Blue Cuscuna

[Swinging Swede]

Has anyone seen this before? Apparently it's a very rare Japanese promo CD on which Cuscuna narrates and plays bits of various Blue Note recordings.

Something to reissue, perhaps?

[couw]

[wesbed]

This CD cover looks odd. Reminiscent of something AfricaBrass or couw would create.

I intend my remark as a compliment to AfricaBrass and couw and to their creativity on this board. They've created much eye candy in the last several months. I only wish I had the same knowledge and skill.

[Shrdlu]

A great April Fool's cover, SS! They say that Michael got the BN 1577 T shirt from Naima Coltrane for the photo.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

I have this. Someone in Hong Kong sells them regularly on eBay. The funniest thing is that because Cuscuna has the original "Blue Trane" photo, he saw that Trane is actually sucking on a lollipop in the picture, not a reed like everyone thought. The guys in Japan tried to get Michael to use a reed in the shoot and he told them it was a lollipop. On the back of the CD, it has artist listing: Michael Cuscuna, diskjocky; Blue Note Records, music; Julius Keilwerth, sax; Lollipop, candy

Later,

Kevin

[chris olivarez]

[brownie]

Will wait for the Mosaic Select of this

[wesbed]

The funniest thing is that because Cuscuna has the original "Blue Trane" photo, he saw that Trane is actually sucking on a lollipop in the picture, not a reed like everyone thought.

Very interesting, indeed. I always thought there was somethihg odd about the shape of Coltrane's mouth and the item in his hand. I never knew it was a lollipop till it was revealed here.

I'm always learning something about jazz from the Organissimo board.

[Late]

1.    Jimmy Shirley: Jimmy’s Blues
2.    Edmond Hall: Profoundly Blue
3.    John Hardee: Hardee’s Partee
4.    Sonny Rollins: Decision
5.    John Coltrane: Blue Train
6.    Fred Jackson: Southern Exposure
7.    Fats Navarro & Howard McGhee: Boperation
8.    Miles Davis: Weirdo
9.    Clifford Brown: Cherokee
10.  Lee Morgan: I Remember Clifford
11.   Freddie Hubbard: Hub-Tones
12.  Hank Mobley: Funk In Deep Freeze
13.  Horace Silver: Sister Sadie
14.  Art Blakey: Dat Dere
15.  Jimmy Smith: The Jumpin’ Blues
16.  Larry Young: Monk’s Dream
17.  Thelonious Monk: Who Knows
18.  Thelonious Monk: Skippy
19.  Herbie Nichols: The Gig
20.  Andrew Hill: New Monastery
21.  Art Blakey: Mosaic
22. Joe Henderson: Mode For Joe
23. Sam Rivers: Luminous Monolith
24. Herbie Hancock: Cantaloupe Island
25.Wayne Shorter: Adam’s Apple
26.Tony Williams: Red Mask
27. Dianne Reeves: I Got It Bad
28. Don Pullen: Song From The Old Country
29. John Scofield: Big Fan
30. Joe Lovano: 26-2
31. Mark Shim: Dumplin’
32.Cassandra Wilson: Right Here Right Now

 

Edited December 21, 2022 by Late

[Late]

On 6/21/2004 at 7:20 PM, bresna said:

Cuscuna has the original "Blue Trane" photo, [and] he saw that Trane is actually sucking on a lollipop in the picture, not a reed like everyone thought. The guys in Japan tried to get Michael to use a reed in the shoot and he told them it was a lollipop. On the back of the CD, it has artist listing: Michael Cuscuna, diskjocky; Blue Note Records, music; Julius Keilwerth, sax; Lollipop, candy

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Almost time to celebrate this disc's 25th anniversary. 🙃