ART BLAKEY THE JAZZ MESSENGERS - At The Jazz Workshop 1970

Item Description

Vinyl,
LP Record Store Day Stereo

Record Store Day Exclusive Release with Quantity: 1800 per US RSD site, but also released outside the US.

Issued in a plastic resealable outer with an inner sleeve printed on one side only. The inner sleeve has a QR code which accesses almost five hours of content (the full recording from The Jazz Workshop on 20th & 21st August, 1970).

The back cover has 'A note about sound quality' stating that this is a 'LoFi recording'.

[Front cover]
A Lo-Fi historic release

[Back cover]
Mastered by Caspar Sutton-Jones at Gearbox Records, London
Mastered using all-valve Decca equalisation and Telefunken limiters. Lacquer discs cut on a Haeco Scully lathe with Westrex RA1700 series amps, Westrex 3DIIA cutting head. Monitored on Audio Note equipment
Cover photograph by Val Wilmer © 1968
℗&© 2023 Gearbox Records Ltd

[Labels]
℗ & © 2023 Gearbox Records Ltd

Runouts are etched. In runouts, all Optimal plating symbols may be inverted (e.g., “⊥” vs “T”), and the entire Optimal character string is mirrored (e.g., “1△” vs “△↾”).