Hot Stamper Pressings of Miles’s Albums Available Now

Kind of Blue is an album we admit to being obsessed with — just look at the number of commentaries we’ve written about it.

Some highlights include:

• Listening tests
• Discussion of the various labels and their sound
• Letters from customers
• Discussion of the Mobile Fidelity pressing (long-delayed review coming)
• Our first Hot Stamper listing from 2005
• A shootout Robert Brook conducted
• The story of a couple of misinformed audiophiles who found a copy in the bins for cheap but didn’t buy it

Kind of Blue checks at least seven of our most important boxes here at Better Records.

1. It’s a core jazz title, one that belongs in any serious audiophile’s record collection
2. It’s a jazz masterpiece
3. It’s a personal favorite
4. It was recorded by one of the greats, Fred Plaut
5. It was produced by another one of the greats, Teo Macero
6. It was recorded at Columbia’s famed 30th street studio
7. And some of the greatest jazz artists of their day played on it:

• • Bass – Paul Chambers
  • Drums – Jimmy Cobb
  • Piano – Bill Evans
  • Piano – Wynton Kelly
  • Tenor Saxophone – John Coltrane
  • Alto Saxophone – Cannonball Adderley