זהו, השמיים נפלו. תוך פמפום המוצר החדש, ג'ו הרלי
הודיע רשמית על סיום הסדרה של ה-45 אצל הופמן :
Ron and I kept pumping out BN titles at 45rpm that interested us … titles that we knew had merit and were worthy of reissue. However, last summer we began to realize that we were having a harder time finding truly worthy titles for reissue on $50 45RPM LPs. (There will always be someone who lives and dies for the re-release of something like Don Wilkerson’s Preach Brother … that’s the nature of the reissue business.)
We made the decision to end the 45RPM reissue series with two of the greatest live BN recordings of all time: Vol 1 and Vol 2 of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messenger’s Live At The Café Bohemia from 1955. These are mono session but for those of you who have already played them you know … these are incredible in every way, music and sound. They represent to us, a most fitting way to end the 45RPM reissue program. In their own way, they represent the essence of BN soul and sound.
אולי ה-33 באמת טובים כמו שאומרים (אנסה אחד בינואר) ואולי הם ימשיכו איתם לדברים יותר מעניינים בשנה הבאה. בינתיים ננסה לצוד כמה שיותר מהחמישים ומשהו שנותרו לי לפני שיאזלו.