Wonder if there’s ever been a discussion about some of the more esoteric consideration in early 700 Prestige records; for example (1) flat edge or not (2) frame cover (3) address on back of cover (446 W 50th vs 447 W 50th) – if so would like a reference or your thoughts
I am looking.+.searching these 2-dvd-Live jazz-concerts of -pianist->Oscar Peterson,trio.
Please, if there are ”Jazz-Fans”Collectionists, help me to ‘get’ these dvd-(bootlegs)concerts. I can ‘trade+exchnges’ with Videos-Jazz-Concerts of my ‘Collections’..
Thanks”grazie”, Ciao fabio ,,Italy.
-x-> f.baglioni@yahoo.it
-1-dvd->OSCAR PETERSON,p -BUDAPEST 1970..Niels.H.O.Pedersen,cb+Ray Price,dr Registered by Ungherese-TV,, MTV at’Franz Erkel Theatre’
of Budapest, on dicember-1970)
—x–> Lists of the tunes played in .. Budapest 1970:
-THE LAMP IS LOW
-YOU LOOK GOOD TO ME
-MEDLEY:ROUND MIDNIGHT/BODY AND SOUL
-JUST FRIENDS
-CORCOVADO
-LET’S FALL IN LOVE
-CUTE
-ON A CLEAR DAY ..
…………xxx………….
-1-dvd–>OSCAR PETERSON,p -MONTREAL 1989,..Steve Wallace,cb+Bobby Durham,dr at ‘Festival of Montreal’-Canadà-,8′-july,1989)
–x–> Lists of the tunes played in .. Montreal 1989:
-FALLING IN LOVE WITH LOVE
-SOFT WINDS
-LOVE BALLADE
-CAKEWALK
-BLUES ETUDE
-ELLINGTON MEDLEY -x-> ‘maybe'(??)-not sure ”this” Medley’.s..
While reading-and totally enjoying-the recent “Aberration” post and comments,I was reminded of Harvey Pekar due to his appearance in the “collectors and their habits” film. While there is an official Harvey Pekar website(which I’ve visited before),I just discovered the following “tribute” page. It gives an easily digestible birds-eye view,in comic book style, of a REAL character:
artist,writer,music critic,record collector and unshakeable lover of all great jazz. If you are too young to have seen him ‘battle’ Dave Letterman,perhaps you’ll want to learn more about the late Harvey Pekar-if so,follow this link and “click”. Enjoy! http://activatecomix.com/104-25-1.comic
Speaking of collectors items,how often do you see a copy of this Freddie McCoy beauty? http://www.ebay.com/itm/181092891832?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
I’ve got my own-mono-copy,and have treasured it since the ’70’s when the track “That’s All” was first used as an ‘out’ theme for WKCR’s Jazz Alternatives night program. I heard that there was a problem with licensing the ‘Spidey’ image which accounted for the cover not being seen since the first release. Is that accurate? Anyway,THAT’S ALL is beautiful in a way unique to the vibes,if you haven’t heard it.
I just picked up a lovely copy of Charlie Parker’s self-titled 10” LP on Clef MG C-157 from 1954.
It doesn’t have its original inner sleeve but I’d like to marry it up with one. Does anyone know what kind of inner sleeve this Clef 10” would have originally come with?
OH,MY GAWD!!! I just got this from WNYC.And yes,it’s serious. Kind of gives the term ‘music to die for’ a whole new meaning. “Kind of Blue’on a loop for all eternity? I love the lp,but DAMN..that’s just depressing. Hopefully the market for these ‘cookin’ coffins’ won’t dry up..just rot!(insert your own tasteless joke here). I definitely will be checking out tonight’s Soundcheck program(always an interesting show). http://soundcheck.wnyc.org/2013/mar/06/playing-all-eternity-your-coffin-playlist/
Wondering if anyone just might happen to have a spare original 63rd street cover for a Sonny Clark, Cool Struttin’, Blue Note 1588 record? I know it’s a rare and desirable one to have let alone find in any condition. Very interested in acquiring a cover in nice condition if you have a spare one or know of someone who does. John
John, to thebest of my knowledge, but others may correct me if I am wrong, 10″ Blue Notes and MGM came without inner sleeves. Prestige 10″ came without inners, except for, maybe, the latest issues, from Lp 190 on. I think Lp214 had an inner. No Verve 10″ exist.
