JLH reissue plans

[AmirBagachelles]

"bugged to a faretheewell" is google-able, but I didn't learn anything from cursory clicks

[J.A.W.]

I guess it's not gonna happen...

[jonathanhorwich]

The problem is the rights to the Flying Dutchman catalog reside with the several daughters of Bob Thiele. They wish to sell the entire catalog to someone. In the meantime they will not lease out the rights to any individual title. I am hoping they will sell soon at which point I would lease the rights from the new owner. Or I am hoping the daughters will change their minds and let me lease the two Carter Bradford releases on Flying Dutchman. Hope that clarifies. By the way, Sony Entertainment owned the rights up until 2010ish, but through whatever means ownership is now with the daughters.

Edited December 14, 2011 by JLH

[Head Man]

The problem is the rights to the Flying Dutchman catalog reside with the several daughters of Bob Thiele. They wish to sell the entire catalog to someone. In the meantime they will not lease out the rights to any individual title. I am hoping they will sell soon at which point I would lease the rights from the new owner. Or I am hoping the daughters will change their minds and let me lease the two Carter Bradford releases on Flying Dutchman. Hope that clarifies. By the way, Sony Entertainment owned the rights up until 2010ish, but through whatever means ownership is now with the daughters.

Thanks for explaining that, Jonathan. Fingers crossed it turns out well.

[AllenLowe]

get that Pujol guy to help you - he's got lotsa tapes in his basement. Might be one of those.

[clifford_thornton]

Interesting - I can't imagine anyone wanting the whole catalog because there are a fair number of clinkers along with the good stuff.

[ejp626]

Interesting - I can't imagine anyone wanting the whole catalog because there are a fair number of clinkers along with the good stuff.

Right, but why would they let people cherry pick through the catalog if there is a reasonable chance they can sell the whole thing (didn't 32 Jazz have the rights to the whole Muse catalog or something)? I can understand the logic at least. You could argue that one or two limited releases like we are talking about here might actually increase the visibility of the brand and make a sale more likely, but that is pure speculation.

I guess it is the ratio of clinkers to the good stuff that determines if this is a reasonable strategy or not. Of course, anything they get in 2012 is going to be less than in 2000, for instance, just because of the consolidation/collapse of the music industry.

[AmirBagachelles]

Let's hope the daughters are motivated by good intent to see great LIVING artists and the families of DECEASED artists benefit again, albeit modestly, from their own work. Should we send the gals each some coin, "there's more where that came from", that kind of thing? I'm in.

[David Ayers]

Some of those FD titles have been in print on CD recently - I guess the first thing that will happen is that they will disappear. I like the idea that a further selection of titles would come back - but the whole label...

[JSngry]

Here they are:

