Pepper, Art - Thursday Night at the Village Vanguard - White Hot Stamper (With Issues)

Pepper, Art - Thursday Night at the Village Vanguard - White Hot Stamper (With Issues)*NOTE: There is a stitch like noise that plays lightly for approx. the first 30 seconds of track 1 on side 1, "Valse Triste." This vintage Contemporary pressing has the kind of Tubey Magical Midrange that modern records can barely BEGIN to reproduce. Folks, that sound is gone and it sure isn't showing signs of coming back. If you love hearing INTO a recording, actually being able to "see" the performers, and feeling as if you are sitting in the studio

there was no way we could get this music to play so loud

It ranked #333 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 greatest of all time

purchased elsewhere of course as we have no interest in selling records that don't have the vintage analog magic of these wonderful originals

those 180-gram records you own may never sound quite right to you again

with plenty of What to Listen For advice that will help you critically evaluate your copy of Taking Tiger Mountain

beauty and power that our Hot Stamper pressings reproduce so well

Heavy Weather is a difficult record to reproduce

with the kind of string tone only found on the best of the Living Stereo releases and other top quality Golden Age recordings

Tube smear is common to most pressings from the late 50s and early 60s

at least when it came to their classical releases

This explains why you find so few recordings from the era on our site

but probably just another George Benson album