Pacific Jazz (10″ + 12″) also came without inners. CR 10″ too; for the 12″ CR had an original system: they came in baggy seals and it was suggested to store the record in the baggy seal after opening it. Some sort of an inner.
John: it is nice to have an original inner with the corrersponding record. But in my period of buying 10″ albums, the first action was to produce my own inner, or to buy poly bags like the one you show for the Columbia.
European 25 cm records had original inner sleeves.
Anyone have thoughts on the Verve/Polydor reissues of the early 80’s? Thursday, I picked up a very clean copy of Organ Grinder Swing and since my original is really sad, I don’t have any way to compare them. This is the first I’ve come across one of these, though I imagine to regulars here, they’re pretty common fare.
So if anyone’s willing to get me up to speed, I’d interested in any background on this reissue series. For instance, the label on mine indicates it was pressed in Japan. Was that the case for the entire series or is my finding a japanese pressing here in good old Missouri something of an outlier?
Nice that the reissue was put out as a gatefold, and that it’s got an insert “The Verve Story,” written by Nate Hentoff, (backside lists 50 Verve titles, presumably what was reissued by Polydor), but if they were sent out with any literature with some background on the reissues, well, that’s long gone from this album.
I have a question about Bill Evans Village Vanguard Mono Riverside RLP 376 Blue/Silver label: would you consider deep groove being earlier than a non-deep groove or not necessarily.
Sean, sounds like a pirate copy to me, there’s a lot of fake colored vinyl floating around now. What’s in the deadwax? If genuine it should have stamped Columbia matrix information.
The matrix in deadwax is machine stamped, I will work on link to a photo. Mono U.S.A press, looks and sounds great Vg++. Cover has 2 inch peel in top right corner from crap job of removing sticker/price tag. Thanks again.
John: re 1st pressing PrLp 7053. The first is the one with his picture and beret in violet. The second is the Warhol (blue and black on white background).
Jim Neal – Verve/Polydor pressed a number of reissues in the late ’70s and early ’80s, but they were two-fer combos and were pressed in the U.S. Alternately, Verve reissued a number of single titles in Japan in the early-to-mid ’80s. I suspect that is the copy you have. Does the bottom of the label read, on the right curving around the label edge, “Manufactured by Polydor K.K.”? If so, it’s a straight Japanese pressing, not one of the two-fer reissues. I think the Japanese pressings are fine. Quiet vinyl, but not quite as dynamic. However, as the original Organ Grinder Swing was a MGM pressing, the Japanese reissue probably sounds very similar. In total, I have not found too much difference between original Verve pressings and MGM and Verve/Polydor pressings. Or, to put it more concretely, I have not found the difference to be nearly as noticeable it is between a Blue Note W. 63rd original and a Capitol-EMI reissue, or between an original orange-and-black Impulse and a blue-sky MCA reissue. Anyway, if your Japanese pressing was cheap and sounds good, nice buy!
Joe L. – Thanks for the info., particularly your opinion of how it likely compares to the original Verve. The Copy of Organ Grinder Swing does, indeed, state Mfg. Polydor K.K. Japan on both the label and gatefold jacket. Additionally, there is a line of japanese text beneath the title on the label. I’m not one to use “near mint” but a strong VG+ without a doubt and that’s after having listened to (and quite enjoyed) it. There are times when paying a dollar for a record seems a little excessive, but this certainly wasn’t one of those times.
Anyone know a group of people interested in mis-pressings (If that’s the correct term)? I figure this is one they’d appreciate.
I know it’s hardly a jazz collectible, but I came across the oddest thing while playing a 2-disk compilation of Sarah Vaughan tracks from her days on EmArcy. The compilation was put out in 1977, but clearly my pressing’s a lot newer, based on what’s on side 4.
Boy did somebody screw up at the plant. Side 4 is a hip hop single I can only find in Discogs on a 2002 compilation.
Can you imagine listening to three sides of Sarah Vaughn and you put on side 4, and despite having the correct label, instead of Sarah you get a group called Word of Mouth doing “Up Against the Wall Halucination” (yeah it’s spelled that way).
I mean it’s got a beat you can dance to, but it’s sure not Sarah Vaughn!
Recent reflection on the glory days of Leon Leavitt’s auctions prompted the recurrence of my favorite “money is no object” reverie and question.
Does there exist today, anywhere in the world, a one-stop source for purchase of what for me would be the “ultimate” jazz LP collection: complete 10″ and 12″ 16 RPM and 33.3 RPM Blue Note, Prestige/New Jazz/Status, Verve/Norgran/Clef first pressings, mono and stereo, mint jackets and records, plus major label (RCA, Columbia, etc.) jazz catalogs and smaller jazz labels(Progressive, Jazz West, etc.)?
I suspect Leon — with whom I met in L.A. in 1985, at the small storefront in which he was selling primarily B-stock — would have been able to come close.
Charles. I would argue that, yes, there does exist a one-stop shop for all of the records you describe. It is called eBay and, for whatever its flaws, it offers the most complete catalogue one could imagine for collectible jazz vinyl.
Michel, someone must have told the seller. Now it’s advertised as a later pressing from the Nineties.
So he may have put it on eBay without proper knowledge.
I’m afraid I’m coming in new to this Classic Records thing – other than the ‘“too deep” to be true deep groove’, where does the LP identify itself as a re-issue? Of course the absolutely pristine condition would make one suspicious; but surely there ought to be some identifying mark.
The Classic Records reissues have an additional line of text on the bottom of the back cover with the “EMI-Capitol Music Special Markets” text. The #1 thing is no RVG or Plastylite “P” in the deadwax.
Al, Thanks for your thoughts regarding eBay as a de facto one-stop source for my version of the ultimate jazz collection
Let me refine my definition of “one-stop” — a retail/specialty seller along the lines of a Leon Leavitt who at any given time would be expected to have in stock the majority of the titles I’ve referenced.
I know of no such dealer, and so I ask if anyone else does.
sometimes i read that an old jazz musscian has died, and often i think.. wow, was he still alive..? So when i read of a jazz-musician who is still alive, but to me belongs to a period lived by my grandfather, i can be often verry suprised and strangly delighted.
Today i had it with Louis Smith , Lou Donaldson and kenny burrell.. ..stil alive!
who did i forget??? ( 😉 )
Aaron
Thanks for that info – I hadn’t noticed that line of text before – but doesn’t that just confirm my point? Of course an experienced collector would know about the missing P & RVG, and the text you refer to , but I think that’s like the small print in a long contract, and very misleading – unlike the old OJC releases which were clearly indicated as such, these might well pass inspection by all but the most knowledgeable, and that’s pretty disgusting, IMHO
another issue form Djukic’s new sale – he called a punch hole on the cover a sign that it is promotional, even though there is no promotional stamp –I always believed it meant the album was returned form the retail outlet to the record company because it didn’t sell – what’s the deal?
Have you ever noticed that almost ALL albums featuring Philly Joe Jones start with a drum roll by Philly Joe Jones ? For example : The Return of Howard McGhee. 🙂
Earl, you are correct, of course. Gotta give bobdj some props for creativity. Taking what every collector perceives as a huge negative — the dreaded cut out hole — and turning it into a positive for all the clueless ones and the newbies out there who seem to trust every hypoberolic word and phrase in his listings.
