Frank Sinatra - In The Wee Small Hours LP (Tone Poet Vinyl Edition)

[dougcrates]

https://store.bluenote.com/products/frank-sinatra-in-the-wee-small-hours-lp-tone-poet-vinyl-edition

November 14

[jcam_44]

As someone who really enjoys this album I don’t understand how this readily available album warrants a tone poet reissue. I’m sure it will sound great. Also skimming over the blurb it doesn’t mention if it is in mono or a stereo fold. I’m assuming it’s mono since I think it was originally recorded in mono. Also it’s not even blue note, maybe I’m wrong but this seems strange. 
 

edit: found where it does state it’s mono

Edited 2 hours ago by jcam_44

[street singer]

2 hours ago, jcam_44 said:

As someone who really enjoys this album I don’t understand how this readily available album warrants a tone poet reissue. I’m sure it will sound great. Also skimming over the blurb it doesn’t mention if it is in mono or a stereo fold. I’m assuming it’s mono since I think it was originally recorded in mono. Also it’s not even blue note, maybe I’m wrong but this seems strange. 
 

edit: found where it does state it’s mono

The Tone Poet series has never been exclusively Blue Note. One of the first albums in the series was Chick Corea's 'Now He Sings, Now He Sobs' (Solid State), and one of the most recent is Serge Chaloff's 'Blue Serge' (Capitol). They've also issued many Pacific Jazz titles and a few albums from the Transition label. This does seem an odd choice for the series, though... 

 

From Joe Harley regarding the mastering: 

"Capitol ran two tape decks for this recording (and others). One set was assembled and used many 100s of times. The other was put away with each track filed separately on what we call phono reels. These tracks had never been used before. I had them assembled and this is what we used. The sound is astonishing...Frank is in the room."

Edited 17 minutes ago by street singer

[clifford_thornton]

I would assume that anything folded into the UME jazz bucket could conceivably get a Tone Poet release. 

PJ/World Pacific was part of Liberty/Transamerica from the late 1960s, which also owned Blue Note, and of course BN bought some of the Transition masters as well. Solid State was a Liberty/Transamerica imprint, too. So it all makes good sense to me.