It sounded amazing right off the bat - though I couldn’t help thinking it didn’t sound quite as amazing as the Ornette record. I picked up my 1977 King pressing of Out to Lunch on the same day that I bought my copy of Ornette Coleman’s Live at the Golden Circle, Volume 1 at Cosmos Records here in Toronto.
I revisited this shootout, and though my findings didn’t change, they deepened. It’s a battle of the Blue Note reissue titans.
They’re expensive as hell, they’re hard to get into Canada - but no less an authority than London Jazz Collector says they sound close to as good as first pressing originals. Now it’s time to bring in another of the vaunted “best reissues” series: the recent Music Matters pressings. Japanese pressings in general, and King Records pressings in particular, have been faring very well so far in my Brest Pressing Shootouts.
Best Pressing Shootout *Revisited: Eric Dolphy, Out to Lunch - 1977 King Japan vs.
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