ACOUSTIC SOUNDS, VERVE/UMe's ACCLAIMED AUDIOPHILE VINYL REISSUE SERIES, TO DELIVER MORE DEFINITIVE PRESSINGS OF SOME OF THE LABEL'S BEST-KNOWN JAZZ ALBUMS AS IT ENTERS ITS THIRD YEAR
LOS ANGELES, May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Since launching in 2020, Verve/UMe's all-analog vinyl reissue series, Acoustic Sounds, has provided definitive, best-in-class audiophile grade pressings of some of the most important and beloved jazz records of all time, each mastered from the original tapes and produced with the utmost care. The nearly two dozen releases to date feature many of the timeless, classic albums from the Verve Label Group's stable of labels including Decca, EmArcy, Impulse! Records, Philips Records and Verve, and thus far have included Bill Evans' Trio '64, Clifford Brown and Max Roach's A Study In Brown, Gil Evans Orchestra's Out of the Cool, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme and Ballads, Louis Armstrong and Oscar Peterson's Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson, Nina Simone's I Put a Spell on You and Pastel Blues, Oliver Nelson's Blues And The Abstract Truth, Peggy Lee's Black Coffee and Sarah Vaughan's Sarah Vaughan, and Stan Getz and João Gilberto's Getz/Gilberto.
- The nearly two dozen releases to date feature many of the timeless, classic albums from the Verve Label Group's stable of labels including Decca, EmArcy, Impulse!
- but will also feature several important albums released by Verve between 1956-65.
- Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong's immortal duets albums will follow with Ella & Louis (1956) on July 15 and Ella & Louis Again (1957) on September 16.
- All albums will be pressed on 180-gram vinyl and packaged in high-quality tip-on gatefold jackets, replicating the original packaging.