So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[EKE BBB]

[soulpope]

  On 1/9/2020 at 9:41 AM, EKE BBB said:

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👍Yes👍....

[EKE BBB]

[EKE BBB]

[EKE BBB]

[felser]

[jlhoots]

Muriel Grossmann: Reverence

[John Tapscott]

[HutchFan]

Papa Jo Jones - The Jo Jones Special (Vanguard / Fresh Sound)
with Lucky Thompson

[Peter Friedman]

[duaneiac]

Disc 3 of 4.

[Gheorghe]

I had forgotten how great this is. Since I read Dave Liebman´s autobio and he praises Pete LaRoca, I spinned it today. 

 

And now an old classic is running. When I was at school, many people talked about the famous LesMcCann Eddie Harris stuff.

[soulpope]

  On 1/9/2020 at 4:02 PM, Gheorghe said:

I had forgotten how great this is. Since I read Dave Liebman´s autobio and he praises Pete LaRoca, I spinned it today. 

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 Another superb Joe Henderson sideman date .... a true gem ....

[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

 

 

  On 1/9/2020 at 4:02 PM, Gheorghe said:

And now an old classic is running. When I was at school, many people talked about the famous LesMcCann Eddie Harris stuff.

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I knew that this record was a hit, but I didn't realize how BIG of a hit it was -- until just recently when I was doing some research. 

I read that Atlantic sold more than a million (!) copies of the LP.  Could that be true?  ... If so, wouldn't that make it one of the best selling jazz records ever?

 

Edited January 9, 2020 by HutchFan

[duaneiac]

  On 1/9/2020 at 3:50 PM, duaneiac said:

Disc 3 of 4.

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Now Disc 2 of 4.

[soulpope]

[JSngry]

  On 1/9/2020 at 5:28 PM, HutchFan said:

I knew that this record was a hit, but I didn't realize how BIG of a hit it was -- until just recently when I was doing some research. 

I read that Atlantic sold more than a million (!) copies of the LP.  Could that be true?  ... If so, wouldn't that make it one of the best selling jazz records ever?

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Very true.

That record was a huge hit, with a lot of crossover appeal (I figured that out when I showed up to college my freshman year and met people who didn't know anything else about jazz, but they knew that record).. Of course, the "hit" was "Compared to What", which made it problematic for a lot of radio stations (there were "beeped" versions that got played on the stations in this area). Also, what radio play it did get was on Black and/or Underground Radio, so if you weren't tuned in to (pun almost unavoidable, sorry) that scene, you'd have no idea what was going on with that record.

"Cold Duck Time" was also pretty popular, especially as a live/club tune. I was still playing it well into the 1990s.

So yeah, a monster hit record.

[HutchFan]

Sui generis.

[JSngry]

re: Harris & McCann - both were primed for this kind of marketplace synergy, having both had pretty good R&B Chart hits, Harris in 1968 with "Listen Here" & McCann with "With These Hands". in 1967, both on Atlantic.

Atlantic and Joel Dorn were doing quite well in those days in finding both their core audience and people outside that core but close enough to come in and see what was going on. They definitely had a "thing".

[BillF]

  On 1/9/2020 at 8:57 AM, jazzcorner said:

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Now listening to:

[sidewinder]

  On 1/9/2020 at 5:39 PM, soulpope said:

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Still got my (corner clipped) vinyl of that one somewhere !

[HutchFan]

  On 1/9/2020 at 6:16 PM, JSngry said:

Very true.

That record was a huge hit, with a lot of crossover appeal (I figured that out when I showed up to college my freshman year and met people who didn't know anything else about jazz, but they knew that record).. Of course, the "hit" was "Compared to What", which made it problematic for a lot of radio stations (there were "beeped" versions that got played on the stations in this area). Also, what radio play it did get was on Black and/or Underground Radio, so if you weren't tuned in to (pun almost unavoidable, sorry) that scene, you'd have no idea what was going on with that record.

"Cold Duck Time" was also pretty popular, especially as a live/club tune. I was still playing it well into the 1990s.

So yeah, a monster hit record.

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  On 1/9/2020 at 6:26 PM, JSngry said:

re: Harris & McCann - both were primed for this kind of marketplace synergy, having both had pretty good R&B Chart hits, Harris in 1968 with "Listen Here" & McCann with "With These Hands". in 1967, both on Atlantic.

Atlantic and Joel Dorn were doing quite well in those days in finding both their core audience and people outside that core but close enough to come in and see what was going on. They definitely had a "thing".

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Good stuff. Thanks Jim.  

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