Well, hey everyone, welcome to this week's episode of The Vinyl Guide. This week we are talking

Blue Note Records and Audophile vinyl with tone poet Joe Harley. Now, as many of you know,

Joe has an enormous legacy in the vinyl record community, reissuing some of the most beloved

jazz albums ever recorded in the audiophile format for the Music Matters Jazz

record label. However, now Joe is weaving his vinyl alchemy directly for Blue Note Records

with the tone poet series. Joe is the tone poet. He uses his ear and love for the vinyl

format to create a signature series of releases direct from the original

Blue Note tapes.

Now, today Joe shares all about the process of creating audio file reissues from the Blue

Note library, his history with the Blue Note label, what it's like to be in the Blue Note

archive and hold and listen to those original tapes recorded so long ago

by Rudy Van Gelder and the Blue Note team.

And if you like hearing about jazz or the process of audiophile vinyl production, we have

several other episodes in the Vinyl Guide Archive you may enjoy, including episode number 105 with Blue Note

President Don was. Don and I discussed the Blue Note legacy, their approach to vinyl, the Blue Note

Review box set. It's a fascinating discussion, episode number 105 of the Vinyl Guide. We've also

had a man on the other side of the blue note microphones, Dr. Larry

Ridley, bass player for sessions and albums of the likes of John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious

Monk, Lee Morgan. Dr. Ridley's episode is number 70 of the vinyl guide. And of course,

we've also had mastering legend Bernie Grunman on the show discussing

the art of mastering audio for vinyl.

That's episode number 86 of The Vinyl Guide.

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