I think that it would be very useful and informative, so if anyone better informed than I wants to run with the idea, please go ahead!

Maybe if only one plant had the incorrect labels it would explain why they still appear on pressings with higher lacquer numbers? The most plausible explanation for simultaneous use of multiple presses is to speed up the job time to produce the promo. After those original five tunes are presented, Disc One moves on to the alternate take of “Flamenco Sketches,” the only complete alternate take from the original recording sessions (a track first unveiled on the 5-LP/4-CD box set of 1988, Miles Davis: The Columbia Years 1955-1985, the first Miles Davis box set ever issued by Columbia). However, there is something wonderful about how music just seems to flow in these early recordings and occasional distortion can be “tuned out” when it arrives on the scene, at least that’s what I find. Centre stage, the bass is richly full-bodied, its weight and tunefulness also eclipsing anything you’ll hear on vinyl, and the ever so lightly brushed drums on the right are sweetly, spine-tinglingly soft.

Here we hear a blowing session that matches him with fellow tenorist Harold Ashby in a program of loose originals. The “earliest pressings” (promos and first release) are most likely from Bridgeport CT, which I believe is usually indicated by a “T” hand etched. I n addition to the prefix code and job number, there would also be a number/letter combination at the end – the number indicates the tape/mix used, whilst the letter refers to the lacquer used.

For example, you can hear this in the tremendous body and weight of the bass, and also the mixing of the centre channel with the left and right, which has a profound (and profoundly positive) effect of the space of the recording.

Whichever plant had possession of these acetates had a local print supplier who set the title in one line using an extra-condensed font. Mastered on Studer machines and needing to be heard to be believed, these recording showcase exactly why reel to reel is the best sounding music medium. Like the Adderly misprint, sellers often talk it up as though something significant has been being found, like a rare penny black stamp misprint, worth millions!

Kind of Blue: Legacy Edition is a double-CD package containing a standard CD booklet with a reworked 2,500-word version of Francis Davis’ essay from Kind of Blue Deluxe 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition, and an embedded .This speed issue affected the album’s first three tracks, “So What,” “Freddie Freeloader” and “Blue in Green,” making them a barely perceptible quarter-tone sharp.