Vaughan’s 1959 live album finally arrives on the site with Shootout Winning Triple Plus (A+++) sound from start to finish – fairly quiet vinyl too
No other copy could touch this pressing for warmth, richness, and, most especially, vocal intimacy and in-the-room presence
The multiple takes Sarah Vaughan does on Thanks for the Memory here blows my mind to this very day – pull it up on youtube and hear it for yourself
“… the producers invited a small group of friends and well-wishers to another Chicago club, London House, for an after-hours session. Vaughan expanded her trio with a quartet of Count Basie titans, including trumpeter Thad Jones and tenor Frank Wess, and… decided to record a set that, in true after-hours fashion, was completely improvised.”
Don’t waste your money on the mono pressings — the sound is third rate at best
Leave those monos in the bins for the jazz guys with Garrard turntables and speakers that sit on milk crates
Additionally, the original pressings we played were not remotely competitive with the best Hot Stamper reissues we are offering here
