The First U S RVG You Ever Bought?

[Soulstation1]

Cannonball -Somethin' Else

[Noj]

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers -Moanin'

[Chuck Nessa]

ditto

[couw]

ditto

both?

[jmjk]

Horace Silver - Blowin' the Blues Away

[couw]

I got several at once. zweitausendeins used to offer these a couple of months after they hit the streets and I usually just ordered them all at once, as I didn't have most if not all of the titles yet.

[vibes]

Grant Green - Idle Moments. Didn't know who Grant Green or any of the sidemen were, had never heard of Rudy Van Gelder or anything. I just thought the vibes/guitar combo might sound interesting. It was also my first Blue Note CD. I had no idea what I was getting myself into...

[Jim R]

Soulstation, it was Soul Station.

[John Tapscott]

Until I joined the old BNBB, I never paid much attention to whether something was an RVG or a Conn, or just a Blue Note CD with no special designation To me, it was a BN and that's all that mattered. But if memory serves me correctly the first RVG I ever bought was Hank Mobley - Soul Station. Actually, I had several before that because a friend of mine was a Capitol/EMI rep and he used to give me some extra promos he had around. So before the Mobley I had already the RVG's of Dolphy's Out to Lunch and Rollins' Vol 2 on my shelves (and maybe a few others).

[AfricaBrass]

Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch

I picked it up on the way to a recording session. I got there early, so I was able to listen to the whole cd before our session started. Needless to say, I played some interesting solos that night.

[BruceH]

Either Soul Station or Dexter's Go! album. I got them very close together so it's hard to say for sure now.

I soon started buying lots of RVG's simply to stock up on BN 'core catalog' titles that I'd been meaning to get one of these days. Then it got out of hand.

[sidewinder]

Blakey's 'A Night at Birdland Vols 1 and 2'. Pretty stunning sound on these, rendering my old Liberty LPs obsolete..

[Big Al]

Somethin' Else

[wesbed]

Horace Silver - Song For My Father.

[jmjk]

The 1st few RVG releases were a few dollars more expensive than they are now. There were, like, Conn price in many places.

I recall looking at the photo of Rudy on the back, and thinking, "If gotta pay $15.99 for a remaster, the least they could do is remove that awful photo of Van Gelder!"

[BFrank]

Andrew Hill - "Point of Departure"

[David Williams]

Unity.

In fact, it was looking for more info on the RVG series that led me to the BNBB.

[.:.impossible]

I can't remember. Whatever it was, it had a slipcover that is now long gone.

[Shrdlu]

"Hub Tones", with the silly outer cover, which I still dare not discard.

[connoisseur series500]

I honestly cannot remember. I don't think I can remember the first Conn I bought either.

[BruceH]

The 1st few RVG releases were a few dollars more expensive than they are now. There were, like, Conn price in many places.

I recall looking at the photo of Rudy on the back, and thinking, "If gotta pay $15.99 for a remaster, the least they could do is remove that awful photo of Van Gelder!"

I remember that! Those were the days... The days got better when RVG's went mid-price.