Yes, I know Jim. But I bought one yesterday and I’m now waiting for the replacement! That one has a curve of surface scratches across side one, plus it has a slight warp. I suppose at least with Amazon it’s possible to choose the best of two and return the worst, but I do get fed up with it.
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I sympathise completely Clive I had a terrible run of warps not too long ago that boosted my CD collection. 
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You’ve got post next door. 
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I’d better go round and check then!
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I knew it made sense! 
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The replacement arrived and it’s worse than the first one. It has exactly the same arc of surface scratches and has a double warp with adjacent peaks. It seems the record plant has a process issue. I guess I’ll just live with the first copy. I already have it on CD, both the original and the latest remaster. Despite the issues, the LP still sounds a bit more wholesome than the CD.
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Shame it’s dud pressing great album and SQ too. 
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That’s a very nice CD collection of RVGs, and only a few of them not (yet) present in my collection to include Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch, …sure i read somewhere; is considered to be one of the most perfect recordings from the Englewood Cliffs Studio, and highly acclaimed from critics. Anyone wish to confirm?
Yes!
Robert Fripp and Toyah live together in Pershore High Street and they have a separate house IIRC in the same street devoted to their record collection.
Really? I confess I’d never really listened to it with my ‘golden’ (or possibly tin) ears on, considering the SQ specifically, so I’ll have to give it another go.
It’s been a while since I listened to it, but I remember thinking it was a bit close to my tolerance threshold for free/avant-garde jazz.
Later addition: a peek at the Hoffman forum produced this opinion from a few years ago of the RVG remaster specifically:
Out To Lunch was among many classic Blue Note titles remastered in 1999 for the RVG series. Unlike later remasters in the series, Rudy Van Gelder narrowed the stereo field to a near mono sound for the 1999 discs: he thought that represented the playback sound he and the musicians heard during the sessions.
Many jazz fans, myself included, felt this adjustment of the sound was revisionism of the unflattering kind. When coupled with harsh sound of the remaster itself, the RVGs became a target of backlash that continues to this day.
Consensus on that thread was that the Ron McMaster, erm, mastering sounded better than the RVG.
Mark
Don’t mention those vile words!
Interesting, mine has a different cover
Martin
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The first issue of B&TAT has a sort of artwork cover, which the recent Impulse LP audiophile reissue has also used. Reissues after first release used Oliver Nelson’s face profile.
One of the greatest performances and recordings by the late Roy Haynes.
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As much as I admire RVG as the recording engineer on many early jazz recordings during the 60’s, I do feel the pre-RVG remasters are still better in most cases, my preference of course.