Crown Records Question

[DMP]

I always lumped Crown with those other supermarket budget labels, but they served a purpose. If my memory is correct (and it might not be), the Charlie Parker Dial material, unavailable for years, came out in the early ‘60’s on a couple LP’s on one of those labels, maybe Baronet or Crown. (One of the titles was “A Handful of Modern Jazz.) But the tunes were mislabeled, so for years I thought Ornithology was Max is Making Wax. 

Edited April 2, 2022 by DMP
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[Teasing the Korean]

2 hours ago, DMP said:

I always lumped Crown with those other supermarket budget labels, but they served a purpose. If my memory is correct (and it might not be), the Charlie Parker Dial material, unavailable for years, came out in the early ‘60’s on a couple LP’s on one of those labels, maybe Baronet or Crown. (One of the titles was “A Handful of Modern Jazz.) But the tunes were mislabeled, so for years I thought Ornithology was Max is Making Wax. 

Many labels didn't release albums as good as Kapu by Milt Raskin, Bongo Madness by Don Ralke, or Jazz Heat, Bongo Beat by the Latin Jazz All-Stars, featuring Buddy Collette. 

[Stonewall15]

I have a question regarding Crown LP CLP-5361 "Dave Brubeck- The Greats!!" Paul Desmond plays only on track 1 "Lyons Busy". Who plays sax on tracks 2 through 7? Also who are the other players on tracks 2-7?

[jazztrain]

A bit of a mystery.  If you look at the LP, the tunes other than "Lyons Busy" are credited to Bobby Correll. (who is also listed on the cover)  It appears that he was (and still is) a pianist.  Are you sure that Brubeck is on the rest of the album?  The other two musicians shown on the cover (Frank Blake and Bob Kindle) may be pseudonyms.  What is the instrumentation on the other sides?

Perhaps Crown was trying to sell the album as a Brubeck item by including a single side by him.

 

[Stonewall15]

The rest of the album does not sound like Brubeck to me. I agree that Crown probably included 1 track by Brubeck to sell the LP.

[Teasing the Korean]

49 minutes ago, Stonewall15 said:

The rest of the album does not sound like Brubeck to me. I agree that Crown probably included 1 track by Brubeck to sell the LP.

That was a common budget-label practice.

Edited April 4, 2022 by Teasing the Korean

[gmonahan]

The Japanese reissued some Crown things. I have a cd of "The New Swingin' Herman Herd" by Woody Herman that I got in Japan a few years back. It was recorded in Chicago in March of 1960. I like the record.

 

 

 

gregmo

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[John L]

I have a lot of Crown LPs in blues and jazz.   They did cut corners on the packaging, never included a dust jacket, sometimes re-used the same photo for covers of different albums.   But some of the music was out of this world.