Prestige is back.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

uh oh, now its on STATUS, one of those like w/ a Status little sticker, crudely pasted over

 

[mjzee]

That's pretty funny, Chewy.

[JSngry]

I like how the special sale price sticker is pasted over another one, like, 2/$1.00 wasn't working, we GOT to move this shit one way or another. Believe me, in the old Treasure City bins, there was a bigass bin full of those poor little unwanted records. I got my Joe Daley RCA in a 3/$0.99 bin, which is more expensive than 4/$1.00, but I don't mind paying extra for quality.
 

[mjzee]

 

 

[BFrank]

I just discovered this album and kinda like it. It's unfair that she's being compared to Betty, though. She seems to have a lot of other influences going on. 

Why are people dumping on her? It's her first album!

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

what r u talking about dog we like her, dude theyre going all out, theres even a white label promo cd of it: 

 

[JSngry]

I saw her on Tavis Smiley and deduced that she's a product of our times.

[paul secor]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

I saw her on Tavis Smiley and deduced that she's a product of our times.

I've never heard her, but to me, that doesn't bode well.

[JSngry]

I think the time for bodeing has long passed.

[paul secor]

True.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

I KINDA FIGURED THAT WHEN THEY BUMPED HER DOWN TO STATUS

 

 

 

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

On 22/07/2017 at 8:52 PM, chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez said:

so what yr sayin', is this is no longer the last new prestige release.....

 

A bit slow, but these were the last issued new albums on Prestige:

Funk Inc - Urban Renewal - PR11001 rec 9 Nov 1995 - Prod Bob Porter

and

Chartbusters - Mating call - PR11002 rec 1 & 2 Oct 1995 - Prod Todd Barkan

MG

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

oh 90s prestige!

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Yeah. The Funk Inc sounds and feels pretty much like seventies Prestige. The Chartbusters is typical nineties retro stuff. OK if you like that kind of stuff but, though I've got itl,l I don't listen to it much.

MG

[GA Russell]

oldies.com has The Chartbusters - Mating Call for $4.98.
https://www.oldies.com/product-view/63985N.html

It is also on iTunes.

[JohnS]

3 hours ago, GA Russell said:

oldies.com has The Chartbusters - Mating Call for $4.98.
https://www.oldies.com/product-view/63985N.html

It is also on iTunes.

Not bad.  Worth a punt imo.

[randyhersom]

Having seen her live at the Coltrane Jazz Festival, I'm now a fan.  Yes, she is harsher and less sultry than Betty on the Betty tunes she does, and it took me a while to warm up.  She added in some lyrics about police brutality to Willow Weep For Me, and the stridency was right on target.  That was the moment that everything clicked, she was winning the audience over even before I jumped on board, then the crowd stood almost immediately for Lift Every Voice and Sing, which medleyed into Moanin' as on the CD.  I had listened on Spotify, but bought the CD there.  She has a lot of technical facility for her scat passages, and I thought she made them work musically.  Maybe 5 percent of the time Jeanne Lee is a better comparison than Betty, she can go a little avant.   Remember that approximately 100% of the human race is less sultry than Betty Carter and you might join me in appreciating that a younger generation musician thinks she's an influence worth idolizing.

[bertrand]

And I just heard her last night at the Monk Competition and thought she was an abomination. Gigi Gryce was turning over in his grave.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

sounds like its was the right decision to bump her down to Status

[mikeweil]

On 9.3.2018 at 5:41 PM, The Magnificent Goldberg said:

Chartbusters - Mating call - PR11002 rec 1 & 2 Oct 1995 - Prod Todd Barkan

MG

That's a nice one, as is the other Chartbusters CD on NYC records:

https://www.discogs.com/Chartbusters-Volume-1/master/1295068

 

Edited December 5, 2018 by mikeweil

[JohnS]

31 minutes ago, mikeweil said:

That's a nice one, as is the other Chartbusters CD on NYC records:

https://www.discogs.com/Chartbusters-Volume-1/master/1295068

 

Some nice music on these - and other MIlan Simich productions.

Edited December 5, 2018 by JohnS