Four Star records.

[Hardbopjazz]

Has anyone ever bought anything from this label? I just got a Monk CD from a 1963 Japan performance. I have never heard of this label before.

[mikeweil]

I only know of a Four Star label from California in the 1940's .....

[jazzbo]

Not sure what was the deal with this label in the nineties; they put out this Monk of TV performances in Japan, AND Blakey TV performances in Japan, a Derek Smith Trio lp, a Teddy Wilson that I think was a transcription date, and some other items that I never did pick up that seemed to fall in those three camps of recordings.

Probably a bootleg label in general.

[JSngry]

There was a fine Joseph Jarman album with Geri Allen on Four Star that was originally on a Japanese label. Don't know how "legit" the Four Star release was.

[Chuck Nessa]

AFAIK all their issues were licensed from Japan. They issued a Joseph Jarman date with Geri Allen as well.

Too slow on the draw again.

Edited May 31, 2005 by Chuck Nessa

[md655321]

Im pretty sure I own that Monk cd. Good music, with Charlie Rouse on "tumpet" according to the liner notes.

[Hardbopjazz]

It does list Charlie Rouse on Trumpet. The sound is great for the Monk date. Not much as far as packaging. Just a sleeve with a photo of Monk and The track listing on the back. I got it used a record store for .99 cents. Cpuldn't go wrong.

Edited May 31, 2005 by Hardbopjazz

[BbM7]

Don't know their provenance, but the discounters and $1.99 bins seem to have lots of these.

[Peter Friedman]

I have two CDs on the Four Star label.

Tommy Flanagan - Master Trio

w. Ron Carter and Tony Williams - recorded June 16 & 17, 1983.

Dick Hyman - A Waltz Dressed In Blue

w. Michael Moore and Ron Traxier

Peter Friedman

[SEK]

Joseph Jarman's "Inheritance" on Four Star is a favorite (but/and I'm likely to feel that way about most of Jarman's works).

[Spontooneous]

I've got these, and I like them all:

Art Blakey, A Day With Art Blakey, Vol. 1, FS-40042

Art Blakey, A Day With Art Blakey, Vol. 2, FS-40043

Joseph Jarman, Inheritance, FS-40060

Sonny Rollins, Without A Song, FS-40088

Tommy Flanagan, Master Trio, FS-40057

[king ubu]

I got that Jarman disc... found it at a cheapo uses shop several years ago. It looks somewhat weird, as if the cover was done at home on an old b/w xerox. Got to dig it up and listen after these endorseemnts here!