New reissues from Ace/BGP

[mjzee]

[GA Russell]

So Concord has licensed Prestige material to Ace?

[paul secor]

That's been the case for 30 years or so.

[felser]

And that (fabulous) Bartz set has been out since 1997.

[JSngry]

50 minutes ago, felser said:

And that (fabulous) Bartz set has been out since 1997.

And is a bit incomplete iirc?

[felser]

That one is complete.  The one Fantasy released in the US is missing one cut, Du(Rain), which is really annonying, given that they had room for it.  BTW, for the uninitiated, these albums were, to me, Andy Bey's finest moment.

[JSngry]

Well then, do it right!

[mjzee]

The Ace is almost complete... "Track 8" (Blue) "has been edited down by two minutes in order to enable us to fit these 2 LPs on 1 CD."

[Guy Berger]

@mjzee, thanks for sharing these (as well your various posts on the “new releases” page”.

[sambrasa]

1 hour ago, mjzee said:

The Ace is almost complete... "Track 8" (Blue) "has been edited down by two minutes in order to enable us to fit these 2 LPs on 1 CD."

Looking at the tracklisting of those 2 albums, Fantasyjazz has only 11 tracks (no "Du" there) vs. 12 tracks on Ace, while Ace's "Blue" is missing 2 minutes from the end. Tough decision. Even worse is the Japanese paper sleeve version of Uhuru (UCCO-9465) that would have room for all the music but still uses the same edit as Ace. Pathetic.

Edited February 18, 2019 by sambrasa
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[felser]

1 hour ago, mjzee said:

The Ace is almost complete... "Track 8" (Blue) "has been edited down by two minutes in order to enable us to fit these 2 LPs on 1 CD."

Somebody could do this right today, since they know how to go the necessary 81 minutes or whatever on a CD.  They could have done it right then by adding a second CD,  Taking two minutes out of "Blue" is worse than leaving off another cut.  Me, I would have dropped "Parted" if I had to fit it onto one CD in 199x.

[JSngry]

Fortunately, I have LPs that contain all the music, as well as mp3 players that aren't dependent on CD capacity limits!

[mjzee]

2 hours ago, Guy Berger said:

@mjzee, thanks for sharing these (as well your various posts on the “new releases” page”.

You're welcome.  Whenever I have a few moments, I like to do my little bit to help the industry.