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Check this out,: Maybe it's all in my head, but I get a special thrill from hearing things like this, now-conventional pieces being played in their original non-traditional state. There's a certain ..rawness there that exists to me

Arista Novus: https://www.discogs.com/label/56111-Arista-Novus Steve Backer probably took the Novus name to RCA after Arista dropped it.

Columbia Pictures was never related to Columbia Records. Columbia Pictures had Colpix (Nina Simone, Woody Allen, Dick Gregory, so), which then became Colgems (The Monkees). After Clive Davis got fired from Columbia Records, he was hired on at Columbia Pictures (as a consultant) and then to Bell Records (as president). Columbia Picture had recently bought Bell. Davis was looking to get this beast all under his control, and the Bell name was changed to Arista. Barry Manilow began on Bell, but soon was on Arista. Same with Melissa Manchester. Alas, The Fifth Dimension did not make the transition. They had good hits on Bell, though! And yes, this was the same Bell that had The Box Tops. The label was around long before that, too!

At most of this time Arista was owned by Columbia Pictures (the original owners). They never owned RCA, although BMG later came to own both of them. And Sony came to own them! That's the only Freedom cover of Indent, which was originally on Cecil's own label. Unit Core. Can't tell of what that picture is, sorry. Clifford might know.

That's gotta be it. Another case in point: becoming

You gotta let go of the notion that there was a straight line between Freedom and Black Lion. It's not that simple or linear. What it is is convoluted. This Alan Bates guy seemed to have more than one ball in the air at any given time. And some of the Arista/Freedom covers were based on the Freedom covers, but some weren't. Again, it seems to be related to the recency of the recording. I would wonder if Bates worked with Arista to get the covers synced at some point. Arista had money, Real money. Clive Davis money LOL. The people who cared were bummed when the series was discontinued, but Arista and Arista Novus did right for a little bit after that. Michael was in all of this. God only knows what that dance looked like ..

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:

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

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

I like a good Bible song.

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.

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

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?

If they were on Arista/Freedom, they were on Freedom elsewhere. Didn't have access to Peaches in this area until the mid-1970s. Had to go to Stan's in Shreveport. They had promo copies. Andrew Hill also had a solo piano album on Freedom

The Arista Freedom is what was in the stores, so that's what I bought. Still happy with it!

Too bad they dropped this label:

Get the Arista/Freedom LP. It's got the best cover and sounds good enough

Big fat woody sounding group that gets a little rough with Mozart. I like that, I like them, and hey - Paul Hindemith on viola!

PM Sent on The Alban Berg Collection- $30

That's the one!

An excellent MLC season concluded tonight, but I hate it when a team barely makes the playoffs and then wins it all. Especially MINY.

I get dizzy reading that!

So that's how Freedom ended up with Cecil's Nefertiti...? And some of the Ayler? The revived Candid catalog seems to have vanished from the collective consciousness? 0h, how did Bates get that Debut catalog?

How did they end up with that Essen date with Bud & Hawk?