Smith, Jimmy - Bashin' - Super Hot Stamper

Smith, Jimmy - Bashin' - Super Hot Stamper*NOTE: There is a dimple in the vinyl that plays as 6 light thuds at the start of track 2 on side 1, "Ol' Man River." *NOTE: Side 2 of this record was not noisy enough to rate our M to EX++ grade, but it's not quite up to our standards for Mint Minus Minus either. If you're looking for quiet vinyl, this is probably not the best copy for you. This is tube mastering at its finest. Not many vintage tube mastered records manage to balance all the sonic

Demo Disc quality sound

What The Best Sides Of Am I Blue Have To Offer Is Not Hard To Hear

What We're Listening For On Overtures

it’s quite a bit better than recordings by

James Lock the engineer for these sessions from November 1964 in Geneva's glorious Victoria Hall

When you hear it

if more of them sounded as good as this one we would be more than happy to do just that

Only the best vintage vinyl pressings offer the kind of Tubey Magic that was on the tapes in 1959

but you can be sure that the Hot Stamper we are offering here will beat any of those modern pressings by a wide margin in any area that has to do with sound (surfaces are another matter)

Add to that the difficulty of finding copies that are scratch-free and not too noisy and you have one tough shootout ahead of you

Basie or Ellington

What We're Listening For On The Composer and His Orchestra