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Where is my mare?   Jason Steele – Charlie The Unicorn: The Grand Finale Soundtrack    ... 2022

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In the CD reissue field, in all objectivity I'd have to rate some of the Fresh Sound reissue packagings in this category: For a while they had a habit of compiling, say, "the Complete Quartet (or Quintet or Sextet or Trio or Small Group) recordings" of this or that artist, which then resulted in half or two thirds of two or three original LPs that were combined into one single CD. Because the original LPs (sometimes even sessions) were not made up of one strict group lineup throughout but for some tracks added (or subtracted) one or two other musicians. So ... neither flesh nor fowl if you are trying to round up the discography of an artist whose original LPs either are out of your price range or are unavailable in other reissue formats. (Not that overall I'm unduly worried about this compilation quirk ... in recent years I've scored several of these "complete small-group sizte" thingies at the princely sum of 1 EUR each secondhand, and at that price I can live with those completist shortcomings. And yet it's a disservice to "serious" collectors.) I realize this outright statement opens the door wide for anti-P.D. label polemics by "some usual suspects of this place" 😄, but it just had to be said ... Next ... As for "reducing the risk for one not selling", as you correctly say, there is a similar annoying Fresh Sound CD packaging habit: Very often their "2 LPs on one CD" reissues (basically a sound idea) of relatively rare and obscure acts (that really take determination to be sought out by most jazz listeners who are in the market for reissues of 50s/60s LPs) combine one LP that had had already been out on vinyl by Fresh Sound, and then another one that is all new on the reissue market (because many of these artists and LPs are among those that no other reissue label anywhere else would ever bother with). So those who had already been in the market for these reissues in the vinyl days (as you guessed I'm one of them) often are left out in the cold if they wanted the "other" of the two LPs on each CD as well. I've not very often been tempted to pick up the CD anyway at the "New" price but this packaging policy of "nudging the customer into rebuying" is a bit of a drag anyway.