Blue Note's Tone Poet audiophile vinyl reissue series, which has been written about frequently in these pages, was inaugurated in 2019 and has now reached 70+ releases, mostly reissues from the storied label's catalog with outliers from Pacific Jazz/World Pacific and United Artists and a couple of new issues thrown in. The Blue Note reissues have ranged from classics released in myriad editions since their initial LP run to music held back for years and sometimes put out only in Japan or only recently discovered and released on compact disc.
The years following World War II saw an explosion of musical creativity, with the rise of new genres and styles that would go on to shape the sound of popular music for decades to come. From the birth of rock and roll to the golden age of jazz and the emergence of country music as