Verve Gets Vital

GOOD AND BAD, I DEFINE THESE TERMS QUITE CLEAR…
—BOB DYLAN

ack when the vinyl resurgence was only a gleam in Michael Fremer’s eye, most major record labels just couldn’t be bothered with the LP. Fans of such masterpieces as , John Coltrane’s , and Charles Mingus’s had to make do with poor-quality vinyl reissues from small EU-based labels. Sure, there were—and continue to be—audiophile-quality reissues from such companies as Analogue Productions and Speakers Corner, but