Blue Note Records 75th Anniversary Vinyl Initiative (100 jazz albums)

Blue Note Records is celebrating its 75th anniversary with a remastered vinyl reissue of 100 classic albums, including masterpieces by Wayne Shorter, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Miles Davis, Cassandra Wilson, Dianne Reeves, Thelonious Monk, Bobby McFerrin and many more. This is the message by president Don Was, announcing the initiative on the label's website:

Two years ago, we decided to begin remastering the jewels of the Blue Note catalog in hi-def resolutions of 96k and 192k. In order to develop a guiding artistic philosophy for this delicate endeavor, we donned our lab coats, ran dozens of sonic experiments and carefully referenced every generation of our reissues. Ultimately, we decided that our goal would be to protect the original intentions of the artists, producers and engineers who made these records and that, in the case of pre-digital-era albums, these intentions were best represented by the sound and feel of their first-edition vinyl releases. Working with a team of dedicated and groovy engineers, we found a sound that both captured the feel of the original records while maintaining the depth and transparency of the master tapes... the new remasters are really cool! 

While these new versions will become available in Digital Hi Def, CD and the Mastered for iTunes formats, the allure of vinyl records is WAY too potent to ignore. This year, Blue Note - along with our friends at Universal Music Enterprises - is launching a major 75th Anniversary Vinyl Initiative that is dedicated to the proposition that our catalog should be readily available at a low cost - featuring high quality pressings and authentic reproductions of Blue Note's iconic packaging. Beginning in March 2014, we'll start rolling out five remastered vinyl reissues every month. Although this program begins in celebration of Blue Note's 75th Anniversary, our catalog runs so deep that we will faithfully be reissuing five albums a month for many years to come!  

In the same website, there is the full list of publications (with dates of reissue). Almost all those albums are already available on Spotify. Waiting for the remastered vinyls, you can find them collected in this handy playlist.

Enjoy.

Previously on the jazz side of Spotirama:

The Rudy Van Gelder Editions on Spotify (234 Blue Note & Concord Jazz Classic Albums: to be updated)

Jazz24.org 100 Quintessential Jazz Songs

Jazzwise Top 20 New Releases of 2013

BLUE NOTE RECORDS 75TH ANNIVERSARY VINYL INITIATIVE

(ordered chronologically, by reissue dates - see below)

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Full list

Strikethrough albums (3/100) are not available on Spotify. Some albums may be not available in all countries.

(vinyls available march 22, 2014)
1. Art Blakey - Free For All
2. Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
3. John Coltrane - Blue Train
4. Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch
5. Larry Young - Unity

(april 22, 2014)
6. Ornette Coleman - At the "Golden Circle" (Stockholm), vol.1
7. Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
8. Sonny Rollins - A Night at the Village Vanguard
9. Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
10. Dexter Gordon - Our Man In Paris

(may 27, 2014)
11. Horace Silver - Song For My Father
12. McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
13. Grant Green - Idle Moments
14. Hank Mobley - Soul Station
15. Madlib - Shades Of Blue

(june 24, 2014)
16. Dexter Gordon - Go
17. Lee Morgan - Cornbread
18. Bobby Hutcherson - Total Eclipse
19. Jimmy Smith - Back At The Chicken Shack
20. Medeski Martin & Wood - Combustication

(july 29, 2014)
21. Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
22. Donald Byrd - Black Byrd
23. Joe Henderson - Mode For Joe
24. Cassandra Wilson - Traveling Miles
25. Kenny Dorham - Afro-Cuban

(august 26, 2014)
26. Lou Donaldson - Lush Life
27. Bud Powell - The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1
28. Wayne Shorter - Juju
29. Herbie Hancock - Speak Like A Child
30. Terence Blanchard - Flow

(september 30, 2014)
31. Kenny Drew - Undercurrent
32. Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin'
33. Stanley Turrentine - That's Where It's At
34. Freddie Hubbard - Ready For Freddie
35. Brian Blade - Fellowship Perceptual

(october 28, 2014)
36. Horace Silver - Horace Silver and The Jazz Messengers
37. The Three Sounds - Out Of This World
38. Dianne Reeves - I Remember
39. Hank Mobley - No Room For Squares
40. Thelonious Monk - Genius Of Modern Music, Vol. 1

(november 25, 2014)
41. Curtis Fuller - The Opener
42. Joe Lovano Quartets - Live At The Village Vanguard
43. Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
44. Ornette Coleman - New York Is Now
45. Clifford Brown - Memorial Album

(december 30, 2015)
46. Andrew Hill - Black Fire
47. Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring
48. Anthony Williams - Spring
49. Grant Green - Street Of Dreams
50. Bobby McFerrin - Spontaneous Inventions

(january 27, 2015)
51. Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles
52. Wayne Shorter - Adam's Apple
53. Art Blakey - Mosaic
54. Jason Moran - Soundtrack To Human Motion
55. Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures

(february 24, 2015)
56. Don Cherry - Complete Communion
57. Elvin Jones - The Ultimate
58. Robert Glasper - Double Booked
59. Thelonious Monk - Genius Of Modern Music, Vol. 2
60. Sonny Rollins - Newk's Time

(march 24, 2015)
61. Wayne Shorter - Night Dreamer
62. Freddie Hubbard - Blue Spirits
63. Kurt Elling - Flirting With Twilight
64. Grachan Moncur III - Evolution
65. Sonny Rollins - Vol. 1

(april 28, 2015)
66. Herbie Hancock - The Prisoner
67. Horace Silver - Cape Verdean Blues
68. McCoy Tyner - Time For Tyner
69. Joe Henderson - The State of the Tenor - Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1
70. Cecil Taylor - Conquistador!

(may 26, 2015)
71. Lee Morgan - Search For The New Land
72. Medeski Martin & Wood - End Of The World Party
73. Art Blakey - A Night at Birdland, Vol. 1
74. Bobby Hutcherson - Components
75. Grant Green - I Want To Hold Your Hand

(june 30, 2015)
76. Donald Byrd - A New Perspective
77. Cassandra Wilson - New Moon Daughter
78. Hank Mobley - The Turnaround
79. Bud Powell - The Scene Changes: The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 5
80. Dexter Gordon - One Flight Up

(july 28, 2015)
81. Miles Davis - Vol. 1
82. Tina Brooks - True Blue
83. Andrew Hill - Point Of Departure
84. Joe Henderson - Page One
85. Jackie McLean - Capuchin Swing

(august 25, 2015)
86. Donald Byrd - At The Half Note Café, Vol. 1
87. Art Blakey - A Night A Birdland, Vol. 2
88. Freddie Hubbard - Breaking Point!
89. Sonny Clark - Leapin' and Lopin'
90. Stefon Harris - Black Action Figure

(september 29, 2015)
91. Horace Silver - Blowin' The Blues Away
92. Miles Davis - Vol. 2
93. McCoy Tyner - Expansions
94. Art Blakey - Moanin'
95. John Scofield - Time On My Hands

(october 27, 2015)
96. Jimmy Smith - Midnight Special
97. Sonny Rollins - Vol. 2
98. Hank Mobley - Workout
99. Bobby Hutcherson - Happenings
100. Joe Lovano - Rush Hour