10" Blue Note from the '70's???

[mjzee]

Dusty Groove is listing this:

https://www.dustygroove.com/item/417045/Gil-Melle:New-Faces-New-Sounds-10-inch-LP

Seminal work from the legendary Gil Melle – one of his early 10" sessions for Blue Note, prime 50s modern jazz from the original Melle cover right down to the music in the grooves! The session features 2 different groups, and has Melle's haunting tenor (not baritone) playing amidst other bop-era modernists like Eddie Bert, Tal Farlow, George Wallington, and Max Roach – coming together on tunes that are as magical as the titles might imply – "Mars", "Four Moons", "Sunset Concerto", "The Gears", "October", "Cyclotron", and "Venus". Monica Dell also sings some incredible wordless vocals on a few tunes!  © 1996-2024, Dusty Groove, Inc.
(70s UA mono pressing – still sealed!)

 

UA was pressing 10" Blue Notes in the '70's??

Here's another!

https://www.dustygroove.com/item/469088/Frank-Foster:Here-Comes-Frank-Foster-10-inch-LP

Great work from this legendary tenorist! Although Foster's often lumped into the cliche camp for his long years with Basie, he shines like a rough diamond on sessions like these, proving that he's got a tone and a style that he keeps tightly reserved for small group sessions. On this rare Blue Note session from the 10" days, he plays with the great Gildo Mahones on piano – on tracks like "Little Red", "Blues For Benny", and "How I Spent The Night". The record's a hard wailing groover, and it's a treasure for fans of that early Blue Note sound!  © 1996-2024, Dusty Groove, Inc.
(US UA pressing from the early 70s – still sealed!)

[felser]

Discogs shows them, but I don't remember them.  Of course, that may just mean that Third Street Jazz didn't carry them, or that I overlooked them with the flood of great albums I still wanted to acqure - I was only 20, in college, and had limited financial means.

[sidewinder]

I remember these UA 10" LPs when they came out (or at least a few years later when shops over here listed them in Jazz Journal) and I've occasionally come across them in the years since.

Edited July 4 by sidewinder

[JSngry]

I seem to recall some story about UA repressing the entire BN LP catalog for some sort of "one last time" project on behest of...somebody.