How about "This is not just a new album- it is a legacy in the making", for an 82 year old master who has released tons of great recordings over his career? The legacy is already firmly in place.
I preferred the Kellogg's 3D baseball cards to the Post baseball cards. I had a ton of those Kellogg's cards but sadly, the plastic always cracked and often peeled off after a short time.
For as long as I can remember, tape deck & tape recorder have been synonymous. I think what Joe Harley was saying is that Capitol feed their audio to two tape recorders. One deck's/recorder's tape was used to create an LP master that was used to cut the LP record while the other deck's/recorder's tape was put away, meaning shelved. In this case, it sounds like the second machine's tape was chopped up into smaller pieces and stored as "phono reels".
The "assembled" part of this may be part of the confusion. The master tape for "In The Wee Small Hours" was made from five different recording sessions, so some assembly was required.