On the same order, for $70, I also got an MM33 copy of Point of Departure. Sort of an ideal situation, because while this copy was pretty expensive ($90) it was ridiculously cheap by out-of-print MM33 standards. Which is to say: who only sells to Canadians. I ordered it brand-new on Discogs from a Canadian seller who only accepts money orders or electronic transfers from Canadian banks. I picked up this 2015 Music Matters 33rpm copy very recently. Although I personally like Eric Dolphy a tiny bit better on HillвЂ™s Point of Departure, Mal WaldronвЂ™s The Quest, and his own Out There and Iron Man, I totally get why everyone else thinks this is DolphyвЂ™s career highlight.

Of course, musically itвЂ™s an undisputed masterpiece. This despite the fact that Out to Lunch is reputed to be one of Rudy Van GelderвЂ™s audiophile masterpieces, due to its sparse instrumentation and the fact that it didnвЂ™t have any piano, his sonic kryptonite (as a fan of Andrew Hill and Herbie Hancock, I totally agree with this assessment: piano does not sound good on their classic records). It sounded amazing right off the bat - though I couldnвЂ™t help thinking it didnвЂ™t sound quite as amazing as the Ornette record. I picked up my 1977 King pressing of Out to Lunch on the same day that I bought my copy of Ornette ColemanвЂ™s Live at the Golden Circle, Volume 1 at Cosmos Records here in Toronto. I revisited this shootout, and though my findings didnвЂ™t change, they deepened. ItвЂ™s a battle of the Blue Note reissue titans. TheyвЂ™re expensive as hell, theyвЂ™re hard to get into Canada - but no less an authority than London Jazz Collector says they sound close to as good as first pressing originals.

Now itвЂ™s time to bring in another of the vaunted вЂњbest reissuesвЂќ series: the recent Music Matters pressings.

Japanese pressings in general, and King Records pressings in particular, have been faring very well so far in my Brest Pressing Shootouts. Best Pressing Shootout *Revisited: Eric Dolphy, Out to Lunch - 1977 King Japan vs.

Dolphy out to lunch rar