I still remember the first two jazz CDs I bought, A Love Supreme by John Coltrane and Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. These two titles are often the first jazz albums that people buy. I was still a teenager in high school at the time, trying to blindly discover jazz music on my own and those were the two albums I picked from the Columbia House CD catalog!
That was over twenty years ago and as I began collecting records in college, I kept an eye out for jazz records to buy.
Fast forward to today and I’ve built a a nice stereo system in my house and enjoy buying jazz reissues whenever possible.
My favorite series of jazz reissues this past year has come from Blue Note’s Tone Poet Series. Below are a few reasons why I’ve enjoyed this series and keep buying new Tone Poet LPs as soon as they are announced.
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