Comments on: Four Listings: Two That Are New To Us, One On Our Want List and One That Doesn’t Make a Lot of Sense https://jazzcollector.com/blue-note/four-listings-two-that-are-new-to-us-one-on-our-want-list-and-one-that-doesnt-make-a-lot-of-sense/ For those who love jazz Sun, 05 Apr 2015 10:19:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Rich (DG Mono) https://jazzcollector.com/blue-note/four-listings-two-that-are-new-to-us-one-on-our-want-list-and-one-that-doesnt-make-a-lot-of-sense/comment-page-1/#comment-365378 Sun, 05 Apr 2015 10:19:49 +0000 http://jazzcollector.com/?p=6457#comment-365378 Good call, Fredrik. That does indeed prove that mixed label copies of 1549 aren’t originals, for me anyway. I stand corrected, sorry Matty!
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However, I feel release date is a stronger indicator of order with these types of things, and technically, according to the back of Cohen’s guide BLP 1567, Curtis Fuller’s Opener was released two months before 1560 in August ’57 with W63 on both sides…though this doesn’t seem to change anything about 1549 since it apparently came out in May of that year with NY23 on both sides.
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BTW: I’ve grown to love 1549, especially the version of the Gigi Gryce composition Blue Lights on there.

]]> By: Fredrik https://jazzcollector.com/blue-note/four-listings-two-that-are-new-to-us-one-on-our-want-list-and-one-that-doesnt-make-a-lot-of-sense/comment-page-1/#comment-365364 Sun, 05 Apr 2015 08:06:00 +0000 http://jazzcollector.com/?p=6457#comment-365364 W63 labels first surfaced on BLP 1560. BLP 1549 should have NY23 labels on both sides to be an original pressing. If a copy has W63 on one side it’s maybe a second pressing.

]]> By: Rich (DG Mono) https://jazzcollector.com/blue-note/four-listings-two-that-are-new-to-us-one-on-our-want-list-and-one-that-doesnt-make-a-lot-of-sense/comment-page-1/#comment-365283 Sat, 04 Apr 2015 20:27:57 +0000 http://jazzcollector.com/?p=6457#comment-365283 Matty, I wouldn’t personally go as far as saying an NY23/W63 is *definitely* not from the same pressing as the copies with NY23 on both sides. I know we’ve been through this several times before but my understanding is that there is no ‘hard evidence’ indicating in these instances that same-label copies are from an earlier pressing run than the mixed label copies, or vice versa, meaning the mixed label copies could have technically been pressed at the end of the first run, or randomly throughout for all we know I guess.
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Al, a visitor named Dane had correspondence with the seller of that copy of 1568 and commented about it here: http://jazzcollector.com/blue-note/a-stroll-down-miles-davis-way-and-more/#comment-364607

]]> By: Clifford https://jazzcollector.com/blue-note/four-listings-two-that-are-new-to-us-one-on-our-want-list-and-one-that-doesnt-make-a-lot-of-sense/comment-page-1/#comment-364742 Wed, 01 Apr 2015 15:00:24 +0000 http://jazzcollector.com/?p=6457#comment-364742 Cool. I don’t think I’ve ever spent time with that Big Brass record either….

]]> By: ROB L https://jazzcollector.com/blue-note/four-listings-two-that-are-new-to-us-one-on-our-want-list-and-one-that-doesnt-make-a-lot-of-sense/comment-page-1/#comment-364732 Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:06:51 +0000 http://jazzcollector.com/?p=6457#comment-364732 Thomas was also held in high esteem by Sonny Rollins and contributed short solos to the Rollins Big Brass session on MGM, reissued on Verve. I had the chance to see Thomas being invited on stage by Rollins at a festival in Belgium in 1973.

]]> By: Clifford Allen https://jazzcollector.com/blue-note/four-listings-two-that-are-new-to-us-one-on-our-want-list-and-one-that-doesnt-make-a-lot-of-sense/comment-page-1/#comment-364726 Wed, 01 Apr 2015 01:21:33 +0000 http://jazzcollector.com/?p=6457#comment-364726 only have Thomas’ Jazzland and his final recording, TPL with Jacques Pelzer and Han Bennink (Vogel, Belgium) and both are excellent.

Have encountered a few things on Nixa in the past but not that Annie Ross; she did a few interesting LPs in the 60s for UK labels like Pye and Transatlantic as well.

]]> By: Terryfromflorida https://jazzcollector.com/blue-note/four-listings-two-that-are-new-to-us-one-on-our-want-list-and-one-that-doesnt-make-a-lot-of-sense/comment-page-1/#comment-364722 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 22:18:31 +0000 http://jazzcollector.com/?p=6457#comment-364722 I concur with Michel. Listening to Rene Thomas “Guitar Groove” on Jazzland as I write this. This is a wonderful album that I was lucky enough to get in unplayed pristine shape. It features JR Monterose and truthfully, I have a hard time removing it from the turntable!

]]> By: Michel https://jazzcollector.com/blue-note/four-listings-two-that-are-new-to-us-one-on-our-want-list-and-one-that-doesnt-make-a-lot-of-sense/comment-page-1/#comment-364718 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 19:44:29 +0000 http://jazzcollector.com/?p=6457#comment-364718 René THomas was a brilliant belgian guitarist. All his output is fine and is worth searching for. He made his first sessions for Barclay in France and in Italy with Bobby Jaspar. He recorded an excellent album for Jazzland in the US (with JR MOnterose), played also with Lou Bennett for RCA (on the fantastic “Enfin”). You can also hear him playing with top american jazzmen in Europe like Sonny Criss, Chet Baker, Lucky Thompson, and Stan Getz on the unforgettable “Dynasty” in the beginning of the 70’s. He untimely died in 1975.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWcRtztr35A

]]> By: Rudolf https://jazzcollector.com/blue-note/four-listings-two-that-are-new-to-us-one-on-our-want-list-and-one-that-doesnt-make-a-lot-of-sense/comment-page-1/#comment-364716 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 18:56:47 +0000 http://jazzcollector.com/?p=6457#comment-364716 The Nixa label is of UK origin (Pye Group). They have featured excellent UK artists like Don Rendell. They also issued on 12″ LP the unforgettable Stockholm recordings on Metronome, issued in Sweden on 45 rpm only, of the likes of Tommy Potter, Duke Jordan, Cecil Payne and Rolf Ericson. I did not know that Nixa were also pressed in Canada, but nothing surprising at that view the Commonwealth ties.

]]> By: Mike https://jazzcollector.com/blue-note/four-listings-two-that-are-new-to-us-one-on-our-want-list-and-one-that-doesnt-make-a-lot-of-sense/comment-page-1/#comment-364715 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 18:49:30 +0000 http://jazzcollector.com/?p=6457#comment-364715 For the Jordan it should technically be a flat edge as well and the seller said it is not.

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