Odds-and-Ends Jazz Compilation LPs Rendered Obsolete by Expanded CD Releases

[Teasing the Korean]

I started a thread some years ago in praise of the 70s twofer reissue jazz LPs (linked below).  These albums were indispensable to me as a young person trying to acquire classic jazz at affordable prices.  

There is a sub-category of these twofers that I have a soft spot for, and these were albums that were made up exclusively of unreleased tracks and/or unedited tracks pulled from a range of albums/sessions.  Examples would include the following, all from Columbia, circa 1979-81:

• Monk - Always Know
• Mingus - Nostalgia in Times Square
• Miles - Directions

Given the fact that a CD holds basically two albums' worth of music, I'm assuming that most if not all of the unedited or previously unreleased tracks on these have appeared as bonus tracks on the expanded CD releases of the original albums/sessions.  But considering the time/space limits on LPs, these compilations were worthy additions to catalogs.  And some of them work very well as compilations in their own right.  I played the above three albums to death.

Are there other examples of these kinds of albums?  

 

[medjuck]

IIRC (and I often don't) not every cut on "Always Know" has been released on cd.  Similarly not every cut on the Hal Wilmer produced Monk tribute 2Lp set "That's the Way I Feel Now" was included on the single cd release.  (In  both cases I burned a cd to replicate the double Lp from whatever cuts were on cd plus the ones on Lp only.) 

[jazzbo]

All of "Always Know" has been reissued on cd. Both as "Always Know" and in separate releases.

https://www.discogs.com/release/2549281-Thelonious-Monk-Always-Know

Edited September 11, 2024 by jazzbo

[felser]

Miles Davis - Circle in the Round

 

[JSngry]

What about the three volumes of impulse!'s The Definitive Jazz Scene? Most has been ported over, but all?

[Ken Dryden]

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

All of "Always Know" has been reissued on cd. Both as "Always Know" and in separate releases.

https://www.discogs.com/release/2549281-Thelonious-Monk-Always-Know

I bought this very 2 CD reissue almost five years ago.

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

What about the three volumes of impulse!'s The Definitive Jazz Scene? Most has been ported over, but all?

I have been meaning to check that for myself, I only have the Vol. 1 & 3 LPs.

[JSngry]

I know there's a cut by The Russian Jazz Quartet in there. Maybe  a few more?

A Tommy Flanagan cut?

[soulpope]

Another thread could be "previously unreleased material edited substantially to fit in a VINYL ONLY release format" 🤯😎 ....

[mikeweil]

11 hours ago, JSngry said:

A Tommy Flanagan cut?

That was added to this Milt Jackson reissue as it was from one of those sessions:

[JSngry]

Good!

[mikeweil]

That's the advantage of a Lord Disco subscription, these tracks are easy to find there.

Not on CD was a Terry Gibbs track from Vol.1, A many Albam track from Vol.2, and that Russian Jazz Quartet from Vol.3.

[JSngry]

Hardly reissueable?

Reissueable?

No idea ...

[Teasing the Korean]

47 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Hardly reissueable?

I had this album, played it once, and unloaded it.  The arrangements sounded really dumbed-down, as though impulse wanted some kind of a lame crossover album.  Still, I'm not sure who or what the crossover audience for this album would have been.  

[JSngry]

44 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

I had this album, played it once, and unloaded it.  The arrangements sounded really dumbed-down, as though impulse wanted some kind of a lame crossover album.  Still, I'm not sure who or what the crossover audience for this album would have been.  

Chico O'Farrill's impulse! is better than that but it does sound like those two could have been safely paired.

[Teasing the Korean]

4 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Chico O'Farrill's impulse! is better than that but it does sound like those two could have been safely paired.

Well, you could pair Nine Flags and Spanish Rice, unless the latter was paired with another Clark Terry album.  

[JSngry]

I think the arranger albums would be kept together. In fact, I think I did that from blog DLs back in the day. It ended up being a uniquely unified unsatisfying listening quasi-experience.

[Big Beat Steve]

On 9/11/2024 at 1:45 AM, Teasing the Korean said:

Given the fact that a CD holds basically two albums' worth of music, I'm assuming that most if not all of the unedited or previously unreleased tracks on these have appeared as bonus tracks on the expanded CD releases of the original albums/sessions. 

 

I'd have to check closely to locate LP compilations that clearly have been made obsolete by more thoroughly "curated" CD sets (but no doubt there are many).
BUT - I'd disagree with your above statement. I remember there were many 2-LP sets from the 70s/80s that were part of "complete" reissue programs, but the playing time of each of these clearly exceeded the CD time limits. And at least for quite some time the majors owning the music did not see fit to go to the trouble of doing corresponding CD reissues that REALLY would have made the LPs 100% obsolete. Some of these included IIRC those 70s Bluebird twofers of RCA reissues from the Swing era.