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Hmm - I always enjoy listening to it !
Agree that it is not the best Hubbard or Morgan of the period and sloppy in execution but it's an atmospheric recording, nevertheless.I agree with Sidewinder. The trumpet battle between Lee and Freddie on the first track has always held interest for me. Quite clearly this was an alcohol-fueled gathering that we may have viewed differently if it had emerged thirty years later as a newly discovered tape.
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Eddie Hoh was on the Al Kooper - Mike Bloomfield - Stephen Stills Super Session ....
Mickey Dolenz' intonation is hard to endure ...
He was also the Mamas & Papas' road drummer, and appeared on many classic sessions, including Donovan's "Sunshine Superman" LP (uncredited).
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A great filmmaker with a long and impressive list of films. His last film, "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" is a masterpiece!
RIP, Mr. Lumet.
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Yes chewy, the CD (I have the K2) is mono. Makes sense why on the OJC reissues of Eric Dolphy in Europe 1-3 that the "Remastered For Stereo" line is blacked out on the covers for vols. 2 and 3. Though those albums on CD are true stereo.
They were true stereo on vinyl as well. Occasionally, Prestige got it wrong. A few records labeled "Remastered for Stereo" actually played true stereo!
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They were intelligent followers, not leaders.
Enjoy them for what they were.
I agree with Chuck. Their music was clearly informed by jazz, and contained numerous references, both musically and lyrically, to things jazz fans know about. But did their music influence or inform the jazz of the time? I don't think so.
I love "Gaucho", but I seem to recall that a large portion of one of the tunes is lifted almost directly from a tune on the Keith Jarrett/Jan Garbarek album "Belonging" - "Long As You Know Your'e Living Yours", I believe.
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is the blue label 'trident' logo lp, you know, the one w/ the diff cover, and it says 'remixed for stereo...etc'.............
well i was lookin at one today, it is vangelder stamped and stuff....is this really so, did rvg electronically rechannel it for stereo and do the new cuts of it and stuff, or is this true stereo, or, wel i have the VDJ cd issue which is pretty amazing, but i need to know abt this issue, thanks
Actually it probably says "Remastered for Stereo", as do most Prestige fake stereo reissues. This 1956 session was not recorded in stereo. The fact that RVG did the fake stereo remaster is interesting. As fake stereo releases go, these Prestiges aren't so bad - it's just a simple lows on one side, highs on the other, and hitting the mono button (if you've got one) usually can make it listenable. In fact, many of them, even though they claimed to be remastered for stereo, actually play very close to mono.
I had a few fake stereo LPs back in my "vinyl days", but hitting the mono button on the system I had back then didn't make them listenable. At best some artefacts remained, for instance something that sounded like phase distortion (for lack of a better description).
I was only referring to the Prestige fake stereos. There is more than one process in rechanneling for stereo, and Prestige's method was the least insidious. I'm not saying that combining the two channels is as good as mono, but those of us who came up in the late 60's and early 70's were forced to put up with rechanneling, as these were often the only available sources of the music at the time. I have long since purged all of the rechanneled records from my collection, and I would recommend that new listeners steer clear of them, but they do vary quite a bit - anywhere from reasonably listenable to completely unacceptable.
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Oh - I understand. I wasn't aware there was so much music ...
The forthcoming Mosaic Coleman Hawkins set will contain a lot of Henderson, since Hawkins was principal soloist in the band for over a decade.
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is the blue label 'trident' logo lp, you know, the one w/ the diff cover, and it says 'remixed for stereo...etc'.............
well i was lookin at one today, it is vangelder stamped and stuff....is this really so, did rvg electronically rechannel it for stereo and do the new cuts of it and stuff, or is this true stereo, or, wel i have the VDJ cd issue which is pretty amazing, but i need to know abt this issue, thanks
Actually it probably says "Remastered for Stereo", as do most Prestige fake stereo reissues. This 1956 session was not recorded in stereo. The fact that RVG did the fake stereo remaster is interesting. As fake stereo releases go, these Prestiges aren't so bad - it's just a simple lows on one side, highs on the other, and hitting the mono button (if you've got one) usually can make it listenable. In fact, many of them, even though they claimed to be remastered for stereo, actually play very close to mono.
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I met Jack today. Charlie as well. I cut myself off at a certain point. I think I could have spent $1,000 easy on jazz vinyl alone.
This was a great shop.
I bought a few Warne Marsh albums, Bird on Dial, Coltrane Ballads, Lester Bowie, Herbie Nichols, Gigi Gryce, Live Curtis, Basement Tapes, etc etc and passed on so many great things.
I haven't looked inside the bags since the train ride. My birthday came 29 days early this year.
Thanks Jack.
