Analogue Productions - CBNJ 84047 SA   - Hybrid SACD Stereo - 753088404764

Mastered By Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray at AcousTech 

Limited Edition - Hybrid SACD Plays on All CD Players

The same formula that made the Fantasy 45 Series perhaps the most successful audiophile reissue collection ever is now being reapplied to Blue Note reissues!

"…As much as I'd love to relay all kinds of anecdotes about the challenges Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray encounter during the mastering sessions, I witness none. These boys know the sound of the facility and the Van Gelder masters like the backs of their hands…Back home a month later, I unpack some test pressings Chad Kassem has sent me…I hear the most realistic-sounding drums ever reproduced by my system. It's as though I'm sitting at the point of creation, experiencing the same high that brought such gifted musicians together as one. Steve Hoffman, Kevin Gray, Chad Kassem, and Don MacInnis have done Rudy Van Gelder and his Blue Note artists proud." – Jason Victor Serinus, Stereophile,

Since his days with the Bud Powell trio, drummer Art Taylor was an invaluable member of the Blue Note recording family. A.T.'s Delight is the only album made under his own name for the label and it is a remarkable one. Choosing great compositions by Coltrane, Monk, Denzil Best, and Kenny Dorham, Taylor assembled a great quintet fronted by Dave Burns and Stanley Turrentine, often adding Patato's congas to the proceedings. The unique and varied arrangements and great playing pay tribute to the drummer's exceptional song selection.

• Mastered by Kevin Gray & Steve Hoffman at AcousTech

Musicians:
Dave Burns, trumpet
Stanley Turrentine, tenor sax
Wynton Kelly, piano
Paul Chambers, bass
Art Taylor, drums
Carlos "Patato" Valdes, congas

Selections:
1. Syeeda's Song Flute
2. Epistrophy
3. Move
4. High Seas
5. Cookoo and Fungi
6. Blue Interlude

Originally recorded on August 6, 1960 at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey