Hidden tracks

[Durium]

In the item Where Are You Listening To Now of this forum Paul Secor tells about an experience he had while playing the Charles Mingus CD: Pre-Bird (Mercury/Verve) - I guess I'd always shut this off when the music on "Half-Mast Inhibition" ended. I'd compared the timings with the old Mingus Revisited CD, and "Half-Mast Inhibition" on PreBird runs about a minute longer, although the music seems to be the same. This listen, I let "Half-Mast" play out, and after a silence, there's about 45 seconds of control booth/studio talk and a snippet of Lorraine Cousins singing "Weird Nightmare" - perhaps one of the edits in the released form of that track. The edits are displayed after the track listing as each track plays, which is interesting.

I had te same experiences with the Verve CD Baby Breeze from Chet Baker. When the last track Think Beautiful has finished ( 4: 18) the CD seems to have been ended. If you don't stop it or change the CD at once because you love to finish the article in the news paper you're reading, studio noises and music starts again after one minute.

These hidden tracks were added by Verve in some releases.These bonus tracks have all turned up at the end of the compact disc in question, not mentioned in the insert sleeve-notes, on the tray card, or listed in the track.

Thanks to some recent articles some tracks could be traced.

Hidden tracks

Keep swinging

Durium

[couw]

some more examples have been mentioned here on this board. If you press rewind after the first track starts on the Billy Bauer Verve Elite "The Plectrist", you will get 9 minutes of additional material. The same applies to studio chatter on John Coltrane's "Interstellar Space" (though only on the US issue it seems). There is some studio chatter at the end of Dinah Washington's "What A Difference a Day Makes" and apparantly there is 13 minutes of bonus material on Louis Armstrong's "I Love Jazz".

[brownie]

There's also the hidden inflight version of 'Nuages' during the Caravelle plane inaugural flight that was included although unannounced at the end of the 'Sacha Distel Jazz Guitarist' double CD from the Jazz In Paris series.

[CJ Shearn]

where is the hidden track on "Black Codes"?

[Durium]

where is the hidden track on "Black Codes"?

You're right, Shearn, it's not as hidden as I described in my blog.

The CD contains 7 (seven) items. The seventh title "blues" is written on the "label" ( I guess you understand what I mean with the label as I'm talking about a CD !!), but NOT in the liner notes of the CD nor in the track list on the back.

So, the seventh track is NOT in the information book and track list, but it is printed on the label !!

Sorry !!

Keep swinging

Durium

Edited August 15, 2006 by Durium

[Ken Dryden]

I seem to recall that there was an incomplete take not listed but heard on the Mulligan-Desmond Verve CD reissue.

Mandolinist David Grisman makes a habit of including hidden tracks on most of his Acoustic Disc CDs, though they usually are complete tracks.

[CJ Shearn]

I thought the hidden track on the Wynton was "Blues". Ok, I'm not crazy

Edited August 15, 2006 by CJ Shearn

[shaft]

The Story checks out to be true with Chet's Baby Breeze. Quite fun even if the drummer (Charlie Rice) plays very oddly part of the extra time...;-)

/Shaft

[Jim R]

some more examples have been mentioned here on this board. If you press rewind after the first track starts on the Billy Bauer Verve Elite "The Plectrist", you will get 9 minutes of additional material. The same applies to studio chatter on John Coltrane's "Interstellar Space" (though only on the US issue it seems). There is some studio chatter at the end of Dinah Washington's "What A Difference a Day Makes" and apparantly there is 13 minutes of bonus material on Louis Armstrong's "I Love Jazz".

Durium, look through this thread again. It was Michael Fitzgerald that alerted us to a number of discs with hidden material in the Verve Elite series.