This album is killer. One of Dexter's 'second coming' albums. Dex basically trumps Jesus as Lord and saviour on this record (who might I add still hasn't managed a second coming). Overall, a nice balanced acoustic, non-overhyped, non-compressed sound (which many are used to these days) — great sound, except for the top end (see below on that). Dead flat, beautiful vinyl surface and plays like a dream — everyone comments on that these days. Frankly, I prefer a lively, rollicking sound over dead-flat zero noise media, but whatever. Packaging is adequate, less lush than Tone Poet as we know, which although untrue to the original in that Tone Poets are transformed into gatefolds with additional photographs (a great initiative imo), the card stock / overall quality is still more akin to the original 50s and 60s thickness and I dare say the printing is much higher quality overall, whereas on these pressings quality is merely adequate.
Regarding my issue with sonics at the top end: I must say, owning a bunch of original jazz records from the 50s-on, there is something a underwhelmingly thin about the tops across the 80th, Tone Poet and these new 'Standard' pressings. I don't notice this harsh, thinness on the 70s - 00s blue notes I have (although they present with other issues at times). This issue is particularly evident on cymbals, and although it's not quite as bad as digital thinness, it does bother me every time I drop a needle on one of these new pressings. I notice it most of all with raucous drummers who smacked the sh*t outta their kit, e.g. Blakey and Philly JJ — the depth in the toms and the 'liveness' of the kit is there and beats the pants off a lot of other pressings including most on CD, but the thinness in the cymbals is suspiciously digi-like. Makes one wonder.
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