Blue Note Records is reissuing trumpet legend Donald Byrd’s ‘The Cat Walk’ as part of their Classic Vinyl series.

So Blue Note is now treating its vinyl reissues right–if somewhat confusingly. What to make of the choices for this latest batch of treasures from the vault? Blue Note moves in mysterious ways. It ...

THERE are two kinds of obsessive record collectors: those who buy original pressings of rare old LPs because they're rare and old, and those who buy them because they sound good. In the jazz world one ...