Blue Note’s Tone Poet audiophile vinyl reissue series, which has been written about frequently in these pages, was inaugurated in 2019 and has now reached 70+ releases, mostly reissues from the storied label’s catalog with outliers from Pacific Jazz/World Pacific and United Artists and a couple of new issues thrown in. The Blue Note reissues have ranged from classics released in myriad editions since their initial LP run to music held back for years and sometimes put out only in Japan or only recently discovered and released on compact disc.
Pianist Andrew Hill, one of Blue Note’s, his Blue Note debut; , a 1969 session first released on CD in 2003; and now from 1968, first released as part of the Blue Note Classic series of 1979–’81, during the label’s fallow period when it was owned by Liberty Records.