you and Chad on this series. Need to add this one to my PileOCole. Appreciate your dedication to correctness and fine mastering. Many, many thanks from us NKC fans!

 

This is high praise -did not think I would ever hear these words here. Is the GRIMM being used for the Blue Note AP SACDs ?

Thanks to both of you for what seems to be a TLC tribute to NKC music

 

Thank you Steve and Chad for doing these things.
Any idea when they will be released? All together, one by one - that is the plan?

 

I'm thinkin': Box-set! I'll bite. I just scored some stone mint 45's from the 50's just after I read the first thread. I'm really excited about this. These records are magical.

 

When the series was first officially announced by you, I was a little disappointed that only LOVE IS THE THING would get the mono version included, and not the other earlier albums aswell. Thanks to all involved for now including the "live" mono versions on these other titles. I usually tend towards vinyl, but I'm more interested in the SACD's of these, given all that's provided on the discs...

 

By including both, one covers it all in one place, as it should be. When something so different exists such as recordings from two unique mic setups of (and approaches to) the same music, I can't imagine in this day not issuing both.

 

Just felt a little bolt of Dutch pride there...

 

http://www.grimmaudio.com/ad1grimm.htm

 

Any details on this, Steve? You're talking about something other than the alternate of "You're Looking at Me" and the five bonus tracks not included on the original LP?

 

thanks for the link.

 

That's excellent. Hope you're able to include some chatter on the other albums as well.

 

Fabulous.

As you said, this will be the first release of the original mono of There Is No Greater Love and Don't Blame Me from The Very Thought of You. Were you able to find and include the mono of You'll Never Know from Just One of Those Things as well?