Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Bill Evans Available Now
During our most recent shootout for Waltz for Debby we took the opportunity to play the early OJC from the 80s.
We judged the OJC pressings with the stampers you see below to have good, not great sound.
I remember playing the Analogue Productions version from 1992, mastered by Doug Sax, and being shocked at how murky and dark it sounded.
A local fellow who had received my 1990s catalog, the one in which I say the OJCs just kill the new Heavy Vinyl pressings, came over and I sold him some OJCs. He promptly went home, played them and called me to tell me just how awful his AP vinyl was and how great his OJCs sounded. I’m sure I said something along the lines of “I know!” He and I became fast friends after that.
I never reviewed the Waltz for Debby on AP, but I wrote reviews for three others: Way Out West, Chet, and Jazz Giant.
One of the OJC pressings suffered these problems:
- They’re opaque but not too opaque
- They’re small and a bit dull