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Sony Music To Celebrate Bitches Brew's 40th Anniversary With Deluxe Box Set

Michael Fremer  |  Jun 7, 2010

Sony Music is preparing a major deluxe box set release to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Miles Davis's ground-breaking double LP release Bitches Brew.

The "Super Deluxe" 12x12 box will contain two CDs with the original 94 minute release plus six bonus tracks, a CD containing an unissued August, 1970 Tanglewood performance with Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette, Airto Moreira and Gary Bartz and a DVD of a previously unissued Copenhagen, Denmark November 1969 performance with Wayne Shorter, Corea, Holland and DeJohnette...

plus a new double vinyl AAA Sterling Sound-Greg Calbi mastering from the original analog tapes pressed on 180g vinyl.

Also in the box will be a 48 page book with essays and interviews, notes, a poster and more.

Yesterday I attended the Sterling Sound prep session with Calbi, former Sony/Legacy producer Steve Berkowitz, mastering engineer Mark Wilder and others and watched as they compared the master tape to a 1A pressing and planned the lacquer cutting.

A Legacy Edition containing the original album and six bonus tracks on 2 CDs plus the Copenhagen DVD will also be issues simultaneously with the box on August 31, 2010.

So if you want the vinyl, you'll have to get the box but at least unlike the Stones' Exile on Main Street LP debacle, this one will be done correctly!

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funknik's picture
Submitted by funknik on Sat, 2014-04-05 07:36

I have a current Sony/Legacy "Audiophile 180g" pressing of Bitches Brew, cut by Ray Janos at Sterling and pressed at United . . . is this the same Sterling cut you mention above? Or was the AAA cut by George Marino? This LP has been reissued so much the last couple of years that I'm lost on the source for this one.

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Submitted by Michael Fremer on Mon, 2014-04-07 09:02

That is probably the same one mastered AAA. RJ does most of the cutting so his name shows up frequently on STERLING cuts,  but are you sure it was pressed at United?

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