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  1. Thanks for the info! Those must have been unusually long EPs then, approaching 20 minutes. The 12" LP has a running time of 48-49 minutes for 10 tracks.
  2. According to Lord, the first 12" release was on Concert Hall Society, but that could be wrong. This seems to be much rarer than the Jazztone release. I could only find an Ebay image: Rex Stewart - Dixieland On Location (Concert Hall CHJ1202) However, there were also three 10" Jazztone LPs of this material, including two additional tracks that never made it to the 12" format! Rex Stewart And His Dixieland Jazz Band (Jazztone J703) Albert Nicholas Plays The Blues (Jazztone J704) Fernando Arbelo And His Laughin' Trombone (Jazztone J705) It is the Arbel(l)o release that has the two additonal tracks: Memphis Blues and Laughin' Trombone. I am not aware of any CD release. Classics would have gotten to it with another Stewart volume, but they folded before that materialized. Fresh Sound has released some Jazztone material, so it would be a suitable job for them to collect all 12 tracks on one CD. Perhaps it will come.
  3. Yes. First on Philology, and then on RLR.
  4. What about the next one, Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow? I have never been able to find that one in the blogosphere, but it looks promising on paper. According to Lord, it is a trio only, recorded in Detroit, and they do tunes like On Green Dolphin Street, Love For Sale, After Hours and Li'l Darlin'. It is coming out in Japan in March, so I have been thinking of getting it. I have heard most of Gene Harris's subsequent 1974-77 output, and it is indeed 70s Blue Note at its worst, but I had some hopes for the 1973 album.
  5. Last month a label called Real Gone Music reissued some early 70s BN albums that all are new to CD. These are from the late 4000 series and thus predate the BN-LA and LT series that are currently covered in Japan. I couldn't find any previous mention of them, so here is a thread. The releases are: Jeremy Steig - Wayfaring Stranger (1970) Gene Harris / The Three Sounds (1971) & Gene Harris Of The Three Sounds (1972) Bobbi Humphrey - Dig This! (1972) Hopefully more will follow. There are still a number of BN albums from the late 60s-early 70s that never have seen CD light. Real Gone Music should (probably!) not be confused with Real Gone Jazz, the public domain label that has come out with all of those "Eight Classic Albums" boxes of questionable quality.
  6. That is because it was one of the last entries in the 4XXX series - which is not covered. Perhaps there will be a further series mopping up the remaining 4XXX titles that have not seen CD release (one can hope). There is for example Bobbi Humphrey's initial album with Lee Morgan and Billy Harper, which, while not great, at least is better than anything that came out under her name afterwards.
  7. That's interesting! I wonder if they then also have restored the spoken introductions on Grant Green's Live At The Lighthouse. All but one were removed on the 1998 CD, but since it only is 71 minutes, there would certainly be room for more of them.
  8. Yes. I never thought we would see the 70s Blue Note logo on any releases again (other than as part of original cover art), but here it is. It is certainly not bad in itself. It is just that it has become associated with everything that went wrong with BN in the 70s.
  9. I think that is because Step Lightly had a catalogue number in the original 4XXX series (although it didn't make it to actual release at the time). The Japanese have therefore previously reissued it on CD in their BN Works series, associated with that catalogue number (TOCJ-4142).
  10. They were recorded earlier than this series, they're from the Liberty Era, not the UA era. It is worth mentioning, for those who weren't aware of it, that Bantu Village was reissued on CD in 2011 on a label called Soul Brother. It says on the back that it is an "authorised reissue". Bantu Village CD on Amazon UK
  11. The cream of the BN roster live! How bad can that be? Unfortunately very bad, since it was 1976. Imagine that this had been done 10 years earlier. Even just 5 years earlier would have been a very different thing.
  12. And here one can actually see the "32 bit" thing in the bottom left corner:
  13. They looked like this: Some were useful twofers; others were compilations. I remember the sound as being good.
  14. The only new title (as opposed to alternate takes) is Satchel Mouth Baby from the final 1945 session. If we're lucky, it has a Wardell Gray solo. Despite this being the Hines band's first session after the record ban, nothing from it was released at the time. Two tracks were later released on an LP, and now this third track comes out. There should normally have been a fourth track recorded, but Lord does not list any either.
  15. Bill Dillard & Bill Dillard (trumpeter and guitarist respectively)
  16. I'm sorry to hear that. I had not heard the name before, but that is one great-sounding CD (layer).
  17. You're probably right. I just listened to it again and, although the discographies say organ, you can hear that the intro is a piano. As for the rest of the track, I couldn't be certain. In this, the world's discographies (well, the ones I've seen) should bow to you, JIm. Oh, I haven't got, or heard, the B side. Have you? Perhaps Doggett played organ on that, otherwise it's hard to see how the error crept into Jepsen and Lord (as well as Proper's own sleeve note). The flip side, Huckle Boogie, has piano throughout too. Probably all discographies have just copied the initial erroneous source.
  18. But have you heard the 25-bit remaster? I think you mean 24-bit; there's no such thing as a 25-bit remaster. I actually have at least one CD that says that it is a 32-bit remaster. Some German Chess CDs were also 32-bit remastered; they were released in digipaks. They sounded awful to my ears. As far as I know there are no 25-bit remasters, but maybe Bebop was kidding; it's sometimes hard to tell on the internet It is indeed a Chess digipak I have that says so, although it does not seem to be German. For some reason it says both "Digital remastering at MCA Whitney Studios, Glendale, CA by Doug Schwartz" and "32-bit Digital re-mastering by Hiltongrove, London". Perhaps "remastering" and "re-mastering" are two different things... And BeBop was no doubt being facetious!
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