Maartenkools-thanks for the Chet link. I’d never seen that,and really dug the slower-than-usual tempo of DOS. Beautiful! Better still,I jumped over to a 1964 Baker doing “So What”,also quite nice.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZlHRcxfuN8
Re:8 “lps” for $10..don’t let it get you down. Anyone buying that box who thinks it sounds anything like the originals(or even a good single cd) is bound to be disappointed. In other words,how many corners must a company cut to put out a quality product at that price? I’ll pass,thanks.
Wonder if there’s ever been a discussion about some of the more esoteric consideration in early 700 Prestige records; for example (1) flat edge or not (2) frame cover (3) address on back of cover (446 W 50th vs 447 W 50th) – if so would like a reference or your thoughts
I am looking.+.searching these 2-dvd-Live jazz-concerts of -pianist->Oscar Peterson,trio.
Please, if there are ”Jazz-Fans”Collectionists, help me to ‘get’ these dvd-(bootlegs)concerts. I can ‘trade+exchnges’ with Videos-Jazz-Concerts of my ‘Collections’..
Thanks”grazie”, Ciao fabio ,,Italy.
-x-> f.baglioni@yahoo.it
-1-dvd->OSCAR PETERSON,p -BUDAPEST 1970..Niels.H.O.Pedersen,cb+Ray Price,dr Registered by Ungherese-TV,, MTV at’Franz Erkel Theatre’
of Budapest, on dicember-1970)
—x–> Lists of the tunes played in .. Budapest 1970:
-THE LAMP IS LOW
-YOU LOOK GOOD TO ME
-MEDLEY:ROUND MIDNIGHT/BODY AND SOUL
-JUST FRIENDS
-CORCOVADO
-LET’S FALL IN LOVE
-CUTE
-ON A CLEAR DAY ..
…………xxx………….
-1-dvd–>OSCAR PETERSON,p -MONTREAL 1989,..Steve Wallace,cb+Bobby Durham,dr at ‘Festival of Montreal’-Canadà-,8′-july,1989)
–x–> Lists of the tunes played in .. Montreal 1989:
-FALLING IN LOVE WITH LOVE
-SOFT WINDS
-LOVE BALLADE
-CAKEWALK
-BLUES ETUDE
-ELLINGTON MEDLEY -x-> ‘maybe'(??)-not sure ”this” Medley’.s..
While reading-and totally enjoying-the recent “Aberration” post and comments,I was reminded of Harvey Pekar due to his appearance in the “collectors and their habits” film. While there is an official Harvey Pekar website(which I’ve visited before),I just discovered the following “tribute” page. It gives an easily digestible birds-eye view,in comic book style, of a REAL character:
artist,writer,music critic,record collector and unshakeable lover of all great jazz. If you are too young to have seen him ‘battle’ Dave Letterman,perhaps you’ll want to learn more about the late Harvey Pekar-if so,follow this link and “click”. Enjoy!
http://activatecomix.com/104-25-1.comic
Speaking of collectors items,how often do you see a copy of this Freddie McCoy beauty?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/181092891832?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
I’ve got my own-mono-copy,and have treasured it since the ’70’s when the track “That’s All” was first used as an ‘out’ theme for WKCR’s Jazz Alternatives night program. I heard that there was a problem with licensing the ‘Spidey’ image which accounted for the cover not being seen since the first release. Is that accurate? Anyway,THAT’S ALL is beautiful in a way unique to the vibes,if you haven’t heard it.
I just picked up a lovely copy of Charlie Parker’s self-titled 10” LP on Clef MG C-157 from 1954.
It doesn’t have its original inner sleeve but I’d like to marry it up with one. Does anyone know what kind of inner sleeve this Clef 10” would have originally come with?
John: early Norgran and Clef came without inner sleeves, that includes all the 10″ albums.
