Evans, Bill - Moon Beams - Super Hot Stamper

Evans, Bill - Moon Beams - Super Hot StamperMoon Beams is one of the best sounding Bill Evans records weve ever played. You can see why we chose it to be the first OJC Hot Stamper of his to hit the site back in 2015. Play "It Might As Well Be Spring" for the kind of sublime musical experience you only find on 20th century analog. Both sides are Tubey Magical, rich, open, spacious and tonally correct. Weve never heard the record sound better, and thats coming from someone whos been playing Bill

you need to be able to move lots of air in your listening room to bring this music to life

I grew up on Roxy Music

but I don’t like the sound of horns

thank goodness

After years of playing and enjoying various pressings of this album

full-bodied and dynamic both sides are

The better pressings (and our better playback equipment) have revealed nuances to this recording -- and of course the performances of all the players along with it -- that made us fall in love with the music all over again

and the album basically plays like all that excess playing out in the studio

Sometime in 2006 I noted on the site that I had finally figured out how to tell the good pressings from the not-so-good ones

but sadly most copies range in sound from mediocre to bad -- dreadful

They're front and center where any recording engineer worth his salt -- Chris Kimsey in this case -- would have put them

and the worst offenders are the early stampers that start with an M