AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head

Analogue Productions / Blue Note - ABNJ 84066 - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl  

AAA 100% Analogue - 45RPM - Two Disc 

Mastered By Steve Hoffman & Kevin Gray at Acoustech Mastering

Numbered Limited Edition - Pressed at RTI - Blue Note ST 84066

"…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, April 2008

A dedicated disciple of Charlie Parker, alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson focused his energies on the bluesier aspects of his hero's playing and rendered it with a sweeter edge that fashioned him a viable career for decades. His work for Blue Note showed his impressive mastery of the bop style.

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!

At the age of 35, Lou Donaldson was joined in 1961 for this recording by "Baby Face" Willette, Grant Green and Dave Bailey.

• Numbered & Limited to 2500 copies
• Original analog master tapes
• • Mastered by Kevin Gray & Steve Hoffman at AcousTech
• Pressed by RTI

Musicians:
Lou Donaldson, alto sax
Grant Green, guitar
"Baby Face" Willette, organ
Dave Bailey, drums

Selections:
1. A Foggy Day
2. Here 'Tis
3. Cool Blues
4. Watusi Jump
5. Walk Wid Me

Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, January 23, 1961