Comments on: Catching Up: Blue Notes and Prestige

By: Shaft

Shaft — Mon, 03 May 2021 08:00:30 +0000

lowstephenell, so you were ready to pay $375 for a Liberty? I see that market for later BN pressings are really going up.

By: lowstephenell

lowstephenell — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 20:21:19 +0000

I inquired with the seller and that Curtis Fuller Vol. 3 was a Liberty pressing without the Plastylite ‘P’. As such I topped out at $375. I would love to snag a copy of that wonderful LP though.

By: Shaft

Shaft — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 06:29:18 +0000

Reagrding the Fuller it landed on $611. Quite a lot for a second press – or is it not?

By: Al

Al — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 13:05:59 +0000

To answer some of the questions that have come in: No, these are not original Blue Notes. For the most part they are records from the 1970s and 1980s — think labels such as Muse, Pablo, Concord Jazz. There are also a lot of great traditional jazz records — think Ellington, Armstrong, Basie. Great music, but there is just so much time to listen.

By: Shaft

Shaft — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 06:44:31 +0000

That Curtis Fuller does not have deep groove. The pictures are small so it’s hard to say. And the listing has no mention of being a first OG pressing or ear or anything. Discogs list a 1966 pressing that looks identical on the labels…

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 18:31:42 +0000

PrLp 190 had three tracks. One was was re-issued on Rollins’ Movin’ Out # 7058, and two tracks were re-issued on # 7075, which was entitled Thelonious Monk ? Sonny Rollins. Three tracks on 7075 were originally by Monk ex two 10″ albums. So I think Prestige had been fair to Sonny.
Sonny had left Prestige end December 1956, Monk roughly one year before.
With all due respect to Al, I think he asked a wrong question.

By: Clifford Allen

Clifford Allen — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 15:59:48 +0000

My wild guess is that contractual issues are the explanation for the difference in leadership between the 10″ and the 12″.