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BNLA Series, more 999 Yen reissues from EMI Japan


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After the LT series, now we have the BNLA series; 50 reissues coming up in November 2012-January 2013 covering the last period of the "old" Blue Note. The price is 999 Yen (~10 EUR/13 USD/8 GBP). I'm no expert, but it would appear that some of these have not been reissued on CD before, or in any case they are not widely available anyway.

Cat.numbers TOCJ-50501 to TOCJ-50520 will be released on Nov 21, TOCJ-50521 to TOCJ-50535 on Dec 19, TOCJ-50536 to TOCJ 50550 on Jan 23 2013.

The titles are:

Alphonse Mouzon - Funky Snakefoot [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50525

Alphonse Mouzon - Mind Transplant [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50542

Bobbi Humphrey - Blacks And Blues [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50524

Bobbi Humphrey - St Live At Montreux [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50509

Bobby Hutcherson - Cirrus [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50539

Bobby Hutcherson - Linger Lane [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50527

Bobby Hutcherson - Montara [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50529

Bobby Hutcherson - St Live At Montreux [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50506

Carmen Mcrae - Can't Hide Love [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50516

Carmen Mcrae - I Am Music [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50543

Chico Hamilton - Peregrinations [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50544

Donald Byrd - Black Byrd [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50504

Donald Byrd - Caricatures [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50532

Donald Byrd - Places & Spaces [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50545

Donald Byrd - Street Lady [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50523

Duke Pearson - It Could Only Happen With You [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50526

Earl Klugh - Earl Klugh [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50514

Earl Klugh - Finger Paintings [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50535

Earl Klugh - Living Inside Your Love [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50517

Elvin Jones - St Live At The Lighthouse Vol.1 [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50536

Elvin Jones - St Live At The Lighthouse Vol.2 [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50537

Gene Harris - Astral Signal [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50511

Gene Harris - Tone Tantrum [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50550

Grant Green - St Live At The Lighthouse [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50503

Horace Silver - In Pursuit Of The 27Th Man [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50505

Horace Silver - Silver 'N Brass [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50528

Horace Silver - Silver 'N Strings Play The Music Of Spheres [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50520

Horace Silver - Silver 'N Voices [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50547

Horace Silver - Silver 'N Wood [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50530

John Lee & Jerry Brown - Still Can't Say Enough [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50546

Lou Donaldson - Sophisticated Lou [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50502

Lou Donaldson - Sweet Lou [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50540

Marlena Shaw - From The Depths Of My Soul [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50538

Marlena Shaw - Just A Matter Of Time [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50531

Marlena Shaw - St Live At Montreux [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50508

Marlena Shaw - Who Is This Bitch Anyway [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50512

Maxi Anderson - Maxi [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50549

Mccoy Tyner - Extensions [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50521

Moacir Santos - Carnival Of The Sprits [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50513

Moacir Santos - Maestro [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50522

Moacir Santos - Saudade [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50510

Noel Pointer - Phantazia [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50519

Ronnie Foster - On The Avenue [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50541

Ronnie Foster - St Live At Montreux [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50507

Ronnie Laws - Fever [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50515

Ronnie Laws - Friends & Strangers [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50548

V.A. - Blue Note Live At The Roxy Vol.1 [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50533

V.A. - Blue Note Live At The Roxy Vol.2 [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50534

Wayne Shorter - Moto Grosso Feio [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50501

Willie Bobo - Tomorrow Is Here [Japan LTD CD] TOCJ-50518

Link to EMI Japan: http://www.emimusic.jp/jazz/news/?rssno=265

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Thanks for posting this, Daniel.

That series was a very mixed bag, with some good albums and some (very) poor ones (in my opinion :)).

Yep, mostly poor for sure, the dreadful, commercial United Artists era, but I wholeheartedly recommend the Hutcherson Montreux CD and the Elvin Jones Lighthouse set. Also, the Silver 27th Man and the Tyner Extensions are excellent, but they've been easily obtainable in other Blue Note series. People will also be glad to see that Wayne Shorter CD, though its musical total is less that the sum of its parts, which probably explains why it sat in the can for a few years and was never reissued on CD by Blue Note (they licensed it out to One Way).

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Aren't some of those Horace Silvers new to CD?

Yes, I believe all of the Silver 'N titles are. That being said, they are a long way from "Song For My Father", with much dreadful gobbledygook added into the production (as was common for most of the titles recorded in the later UA era).

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Don't know the live one at all. The other one is ok enough, just not anything "special" compared to Who Is.... which kind of hits a zone.

The live one's pretty good (though very short), just a trio behind her. And "Woman of the Ghetto" from it was famously sampled for that acid jazz hit by St. Germain.

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I'm surprised that they didn't add the two Blue Mitchell dates that were excluded from the Mosaic box, "Collision in Black" & "Bantu Village".

They were recorded earlier than this series, they're from the Liberty Era, not the UA era.

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