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Picked up this baby today -- some of it familiar to me, some new to my ears. Bemused right off by the new-to-me first album "Cool Gabriels," made for an RCA subsidiary label in 1954 with a rhythm-and-seven trumpet lineup: Candoli, Nick Travis, Don Stratton, Dick Sherman, Phil Sunkel, Al DeRisi, and Bernie Glow. Inventive work by all the soloists (Glow and DeRisi don't solo), though without a scorecard it can be hard to who the soloists are -- fortunately, if you google "Cool Gabriels," there is a site that tells who's who. Conte is a bit on the brassy side at times on album two, with Claude Williamson, Max Bennett, and Stan Levey, but I'd forgotten that Williamson is in terrific form here. All or most of the others I already know.

P.S. Probably because it has an Andy Warhol cover drawing and also because few copies now exist, I see that an original LP "Cool Gabriels" goes for $1,250.

P.P.S. Glow does take a solo on one track.

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16 hours ago, Larry Kart said:


P.S. Probably because it has an Andy Warhol cover drawing and also because few copies now exist, I see that an original LP "Cool Gabriels" goes for $1,250.

 

Ah, so the grey labels now "shade" each other too. :D I bought the Cool Gabriels reissue CD several years ago on the Blue Moon label (a subsidiary of Fresh Sound) - on a whim (and did not regret it - very refreshing music ;)) and because I figured this was unlikely to be reissued anywhere else (cannot recall having seen a reissue of this among the avalanche of RCA modern jazz vinyls from the late 70s and 80s, for example) . As for "affordable" original copies, I may have come across figures similar to yours somewhere.

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3 hours ago, Tom 1960 said:

Larry, while I own some of this material would you recommend making purchase of this set? The price on Amazon is great!

I you like Candoli -- sure. No annotation BTW, just tune and personnel listings. Transfers seem OK so far. On the moral front? That's up to each of us. Pretty sure that there is no legit way to get, say, "Cool Gabriels," nor do I think there will ever be. 

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1 hour ago, Larry Kart said:

I you like Candoli -- sure. No annotation BTW, just tune and personnel listings. Transfers seem OK so far. On the moral front? That's up to each of us. Pretty sure that there is no legit way to get, say, "Cool Gabriels," nor do I think there will ever be. 

Good to see the pros confirm this way of thinking. I guess this is the main reasoning for buying this series of box sets. I bought the Tal Farlow set for the same reason - the final three of the LPs in that collection so far have eluded me steadfastly though I was on the lookout a quite a while (and I cannot recall having ever seen any copy (least of all a reissue) of the "Harold Arlen" LP anywhere in any shop or at any fair I'd been to at the time I searched). So the box set was worth it at that price even for only 3 out of 7 LPs. Anyway ... if those three LPs show up one day at a good price I'll pick them up and this box set can go to feed the car CD player. ;) In the meantime, it will serve VERY well as listening copies.

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2 hours ago, Larry Kart said:

Pretty sure that there is no legit way to get, say, "Cool Gabriels," nor do I think there will ever be. 

You can at least buy it from a first-generation pirate: http://www.jazzmessengers.com/en/1954/conte-candoli/cool-gabriels

http://www.freshsoundrecords.com/cool-gabriels-albums/3843-cool-gabriels.html

https://www.amazon.com/Cool-Gabriels/dp/B000926S8C

Who knows, these might even be from original tapes, maybe? How they got there, who knows? But I have less queeze about them than I do those Real Gone JazzPorn Collections. I mean, really?

Me myself, if I wanted it (and I don't, really), I'd get a FLAC lift of a fileshare of the FreshMoonBlueSounds releaseand be done with it. That's essentially what you're buying with those Real Gone things anyway. If you're too old to do that type of thing yourself (and I am), talk to somebody under 30 (40, in some states). You can get all kinds of hooked up.

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