Verve Label Group and UMe have simply introduced Verve Vault, a brand new audiophile vinyl reissue sequence highlighting iconic jazz albums in addition to neglected gems from Verve’s huge catalog. The sequence will characteristic two releases monthly, with the primary titles launching on October 10.
First up: Sonny Facet Up, initially launched in 1959 on Verve Data. It’s the one studio collaboration between trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and tenor saxophonists Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt. Recorded in December 1957 with producer Norman Granz, Sonny Facet Up brings collectively three of recent jazz’s most distinctive voices in a uncommon frontline configuration. The album’s opening observe — Sonny Stitt’s “The Eternal Triangle” — is continuously cited for its prolonged type and blistering tempo, standing as one of many definitive examples of the saxophone “cutting sessions” that outlined the exhausting bop period.
Gillespie, already a pivotal architect of bebop, trades choruses with two tenor titans of contrasting strategy: Rollins, together with his thematic growth and rhythmic elasticity, and Stitt, together with his rapid-fire bebop fluency. The frontline is anchored by a crisp and propulsive rhythm part that includes Ray Bryant on piano, Tommy Bryant on bass, and Charlie Persip on drums — capturing the hearth and precision of late-Nineteen Fifties small-group jazz at its peak.
Sonny Facet Up opens up the Verve Vault sequence alongside Antonio Carlos Jobim’s The Composer Of Desafinado Performs. “With the success and popularity of our various vinyl reissue series, we continually receive requests for even more well-curated lines of the best titles from Verve, Impulse, Mercury, and other select catalogs we look after and so our team is thrilled to be rolling out the Verve Vault series,” mentioned Jamie Krents, President & CEO of Verve Label Group. “We’ve spared no time or expense in making sure the audio quality and packaging live up to the brilliant music these titles contain and we are proud to bring this new series to jazz fans new and old.”
Mastered by Ryan Ok. Smith from the unique analog tapes and pressed at Optimum, every launch combines distinctive audio constancy with meticulous consideration to element — from mastering to jacket replica. “We are excited to launch this new series to celebrate Verve’s extraordinary catalog and to offer definitive audiophile-grade pressings of some of the best and most influential jazz albums in history,” mentioned Bruce Resnikoff, President & CEO of UMe. “Like many of our other vinyl series, these records will be of the utmost quality and sourced from the original analog tapes to offer an unparalleled listening experience.”
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