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While the original post here described this as an AAA project it is not. Mr. Sabbagh's email this morning clarifies the process:

" The LP won't (and can't) be all analogue. We recorded to tape, but bounced to computer at 88.2/24 right after, so we could use one or two reels of tape, as opposed to ten. I wrote a detailed post about it the whole process here.

There is no tape for the whole record anymore. Otherwise, I'd use it, of course. I wouldn't want your readers to get confused about this, as I know an all analog chain is important to some. If I had been able to afford it, that would have been my choice too, but this seemed like a good solution, as it still allowed me to use tape.

Doug Sax did EQing and limiting in the analog domain, so he wants to cut the LP from the un-EQed 88.2/24 files, recreating the EQ in the analog domain, as opposed to the EQed 192/24, as it will mean one less analog to digital conversion and back. This makes sense to me. When we discussed sampling rates for the high resolution version, Doug still thought doing an 192/24 version was worth it, to have the best capture possiblein digital of what was at point an analog path. That also made sense to me.

Here's some of producer/saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh's Kickstarter campaign message:

"Let's create a vinyl limited edition of (my) new jazz record, The Turn, with Ben Monder, Joe Martin and Ted Poor.

Renowned engineer James Farber recorded us all in a room at Sear Sound in New York without headphones, live to two track analog tape, the way records used to be made. The record has just come out on Bee Jazz in Europe and on Sunnyside in the US, on CD and download.

My goal is to get the album cut for vinyl by mastering legend Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab. Doug has already mastered the record for digital and has cut some of the best sounding LPs of the last forty years, so he would be the perfect person to handle the cutting. We will then press 500 copies at Quality Records Pressings, one of the very best plants for pressing records in the USA, and one that presses many of the very expensive audiophile reissue LPs. As much as I am proud of the way this record sounds on CD and download, I think it will sound even better on vinyl. Most importantly, it will also be affordable: $20, including domestic shipping."

You can read the rest of Sabbagh's message on the Kickstarter site.

I'm listening to the digital version now and the sound is everything Sabbagh claims it is. You can also listen to some of it on the site. It's a high energy guitar/bass/drums jazz trio that on the first track at least hints of The Mahavishnu Orchestra. Not ready to rate the music yet (though I really like what I've so far heard) but the sound is easily an 10 or maybe an 11!