Black & Blue Label Recommendations

[JSngry]

A few made it out on Inner City's Classic Jazz label.

[clifford_thornton]

Yeah, at least one got the Delmark treatment - Eddie "Clean Head" Vinson's Kidney Stew is Fine.

[Chuck Nessa]

2 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

Yeah, at least one got the Delmark treatment - Eddie "Clean Head" Vinson's Kidney Stew is Fine.

T-Bone Walker as well.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Yes, the T-Bone is pretty nice. A good bit better than those of his later albums I've heard.

MG

[Rabshakeh]

On 10/5/2016 at 4:53 AM, JSngry said:

Guess it's not much help to say that every record I've ever heard on that label totally kicks some kind of ass.

Deep in a Black & Blue hole for the last few days, and I could not agree more with this statement.

[Brad]

Lonnie Smith and Alvin Queen put out Lenox and Seventh, which is a nice recording. 

[ejp626]

Highjacking this thread a bit.  It seems to me that a fair bit of material on Black and Blue label has been available at iTunes and elsewhere as the Black and Blue Definitive Sessions, but there seems to be a lot still unavailable (though often available on CD -- go figure).  I'm probably going to pick up Stéphane Grappelli/Hank Jones London Meeting and am deciding on a few others.

Anyway, I am trying to understand the Midnight Slows series, there are nine or so volumes, and they certainly look like they are compilations but then only one line-up is ever listed, so maybe not?

 

This is Midnight Slows Vol. 2

 

 

(It surely doesn't help matters that Midnight Slows Vol. 1 and 2 seem to be identical!)

Edited Monday at 03:35 PM by ejp626

[Dan Gould]

I haven't looked that carefully at the specifics - I have bought a few of these over the years though.

There is a volume with David "Bubba" Brooks that was thankfully included in the Am I Blue CD reissue - but looking thru discogs, that seems to be a unique situation, the others don't seem to have separate reissues bringing in non-midnight slows style tunes.

I am thinking I should track down volume 7 with Guy Lafitte, but at the same time I wonder if those tracks are on another Lafitte CD reissue.

[ejp626]

It is confusing -- quite a few (though not all) of the other Buckner and Tate and even Lafitte sessions were reissued, and often on the Definitive Sessions (which is great from my perspective), but I'm not seeing these Midnight Slows recordings reissued in any form.  I may be wrong of course, but I might end up ordering a few.  I just wish shipping LPs wasn't so crazy expensive these days.  ☹️