SONY Sbme re-issues?

[Norm]

After running a search, I've found some tidbits of info here and there about these Sbme re-releases, but I'm still a little confused about the nature of this re-issue project.

This came to a head when I was searching for Miles Davis' Filles de Kilimanjaro. In Amazon's records, I found two relatively recent issues of this recording:

a) Filles De Kilimanjaro (Deluxe Edition) (Bonus Track) [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] Sony 2002.

b) Filles de Kilimanjaro [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [EXTRA TRACKS] Sbme Special Markets 2008.

Both are very inexpensive (6.99 for the latter) with "Used /Like New" copies of the former selling for about the same rate, so I suppose I'm just wondering if these would have the same mastering. For 6.99, I obviously would not expect a new re-mastering, but rather I'm more concerned about the possibility of the recent Sony Sbme being a re-issue of early masterings (i.e. a re-release of the 1990 pressing).

Does anybody have any insight into the Sbme's? They wouldn't leapfrog back in time, would they?

I don't have any copies of this recording so I'd like to find a decent one.

Norm

[Big Wheel]

After running a search, I've found some tidbits of info here and there about these Sbme re-releases, but I'm still a little confused about the nature of this re-issue project.

This came to a head when I was searching for Miles Davis' Filles de Kilimanjaro. In Amazon's records, I found two relatively recent issues of this recording:

a) Filles De Kilimanjaro (Deluxe Edition) (Bonus Track) [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] Sony 2002.

b) Filles de Kilimanjaro [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [EXTRA TRACKS] Sbme Special Markets 2008.

Both are very inexpensive (6.99 for the latter) with "Used /Like New" copies of the former selling for about the same rate, so I suppose I'm just wondering if these would have the same mastering. For 6.99, I obviously would not expect a new re-mastering, but rather I'm more concerned about the possibility of the recent Sony Sbme being a re-issue of early masterings (i.e. a re-release of the 1990 pressing).

Does anybody have any insight into the Sbme's? They wouldn't leapfrog back in time, would they?

I don't have any copies of this recording so I'd like to find a decent one.

Norm

They are a mixed bag. Basically, these issues are not really a "reissue project". It's just Sony slapping a lower price on titles that are already out there, some of which have recent remasterings, some of which don't. In the case of Filles the 2008 "issue" should be exactly the same as the 2002 Deluxe Edition issue (and this holds true for all the Miles 60s quintet titles priced at this level, such as Sorcerer, as all these titles were remastered around that time).

For titles which were not remastered recently, you're just going to get the same version that was out in the 90s (i.e., still the most recent version of that title). Tatum's Piano Starts Here and the recently discussed Weather Report debut album are examples of this.