Wednesday, February 9, 2022

2/8/22

The Flamingos- Flamingo Serenade
Meat Loaf- Bat Out Of Hell (Kevin Gray Cut)
Lee Morgan- Leeway

James Brown- Soul Power Pts. 1 & 2/Give It Up Or Turn It Loose

Boz Scaggs- Silk Degrees (Kevin Gray Cut)
John Coltrane- Kulu Se Mama
Laura Nyro & Labelle- Gonna Take A Miracle
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers- You're Gonna Get It
The Beatles- Yesterday & Today (1978 True Stereo)




5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sal, what are the Kevin Gray cuts? I see you listening to them frequently and I'm not familiar with them.

Bill

PS: Shout out to yesterday's Who By Numbers being the best thing you listened to. Still my favorite Who LP.

Sal Nunziato said...

Sorry for the delay, Bill. I was picking up a new collection in south Jersey.

I first came about Kevin Gray through the Blue Note Tone Poet series about two years ago. I had no idea who he was before hand, but these records were the most amazing sounding records I had ever heard.

Gray is apparently a mastering genius. If you do a search on Discogs, you'll see all he has done and people rave--"This is the best version of this" and "This is the best version of that."

So I did some research and little by little, I have been upgrading to Kevin Gray cuts and so far have been blown away. It's the same feeling I had when I heard the first CDs compared to the old vinyl, only now it's the old vinyl versus the Kevin Gray cuts. My new obsession.

Michael Giltz said...

I googled Kevin Gray cut myself before seeing the comments. Maybe if it said Kevin Gray Remastering I would have understood. So those are SACD versions of the album he remastered? Like knowing if Bill Inglot remastered it for Rhino, then you were in good hands. Every ten or twenty years they can remaster an album well and it blows your mind all over again.

Sal Nunziato said...

It says “cut” because it’s not always his remaster. He mostly cuts the lacquers. Though he did remaster the Tone Poets. And no, it’s all vinyl not SACD.

Anonymous said...

I learned so much today--thanks, guys.

Bill

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