HOT JAZZ on BLUE NOTE

[Durium]

I bought this 4CD box some weeks ago in a junk shop in a town 150 km from here and I was very happy with it, because it contains a lot of 1940s Blue Note recordings that will be never (?) re-issued in the RVG-series I guess. It contains a 4CD box with 72 tracks played by Sidney Bechet, Art Hodes, Sidney de Paris and Edmond Hall.

But ... when I came home and I tried to play the first CD the "needle" jump and scratched the surface, as if it was a grey-played 78rpm recording. I watched the surface of the CD and learned that it was damaged as if someone had used a scourer to "clean" the surface. So were trhe other three CDs. The 4CD are unplayable and I bought a pig in a poke (in Holland we call this a "cat in the bag").

I'm looking for someone who wants to help me. If you have this 4CD set and you want to share the recordings with me I could make this damaged set "complete" again. Please contact me off-list to learn what I can offer you.

koerthchkz@zeelandnet.nl

Thanks .....

[mikeweil]

Could you post a track list (watch out for take numbers!), or is one on AMG or elsewhere? All of this was reissued by Mosaic, I don't remember if all were available as CDs, and some was on Blue Note CDs, so maybe getting a burn of the tracks from other sources as a copy of this exact box might be easier. I only have three of the later Blue Note CDs with Hall and Johnson tracks.

[Durium]

Could you post a track list (watch out for take numbers!), or is one on AMG or elsewhere? All of this was reissued by Mosaic, I don't remember if all were available as CDs, and some was on Blue Note CDs, so maybe getting a burn of the tracks from other sources as a copy of this exact box might be easier. I only have three of the later Blue Note CDs with Hall and Johnson tracks.

Thanks Mike for your suggestion. I have contact with someone who has this box too and can help me. That seems to be a much easier way then building up the complete set again.

Edited December 9, 2005 by Durium

[Alfred]

BLUE NOTE re-released a lot of this music in 1998 as a part of the "BN 60 years celebration" releases/reissues:

• George Lewis and his New Orleans Stompers
  
• Edmond Hall - Profoundly blue
  
• The Blue Note Swingtets
  
• The Blue Note Jazzmen (2CD)
  
• Sidney Bechet - Runnin' wild
  

I don't know if all of them are still available.

[WD45]

And if Blue Note would release the Hodes material then it would almost be complete.

[jazzbo]

I'm with you. As great a job as RVG has done on the early recordings for the label, I'd love to see RVGs of all the Hodes material. It's wonderful stuff! Cool artwork on the originals too!