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Cool. I've never been to the store (and many years since I've been in MA) but I plan to be on the East Coast this summer.
You can hold that Abdul-Hannan stash for pickup, right?
Just want me to hold one copy?
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I have some good news. Because the landlord is undergoing of a series of permit hassles with the city of Cambridge, we have been granted an extension at least through May, and possibly beyond.
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I rented the movie from Netflix a year ago - my copy was fine. I wonder if there may be a manufacturing defect that makes some of these discs especially fragile. I can't believe that anyone at Netflix would be stupid enough to keep sending the same cracked disc six times!
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Sad news. Well, he had a pretty long run!
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I would have spent less time talking to "experts" with agendas like Albert Murray, Stanley Crouch, et al. More emphasis on the music and less emphasis on the purported social implications. More interviews with musicians. I thought that the time spent with people like Jackie McLean was much more valuable than anything Murray, Crouch, Marsalis or Gerald Early had to say.
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I'm listening to a lot of early Stan Getz and just noticed that most of the Roost recordings clock in at just under 3 minutes but the first Prestige recordings are all closer to 4 minutes long. I presume the latter were 12' releases. Were they common? Mainly jazz or classical? And what were the time limits for 10" and 12" recordings?
I have never seen a Prestige 12" 78, nor do I believe any were issued. I've seen many Stan Getz Prestige 78's, amd they have all been 10". Of course, 12" was the norm for classical recordings. Specialist jazz labels such as Commodore and Blue Note did issue a number of 12" discs in the 1940's. Major labels such as Victor and Columbia dabbled, but mostly stuck to the 10" format. Generally, 10" 78's play for about 3 minutes, 12" 78's play for about 4 1/2 minutes. By the 1950's, the LP and EP had supplanted 12" 78's in the marketplace for longer performances.
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There were only two volumes in this series. The transfers were very good, and the accompanying booklets were handsome, with good annotation for the time. Volume 1 was my introduction to this period of Ellington back when I was just getting into this music, and although I've since replaced these sets with more complete releases, the selections made by the original producer (Frank Driggs, I think) cannot be faulted.
Tape did not come into use as a recording medium until around 1950. The original sources would probably have been the metal parts from which the original 78's were made.
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so i just got a sealed 70s edition art blakey at the jazz corner of the world vol 1 and i was thinking, why certain titles were never reissued, like take peckin' time for example- great session, no liberty, or even regular blue note ny usa 60s issue, correct?
When Liberty bought the company, for the most part they only pressed titles that were still in print. Many of the early titles had already been discontinued while the company was in the hands of the original owners. It wan't until Capitol took over the company in the mid-1980's that a full scale reissue program was undertaken. There had been a few repressings in the 1970's under United Artists (the so-called International Series), but these were relatively few, and I don't recall seeing Peckin' Time among them. Also, UA had licensed many titles for Japanese release biginning in the late 1970's. But to answer your question, there are not Liberty pressing of every Blue Note title.
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Another cultural icon of my youth checks out.
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Joe was one of the greats. This is a sad day.
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Love this album! McFarland's arrangements are sufficiently exotic, and the title track is one of my favorite Anita O'Day performances.
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Perk Up was a nice 'surprise' CD reissue back when, but I don't think I've seen the Atlantic that was issued at the time. I do have Boss Sounds which has the same front line but Russ Freeman instead of Wofford on piano. May have to go looking for that other Atlantic - thanks for the rec., Larry.
"Perk Up" was definitely recorded for Atlantic, but not issued until the 1978 Concord release.
Shelly gave us a tremendous body of great music over the years.
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I forget, who would usually put the bullet hole in the jacket, the record company, the distributor, or the retail store?
It would have been the record company who drilled it, before selling it to a cut-out (deletions) distributor.
This would be done when the title was going oop, and the rec.co. drilled to indicate that no returns would be taken?
BTW, the cd version of this album lists you as one of the Thank You people.
Yes, the drilling is to prevent returns.
The CD is on Koch? I helped them with a couple of titles, and they thanked everybody who helped them on the whole series!
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I forget, who would usually put the bullet hole in the jacket, the record company, the distributor, or the retail store?
It would have been the record company who drilled it, before selling it to a cut-out (deletions) distributor.
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I saw Eddie a few times in the 1980's. He was the real deal - raw and full of fire. R.I.P.
My "new" Marantz 2230
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I had the same model as part of my first "high end" system back in the early 1970's, and liked it a lot. My apartment was broken into in the mid-70's, and this was one of the things the creeps made off with.
When I could finally afford to replace the system, I got a good deal on a Kenwood receiver which served me well for another 20 years, but I still have fond memories of that Marantz and the many hours of listening pleasure it provided me.