Bethlehem Reissues

[bebopbob]

I've noticed that several Bethlehem recordings have been issued twice in the US in the past 10 years or so. Is there any difference in sound quality or music offered between the Bethlehem CDs issued under the WEA Rhino distributed Avenue Jazz issues and the earlier Bethlehem editions issued in the mid 1990s?

[Philly]

Regarding the sound quality you've asked, my friend told me that CD issued by Toshiba EMI is better than one by Avenue Jazz. Also, Toshiba EMI released some Bethlehem CDs in Dec. 2003. Please refer to the hyperlink below.

http://www.toshiba-emi.co.jp/jazz/release/index_j200312.htm

[jazzbo]

To my ears there are not a lot of sonic differences between the earlier and later US cds . . . the later are a little smoother sounding perhaps. The Japanese cds are better sounding---and there are many more of them! Too bad they're as expensive to get as they are and have to basically be ordered from Japan.

[Brad]

There's a few more that have just come out in Japan. See the attached thread, although a couple were cancelled, like the Herbie Harper.

Edited January 29, 2004 by Brad

[brownie]

Several of the original Bethlehem 10-inchers were reissued a couple of years ago as 12-inch LP by an unidentified US company which did a very good job with the remastering and the reproductions of the original covers (by Burt Goldblatt).

I have the following LPs from the reissue series:

BCP-1010 Vinnie Burke Quartet,

BCP-1017 Stan Levey Plays the Compositions of Bill Holman, Bob Cooper and Jimmy Giuffre,

BCP-1025 Herbie Harper (with Mariano, Giuffre, etc.)

[BruceH]

Wow. Can anyone send some of those my way?

[Son-of-a-Weizen]

There's a few more that have just come out in Japan. See the attached thread, although a couple were cancelled, like the Herbie Harper.

http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=4661

[garthsj]

There are so many great Bethlehem albums that still await reissuing in the U.S. Does anyone have a definitive answer as to whether the Rhino Bethlehem reissue series has been cancelled? On hiatus? What?

Garth,

Houston.

[ghost of miles]

There are so many great Bethlehem albums that still await reissuing in the U.S. Does anyone have a definitive answer as to whether the Rhino Bethlehem reissue series has been cancelled? On hiatus? What?

Garth,

Houston.

I was told a couple of years ago that it had been terminated.

[king ubu]

Yes, this Rhino series is gone for at least one and a half or two years, it seems. The latest ones I have are copyrighted in 2000.

I managed to get lots of these discs maybe a year ago, searching on various online sources. Some really good music! Petty there won't be more to come!

ubu

[AndrewHill]

Does anyone have a complete list of what Bethlehem/AvenueJazz/Rhino released?

[David Ayers]

Does anyone have a complete list of what Bethlehem/AvenueJazz/Rhino released?

http://www.jazzdisco.org/bethlehem/

The latest and ongoing round of Japanese issues can be viewed here (along with other stuff with VICJ code):

http://www.hmv.co.jp/search/index.asp?sort...mp;formattype=1

[AndrewHill]

Thanks, but I'm just interested in what Rhino/Avenue Jazz put out on cd-I think from roughly 1999-2001.

[funkogre]

Thanks, but I'm just interested in what Rhino/Avenue Jazz put out on cd-I think from roughly 1999-2001.

see here http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread....1077&page=2 for a partial list from king ubu

[AndrewHill]

Thanks, but I'm just interested in what Rhino/Avenue Jazz put out on cd-I think from roughly 1999-2001.

see here http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread....1077&page=2 for a partial list from king ubu

Thanks! That helps a lot