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Lols, well yeah, the storm looked a whole lot nastier in the first Freedom sleeve, then the second Arista/Freedom sleeve. Cecil photo looks right for the time.

yeah, that's all pretty accurate. The Hemphill LP cover looks like this: I assume Cuscuna licensed this, Dogon A.D., the Lakes, and the HAE LPs from their prospective owners. Both HAE records came out on Universal Justice originally, while Dogon was on Hemphill's Mbari imprint. I will admit it's all very murky.

That's the first cover, but it's a Freedom record released by Polydor. In the fine print down there, it only mentions Freedom. Nothing about Polydor. But that's a wild cover, only roughly in line with the series. My guess is that the covers of the newer recordings were more in line with what Arista did than the older ones (or vice-versa). You see what they did there? But at some point, everybody got on the same page:

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But wasn't the Cowell originally a Polydor release? Then got a "Black Lion/Freedom" redo? Isn't this the original sleeve as it gets? Right, I keep on overlooking your point, Arista. Later Freedoms, right, and that art direction was consistent. Clive Davis ran Arista then, right? Makes sense now.

I was conversing with @Holy Ghost, and he'll take October. Looking forward to that!

Arista gave the series a "consistent look". Freedom dances around a bit. Sometimes there was some cross-referencing. Sometimes, as with the Cowell, not.

Okay, why does the Shepp set look so different from the Hill jacket, Spiral? Like the Freedoms have a style, but the Shepp's don't look like the typical Freedoms. LIke the Hill does look like a typical Freedom: What's up with the weird inconsistencies? Like the Hemphill: Is this an original Freedom release? Love the music. I know that Dogan AD is not, is this another oddity Alan Bates label pick up?

For what it's worth, and back to the OP, there are a lot of non-Bates Polydor jazz records as well. yes.

That means that Freedom was an active label not just reissuing sessions?

It doesn't matter. Neither is the original cover.

Riccardo Muti - The Complete Warner Symphonic Recordings, disc 82.

Okay. Then who's redesigning these sleeves??? Someone taking Patrick Roques's designs with no credit to him? This is an excellent pic, but Third Season was cut in '67, so Patrick Roques chose the right photo.

I like a good Bible song.

If two don't step up, I'm likely to take one.

It was fun then. But... Shadows and Light should probably be streamed by anybody who's interested, though. Great concert and a pretty good concert film.

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Ah, okay, thanks. Most of the Bates productions I have are a bit earlier, and therefore I wasn't aware of the DA Music name beyond the CD reissues.

That's just a different photo. That's all.

For some reason, Blue Note is not using many of Roques' covers for LP reissues. They've redesigned almost every one, including "Third Season"... and not for the better, in my opinion.

Sorry to hear this as well. It's sad to lose long time board members - Victor has been here since the great 2003 migration, so he's certainly an original. Rest in Peace, Victor.

I can safely pass. Followed it in real time and have no need to backtrack.

I don't know one - not one - song on here, so I cannot honestly complain about "choice of material". Unless you know "The Happiest Millionaire" inside out, that complaint does not fly with me. All it sounds like to me is a good album of decent radio-length Chico O'Farrill charts with some really nastyass Lockjaw (is there any other kind?). Oh, Louis Bellson on drums. I might have preferred Ed Shaugnessy (sic) but it ain't a perfect world. And as I understand it, it's never been on CD?

Could be great, could be a train wreck of truly epic proportions. Saskatoon berries are tasty, but shouldn't be confused with other berries