Duke's Mixture / At the Bal Masque

[jazzbo]

Well, this definitely is not the way we'd LIKE to see this material issued, but on March 27 Collectables is issuing a cd that has a 10" Columbia from 1955 (Duke's Mixture) combined with the lp At the Bal Masque.

Haven't seen it mentioned here yet. . . .I'm getting it.

[Chuck Nessa]

  jazzbo said:

Well, this definitely is not the way we'd LIKE to see this material issued, but on March 27 Collectables is issuing a cd that has a 10" Columbia from 1955 (Duke's Mixture) combined with the lp At the Bal Masque.

Haven't seen it mentioned here yet. . . .I'm getting it.

Stupid coupling unless you consider "Mixture" bonus material. I hate stuff like this but it is the future of reissues from Sony/BMG and probably others soon.

[jazzbo]

Yes, I'm just viewing "Mixture" as a freebie. . . doesn't make sense, but I agree, I think this is the future.

[paul secor]

  jazzbo said:

Yes, I'm just viewing "Mixture" as a freebie. . . doesn't make sense, but I agree, I think this is the future.

The future at least as far as most U.S. releases go. There's always Japan. And we can hope that Mosaic will hang in there.

[Steve Gray]

I am not familiar with Duke's Mixture.

What's on it?

[JSngry]

  Steve Gray said:

I am not familiar with Duke's Mixture.

What's on it?

Same here.

[jazzbo]

"Duke's Mixture". . .the phrase usually refers to pipe tobacco blends?

Well, it's a six track EP with:

1. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart (From "Cotton Club Parade of 1938")

2. The Hawk Talks

3. How High The Moon

4. Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me (Vocal by Al Hibbler)

5. V.I.P.'s Boog

6. The Mooche

As far as I can tell.

It seems to reissue material released on 78 from '38 to '52 or so. Sort of a dance compilation?

Edited March 18, 2007 by jazzbo

[Chuck Nessa]

Lon is correct. This silly collection was part of Columbia's budget "House Party" series of 10" lps.

[brownie]

Strange the albums that Columbia is recyling!

[jazzbo]

What's most disappointing to me is that Collectables gets to license this, and we don't have a reissue from Legacy or Mosaic Singles.

[Chuck Nessa]

  jazzbo said:

What's most disappointing to me is that Collectables gets to license this, and we don't have a reissue from Legacy or Mosaic Singles.

Forget Legacy. The name will survive but the staff has been "released".

[jazzbo]

I know, so you've said. Still sad. In that case, one of their last projects, the Fats Waller box, was so damned good it's criminal there's not more.

[Guest donald petersen]

dan gold flipped my dip for calling collectables POS in another thread but come on....there's no love or tenderness being put into their releases (or intelligent thought, for that matter).

[JSngry]

  jazzbo said:

"Duke's Mixture". . .the phrase usually refers to pipe tobacco blends?

Well, it's a six track EP with:

1. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart (From "Cotton Club Parade of 1938")

2. The Hawk Talks

3. How High The Moon

4. Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me (Vocal by Al Hibbler)

5. V.I.P.'s Boog

6. The Mooche

As far as I can tell.

It seems to reissue material released on 78 from '38 to '52 or so. Sort of a dance compilation?

  Chuck Nessa said:

Lon is correct. This silly collection was part of Columbia's budget "House Party" series of 10" lps.

Most (all?) of those were on The World of Duke Ellington Vol 3, right?

[jazzbo]

I think so . . . I think I used to have that and some other Columbia vinyls that had these tunes; I sold them when I bought five French CBS cds that covered 1947 to 1951.

[felser]

  donald petersen said:

dan gold flipped my dip for calling collectables POS in another thread but come on....there's no love or tenderness being put into their releases (or intelligent thought, for that matter).

Agreed Colletables is often maddening (the bizarre pairings of unrelated Atlantic albums come to mind - the Jack Wilson album paired with the Frances Wayne album is my "favorite"), yet I'll give them some props for putting some of this stuff out at all, rockwise as well as jazzwise. And their sound has gotten a lot better over the years. I'm very thankful indeed for the Sugarloaf twofer, the Pacific Gas and Electric twofer, the first New York Rock 'n' Roll Ensemble album, the John Lewis twofers, the Charles Lloyd reissues, etc.

Edited March 18, 2007 by felser

[gmonahan]

That's lousy news about Legacy. I didn't know that (I'm always the last grape on the vine....), and a real shame. There were lots of cool Duke things yet to be properly reissued: Bal Masque, Drum is a Woman, Indigos. Mosaic's Singles series seems to be picking up some of the slack, and as I noted on another thread, they're hoping to reissue the Ellington 30s big band stuff, but STILL, Legacy was doing so damned well. And with access to the RCA material, they could have really gone to town.

Sigh.