RSD April list

[Harbour]

some possibly interesting things on list, i assume all will be getting cd releases too given the labels involved

 

Bill Evans - Further Ahead (Live in Finland 1964-69) (Elemental)

Freddie Hubbard - On Fire- Live From The Blue Morocco (Resonance)

Mingus in Argentina - The Buenos Aires Concerts (Resonance)

Sun Ra - Stray Voltage (Modern Harmonic)

Sun Ra - Nuits De La Fondation Maeght (Deluxe Edition) (Strut)

[colinmce]

Would be great if this put us one step close to the Cecil Taylor Fondation Maeght set being remastered & issued on CD

Edited February 6 by colinmce

[colinmce]

Further info on the Ra titles:

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Sun Ra "Nuits de la Fondation Maeght" (DELUXE EDITION)

Event: RECORD STORE DAY 2025
Release Date: 4/12/2025
Format: 6 x LP
Label: STRUT
Quantity: 800
Release type: 'RSD First' Release

 

INFO

Sun Ra’s Nuits de la Fondation Maeght recordings are legendary within his extensive canon. Across two nights in August 1970, these were the first concerts Ra and the Arkestra had performed outside North America and formed part of a stellar festival line-up alongside Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor, LaMonte Young and Marian Zazeela.
Originally released across two edited volumes by Shandar in 1971, the concerts are now being reissued by Strut in a stunning expanded 6 LP vinyl box set for Record Store Day 2025. The set is housed in a hardboard box and features a reprint of the original festival programme, a 12-page over-sized booklet featuring liner notes by Daniel Caux, Jacqueline Caux and Paul Griffiths and stunning restored photos of the festival by Philippe Gras.

Tracklist
A1. SUN INTERLUDE A2. LOVE IN OUTER SPACE A3. THE SHADOW WORLD (excerpt) B1. THE COSMIC EXPLORER B2. THE COSMIC EXPLORER B3. UNTITLED PIANO SOLO B4. FRIENDLY GALAXY No. 2
C1. WHY GO TO THE MOON? / IT’S AFTER THE END OF THE WORLD / C2. SPONTANEOUS SIMPLICITY C3. WATUSI
D1. PERCUSSION INTERLUDE D2. INTERSTELLAR LOW WAYS D3. SOMEWHERE ELSE (9.10)
E1. THEY’LL COME BACK E2. 2; TONE SCIENCE INTERLUDE E3. THE SATELLITES ARE SPINNING E4. SUN RA AND HIS BAND FROM OUTER SPACE E5. CALLING PLANET EARTH E6. IMAGINATION E7. I’LL WAIT FOR YOU E8. WE TRAVEL THE SPACEWAYS
F1. THE WORLD OF LIGHTNING F2. BLACKMYTH F3. 2A.THE SHADOWS TOOK SHAPE F4. 2b. STRANGE WORLDS F5. 2c. JOURNEY THROUGH THE OUTER DARKNESS F6. MYTH TONE POEM (UNTITLED) F7. SKY (2.02) F8. THREE CHEERS FOR RA
G1. PRELUDE G2. THEME OF THE STARGAZERS G3. THE SHADOW WORLD
H1. THE SATELLITES ARE SPINNING H2. SECOND STOP IS JUPITER H3. TONE SCIENCE H4. NEXT STOP MARS
I1. SPONTANEOUS SIMPLICITY I2. FRIENDLY GALAXY No. 2
J1. PLEASANT TWILIGHT J2. OUTER SPACEWAYS INCORPORATED / YOU BETTER GET READY
K1. ENLIGHTMENT K2. CALLING PLANET EARTH K3. SPACE BOP (UNTITLED) K4. SPACE BALLAD (UNTITLED) K5. SUN RA AND HIS BAND FROM OUTER SPACE / THEME OF THE STARGAZERS / WE’LL WAIT FOR YOU
L1. SOMEBODY ELSE’S IDEA / WALKING ON THE MOON / IT’S AFTER THE END OF THE WORLD L2. WE TRAVEL THE SPACEWAYS L3. TONE SCIENCE INTERLUDE L4. DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES L5. THE SATELLITES ARE SPINNING

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Sun Ra "Stray Voltage"

Event: RECORD STORE DAY 2025
Release Date: 4/12/2025
Format: 2 x LP
Label: Modern Harmonic
Quantity: 1000
Release type: 'RSD First' ReleaseSun Ra

INFO

If you're looking for melodies, structured compositions, pleasant harmonies, songs you can whistle, and serenades for social gatherings — seek elsewhere. This is Triple-A Ra: Audacious, Aggressive, Adventurous. In the collection we've titled Stray Voltage, Ra is not so much composing music as painting soundscapes with electronic keyboards. Ra doesn't simply play these consoles — he attacks, cajoles, and pounds them. Stray Voltage compiles unissued electronic peregrinations during the 1970s and '80s, pressed on frosted orange vinyl!
This is a 2025 Record Store Day release.

