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Upon landing at LAX I got in the rental car and drove directly to Capitol Records where I met up with the great Al Schmitt. Al took a short time away from a mixing session to give me a tour of famed Studios A and B where Frank, Nat, Judy, Dean and so many others recorded some of the greatest records ever. I got to see the "local" tape vault, met with cutting engineer Ron McMaster and with Ian Sefchick who is cutting the Blue Note lacquers using a resurrected Neumann VM-66 lathe and SX-74 cutter head Capitol had mothballed and consigned to the storage room.

Tomorrow afternoon I will meet with Blue Note President Don Was to discuss the reissue series, and if he allows, record it and post it on YouTube.