10101 Steve Allen & Oliver Nelson - Soulful Brass #2

10102 Spontaneous Combustion - Come And Stick Your Head In

10103 Jon Appleton - Appleton Syntonic Menagerie

10104 Bob Thiele Emergency - Head Start

10105 Stanley Crouch - Ain’t No Ambulances For No Nigguhs Tonight

10106 Tom Scott - Hair To Jazz

10107 Horace Tapscott - The Giant Is Awakened

10108 John Carter & Bobby Bradford - Flight For Four

10109 Jimmy Gordon & His Jazznpops Band - Hog Fat

10110 Ron Anthony - Oh! Calcutta!

10111 Robert Scheer's A Night At Santa Rita

10112 Duke Ellington - Duke Ellington's My People

10113 Esther Marrow - Newport News, Virginia

10114 Tom Scott - Paint Your Wagon

10115 Leon Thomas - Spirits Known And Unknown

10116 Oliver Nelson - Black, Brown And Beautiful

10117 Gato Barbieri - The Third World

10118 Pete Hamill's Massacre At My Lai

10120 Johnny Hodges - Three Shades Of Blue

10121 Jon Appleton & Don Cherry - Human Music

10122 George Russell - Othello Ballet Suite/Electronic Organ Sonata No. 1

10123 Ornette Coleman - Friends And Neighbours: Ornette Live At Prince Street

10124 George Russell - Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature (1968)

10125 Jan Garbarek - George Russell Presents The Esoteric Circle

10126 Gunter Hampel - The 8th Of July 1969

10127 Pete Hamill's Murder At Kent State University

10128 John Carter & Bobby Bradford - Self Determination Music

10130 Oliver Nelson & Carl B. Strokes - The Mayor And The People

10131 Gil Scott-Heron - Small Talk At 125th And Lenox

10132 Leon Thomas - The Leon Thomas Album

10133 Steve Allen - Soulful Brass #3

10134 Oliver Nelson And The "Berlin Dreamband" - Berlin Dialogue For Orchestra

10135 Chico Hamilton - El Exigente/The Demanding One

10136 Leon Thomas & H. Rap Brown - SNCC’s Rap

10137 Will Jordan - The Great Comedy Album Starring Spiro T. Agnew

10138 Count Basie & His Orchestra - Afrique

10139 Larry Coryell - Barefoot Boy

10140 Mike Lipskin With Willie "The Lion" Smith - California Here I Come

10141 Angela Davis - Soul And Soledad

10142 Leon Thomas - In Berlin

10143 Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces Of A Man

10144 Gato Barbieri - Fenix

10145 Harold Alexander - Sunshine Man

10146 Lester Young & Coleman Hawkins- Classic Tenors

10147 Earl Hines - The Mighty Fatha

10148 Harold Alexander - Are You Ready?

10149 Oliver Nelson - Swiss Suite

10150 Shelly Manne & Co. - Signature

10151 Gato Barbieri - El Pampero

10152 Bob Thiele & His New Happy Times Orchestra - Those Were The Days

10153 Gil Scott-Heron - Free Will

10154 Bernard "Pretty" Purdie - Soul Is... Pretty Purdie

10155 Leon Thomas - Blues And The Soulful Truth

10156 Gato Barbieri - Under Fire

10157 The Richard Davis Trio - Song For Wounded Knee

10158 Gato Barbieri - Bolivia

10159 Bobby Hackett - What A Wonderful World

10161 Teresa Brewer & Count Basie - The Songs Of Bessie Smith

10163 Lonnie Liston Smith - Astral Traveling

10164 Leon Thomas - Facets: The Legend Of Leon Thomas

10165 Gato Barbieri - The Legend Of Gato Barbieri

10166 Duke Ellington & Teresa Brewer - It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing

10167 Leon Thomas - Full Circle

1-0550 Gato Barbieri - Yesterdays

1-0591 Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes - Cosmic Funk

1-0592 Oliver Nelson - In London With Oily Rags

1-0825 Oliver Nelson - Skull Session

1-0827 Richard "Groove" Holmes - Onsaya Joy

1-0829 Bobby Hackett - Strike Up The Band

1-0830 Cesar Ascarrunz - Cesar 830

1-0833 Tom Scott - In L.A.

1-0834 Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes - Expansions

1-0964 Bob Thiele & His Orchestra - I Saw Pinetop Spit Blood

1-1082 Elek Bacsik - Bird And Dizzy: A Musical Tribute

1-1120 Bucky Pizzarelli With Joe Venuti - Nightwings

1-1145 Shelly Manne - Hot Coles

1-1146 Richard "Groove" Holmes - Six Million Dollar Man

1-1147 Gato Barbieri - El Gato

1-1196 Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes - Visions Of A New World

1-1197 Sonny Stitt - Dumpy Mama

1-1371 The World’s Greatest Jazz Band Of Yank Lawson & Bob Haggart - Recorded Live At The Lawrenceville School

1-1372 Mike Wofford - Scott Joplin Interpretations

1-1378 Bucky Pizzarelli With Bud Freeman - Bucky & Bud

2-1449 Oliver Nelson - A Dream Deferred

1-1460 Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes - Reflections Of A Golden Dream

1-1461 Steve Marcus - Sometime Other Than Now

1-1537 Richard "Groove" Holmes - I’m In The Mood for Love

1-1538 Sonny Stitt - Stomp Off Let’s Go

3063 Steve Kuhn Trio - Three Waves

[AllenLowe]

I'd pay some big bucks for a reissue of Hair to Jazz..

