A Blue Note Day on eBay
Just did an eBay search and it seems as if most of the 12-inch Blue Note catalogue is up there now. Just searching down the list are the ones I mentioned before, plus: Cannonball Adderley, Somethin’ Else; Kenny Dorham, Afro Cuban; Hank Mobley, Roll Call; Lou Donaldson, Blues Walk; Thad Jones, Detroit-New York Junction; Paul Chambers, Whims of Chambers; Sonny Clark, Cool Struttin’; John Jenkins With Kenny Burrell; Jutta Hipp at the Hickory House Volume 2; Introducing Johnny Griffin; Kenny Drew, Undercurrent; Hank Mobley, Soul Station; Ike Quebec, Soul Samba. And that’s just a quick search on the first page, scrolling down the first 25 items from highest prices first. Pretty impressive. If you were rich, you could own the entire Blue Note catalogue in a matter of weeks, I would think.
speaking of Blue Note and Reid Miles, for those who are also in love with his work, here is a really stunning Homage to the man.Not shure what the clip is about but it is made in an almost scarry perfect way…beautifull
http://www.monoscope.com/2010/06/bante_music_video_for_the_bell.html
Hello,
Does anyone knows if Blue Note is planning to re-issue (in the newly remastered RVG series)the two albums of Jutta Hipp at the Hickory house?
about a year ago michael cuscuna said the following in Jazz Magazine (France):
Question : What are the upcoming releases, at Blue Note and Mosaic?
Answer : At Blue Note, we are still working on the Rudy Van Gelder series, with the more classic titles from the catalog. The people like this. But I’m almost done with Blue Note. On the Mosaic side, the big labels doing always less reeditions, there’s a lot of work for me […]
And i also believe EMI is in pretty bad shape..?
they are reissued in Japan.
A ‘nice’ thread about Jutta Hipp here, she died pretty lonesome and poor… like somany great jazz artists:
http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread.php?t=16659
Sacrilegious to write about CDs in this blog.
Hipp’s two Hickory House albums turned up in the Japanese RVG series some years ago. The 10″ LP (BLP 5056) did too.
…Whether LP or CD, 78 or 10, it’s all Jazz man, and we collect it !
(Besides we have to play something in the car on the way to work don’t we ?)
Maarten-thanks for your informative links. The video tribute to Reid Miles was especially cool! The folks who put it together clearly have the “feel” of those classic sounds down cold-dig the cover of SOME OTHER STUFF,with the “Jacob’s Ladder” headshake,remaining true to the mood of the original. The cat interviewed with the “scrolling head” is a sly nod to Joe Henderson’s MODE FOR JOE. And how they get the figures to walk in and out of the cover shots is a joy to behold. As is the music the video celebrates. Where jazz is concerned it really is “a small world,after all”.
I agree with don-lucky – what really counts for me is the wonderful music – jazz, which is America’s classical music. A music that speaks about individual freedoms and collective (team) efforts. I love to collect the music – every note, every artist. I really do not care if the label says 767 Lexington, West 63 Street, Bergenfield, NJ, or whether the edge of the record is flat or not flat.
euh…hhmmm… ofcourse it is about the MUSIC jazz, but if i see the word ‘Lexington’ or ’50th street’ i get a small cardiac-arrest… even now when i read this sentence back;-)
Pablo is right, it’s about the music we love… But don’t get me wrong guys, I personally have always collected the mono original pressings myself, and there’s nothing better than a DG flat edge Lex for my hard earned dollar. Generally speaking, we are all music lovers here, and I do admit I buy a lot of CDs to ease the pain of going to work ! My last comment was in response to Philip Cross who was shocked by the very mention of a CD on a Jazz Collector website… Personally, I just assumed we had “carte blanche” to discuss any and all formats, as long as they were collectable and of the Jazz genre.
thanks to the invention of the CD format I enjoy jazz in my car. Also the format provided numerous extra tracks which otherwise would have remained unissued. Not just a dull “alternate” take, but exciing new, fresh music.
One CD is very dear to me:
Chet Baker & Art Pepper “the Route”. This was a June 26, 1956 session for Pacific Jazz that was never issued entirely. The numbers, often shortened or “doctored” by master surgeon Richard Bock, were issued scattered on a number of anthologies, “best of…” etc.
On the CD “the Route” one finds them all together, without doctoring, 53 minutes, which were never issued in one album.
Chet Baker/ Art Pepper with Richie Kamuca, Pete Jolly, Leroy Vinnegar, Stan Levey.
Ref: CDP 7 92931 2 Capitol/Pacific Jazz.
Another one that I was surprised had never been re-issued on CD was Jazz at the Plaza Vol.2 on Columbia C 32471 (Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday etc…)They only issued Vol.1 with Miles Davis on CD as far as I know. It almost makes sense to pick up one of those LP to CD recorders and do it ourselves I guess…