mikeweil Posted October 8, 2014 Report Posted October 8, 2014 Ironically, the Red Garland is the one I never got to hear ... "Auf Wiedersehen" was its title. There was an impressive array of pianists in the MPS catalog. Oscar Peterson Jaki Byard Earl Hines Hampton Hawes Barry Harris Milt Buckner Clare Fischer Wolfgang Dauner Hank Jones Joachim Kühn Red Garland who else? Tete Montoliu Eugen Cicero Martial Solal Francy Boland Quote
JSngry Posted October 8, 2014 Report Posted October 8, 2014 Two Red Garland's, remember? The Quota was the other one. A quartet date w/Jimmy Heath along. Didn't get to hear Auf Wiedersehen until relatively recently. Pretty nice, but my preference remains for The Quota. Quote
mikeweil Posted October 8, 2014 Report Posted October 8, 2014 George Shearing Errol Garner George DukeDidn't know about The Quota - Jimmy Heath, that must be nice to listen to. I love his tunes, and his sextet writing on his Riverside LPs. Billy Taylor Fritz Pauer Quote
JSngry Posted October 8, 2014 Report Posted October 8, 2014 Since the download links have been removed for a while now, here's a blog that will tell you everything you already didn't know about MPS/SABA (and a few further offshoots). an incredibly diverse-within-its-own confines catalog, really. http://mps-love.blogspot.com/ Quote
soulpope Posted October 8, 2014 Report Posted October 8, 2014 (edited) Two Red Garland's, remember? The Quota was the other one. A quartet date w/Jimmy Heath along. Didn't get to hear Auf Wiedersehen until relatively recently. Pretty nice, but my preference remains for The Quota. "Auf Wiedersehen" was reissued in Japan in the mid/late nineties....should have this cd somewhere..... Edited October 8, 2014 by soulpope Quote
sidewinder Posted October 8, 2014 Report Posted October 8, 2014 (edited) 'Auf Wiedersehen' is damn good - was listening to this recently. Really nice later trio date and very well recorded. The Japanese CD re-issue was very well done. Ironically, the Red Garland is the one I never got to hear ... "Auf Wiedersehen" was its title. There was an impressive array of pianists in the MPS catalog. Oscar Peterson Jaki Byard Earl Hines Hampton Hawes Barry Harris Milt Buckner Clare Fischer Wolfgang Dauner Hank Jones Joachim Kühn Red Garland who else? Tete Montoliu Eugen Cicero Martial Solal Francy Boland John Taylor {'Decipher') George Shearing Monty Alexander Edited October 8, 2014 by sidewinder Quote
king ubu Posted October 8, 2014 Report Posted October 8, 2014 The Barry Harris ("Vicissitudes", I think) is pretty good - found it on vinyl a while ago. Also the Byard/Hines! Quote
soulpope Posted October 8, 2014 Report Posted October 8, 2014 (edited) The Barry Harris ("Vicissitudes", I think) is pretty good - found it on vinyl a while ago. Also the Byard/Hines! agree - very good trio date with George Duvivier and Lerooy Williams....should have this as japanese Teichiku LP, not sure whether this saw ever CD release (in Japan)..... Edited October 8, 2014 by soulpope Quote
king ubu Posted October 8, 2014 Report Posted October 8, 2014 I think I have some regular european pressing ... same for Hines/Byard. Quote
Teasing the Korean Posted October 8, 2014 Report Posted October 8, 2014 Very happy about Trip to the Mars! That has eluded me? How is the Pat Williams? I bet it is amazing. I wish more of the groovy stuff was included. Maybe a lot that stuff has already come out in one form or another. Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted October 8, 2014 Report Posted October 8, 2014 Nope, it's a new session. MPS didn't do much (if any) reissue work. More Milt Buckner to your liking? http://mps-love.blogspot.com/search/label/Milt%20Buckner Lockjaw? http://mps-love.blogspot.com/search/label/Eddie%20Lockjaw%20Davis Yes, I have those, ta! MG Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted October 8, 2014 Report Posted October 8, 2014 Those Buckner LPs are nice, they groove like mad. MPS / Saba had a deal with Prestige for a while, Don Schlitten even produced a number of LPs for them, all worth hearing. And a fair number of Prestige albums were pressed/distributed by Saba in Europe. My copy of Don Patterson's 'Soul happenin'' says, at the bottom; 'Prestige records im Vertrieb der Saba-Schalplatten' etc. MG Quote
Big Beat Steve Posted October 8, 2014 Report Posted October 8, 2014 Those Buckner LPs are nice, they groove like mad. MPS / Saba had a deal with Prestige for a while, Don Schlitten even produced a number of LPs for them, all worth hearing. And a fair number of Prestige albums were pressed/distributed by Saba in Europe. My copy of Don Patterson's 'Soul happenin'' says, at the bottom; 'Prestige records im Vertrieb der Saba-Schalplatten' etc. MG That was before Mikulski, ZYX and others came in. And probably after Metronome handled the distribution/pressing of Prestige records here. Saba also did some recordings of their own before that line of "Black Forest" recordings became MPS. To sum it up in an oversimplified manner, quite a few 60s SABA recordings/productions are "MPS before there was MPS". Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted October 8, 2014 Report Posted October 8, 2014 Those Buckner LPs are nice, they groove like mad. MPS / Saba had a deal with Prestige for a while, Don Schlitten even produced a number of LPs for them, all worth hearing. And a fair number of Prestige albums were pressed/distributed by Saba in Europe. My copy of Don Patterson's 'Soul happenin'' says, at the bottom; 'Prestige records im Vertrieb der Saba-Schalplatten' etc. MG That was before Mikulski, ZYX and others came in. And probably after Metronome handled the distribution/pressing of Prestige records here. Saba also did some recordings of their own before that line of "Black Forest" recordings became MPS. To sum it up in an oversimplified manner, quite a few 60s SABA recordings/productions are "MPS before there was MPS". Oh yeah, sorry I didn't make that clear - these are LPs from the 60s, a LOT earlier than Mikulski or ZYX, which I only know from CDs. These were issued around about contemporaneously with the US albums. And for a firm with one foot in the avant garde, were pretty unexpected material for them to issue - I think I'm remembering rightly a Billy Butler, and definitely Frank Foster's 'Soul outing'. These were late sixties/early seventies pressings. MG Quote
soulpope Posted October 8, 2014 Report Posted October 8, 2014 George Shearing Errol Garner George Duke Didn't know about The Quota - Jimmy Heath, that must be nice to listen to. I love his tunes, and his sextet writing on his Riverside LPs. Billy Taylor Fritz Pauer Quote
Teasing the Korean Posted October 9, 2014 Report Posted October 9, 2014 How is the Pat Williams? Is it straight-ahead, or does it have have any hip now-sound elements? Quote
Stefan Wood Posted October 9, 2014 Report Posted October 9, 2014 Been trying to sell my Mangelsdorff vol 2 box and live sets for some time now. Quote
clifford_thornton Posted October 9, 2014 Report Posted October 9, 2014 Power by Pauer is a good one. Mary Lou Williams' Black Christ of the Andes came out on Mary/Folkways first, then Saba/MPS. So there is at least one reissue. Quote
JSngry Posted October 10, 2014 Report Posted October 10, 2014 How is the Pat Williams? Is it straight-ahead, or does it have have any hip now-sound elements? Neither...it's basically "jazzy" and such TV themes. And such. The Verve stuff & Threshold & that AMN(?) thing are far more statement-al. Put another way...when it comes time to delete files from my hard drive, this one will be in the first wave. The others, they'll stick around for a little while, except for Vibrations & Threshold, which I have on LP. And yes, I realize I've done nothing to make you not want to hear it anyway. Quote
bakeostrin Posted October 10, 2014 Report Posted October 10, 2014 Regarding the packaging of the new series of 25 cd's, the website shows that cd's when placed together form a mosaic (no pun intended) of the MPS logo. Is there a list of which of these were never issued previously on cd? thanks in advance Quote
Big Beat Steve Posted December 20, 2014 Report Posted December 20, 2014 For German MPs fans and those who read German around here: A bit of online coverage today (a bit of typical media blurb nonsense in there but generally sympathetic): http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.hgbs-studio-in-villingen-warme-toene.7642af34-f9e5-478e-8588-ad4c1a2294d4.html Quote
Teasing the Korean Posted January 10, 2016 Report Posted January 10, 2016 I finally picked up Trip to the Mars by Roland Kovac! So happy to have this! Jazzy big band with some spacey touches. The third track sounds like Peter Thomas! Quote
sidewinder Posted January 10, 2016 Report Posted January 10, 2016 On 20 December 2014 at 10:03 AM, Big Beat Steve said: For German MPs fans and those who read German around here: A bit of online coverage today (a bit of typical media blurb nonsense in there but generally sympathetic): http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.hgbs-studio-in-villingen-warme-toene.7642af34-f9e5-478e-8588-ad4c1a2294d4.html Thanks - the inbuilt translator worked OK, even though it came across as recited by E.T. ! I would love to have a drink in that bar and check out the mixing desk. Must dig out that Crippled Dick Hot Wax DVD - filmed not too long after HGBS's passing as I recall. On 8 October 2014 at 1:52 PM, The Magnificent Goldberg said: And a fair number of Prestige albums were pressed/distributed by Saba in Europe. My copy of Don Patterson's 'Soul happenin'' says, at the bottom; 'Prestige records im Vertrieb der Saba-Schalplatten' etc. MG I've at least one Pat Martino Prestige/SABA LP in this format. Very nice pressing ! Quote
BFrank Posted January 11, 2016 Report Posted January 11, 2016 I always liked those George Duke albums. They were all released before he started making money as a "smooth" musician/producer. They are highly influenced by his tenure with FZ ( who appears on 2-3 of those, btw). Quote
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