One more of those labels...

[mjzee]

When I saw Miles in concert in 1975, I was surprised to see him walk onstage in a suit and tie. The suit might have been a 3-piece suit.

[David Ayers]

Are Poll Winners Spanish or Andorran or what? They don't appear on the Fresh Sound website, and in fact not all these PD labels do. All a bit impenetrable.

[king ubu]

shhh, I've got some cheap Jazz Lips for sale!

[xybert]

Are Poll Winners Spanish or Andorran or what? They don't appear on the Fresh Sound website, and in fact not all these PD labels do. All a bit impenetrable.

I always presumed that Definitive, Gambit, Free Factory etc were all pretty much the same guys and so i'm guessing Poll Winners fall under the same umbrella. I could be wrong. I feel like they keep coming out with new labels to make them harder to pin down maybe? Doesn't prove anything but they definitely have similar ways of doing things (crediting photos to 'x' etc).

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Are Poll Winners Spanish or Andorran or what? They don't appear on the Fresh Sound website, and in fact not all these PD labels do. All a bit impenetrable.

I always presumed that Definitive, Gambit, Free Factory etc were all pretty much the same guys and so i'm guessing Poll Winners fall under the same umbrella. I could be wrong. I feel like they keep coming out with new labels to make them harder to pin down maybe? Doesn't prove anything but they definitely have similar ways of doing things (crediting photos to 'x' etc).

I've seen drillions of old LP sleeves crediting photos to 'X'. I don't think that's conclusive.

MG

[Big Beat Steve]

I've seen drillions of old LP sleeves crediting photos to 'X'. I don't think that's conclusive.

MG

Indeed.

Including on the much-loved (and perfectly legit) "Original Vogue Masters" CD reissue series of the late 90s.

[xybert]

I've seen drillions of old LP sleeves crediting photos to 'X'. I don't think that's conclusive.

MG

Indeed.

Including on the much-loved (and perfectly legit) "Original Vogue Masters" CD reissue series of the late 90s.

Wow, i'd never noticed it on an official CD release before, found it to be quite notable/prominent on the PD releases from the aforementioned labels. In fact it was one of the first things that made me think that there might be something dodgy about these releases (in before "wasn't it obvious?" Back in the day i wasn't in to the interent and was not conscious of PD releases of this nature at all; a CD in a brick and mortar store was a CD in a brick and mortar store... ignorance is no defence but i didn't give it a second thought at all... wasn't even really conscious of what labels stuff was coming out on other than the mega obvious like Blue Note and Impulse. EDIT: what i was trying to say here was that back in the day, before i was aware of the whole PD thing, if i picked up a CD of material recorded in the forties or fifties i wouldn't be like "wait a minute, Smithers McGee was recording for RCA for the first six months of 1943, and all that material was licensed exclusively to Columbia for reissue in the seventies when Dicky Ballbags was A&R there, however i seem to recall Jazzy Jones records had that series of reissues in the eighties... anyway this CD says Nostalgia Factory Records, and that doesn't sit right with me. I guess NFR could have worked out some deal to release this, but i heard about this whole thing where all these old records are becoming public domain and there's this place in europe where all this dodgy labels are capitalising on it... END OF EDIT ). Ya live and learn.

Edited October 25, 2013 by xybert