Blue Moon - Vee Jays?

[Man with the Golden Arm]

Probably been discussed on the old BNBB (& I know it's all about the music) - but, would anyone care to weigh in on the quality or even the ethos of the Vee Jay catalogue as documented by Blue Moon, Barcelona. I see items re-re-issued by Collectables and Koch but having recently purchased a Koch release I have snobbily chalked up their quality as one to be wary of.

Thanks.

[Claude]

I have two Wayne Shorter Veejay/Blue Moon CDs (Wayning Moments, Second genesis) which sound good, but I don't have other versions to compare them. The master takes are stereo, the alterates mono. I would give them a sound rating of 7,5/10.

I also bought (and immediately got rid of) Wynton Kelly "Kelly Great" on Blue Moon, which sounded really poor (3/10), and was mono, although the recording from 1959 must be stereo I guess.

[mikeweil]

A note in the Mosaic set says the Blue Moon Cds were not licensed properly. But they reissue some stuff - most of their CDs, actually - that's not available elsewhere. The other labels usually concentrate on the albums promising higher sales, the Shorter, Morgan, Kelly, Chambers and MJT stuff. So I'd say get the others from Blue Moon - and they often reissue two LPs on one CD.

Anybody compared sound quality? I know the Buddy deFranco VeeJay sounds better on Blue Moon.

Edited November 14, 2003 by mikeweil