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Blue Note Records announces the 2021 Tone Poet Audiophile Reissue Series release schedule. Produced by Joe Harley, these are all-analog (where original recording was to analog tape), 180g audiophile vinyl reissues mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio from the original master tapes. RTI presses in Camarillo, California (where no one these days is relaxing) and packaged in deluxe Stoughton Printing “old style” Gatefold Tip-On jackets.

The series commences with March 12’s release of Charles Lloyd & The Marvels’ new album Tone Poem (a high-resolution digital recording) followed on May 7th with tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon’s , One Flight Upand a first-ever vinyl release of pianist Andrew Hill’s brilliant 1969 album Passing Ships, which was rediscovered in the vaults by producer Michael Cuscuna and first released in 2003. June 4th sees the release of Katanga! a Pacific Jazz catalog rarity by saxophonist Curtis Amy and trumpeter Dupree Bolton (it will also be released for the first time digitally). The vinyl Tone Poet version of Katanga includes a new Thomas Conrad essay detailing the story behind the album.

March 12, 2021

• Charles Lloyd & The Marvels – Tone Poem (Blue Note, 2021) May 7, 2021

• Dexter Gordon – One Flight Up (Blue Note, 1964)
• Andrew Hill – Passing Ships (Blue Note, 1969)

June 4, 2021

• Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – The Witch Doctor (Blue Note, 1961)
• Curtis Amy & Dupree Bolton – Katanga! (Pacific Jazz, 1963)

July 9, 2021

• Sonny Clark –My Conception (Blue Note, 1959)
• McCoy Tyner – Expansions (Blue Note, 1968)

August 6, 2021

• Lee Konitz & Gerry Mulligan – Lee Konitz Plays With The Gerry Mulligan Quartet (Pacific Jazz, 1953)
• Wayne Shorter – The All Seeing Eye (Blue Note, 1965)

September 10, 2021

• Joe Pass – For Django (Pacific Jazz, 1964)
• Stanley Turrentine – Rough ‘N Tumble (Blue Note, 1966)

October 8, 2021

• Sonny Red – Out of the Blue (Blue Note, 1959-60)
• Grant Green – The Latin Bit (Blue Note, 1962)

November 5, 2021

• Hank Mobley – Curtain Call (Blue Note, 1957)
• Jackie McLean – Tippin’ The Scales (Blue Note, 1962)

December 3, 2021

• Gerald Wilson – Moment of Truth (Pacific Jazz, 1962)
• Freddie Hubbard – Breaking Point! (Blue Note, 1964)

January 7, 2022

• Kenny Burrell – Kenny Burrell (Blue Note, 1956)
• Grant Green – Feelin’ The Spirit (Blue Note, 1962)

February 4, 2022

• Harold Vick – Steppin’ Out (Blue Note, 1963)
• Bobby Hutcherson – Stick Up! (Blue Note, 1966)

March 4, 2022

• Chet Baker & Art Pepper – Picture of Heath (Pacific Jazz, 1956)
• Blue Mitchell – Bring It Home To Me (Blue Note, 1966)

April 1, 2022

• Donald Byrd – At The Half Note Cafe, Vol. 1 (Blue Note, 1960)
• ScoLoHoFo (Scofield-Lovano-Holland-Foster) – Oh! (Blue Note, 2002)

Watch a Video Abouot the Tone Poet Series