Waltz for Debby makes its Hot Stamper debut on this reissue pressing that boasts two incredible Nearly Triple Plus (A++ to A+++) sides, just shy of our Shootout Winner – fairly quiet vinyl too
Exceptionally spacious and three-dimensional, as well as relaxed and full-bodied – this pressing was a big step up over practically all other copies we played
This is not an original (those are terrible sounding), not a later reissue (also bad), and not the original OJC (which is passable at best) – no, this is modern pressing that — finally! — has the sound we have been trying to find for the last twenty or so years
Normally this is information we might not choose to share, as anyone can buy a modern OJC, but the fact that so many different OJC versions exist — I counted six different OJC-210s — means you probably would spend a lot more money finding a good sounding OJC pressing than the price we are charging
However, if you do find a great sounding OJC, be sure to drop us a line and let us know that stamper numbers — we would be curious to know if anyone was actually able to succeed with such an effort
If you want to hear the Tubey Magic, size and energy of this wonderful session from 1961, recorded live at the Village Vanguard in New York, this pressing will let you do that
5 stars: “Evans chose the material here, and, possibly, in some unconscious way, revealed on these sessions … a different side of his musical personality that had never been displayed on his earlier solo recordings or during his tenures with Miles Davis and George Russell: Evans was an intensely romantic player, flagrantly emotional, and that is revealed here in spades on tunes such as ‘My Foolish Heart’ and ‘Detour Ahead.'”
