Frank Sinatra In the Wee Small Hours (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) 180g LP (Mono)
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180g Mono Vinyl LP!
Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series!
Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio from Original Analog Tapes!
Produced by Music Matters' Joe Harley!
Pressed at RTI!

Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 282/500!

Frank Sinatra's seminal 1955 Capitol Records album In the Wee Small Hours is a melancholy masterpiece of lost love and heartbreak that was a pivotal album in the legendary vocalist's career. Produced by Voyle Gilmore, the album embodied Sinatra's artistic growth into a more mature singing style with stunning renditions of Great American Songbook standards given sublime arrangements by Nelson Riddle. Sinatra conceived of In the Wee Small Hours as a full-length album, rather than a collection of singles, creating one of the first-ever concept albums and becoming one of the first pop albums to be released as a 12-inch LP. The album was met with immediate critical and commercial success, reaching #2 on the Billboard charts and bolstering Sinatra's career resurgence following his signing to Capitol Records in 1953 and his Academy Award win for his role in the film From Here to Eternity.

The Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series was born out of Blue Note President Don Was' admiration for the exceptional audiophile Blue Note LP reissues presented by Music Matters. Was brought Joe Harley, a.k.a. the "Tone Poet," on board to curate and supervise a series of reissues from the Blue Note family of labels.

Extreme attention to detail has been paid to getting these right in every conceivable way, from the jacket graphics and printing quality to superior LP mastering (direct from the master tapes) by Kevin Gray to superb 180g audiophile LP pressings by Record Technology, Inc. Every aspect of these Tone Poet releases is done to the highest possible standard. It means that you will never find a superior version. This is IT.

This mono Tone Poet Vinyl Edition was produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray (Cohearent Audio) from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at Record Technology, Inc. (RTI), and packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket featuring session photos by William Claxton & Ken Veeder.

Features

  • 180g Vinyl LP
  • Mono
  • Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series
  • Mastered from the Original Analog Master Tapes by Kevin Gray
  • Produced by Joe Harley
  • Pressed at RTI
  • Deluxe Gatefold Tip-On Jacket Featuring Session Photos by William Claston & Ken Veeder

Musicians

Frank Sinatra vocals Alex Beller, David Frisna, Erno Neufeld, Eudice Shapiro, Felix Slatkin, George Kast, Harry Bluestone, Henry Hill, Marshall Sosson, Mischa Russell, Nathan Ross, Paul Nero, Paul Shure, Victor Bay, Walter Edelstein violin Alvin Dinkin, David Sterkin, Maxine Johnson, Paul Robyn, Stan Harris viola Alvin Stoller, Frank Carlson, Lou Singer drums Ann Mason Stockton, Kathryn Julye harp Armand Kaproff, Cy Cernard, Edgar Lustgarten, Eleanor Slatkin, James Arkatov, Joseph Saxon, Kurt Reher, Raphael Kramer cello Arthur "Skeets" Herfurt, Babe Russin, Bart Caldarelll, Champ Webb, Harry Klee, James Williamson, Mahlon Clark, Morton Friedman, Ted Nash reeds Arthur Gleghorn, George Poole, Jules Kinsler, Luella Howard flute Bobby Gibbons, George Van Eps guitar Edward Gilbert, Joe Comfort, Mike Rubin, Morty Corb, Phil Stevens bass Francis Howard, Tommy Pederson trombone Harry "Sweets" Edison trumpet John Cave, John Graas, Joseph Eger, Richard Perissi, Vincent DeRosa French horn Paul Smith celeste

Selections

  1. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
  2. Mood Indigo
  3. Glad to Be Unhappy
  4. I Get Along Without You Very Well
  5. Deep in a Dream
  6. I See Your Face Before Me
  7. Can't We Be Friends
  8. When Your Lover Has Gone
  9. What Is This Thing Called Love
  10. Last Night When We Were Young
  11. I'll Be Around
  12. Ill Wind
  13. It Never Entered My Mind
  14. Dancing on the Ceiling
  15. I'll Never Be the Same
  16. This Love of Mine



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