Comments on: Watching Some Prestige Jazz Vinyl

By: Al

Al — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:07:59 +0000

Hey, Dan. Just catching up on posts. Thanks for posting the clip of Dave. As you note, it’s not Dave nearly at his best, but in the last chorus you can hear him easing into it and playing better.

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:35:17 +0000

this one did not sell at 510,07 (reserve not met), but another seller sold an even better copy for 372,89 this weekend.

By: Dan Axelrod

Dan Axelrod — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:13:28 +0000

Dave Krieger-good musician, good friend, good guy. Huge original Blue Note collector all mint, all originals, all the Mobleys. But had to sell them so his first wife wouldn’t put him in jail again for missing a support payment.

One day Steve Grossman paid Dave a visit and after he left, Dave’s collection was suddenly light. Jazz Delegation From the East on Bethlehem was missing. But Dave got off easy. When Grossman left tenorman Ned Otter’s apartment, Ned’s Selmer Mark VI Alto had disappeared!

In the clip below Dave isn’t playing anywhere up to his ability, but he was installing alarms at the time, passing by my house and a videocamera was on. Just a few choruses of Cherokee, but something is better than nothing. Rest easy, David.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD7_6K9B-pE

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:29:27 +0000

my love affair with “the Cats” goes back to the early sixties when second pressings (no deep grooves, a darker violet labels and a red RW stamp on the rear) flooded the Continent. All the copies of this series I laid my hands on had a pressing default in Eclypso. In the end I found my first faultless pressing on Esquire with a lovely photo cover of Tommy Flanagan.
Original first pressings of 8217 have a big $ 3.98 price tag printed on the paper slack top right. This one apparently has not.
This record is a typical product of Prestige’s heydays. Trane is just wonderful, as is the brassy Idress Suliman. But it is Tommy’s session.