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J.R. Monterose: “The best tenor you never heard” Selection: The Third (Donald Byrd) . . . I’m not sure of the origins of the above rip, which may be a CD rip made some time ago for phone-listening!. When I … Continue reading
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Blue Note produced some extremely long-lived music, sounding as fresh today as sixty years ago. They show-cased talent that has rarely if ever been surpassed. However some music hasn’t worn well. This could be one, you can probably think of … Continue reading
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Selection: All The Things You Are . . . All The Things You Are – a jazz standard from the 1939 Broadway musical Very Warm for May, Jerome Kern, music, Oscar Hammerstein II, libretto, though the verse is rarely heard. … Continue reading
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In 1982, the combined forces of Decca/Telefunken (TelDec) and Georg Neumann Gmbh launched a German compilation of classical music tracks demonstrating the new analog mastering process – Direct Metal Mastering:(10 For Sale from €7.87). The DMM process entered the Blue Note chain … Continue reading
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Straying out of Modern Jazz Quarantine, vacillating between bop, hard-bop, post bop and hip-bop, LJC breaks his own rules again, venturing into the genre of European jazz rock of the early ’80s Germany, nein-bop. It’s a record probably unknown to … Continue reading
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After a decade of writing about vinyl, and in passing, the minutae of it’s manufacture as a route to determining provenance, I admit I had never actually seen the metal part that actually created the final grooves in the vinyl … Continue reading
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Another slightly unusual A:B comparison post: a direct cut-to-disk modern recording, with some of the best of current British jazz musicians, up against a Van Gelder mastered fifty year old Blue Note vinyl, with some of the best mid-Sixties players, … Continue reading
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UPDATE: June 10, contributions from David S, Tony, and Dubmart UPDATE: June 11, contributions from Doom Girl and Milan UPDATE : June 13 great contribution from Joe L Update June 14: all the way from Tokyo, contributions from Hiromasa N, … Continue reading
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UPDATED June 7, 2020 – Harry M hits the spot-focus, photos Kenny Barron 1970 & Jack de Johnette 1969 added to foot of post. Selection: Tetragon (Henderson) . . . Artists Two Henderson sessions, eight months apart, recorded at Plaza … Continue reading
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There is ample collector documentation of variation in Blue Note mono and stereo labels, their respective addresses, text, colour, typesetting and fonts. Likewise pages of heated discussion of the merits of mono, stereo, fold-downs, and general sound-engineering stuff. The area … Continue reading
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Selection: Sweetcakes (Walter Davis Jr) . . . Artists Donald Byrd, trumpet; Jackie McLean, alto sax; Walter Davis Jr., piano; Paul Chambers, bass; Pete La Roca, drums; recorded Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, May 2, 1959, released July 1959. Music … Continue reading
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Selection: Most Like Lee (TP, stereo) . . . Original Liberty 1967 monaural : Most Like Lee . . . Artists: Lee Morgan, trumpet; Jackie McLean, alto sax; Hank Mobley, tenor sax; Herbie Hancock, piano; Larry Ridley, bass; Billy Higgins, … Continue reading
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UPDATED May 19, First Edition variation? Continuing with the theme of Blue, and Blue Note, after Blue Hour, welcome Bluesnik, and my very odd Liberty mono edition Selection: Bluesnik (McLean) . . . Artists Freddie Hubbard, trumpet; Jackie McLean, alto … Continue reading
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A genuine Blue Note mystery from LJC reader Markus S, and his copy of Blue Hour – Stanley Turrentine with The Three Sounds BLP 4057 (1961) Selection: Please Send Me Someone To Love (Mayfield) . . . Stanley Turrentine, tenor … Continue reading
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A post for Blue Note trophy watchers: promos – rare, and strangely desirable. The Blue Note 1500 series, (1956-58) has some isolated examples of ” promo copies”, the provenance of which cannot be totally verified. Some of these are examined … Continue reading
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KEEP THOSE BLUE TRAIN MEASUREMENTS COMING IN! But we need a new detective story, today, it is the mysterious case of the Blue Note original, that isn’t. Selection: What A Difference A Day Makes (Grever-Adams) . . . Though What … Continue reading
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Blue Train! Batten down the hatches, buckle up, we are going on a Deep Dive! Mangled metaphor, LJC? It’s not a submarine or a plane, it’s a train OK. Woo-woo! Full steam ahead, Mr Sulu! Scotty: Captain, Captain, our stocks … Continue reading
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More photos from 1970, courtesy of Harry M, The Jazz Paparazzi (see end of post, and test your artist recognition skills) Selection: Mamacita (Henderson) . . . A Tocatta – “a virtuoso piece of music featuring fast-moving, lightly fingered or … Continue reading
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Photo Update April 24 – Anthony “Tony” Williams, 1971, courtesy of the Jazz Paparazzi, Harry M. More overlooked gems from the shelf, often overlooked for a reason: a flaw in collector standing, failing the snooty First Edition test, a slightly … Continue reading
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UPDATE April 17, 2020 – Sam Rivers, 1969, photos at end of post An unusual Shoot-out : Blue Note Tone Poet Edition (2019) versus Liberty original (1967). Part of the Stay Home And Rediscover Overlooked Greats Series – SHAROGS. Pretty … Continue reading
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Selection: Omega (McLean) . . . The usual pick on Let Freedom Ring is Melody For Melonae, a pungent composition for sure, but Omega has a more modern feel, for 1962, which seems to me more modern than a lot … Continue reading
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Selection: Escapade (Dorham) . . A wide variety of tunes on Our Thing, from avant-leaning ructions, a latin swinger, and some pacy post-bop. So I’ve opted for the cinematic sweep and modal quality of the Dorham composition Escapade. Artists. Kenny … Continue reading
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Speaking in voluntary isolation from his South London home, LJC declares his traditional April 1st Fools Day prank cancelled, and rescheduled to a future date, tentatively, August 1st, 2020. “I know that many look forward to the “Poisson d’Avril”, a … Continue reading
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Selection: Mode For Joe . . . Artists Lee Morgan, trumpet; Curtis Fuller, trombone; Joe Henderson, tenor sax; Bobby Hutcherson, vibes; Cedar Walton, piano; Ron Carter, bass; Joe Chambers, drums, recorded Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, January 27, 1966, … Continue reading
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Selection: Jinrikisha . . . Impossible to choose a best track, all of them are outstanding. The most widely played is probably Dorham’s sprightly Blue Bossa, or Henderson’s Recorda-me, both their respective signature tunes, so I’ve chosen as the selection … Continue reading
