Video Vinyl Spotlight: Sam Rivers, Fuchsia Swing Song (Blue Note 4184) RVG vs No RVG Stereo Shootout!
DGM compares ’70s pressings of the album, one made from the original Van Gelder stereo mastering, the other a remaster.
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Video Vinyl Spotlight: McCoy Tyner, The Real McCoy (Blue Note 4264) Liberty RVG Stereo Pressing
One of the more exciting finds from my Midwest road trip this summer…hard to beat a clean, fairly-priced vintage pressing…
Video Vinyl Spotlight: Joe Henderson, Mode for Joe (Blue Note 4227) Original Mono Pressing
Back for the first time in a while with an original mono pressing! There’s a pretty fun story behind my acquisition of this record, check out the video below to hear all about it.
Video Vinyl Spotlight: Miles Davis, Kind of Blue (Columbia 1355) 2010 Legacy Reissue
This week I’m reviewing the 2010 Legacy reissue of KOB cut by Kevin Gray. I’m also introducing a new system with this … More→
Introducing “Video Vinyl Spotlight”, A New DGM YouTube Series
I’m back, once again. Vinyl Spotlight posts began back in January 2014 and have been a cornerstone of this blog for the past eight years. Well, I recently acquired a new camera and decided it was time to bring Deep Groove Mono into the 2020s … More→
Vinyl Spotlight: Toshiko Akiyoshi, Toshiko Meets Her Old Pals (King Records)
Although for many years I knew nothing of Japanese jazz, our hobby has helped me become aware that the Japanese by and large have a deep, heartfelt appreciation of jazz music. Before I bought this album though, all I knew about Japanese jazz musicians was what a disgruntled New York City record store clerk told me once, that they didn’t know how to ‘swing’… More→
Vinyl Spotlight: Clifford Brown & Max Roach, Sweet Clifford (EmArcy EP-1-6112) Original 45 RPM 7″ EP
My relationship with the full-length album that contains this EP, Brown & Roach Incorporated, began very early on in my collecting years. I would have initially ripped the album from a CD checked out from the library and now I own that CD, which is the ‘official’ PolyGram… More→
Vinyl Spotlight: Thelonious Monk Trio (Esquire EP-75) Original 45 RPM 7″ EP
A couple years ago I switched up my philosophy of collecting, moving away from chasing expensive, high-demand vintage jazz LPs and working harder to find less expensive, less sought-after records that managed to bring me an equal amount of joy, if not more. This is… More→