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Re: 14-03-2025
‘new’ version pressed on Mofi’s supervinyl! Also got the ‘old’ version in stock.
Miles Davis’ My Funny Valentine marks several historic turning points. For Davis, the live album represents the final time on record he performed standards rather than original compositions. It also stands as one of the last documents made by the same band that created Seven Steps to Heaven. As such, the work teems with bebop melodicism yet steers clear of Davis’ avant-garde leanings. Most significantly, the richly textured set — the bookend to the fast-paced Four & More — captures the warm ballads and delicate pieces performed at a February 12, 1964 benefit concert at New York’s then-new Philharmonic Hall staged just months after President Kennedy’s assassination. Davis never sounded more elegant or poetic, particularly given the uniqueness of this 60th Anniversary Edition pressing. Mastered at MoFi’s California studio, housed in a Stoughton jacket, strictly limited to 3,000 numbered copies, and pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing, Mobile Fidelity’s 180g 33RPM SuperVinyl LP plays with stunning depth, presence, dynamics, clarity, and ambience. Benefitting from a low-as-possible noise floor and superb groove definition, this LP boasts balances, tonalities, and airiness that duplicate the experience of witnessing live jazz in an acoustically ideal hall. The images of each individual instrument, the decay of the notes, the inner reaches of the piano, and symmetry of the horns are rendered with palpable detail. One listen confirms something special transpiring. Here’s the chance to return to it again and again.
