Mulligan, Gerry - Gerry Mulligan 63 - Super Hot Stamper

Mulligan, Gerry - Gerry Mulligan 63 - Super Hot StamperFor us audiophiles, both the sound and the music here are wonderful. If you're looking to demonstrate just how good 1963 All Tube Analog sound can be, this killer copy will do the trick. This pressing is super spacious, sweet and positively dripping with ambience. Talk about Tubey Magic, the liquidity of the sound here is positively uncanny. This is vintage analog at its best, so full bodied and relaxed you'll wonder how it ever came to be that anyone

The truly Hot Stampers remind you of the kind of basic rock and roll record that really knows how to rock

The guitars are HUGE -- they positively leap out of the speakers on the title cut

Russian Easter Festival Overture On Liturgical Themes Op

even though the original was only ever made available as part of RCA’s budget reissue series

Wayne Shorter

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spitty sibilance

We wouldn't have it any other way

we've listened to a lot of different pressings

the Rolling Stone Album of the Year for 1982 (tied with Nebraska)

The musicianship is top drawer all the way

both in terms of reproducing the albums themselves as well as evaluating the merits of individual pressings