The Jimmy Smith Doubletime 2-CD set, "A New Sound... A New Star...", has also never been reissued since that release except on CD in Japan.

Well, I guess that I should have been a bit more precise in my comments.  While some of this information may have been lost at Blue Note, it wouldn't seem to be a major issue.  We have exact recording dates for almost all the classic Blue Note sessions, even if a lot of this information wasn't included on the back cover of original EP and LP releases.   From about the 1970s until the end of the century, we not only had precise discographical information included on reissues of classic earlier records but established jazz labels would generally include all of this information on new releases as well.   Now, the situation has significantly changed in that regard and, as I wrote above, I worry that a lot of discographical information is not being saved for posterity at all.   

While I do appreciate having the recording dates for the same reasons as John, I am a bit confused by his comment that listing the recording date(s) was a common practice in the 20th century. None of the original Blue Note LPs listed the recording date(s). For some reason, I remember reading an interview with Cuscuna where he said that until he got Lion's log book in the mid-70's, that information was lost. So it seems like Blue Note's practice of listing the recording date(s) on their releases was a Cuscuna thing & not a Blue Note thing as they didn't start listing those dates until Cuscuna launched the LT series.