ART BLAKEY - Blue Note Japan 4-track Reel to Reel tape NATIVE DSD - RME ADI-2 Pro Recording

"ALONG CAME BETTY" - ART BLAKEY MOANIN' - Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers
Played on an Otari MX5050 B3 with a JRF "slotted" B2 Headblock at 0:54. The AD converter is an RME ADI-2 Pro FS at 2:04 and the recording software is Vinyl Studio Pro.
"ALONG CAME BETTY" from the album MOANIN' by Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers -Played on an Otari MX5050 B3. The AD converter is an RME ADI-2 Pro FS and the recording software is Vinyl Studio Pro.

Two Separate digital transfers were made - The one in this video is at 96 Khz and 24-bit word length. The second "Native DSD" transfer has the RME AD in DSD Direct mode at 4X DSD (DSD256). Both file transfers are flat frequency response and have not been altered.

TAPE DETAILS

ART BLAKEY MOANIN' - Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers
RECORD LABEL: Liberty/Blue Note Japan Blue Note ‎– NXA-5049
FORMAT: 4-Track Stereo Reel-To-Reel tape, 7 ½ ips
Country: Japan Release date -1968-1972

Moanin' is a hard bop jazz album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers recorded for the Blue Note label and released in 1959.

Art Blakey – drums
Lee Morgan – trumpet
Benny Golson – tenor saxophone
Bobby Timmons – piano
Jymie Merritt – bass

This 4-track tape release was issued between 1968 and 1972 when Liberty Owned Blue Note and a year before Toshiba Musical Industries was renamed.

Toshiba Musical Industries Ltd. (東芝音楽工業株式会社, Tōshiba Ongakukōgyō Co., Ltd.) was a Japanese record company established on October 1st, 1960. The company owned the Toshiba Records label and distributed a number of foreign labels in Japan (most notably EMI labels).
On October 1st, 1973 the company was renamed to Toshiba EMI Ltd.

AllMusic gives it a five-star review, stating: "Moanin' includes some of the greatest music Blakey produced in the studio with arguably his very best band. ... ranks with the very best of Blakey and what modern jazz offered in the late '50s and beyond.