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I changed over to that myself after having Blue Note refused to fix a couple of very hot cuts in their LP reissues. When they acknowledged it on their Tone Poet of "Picture of Heath" and basically said, "Sucks to be you", that was my cue. This is how Blue Note addressed the issue: We’re aware of the complaints about the Tone Poet Vinyl Edition of Chet Baker & Art Pepper “Picture of Heath” from some customers who are experiencing skipping on side two, while for most it plays fine. We’ve looked into it and have determined there is no defect with the pressing. It is however a very dynamic recording and Joe Harley & Kevin Gray don’t use any limiting or compression in their mastering approach. That can expose the need for some adjustments to be made with particular turntable set-ups. For instance, we’ve found that customers who adjusted their tracking force and anti-skate (even slightly reducing both), and made sure their turntable is level, no longer had playback issues. We hope this helps!

If I'm not mistaken, the last time he was in Europe was with the Giants of Jazz in 1972. I was busy with finishing school but had a classmate that enjoyed jazz like me, we went to about two concerts together before he left school due to some family/health issues, Oscar Peterson, Herbie Mann ... but the Giants, nowhere near where we lived, and I wasn't that deep into jazz history at age 18, reading Berendt and buying records whenever funds allowed. Will be fun meeting some other classmates at the end of the month.  p.s. Just looked it up and saw he was in Europe in 1974, but I was then my mind was occupied with being in love with a girl that turned me down and whatever keeps one busy at that age ....  

Groove Holmes had no problem having women on his covers.

Interesting arrangement, but man, that reverb! What the heck was the recording engineer thinking with adding that much echo? It makes it sound like they're playing in a huge cave. It has an almost "lounge music" sound.

I was barely 20 when Stitt stopped playing live and much more likely to be found at a rock concert than a Jazz club.