Freddie Roach - Good Move

[bertrand]

I picked up this CD at the Jazz Record Center in NYC. Just opened it and see that it is 'manufactured and distributed by Jazz Heritage' (this is written above the bar code). The actual CD says 'Jazz Heritage Society', no Blue Note logo, and it is black and white, not Blue.

So is this a CD-R? The booklet does not look like a copy, but the paper is flimsier. Is this a sort of yourmusic.com CD club? At least their pressings looked like real Blue Notes.

It does not look like an amazon CD-R.

Ironically, I passed on two Andrew Hill Soul Notes because I thought all Soul Notes out there now are CDRs. Is this the case?

Bertrand.

[king ubu]

If by "out there now" you're generally speaking (and not about "Jazz Heritage" which I know nothing of), I don't think so.

Some CDs by Soulnote/Blacksaint are out there (ones I got - just some months before the boxes appeared - include "Seagulls of Kristiansund" by Mal Waldron and "Misterioso" by Paul Motian).

Haven't ever seen a CDR, but I'd be very careful about ordering any Black Saint/Soul Notes (I think a friend actually got a CDR of "Misterioso"), even more so since amazon isn't always correct in their descriptions (I bought two effin' CDR copies of a Larry Young disc because both times it just said "Audio CD" in the description... still got to return one of 'em).

[Dan Gould]

There's been a lot of discussion over the years of Jazz Heritage Society but obviously you missed it. So the short answer to your question is: They sell legitimately licensed recordings and none of them are CDRs.

[king ubu]

(And I probably ignored it since they're a US operation?)

[colinmce]

I have been a member for some years, but the service is basically dead now and was mostly worthless in the past. I have received some mixed product from them. I ordered a bunch of RVGs once that were the real deal. Other CDs, not so much. I got some Miles Davis remasters that had pretty poor printing on the booklets. The discs were standard redbook, but with a JHS logo. Ditto some Savoy remasters and old Columbia Benny Goodmans-- actually terrible printing on these, but real discs with JHS logos on them. They also used to traffic in these abominations:

[Dan Gould]

(And I probably ignored it since they're a US operation?)

Sorry; I should have quoted Bertrand's post to make it plain I was responding to him.

[JSngry]

They were essentially a "record club", weren't they?

[Dan Gould]

Yes. OK prices, never shipped when I didn't want them to, and some rare CDs occasionally (I think in particular of More Cookin' at Carlos, a Music Masters issue of a Benny Carter concert. I never saw it elsewhere, don't know if it was really unique to the Club.