OH,MY GAWD!!! I just got this from WNYC.And yes,it’s serious. Kind of gives the term ‘music to die for’ a whole new meaning. “Kind of Blue’on a loop for all eternity? I love the lp,but DAMN..that’s just depressing. Hopefully the market for these ‘cookin’ coffins’ won’t dry up..just rot!(insert your own tasteless joke here). I definitely will be checking out tonight’s Soundcheck program(always an interesting show).
http://soundcheck.wnyc.org/2013/mar/06/playing-all-eternity-your-coffin-playlist/
Wondering if anyone just might happen to have a spare original 63rd street cover for a Sonny Clark, Cool Struttin’, Blue Note 1588 record? I know it’s a rare and desirable one to have let alone find in any condition. Very interested in acquiring a cover in nice condition if you have a spare one or know of someone who does. John
Hi Rudolph
What a surprise – no inners?
Did Prestige, Blue Note, MGM and Verve not use inners either for their early to mid 50s 10″ LPs?
John, to thebest of my knowledge, but others may correct me if I am wrong, 10″ Blue Notes and MGM came without inner sleeves. Prestige 10″ came without inners, except for, maybe, the latest issues, from Lp 190 on. I think Lp214 had an inner. No Verve 10″ exist.
Pacific Jazz (10″ + 12″) also came without inners. CR 10″ too; for the 12″ CR had an original system: they came in baggy seals and it was suggested to store the record in the baggy seal after opening it. Some sort of an inner.
Thank you Rudolph. That’s very helpful. I have come across early 1950s Columbia 10″ LPs with poly bag inners. Like here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1955-LOUIS-ARMSTRONG-PLAYS-W-C-HANDY-VOL-2-10-LP-COLUMBIA-RECORDS-CL6335-MINT-/190783743040?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item2c6b98e440&nma=true&si=ZfPZJg7oTVGAocYrGd4cu5T0Nc8%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557. I’m not sure if they were original but they look it. I also have a Elektra folk 10″ inch from 1953 in a poly bag inner that is definitely original because it has the Elektra logo printed on it. Most of these 10″ sleeves are so tight you can barely slide the record in let alone an inner. Nevertheless I am trying to put original inners with these LPs where and when I find they had them.
John: it is nice to have an original inner with the corrersponding record. But in my period of buying 10″ albums, the first action was to produce my own inner, or to buy poly bags like the one you show for the Columbia.
European 25 cm records had original inner sleeves.
Anyone have thoughts on the Verve/Polydor reissues of the early 80’s? Thursday, I picked up a very clean copy of Organ Grinder Swing and since my original is really sad, I don’t have any way to compare them. This is the first I’ve come across one of these, though I imagine to regulars here, they’re pretty common fare.
So if anyone’s willing to get me up to speed, I’d interested in any background on this reissue series. For instance, the label on mine indicates it was pressed in Japan. Was that the case for the entire series or is my finding a japanese pressing here in good old Missouri something of an outlier?
Nice that the reissue was put out as a gatefold, and that it’s got an insert “The Verve Story,” written by Nate Hentoff, (backside lists 50 Verve titles, presumably what was reissued by Polydor), but if they were sent out with any literature with some background on the reissues, well, that’s long gone from this album.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
I have a question about Bill Evans Village Vanguard Mono Riverside RLP 376 Blue/Silver label: would you consider deep groove being earlier than a non-deep groove or not necessarily.
Is the first pressing of the Thelonious Monk LP Prestige 7053 with the portrait of him in the beret or the red white and black Warhol cover?
Has anyone seen Monks Dream CL1965, Two eye guaranteed high fidelity on blue marbled vinyl. Found one recently, never seen it before.
Sean, sounds like a pirate copy to me, there’s a lot of fake colored vinyl floating around now. What’s in the deadwax? If genuine it should have stamped Columbia matrix information.
Deadwax info XLP 58380-1k side 2 ends in 1E. Thanks Sean
Same info as the label. Record is the same light green blue as the cover background. Slightly marbled, more wispy cloud or smoke like. transparent.
