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Despite listing seventeen of Freddie titles at LJC, my favourite Blue Note trumpeter, Ready For Freddie was unintentionally overlooked, An omission no longer. Selection: Areitis (Hubbard) – Youtube digital upload, vinyl rip to be added at later date, so you … Continue reading
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UPDATE October 16: added my Liberty reissue labels to the post. UPDATE October 11: Harry M photos added to foot of post, the young Wayne Shorter, modelling striped pants, very 60s. Filling in the gaps of records LJC mysteriously missed … Continue reading
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Selection: Ursula (Garrick) Live at The Union . . . Studio Version (Ursula, from Black Marigolds/ Gilles Petersen compilation) . . . Artists Don Rendell, tenor, soprano saxophone; Ian Carr, trumpet, flugelhorn; Michael Garrick, Piano; Trevor Tomkins, drums, Dave Green/ … Continue reading
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UPDATE 14/9/20: Harry M photo – Elvin Jones, 1970 Some thoughts on piano jazz and the place of “piano artistry”, launched from another “inessential album”, the music of Phineas Newborn Jr. , who at the time was considered by some … Continue reading
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Apologies, initial post went horribly wrong, new WordPress block-editor, missing text, now reinstated, and rip. Selection: Nice ‘n Greasy (Johnny Acea – pianist on Don Wilkerson’s “Elder Don”) YouTube has the whole album Approaching 200,000 views Artists Tommy Turrentine, trumpet; … Continue reading
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UPDATED September 3: Harry M has the photos, Hampton Hawes at Montreux, 1971 From the LJC backlog of draft reviews, an “inessential album” according to All-Music, nevertheless it has something to offer, and prompts a closer look at an original … Continue reading
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UPDATED with Youtube uploads of a potpourri of other tracks Selection: Kingside Breakthrough (Wakeman) . . . Audio note: As I am not currently able to access vinyl, the above selection is a 320kb MP3 reduction, from a 16-bit WAV … Continue reading
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Sixties hyperbole! Blue Note titles which end in a shreik-mark!!, full list over 30 below post! (now even fuller thanks to Ed) Update August 15: Super Summer Bonus! Artist photos from 1968-73 courtesy of The Jazz Paparazzi, Harry M, Selection: … Continue reading
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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
