Blue Note liquidation at Dusty Groove

[colinmce]

Doubtful many people will need any of these records at this point, but if you do in fact, Dusty Groove has a huge bloc of RVGs & Conns sealed & all for $6.99-7.99. It really is the end.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

horrible

[JETman]

horrible

Not really -- it's Don Was to the rescue!!! And UMG too!

[sonnymax]

Personally, I'm glad to see the RVG remasters go. Aside from some of the early stuff (Miles Vol. 1 & 2, Monk's Genius Vol. 1 & 2, Eminent J.J., and a few others) I never did care for those things.

Edited August 20, 2012 by sonnymax

[Chuck Nessa]

Some are terrific, some not.

[CraigP]

Thanks for the heads-up, I filled in a couple of Joe Henderson titles and a Horace Parlan that I didn't have.

[StarThrower]

My local brick & mortar sells all this stuff for 5.99

I bought five CDs yesterday.

[JSngry]

How do we know that this is a liquidation and not just a new price point?

[mjzee]

True. J&R seems to have all these @ $5.99.

[CJ Shearn]

How do we know that this is a liquidation and not just a new price point?

I don't know Jim, but it seems with the new leadership, and Don Was that catalog items, deep catalog items which the RVG and Conn series had are no longer of interest to the new Blue Note, only the same titles that attract casual fans over and over. I doubt we'll see 24/96 issues of "Lee Morgan's "Live at the Lighthouse" boxset or John Patton's titles, Tina Brooks etc. It'd be great to see what was issued on CD in the new HD tracks series but I doubt it. I know so many dislike RVG's but I'm lucky that I have so many titles

[colinmce]

Well, first off DG often buys bulk dead stock from labels; they have the same deal with Cecma, Hatology, Black Saint, About Time and others. Second, I think we can rightly infer from the discontinuation of the RVG series nearly 4 years ago and the almost across-the-board cuts of EMI jazz label CDs that started in 2008, as well as the lack of any visible commitment to archive releases in this same time frame that these albums are done. Many have disappeared from active sale at Amazon. Also, we're talking about records that sell in the dozens to hundreds a year (for the most part) but were printed in the thousands. So I don't think we'll run out anytime soon.