Comments on: Thanksgiving Jazz Vinyl

By: bill

bill — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 04:14:08 +0000

HaHa, Rudolf, I understand. As our friend LJC says, you are, indeed, a first pressing fundamentalist. Nothing past the sixties counts! Although my friend Ralph Kaffel would be upset that you don’t count the seventies Prestige 2-fers as real Prestige.

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 09:57:24 +0000

Bill: I asked myself the question regarding my ignorance. It is easy, MAL-2 was indeed re-issued, as I implied in my comment. And MAL-1 not. By Prestige, I meant.
What happened? Prestige was the first to explore the idea of two-fers. as early as 1963/4. Twenty years before Fantasy would pick up the idea again. Their first was # 7341, a re-issue of # 7111 (Mal-2) and # 7112 (Interplay for Two Tenors and Two Trumpets). There were three more in their series of two-fers : 7342/3/4. That was it for Prestige.
Fantasy in the eighties is another story, beyond my scope.

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 07:56:02 +0000

Bill, thank you for your correction. Justice was done. That is comforting.

By: bill

bill — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 03:20:36 +0000

Rudolf, perhaps I misunderstood you, but Mal 1 was part of a 2fer – Mal One and Two P24068

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 09:09:56 +0000

When I started to sell my double copies some 15 years ago, I sold MAL-1 for some $ 500 to a London buyer.
The recording is exquisite, an example of good taste, innovation, excellently recorded, beautiful art work.
A fine example of the best Prestige ever had to offer. The fall in the form of organ/tenor albums would follow soon. The bread and butter busines necessary for the company to survive? Maybe. The distressing fact is that the album, like so many similar ones, were to be deleted very soon. Never a N.J. reprint, nor a later issue in the New Jazz series, or a two-fer like Mal-2.

By: Michel

Michel — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 21:00:09 +0000

I have a NM original Mal 1 from Bullsite2000 20 years ago. Great record.

By: Clifford Allen

Clifford Allen — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 16:10:15 +0000

The Ashby is a 2006 reissue. Hilarious.

Mal-1 is a great record. I only have a Japanese pressing, but it’s lovely.

By: gregory the fish

gregory the fish — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 15:54:06 +0000

That Dorothy Ashby, as with all Dorothy Ashby, is an example of some real, true originality. Highly recommended.

By: Dan Lai

Dan Lai — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 03:28:39 +0000

Cover by Reid Miles. He did a lot of work for Blue Note and Prestige. Some info and examples: https://viljamis.com/2015/the-iconic-work-of-reid-miles/

By: DARYL L PARKS

DARYL L PARKS — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 23:06:26 +0000

I agree with Maarten. I’d never heard of that Mal lp before– beautiful, minimalist, grayscale cover with that bold, red MAL! If anyone knows, might you discuss some of these designers on the Prestige and/or Blue Note covers? (If anyone did know, it would be on JC!) Who designed this one? What others show their design “fingerprints?”