Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Lester's Blues - Red Label: Hommage to Lester Young & the Basie​-​Ites (November 2018)


Recorded live in one-takes (no edits), in one room with the band centered around two main microphones, and mixed straight to analog 1/4" tape on a two-track MCI JH-110 machine. No external effects other than compression were used during tracking. The tapes were edited the old-school way - cutting and splicing - to prepare for mastering. The CD was mastered in Brussels with top analog gear and A/D conversion. The tapes were flown to Dublin for separate mastering and cutting of the lacquers for vinyl, which was done in a fully analog signal path.


Produced by Tom Callens 
Recorded 7, 8, 11 March 2018 at Robot Studios, Gent - Belgium 
Engineer, tape-op, mix: Pieterjan Coppejans 
Mastering for CD: Uwe Teichert at Elektropolis, Brussels - Belgium 
Analog mastering & lacquer cutting: Aidan Foley, Hayley Connolly at Masterlabs, Dublin - Ireland 
Lacquer processing and vinyl pressing: GZ Media, Loděnice - Czech Republic 
Photo by Grégoire Verbeke 
Artwork design by Tom Callens, executed by Carl Compernolle – Animus Design

1. King Porter Stomp 02:38
2. One O'Clock Jump 03:32
3. Easy Living 02:44
4. Lester's Be-Bop Boogie 04:04
5. Six Cats And A Prince 03:29
6. My Man 03:21
7. The Goon Drag 04:05
8. Shoe Shine Boy 03:34
9. Ad-Lib Blues 03:19
10. I Want A Little Girl 04:46
11. Evenin' 02:59
12. Tickle Toe 04:00
13. Sun Showers 03:16
14. Dickie's Dream 02:33