Tracklist
A1. Berkeley DX7 Etude #1

A2. Cosmos Interlude

A3. Stray Voltage #62 - Enigma

A4. Stray Voltage #201 - Mystery

A5. Stray Voltage #411 - The Unknown

B1. Berkeley DX7 Etude #2

B2. Stray Voltage #150 - Riddle

B3. After the Spaceways

B4. Stray Voltage #166 - Question

C1. Stray Voltage #185 - Perplexity

C2. Kuumbwa Interlude #1

C3. Fourth Dimension

D1. Stray Voltage #99 - Dilemma

D2. Manhattan Undertones

D3. Yesterdays

D4. Projection of Equation Infinity

 

[Peter]

4 hours ago, colinmce said:

Would be great if this put us one step close to the Cecil Taylor Fondation Maeght set being remastered & issued on CD

Agreed! 🙏

[Gheorghe]

Mingus in Buenos Aires !!!! 

I had a casette from it, but I think one I had thrown away all casetes and the casetofon.....

[barnaba.siegel]

18 hours ago, colinmce said:

Sun Ra "Nuits de la Fondation Maeght" (DELUXE EDITION)

Originally both Nuits albums were spread over 2 LP's total. Now there are 6, so there will be hell of a new music. What an orgy it's going to be!

[clifford_thornton]

Yeah, the Ra box is wanted. I have the Shandars, and they’re good.

[Gheorghe]

45 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

Yeah, the Ra box is wanted. I have the Shandars, and they’re good.

The Ra stuff would be interesting for me as same as the Mingus Stuff.

The Mingus stuff because THAT´s the band I saw live ! 

If the Ra stuff is also from that period (late 70´s) it would be of the same interest, since I saw Sun Ra live also during that period.

[Brad]

Here’s the list:

Chet Baker - Almost Blue (Slow Down Records)
Count Basie - Best of the Roulette Years (Rhino)
Nathan Davis - Happy Girl (MPS)
Kenny Dorham - Blue Bossa In The Bronx: Live From The Blue Morocco (Resonance) 
Bill Evans - Further Ahead Live in Finland 1964-69 (Elemental)
Astrud Gilberto - That Girl from Ipanema (Prestige Elite)
Vince Guaraldi - Selections from "It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown" (Original Soundtrack Recording - Peanuts 75th         Anniversary Mystery Easter Egg Edition) (Lee Mendelsohn Film Productions)
Vince Guaraldi - Jazz Impressions of a Boy Named Charlie Brown (Craft)
Freddie Hubbard - On Fire: Live from the Blue Morocco (Resonance)
Charles Mingus - In Argentina The Buenos Aires Concerts (Resonance)
Charles Mingus - At Monterey (Candid)
Thelonious Monk - Live at the It Club (Legacy)
Wes Montgomery/Wynton Kelly Trio - Smokin’ in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (Resonance)
Gerry Mulligan/Thelonious Monk - Mulligan Meets Monk (Craft)
David Fathead Newman, Ellis Marsalis and Cornell Dupree - Return to the Wide Open Spaces (Steady Boy Records)
Pharaoh Sanders - Izipho Zam (Strata East/Mack Records)
Archie Shepp and the Full Moon Ensemble - The Complete Live in Antibes (LMLR)
Sun Ra - Stray Voltage (Modern Harmonic)
Sun Ra - Nuits de la Findation Maeght (Strut)
Alts ‘n Outs: The Other Side of Blue Note (Blue Note). These are alternative takes and outtakes. 
Various (including Coleman Hawkins) - Night Lights (Jazz Dispensary).  It’s a Moodsville sampler. 

