How to remake a Blue Note jazz album in pictures
A box containing the original master tape of a 1960 album, Lee-way by jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan, sits on the mixing board at Kevin Gray’s Coherent Audio studio.
A box containing the original master tapes of various artists on Blue Note Records at Coherent.
The ‘mother stamper’ is produced at the record pressing plant.
A lacquer master is plated at the record pressing plant, Record Technology Inc.
Plating supervisor Dorin Sauerbier separates the stamper from the mother.
A view of the separated stamper and mother.
Jorge Rocha trims the stamper.
The PVC pellets that go into making a vinyl album.
A stamper at the plant.
Blue Note labels being fixed to discs.
Maria Gamino quality checks an album before placing it in a sleeve.
Rick Hashimoto files away a stamper at the record pressing plant.
The cover for guitarist Grant Green’s album Matador is prepared for press at Stoughton Printing, which prints the jackets for Music Matters.
Alex Diaz places a Wayne Shorter album in its outer sleeve to be sealed. Silvia Garcia fabricates the jackets for the Herbie Hancock album Empyrean Isles at Stoughton Printing.
Copies of Soul Station being cleaned before shipping. Adam Webb prepares to play Dexter Gordon’s album Go in the quality control room.
A copy of Go on the quality control room’s shelves. Albums line the shelves in the quality control room.
The gatefold of John Coltrane’s classic album Blue Train. Photography by Brian Cahn
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