Peggy Lee: Black Coffee (acoustic Sounds) (180g) (

PEGGY LEE

The album was a success with the critics - the US jazz magazine DownBeat gave it a glowing five-star review - but it was not a bestseller at the time. Over the years, however, Black Coffee's reputation has grown. "It is considered by many jazz lovers and scholars to be one of the ten best jazz vocal albums of all time," says Oney. "I think that all the songs together show Lee's wide range of emotions, her technical mastery, her sense of rhythm and her mastery of phrasing.

Audiophile pressings and high-quality cover finishes are the "crown of creation" in vinyl. The fact that audiophile LPs are in demand in the jazz sector is proven by the continuing success of the BLUE NOTE TONE POET series. With the ACOUSTIC SOUNDS SERIES, the Verve label is now playing in this quality and price range. The classics have never been manufactured as exquisitely as here: mastered without digital intermediate steps from the original analogue tapes, pressed in finest 180g vinyl by Quality Record Pressings and packed in sturdy tip-on-gatefold sleeves, printed and processed at Stoughton Printing Co. The entire production chain is supervised by the legendary Chad Kassem from the audiophile LP label Acoustic Sounds.

Price: $45.98