Comments on: Old Vinyl, New Bottles, Craft OJCs

By: Old and New Vinyl, Blue Note Style | jazzcollector.com

Old and New Vinyl, Blue Note Style | jazzcollector.com — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:32:34 +0000

[…] in the way. Anyway, last month I wrote a post about my experiences with the Craft OJC Series (Old Vinyl, New Bottles, Craft OJCs), and now I shall write about my experiences buying a few “new” titles from the Blue Note […]

By: Al

Al — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:12:07 +0000

Don-Lucky — I’m with you on the injustice of it all. How dare they!

By: don-lucky

don-lucky — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:05:31 +0000

…Shocked to hear that they wouldn’t even comp a few measly pressings for an upstanding jazz vinyl ambassador like yourself Al, especially given your market reach. I feel a boycott coming on over this… Yep, that’s it I will never buy anything from Craft until they make this right! 😉 …Truth be told, as a rule I generally never pick up vinyl re-issues, I just delay gratification until I find a decent first pressing in my price range. No matter how great these re-issues may (or may not) sound, I stand behind my “quality over quantity” vinyl collecting modus operandi. Primarily due to lack of shelf space. (That and the questionable load-bearing capacity of our floor joists here at home.) However, the Bill Evans Haunted Heart box set does sound enticing.

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:35:51 +0000

I got the Craft 2021 reissue of Kenny Dorham Quiet Kenny, in mono. I prefer the Analogue Productions version done in stereo for this session. To me the mono sounds boxy and constrained. Analogue Productions has done some other really good sounding stereo remasterings in the last few years of a number of sessions previously on OJC. All done be Kevin Gray. Such as a number of Eric Dolphy sessions