Sean,
If the matrix in deadwax is machine stamped (not handwritten) you might have something really interesting, can you post a link to a picture?
The matrix in deadwax is machine stamped, I will work on link to a photo. Mono U.S.A press, looks and sounds great Vg++. Cover has 2 inch peel in top right corner from crap job of removing sticker/price tag. Thanks again.
John: re 1st pressing PrLp 7053. The first is the one with his picture and beret in violet. The second is the Warhol (blue and black on white background).
Rudolph – you’re the man!
Jim Neal – Verve/Polydor pressed a number of reissues in the late ’70s and early ’80s, but they were two-fer combos and were pressed in the U.S. Alternately, Verve reissued a number of single titles in Japan in the early-to-mid ’80s. I suspect that is the copy you have. Does the bottom of the label read, on the right curving around the label edge, “Manufactured by Polydor K.K.”? If so, it’s a straight Japanese pressing, not one of the two-fer reissues. I think the Japanese pressings are fine. Quiet vinyl, but not quite as dynamic. However, as the original Organ Grinder Swing was a MGM pressing, the Japanese reissue probably sounds very similar. In total, I have not found too much difference between original Verve pressings and MGM and Verve/Polydor pressings. Or, to put it more concretely, I have not found the difference to be nearly as noticeable it is between a Blue Note W. 63rd original and a Capitol-EMI reissue, or between an original orange-and-black Impulse and a blue-sky MCA reissue. Anyway, if your Japanese pressing was cheap and sounds good, nice buy!
Joe L. – Thanks for the info., particularly your opinion of how it likely compares to the original Verve. The Copy of Organ Grinder Swing does, indeed, state Mfg. Polydor K.K. Japan on both the label and gatefold jacket. Additionally, there is a line of japanese text beneath the title on the label. I’m not one to use “near mint” but a strong VG+ without a doubt and that’s after having listened to (and quite enjoyed) it. There are times when paying a dollar for a record seems a little excessive, but this certainly wasn’t one of those times.
Anyone know a group of people interested in mis-pressings (If that’s the correct term)? I figure this is one they’d appreciate.
I know it’s hardly a jazz collectible, but I came across the oddest thing while playing a 2-disk compilation of Sarah Vaughan tracks from her days on EmArcy. The compilation was put out in 1977, but clearly my pressing’s a lot newer, based on what’s on side 4.
Boy did somebody screw up at the plant. Side 4 is a hip hop single I can only find in Discogs on a 2002 compilation.
Can you imagine listening to three sides of Sarah Vaughn and you put on side 4, and despite having the correct label, instead of Sarah you get a group called Word of Mouth doing “Up Against the Wall Halucination” (yeah it’s spelled that way).
I mean it’s got a beat you can dance to, but it’s sure not Sarah Vaughn!
The following is purely out of curiosity:
Recent reflection on the glory days of Leon Leavitt’s auctions prompted the recurrence of my favorite “money is no object” reverie and question.
Does there exist today, anywhere in the world, a one-stop source for purchase of what for me would be the “ultimate” jazz LP collection: complete 10″ and 12″ 16 RPM and 33.3 RPM Blue Note, Prestige/New Jazz/Status, Verve/Norgran/Clef first pressings, mono and stereo, mint jackets and records, plus major label (RCA, Columbia, etc.) jazz catalogs and smaller jazz labels(Progressive, Jazz West, etc.)?
I suspect Leon — with whom I met in L.A. in 1985, at the small storefront in which he was selling primarily B-stock — would have been able to come close.
There. I feel better now. Was it good for you.
Best, Charles
Charles. I would argue that, yes, there does exist a one-stop shop for all of the records you describe. It is called eBay and, for whatever its flaws, it offers the most complete catalogue one could imagine for collectible jazz vinyl.
Another “too deep” to be true deep groove. .At least, we have the back cover pictured…
http://www.ebay.com/itm/LEE-MORGAN-CANDY-BLUE-NOTE-ORIGINAL-DEEP-GROOVE-MONO-NM-JAZZ-LP-/380606901525?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item589df06d15
Michel, someone must have told the seller. Now it’s advertised as a later pressing from the Nineties.