Edited February 11 by Brad

[JSngry]

David Fathead Newman, Ellis Marsalis and Cornell Dupree - Return to the Wide Open Spaces (Steady Boy Records)

This is a very good record,

[Pim]

Nathan Davis’ Happy Girl 🥰

[Dan Gould]

5 hours ago, JSngry said:

David Fathead Newman, Ellis Marsalis and Cornell Dupree - Return to the Wide Open Spaces (Steady Boy Records)

This is a very good record,

I should see if I kept it. I recall not being very greatly enthused (and perhaps with not-optimal sound?)

[JSngry]

It was "local", but hey, Fathead, James Clay, and Leroy Cooper, nothing but flayva.

[Harbour]

Another Ra release, not part of RSD but also on Modern Harmonic coming soon, looks interesting, i do love stripped down solo Ra (i think Samura Celestial accompanies him on drums for some of it, it seems to incorporate bits of St Louis Blues-Solo Piano with some unreleased tracks, though according to Irwin Cusid its all previously unreleased 

https://sunra-mh.bandcamp.com/album/uncharted-passages

Edited February 12 by Harbour
more info

[clifford_thornton]

On 2/7/2025 at 12:20 PM, Gheorghe said:

 

If the Ra stuff is also from that period (late 70´s) it would be of the same interest, since I saw Sun Ra live also during that period.

Recorded in 1970 and released first in 1971 as two single LP volumes.

[Gheorghe]

cant it be preordered on Amazon ? I must get the Mingus Buenos Aires, since just before we heard Mingus on his huge european tour in that year, one who had lived in Buenos Aires brought me a cassete of part of one of the concerts, just casetofon from the audience.....

Of course I don´t have casete or casetofon anymore (must have been 30 and more years ago), it would be nice to hear the hole stuff....

[mjazzg]

RSD releases are only available at first from physical shops. After 48 hours they can be sold online

[jazzbo]

8 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

cant it be preordered on Amazon ? I must get the Mingus Buenos Aires, since just before we heard Mingus on his huge european tour in that year, one who had lived in Buenos Aires brought me a cassete of part of one of the concerts, just casetofon from the audience.....

Of course I don´t have casete or casetofon anymore (must have been 30 and more years ago), it would be nice to hear the hole stuff....

The Mingus cd version can be pre-ordered right now from Resonance Records.

https://resonancerecords.org/product/charles-mingus-mingus-in-argentina-the-buenos-aires-2-cd/

[tranemonk]

It's also up on Bandcamp, if no one already posted that.

https://charlesmingusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/in-argentina-the-buenos-aires-concerts

 

 

[mjazzg]

6 hours ago, jazzbo said:

The Mingus cd version can be pre-ordered right now from Resonance Records.

https://resonancerecords.org/product/charles-mingus-mingus-in-argentina-the-buenos-aires-2-cd/

Apologies for earlier misinformation. So RSD titles are generally no longer exclusive to physical shops or Resonance just do it their own way?

7 hours ago, mjazzg said:

RSD releases are only available at first from physical shops. After 48 hours they can be sold online

Please ignore this

[jazzbo]

24 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Apologies for earlier misinformation. So RSD titles are generally no longer exclusive to physical shops or Resonance just do it their own way?

 

They are generally only available in a particular form on RSD and then if there are remaining copies of that format they may be sold online. In the case of Resonance, Elemental, Real to Reel et al there is often a cd version available for sale everywhere (mortar, online) beginning one week later.

[Gheorghe]

14 hours ago, jazzbo said:

The Mingus cd version can be pre-ordered right now from Resonance Records.

https://resonancerecords.org/product/charles-mingus-mingus-in-argentina-the-buenos-aires-2-cd/

Thank you so much 😀

[Brad]

RSD can be sold online the next day.  You will be able to find them on Discogs, usually at the same price.

The RSD thread on Hoffman is quite useful as many people will tell you who has what leftover  I’ve found many a title that way  

You can also find them on RSD Market, which has a lot of older titles at good prices. 

Edited 14 hours ago by Brad

[mjazzg]

18 hours ago, jazzbo said:

They are generally only available in a particular form on RSD and then if there are remaining copies of that format they may be sold online. In the case of Resonance, Elemental, Real to Reel et al there is often a cd version available for sale everywhere (mortar, online) beginning one week later.

Thanks, so I was correct after all. It's just that pre-orders are available for some titles in some formats.

I thought it odd that they were cutting across the very idea of RSD .

[jazzbo]

The RSD seems to have been, from the beginning, LP based, and most of the "same thing post RSD" formats are cd, different--still makes the RSD release "unique" and still gives the mortar stores (the focus of the RSD projects) a special product to sell.