[clifford_thornton]

The Gunter Hampel was a reissue of the first album on his Birth label, and he has put it out on CD.

[Head Man]

I'd pay some big bucks for a reissue of Hair to Jazz..

There's an unplayed copy available here for small bucks:

Tom Scott - Hair To Jazz

BTW I know nothing about the condition of the album or the seller.

[mjazzg]

The Gunter Hampel was a reissue of the first album on his Birth label, and he has put it out on CD.

and it's a mighty fine listen, I'd say

[WorldB3]

I just picked up a copy at Amoeba on Haight St in SF. For anybody in the bay area looking for a copy they have 5 left.

Its also now listed on Amazon as being in stock.

So glad this got the proper reissue it deserves.

[AfricaBrass]

I hope you guys don't mind me bringing this thread back up. I just wanted to mention how much I loved the Julius Hemphill and Bill Dixon releases. I haven't been able to budget for many new releases but I had to get these two and I was extremely happy with them.

I was also wondering if there has been an announcement of what the next reissue will be? I'm looking forward to it, whatever it is.

[colinmce]

Mr. Horowitch had said he was definitely going to do Jeremy Steig's Flute Fever with Denny Zeitlin. Hopefully this is still the case.

[AfricaBrass]

Mr. Horowitch had said he was definitely going to do Jeremy Steig's Flute Fever with Denny Zeitlin. Hopefully this is still the case.

Thanks colinmce! I would like to hear that album. The only Jeremy Steig music I have heard is the reissue that Blue Note did.

[jeffcrom]

Flute Fever is a pretty fabulous album.

[AfricaBrass]

Flute Fever is a pretty fabulous album.

I'm really excited about hearing it now! I'm sure the reissue will be done with the same care as the previous two and I know it will be great!

[jlhoots]

I thought there was a Clare Fischer also under consideration.

[AfricaBrass]

I thought there was a Clare Fischer also under consideration.

That would be great! Thanks for letting me know. I'm so out of the loop with everything.

[jonathanhorwich]

Thank you all so much for your recent comments. And especially thank you AfricaBrass for restarting this thread as luckily it came to my email inbox. I am not good at using the blog.

I am about to leave Tokyo back to Chicago. I just finished the new cover here in Tokyo for Clare Fischer, Extension which will be fully manufactured in two weeks. The music is large ensemble jazz with classical and other tinges. Not avant. But as brilliant as jazz arrangement ever gets. It is pure genius in my opinion and why I am putting it out. I hope you all will like it. It gets the same sound and packaging treatment as all the previous IPI reissues. Sound is straight off the 3 track masters at EMI.

Next will be Steig, Flute Fever and tnen Joe Daley, At Newport 63'. At Sony Entertainment in NYC I transferred all the Daley tapes and there is enough material for three CDs. NONE of the actual original live music from Newport was on the vinyl. None. The live material has never been published. The vinyl was all studio performances, heavily edited, and reverbed to death and gone. The real live stuff is killer good. The rhythm section is amazing. And of course there is no reverb on the live stuff and it is dead sounding like the real outdoors.

I am blown away with the performances both in the studio and at Newport and the sound quality. Three CDs worth. It will be in a deluxe box. Expense to me and the consumer is the only hitch right now as the box alone adds thousands to the cost. But the box will be gorgeous.

More data to come.

Again thank you all for bringing this all to the fore and allowing me to give some predict to what is ahead.

Edited February 24, 2012 by JLH

[colinmce]

!!!

You are amazing, sir. Thank you, thank you.

[jazzbo]

Great news! Thanks!