Blue Note Tone Poet Series


Here are a number of videos of Blue Note Tone Poet Series records playing on my system:

Andrew Hill ‎– Black Fire - Blue Note Tone Poet Series
https://youtu.be/L7JSfUGyivA

Donald Byrd ‎– Chant - Blue Note Tone Poet Series
https://youtu.be/oSqF6ZCtlas

Tina Brooks ‎– Minor Move "The Way You Look Tonight" - Blue Note Tone Poet Series
https://youtu.be/MXJRFojEFk0

Duke Ellington Charlie Mingus Max Roach ‎– Money Jungle - Blue Note Tone Poet Series
https://youtu.be/Botd2xjnzH0
https://youtu.be/_paYIWWUqjU


alexberger

There is a very charming guy posting videos on YouTube, his "handle" being 45 RPM Audiophile. He is German, but makes most his videos speaking English. He reviews LP's from all the audiophile labels, from MoFi to The Electric Recording Company.

He has done a number of videos about The Tone Poet LP's, and is very demanding and knowledgeable about recorded quality, as well as mastering and pressing. His critique includes the quality of the covers, even the labels at the center of each LP!

I discovered him via a "Vinyl Community" (as they refer to themselves) YouTube poster named Norman Maslov, He's located in Seattle Washington, and has done a LOT of videos. He is aware of audiophiledom, but doesn't focus on it the way 45 RPM Audiophile does. He too is very charming, as well as entertaining, witty, knowledgeable, and smart. He has a fairly massive music collection, on both LP and CD. Books about music too. And the largest Beatle collection I've ever seen (it fills an IKEA 6 x 6 rack!).

They are both easy to find: Once on YouTube, just enter either 45 RPM Audiophile or Norman Maslov (he refers to himself as Mazzy), hit enter, and they will magically appear. Big fun!

Herbie Hancock ‎– My Point Of View - "Blind Man, Blind Man" - Blue Note Tone Poet Series
https://youtu.be/CM1rEpImJeo

Lee Morgan ‎– The Cooker - "A Night In Tunisia" - Blue Note Tone Poet Series
https://youtu.be/XcfFcKlPiic
Are they planning more releases in this series? I am waiting for Eric Dolphy and Don Cherry releases. 
the Tone Poets are excellent.  Very close if not identical in sound quality to the great Music Matters series.
To my ears the Tone Poet series sound even better than the Music Matters series because they benefit from the new vinyl formulation that did not exist before.  This manifests itself as quieter surfaces, hence greater dynamic range, more obvious on some releases than others.  In other respects not much to choose between them.  Don't re-buy releases that you already have from Music Matters.