2009 Connoisseurs

[AndrewHill]

So I see that there's no indication that we're getting a new batch this year at the BN website so far...does anyone know if there's going to be a batch this year?

Edited May 26, 2009 by Holy Ghost

[Bluerein]

We probably won't be seeing any reissues by EMI in the future anymore.............

[sidewinder]

Damn ! Having said that, pretty well all the essential stuff is now out. Blue Note and Mr Cuscuna have done us proud over the last few years.

[Rooster_Ties]

We probably won't be seeing any reissues by EMI in the future anymore.............

That may indeed happen, but I'll believe it only when I see it.

That said, I'll bet we do see a new round of Conns before the end of the calendar year.

[hprill0]

There was a Blue Note press release earlier this year which said that the Connoisseur Series would be continued.

[Brad]

Does that mean Conns as well as RVGs, not to mention anything else?

[king ubu]

hm, I posted a reply in this thread today - was it deleted by the mods or was there some kind of technical problem?

It included some snide remarks about various "Blue Trane" editions but still no readily available reissue of "Cliff Jordan" or the Tyrone Washington ablum... now if that's already something in need of moderation I'd be quite worried, but I hope it was just some technical issue, otherwise I'd like to know!

[Bluerein]

it's ALL the EMI reissue series so RvG as well. Rudy will still do RvG's for Concord. There might be a september RvG release but nothing fixed and approved yet.

[colinmce]

I direct you to a recent interview w/ Cuscuna (http://www.openskyjazz.com/blog/?m=200905):

"The Blue Note Rudy Van Gelder series will continue to revisit more Blue Note classics. But the Blue Note vault is tapped out of releasable unissued material. That’s why we started what we call internally the discovery series, looking to outside sources for new discoveries. And we hit with a megaton bang starting it off with the Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall. Charles Mingus At Cornell, and Horace Silver at Newport 1958 followed. We have a killer Freddie Hubbard album Without a Song - Live in Europe coming in June. Freddie was thrilled with this music - he told me he thought it was some of his best playing ever captured on tape. He was going to do a lot of press for it but alas… We are working on material by Andrew Hill and Wes Montgomery next."

[Bluerein]

Keep on hoping EMI will approve some more reissues but don't count on it. Business is shrinking by the minute and although BN reissues make at least some money they are likely to go the download route.

For those who still question my words.....I spoke to MC in person last week.

[Rooster_Ties]

I direct you to a recent interview w/ Cuscuna (http://www.openskyjazz.com/blog/?m=200905):

"We are working on material by Andrew Hill and Wes Montgomery next."

!!!!!!!

[Brad]

I hate to sound like a broken record but how could the vault be tapped out of Three Sounds material as there hasn't been a RVG or a Conn (unless I've been doing a Rip Van Winkle).

[Dan Gould]

Michael said "releasable unissued material", so that isn't referring to any Sounds LPs that might be reissued. And he's said that the sales figures weren't very good on the previous Sounds reissues, making it unlikely we'd see more.

[Cali]

Why not Lou Donaldson's BLUES WALK?

[jazzbo]

"Blues Walk" has been in print for 19 years!

[king ubu]

yeah, but they had things go OOP only to let the resurface as RVGs a bit later...

and Cliff Jordan has not been in print for a while

[Cali]

"Blues Walk" has been in print for 19 years!

I was speaking of an upgrade/RVG. The version I have could use a 24 bit enhancement.

[jazzbo]

Sure I'd love to see an RVG. I don't think we will for a while.

It's interesting that this has been in print since 1990. It must sell enough to be kept in stock. . . they're likely to not mess with that for now. I wonder why Blues Walk sells that much though, just curious. It's a solid album.