So he may have put it on eBay without proper knowledge.
The Candy is a Classic Records audiophile issue. Well worth $19.99.
I’m afraid I’m coming in new to this Classic Records thing – other than the ‘“too deep” to be true deep groove’, where does the LP identify itself as a re-issue? Of course the absolutely pristine condition would make one suspicious; but surely there ought to be some identifying mark.
The Classic Records reissues have an additional line of text on the bottom of the back cover with the “EMI-Capitol Music Special Markets” text. The #1 thing is no RVG or Plastylite “P” in the deadwax.
Al, Thanks for your thoughts regarding eBay as a de facto one-stop source for my version of the ultimate jazz collection
Let me refine my definition of “one-stop” — a retail/specialty seller along the lines of a Leon Leavitt who at any given time would be expected to have in stock the majority of the titles I’ve referenced.
I know of no such dealer, and so I ask if anyone else does.
Thanks again.
sometimes i read that an old jazz musscian has died, and often i think.. wow, was he still alive..? So when i read of a jazz-musician who is still alive, but to me belongs to a period lived by my grandfather, i can be often verry suprised and strangly delighted.
Today i had it with Louis Smith , Lou Donaldson and kenny burrell.. ..stil alive!
who did i forget??? ( 😉 )
Aaron
Thanks for that info – I hadn’t noticed that line of text before – but doesn’t that just confirm my point? Of course an experienced collector would know about the missing P & RVG, and the text you refer to , but I think that’s like the small print in a long contract, and very misleading – unlike the old OJC releases which were clearly indicated as such, these might well pass inspection by all but the most knowledgeable, and that’s pretty disgusting, IMHO
martenkools
Sonny’s still with us; & Andre Previn
Dizzy Reece, Barry Harris and Charles McPherson are all still with us
so is Lee Konitz and Ornette
Oh yeah, how about Curtis Fuller and Benny Golson
McCoy Tyner, Horace Silver, Ron Carter, Bobby Hutcherson, Wayne Shorter – I was actually blown away when I found so many still around
great to read those names, makes you think again how young these guys where, when they where allready making grounbreaking music..
And Roy Haynes, last I looked, still making great music.
another issue form Djukic’s new sale – he called a punch hole on the cover a sign that it is promotional, even though there is no promotional stamp –I always believed it meant the album was returned form the retail outlet to the record company because it didn’t sell – what’s the deal?
Have you ever noticed that almost ALL albums featuring Philly Joe Jones start with a drum roll by Philly Joe Jones ? For example : The Return of Howard McGhee. 🙂
Earl, you are correct, of course. Gotta give bobdj some props for creativity. Taking what every collector perceives as a huge negative — the dreaded cut out hole — and turning it into a positive for all the clueless ones and the newbies out there who seem to trust every hypoberolic word and phrase in his listings.
for those, who like me, spent way too much money on original vinyl (..worth any penny of it offcourse!), and, now and then , need some perspective on the real world again…
http://www.amazon.com/8-Classic-Albums-Hank-Mobley/dp/B005BDZLYQ/ref=pd_sim_m_2
🙂 🙂
pffffffff….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p72L4bMdPA
Hello. I’ll be in Washington DC in early May. Any suggestions for Jazz vinyl shops in Arlington or DC area? Thanks in advance.
Maartenkools-thanks for the Chet link. I’d never seen that,and really dug the slower-than-usual tempo of DOS. Beautiful! Better still,I jumped over to a 1964 Baker doing “So What”,also quite nice.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZlHRcxfuN8
Re:8 “lps” for $10..don’t let it get you down. Anyone buying that box who thinks it sounds anything like the originals(or even a good single cd) is bound to be disappointed. In other words,how many corners must a company cut to put out a quality product at that price? I’ll pass,thanks.