180-gram vinyl

Mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tape

Pressed at Quality Record Pressings

Housed in Stoughton Printing tip-on single pocket jacket

“Those introductory moments feature some of the purest piano sounds I’ve heard coming off a vinyl record, with an absolutely beautiful sense of the instrument and room, off a dead-quiet noise floor. This new edition was mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tapes, and it shows. … the sound on 88 Basie Street is nothing short of outstanding. Demo-disc worthy? You bet!” — Music = 10/11; Sound = 10/11 — Mark Smotroff, AnalogPlanet.com.

One of the pieces on this album is called “The Blues Machine,” which could stand as a description of the big band Count Basie operated for half a century. In the 1983 edition, Basie molded the talents of a mixture of veterans and relative youngsters to produce the immediately identifiable Basie sound and spirit.

Format : Vinyl Record

1 Lp