Comments on: eBaying With Horace, Lou, Newk & Leo Parker

By: ceedee

ceedee — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:24:21 +0000

Sam Rivers on “When I Fall In Love” from A New Conception,is,as they say,to die for. Steve Ellington on brushes is also amazing on this…a keeper.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:01:31 +0000

I’m with you on “Contours” and “A New Conception”. I have M- liberty issues that I paid less than $40 for. Great albums. The most I’ve ever paid for a Liberty was $75 for an immaculate “Street of Dreams”, which tends to go for a little higher than most Liberties(although I’ve seen it in the $30 – $40 range often).

By: London Calling

London Calling — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:54:50 +0000

Just spent this afternoon listening to some Sam Rivers favourites – “Contours”(4206),
A New Conception ( 4249) and Dimensions an Extensions (4261).

They are all transitional Blue Note / Liberty pressings 1966-7 no “ear” and they all sound absolutely great. Fresh, bright lively, sonically a match for any New York label originals.

Stereo as you might expect, but absolutely streets ahead of the run-of-the-mill Japanese reissues, even the mighty King doesn’t have the visceral energy of these transitional Liberty pressings.

At $30-40 they are a steal, and its no compromise, as they don’t exist earlier.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:57:55 +0000

I have about 60 liberty presses, with about 40 being albums that were originally pressed after Blue Note was sold to Liberty(sue me, I like some of this stuff :-)). I would say that the majority of these sound quite nice. The ones I have that don’t sound good, look pretty crappy which makes sense. I have heard people say negative things about liberty presses but my personal experience is that they are not bad at all. I think that some of this comes from Liberty maybe using old stampers on some of the represses. I’m curious what others opinion is on this. I’ve found that most of the original liberty presses(i.e. numbers higher than 4220 or so) sound on par with the Blue Notes pressed earlier. I’ve also found that the represses of the original Blue Notes sound pretty good, and are a very nice substitute for an original. I know they stopped using the same presses so there should be some change but many where still mastered by RVG and should have a similar level of quality control. And at least in the mid 60s the quality of the vinyl used hadn’t gone down so dramatically if I remember right.

By: London Calling

London Calling — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 07:45:03 +0000

Of course, 1966. Old Age. (Hopefully, its my typing thats failing not my memory!)

By: ajdoctor

ajdoctor — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:40:49 +0000

London Calling — not 1996-ish. Perhaps you meant 1966-ish?

By: London Calling

London Calling — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:05:42 +0000

It’s around six months since I picked up my copy of Cape Verdean Blues on ebay. There were two copies auction ending that day – one stereo one mono – within a few hours of each other.

The mono went way out my price range so I punted on the stereo which closed at around $28. It bore NY labels and VAN GELDER stamp but no “ear” so it was an early Liberty press.

I have quite a few of these transitional Liberty presses – for example a Sam Rivers acquired very recently, and I have to say they sound every bit as good as the original NY originals. Later Liberty are not so good, but these 1996-ish transitional pressings are difficult to fault. They have the bright freshness of Plastylite, whoever pressed them.

What’s nice is when the vinyl pressing quality is up to the mark, you can move on to enjoy the musical quality.

By: ceedee

ceedee — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:36:28 +0000

“two g’s,one e” (LOL)

By: ceedee

ceedee — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:26:44 +0000

Re:CVB-In the March ’09 Downbeat-the “Blue Note issue”-trumpeter Dave Douglas writes that”one momentin Joe Henderson’s solo on ‘The African Queen’ makes me want to scream every time I hear it…This record is filled with little things that you almost don’t notice,but have a profound effect on the expressiveness of the music.”
But now,a word from the “Do you spell gough with one or g’s?” Dept:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Horace-Silver-Cape-Verdean-Blue-Note-4220-MONO-Shrink-/330529072142?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item4cf511640e

By: Katharsis

Katharsis — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:56:22 +0000

@Mike: cheers! “Tokyo Blues” has some sort of darkness to it! My favourite Silver-LP As well! Great Band and less soul jazz…somehow.