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Great BFT, but I've come to expect nothing less from you! How do we get your album with cut #5?

Never thought about it, but you may well be right!

I don't remember it sounding like a needle drop. Will pull it out.

But recording without comment is such a forward-thinking, avant-garde approach!

Wow, never heard of that one, would love to give a listen!

Personnel-wise Basically sounds like a Gary Bartz mid-70's album (and that's a good thing in my book).

I have a grab bag of feelings about the label. I actually liked the artwork quite a bit with the exception of the hideous red/white/blue Montreux '77 covers. Musically, many of the artists are not really my bag, but enjoyable enough. Many were pretty old by then. I though the label did wonders for Sarah Vaughan. I liked their approach with Milt Jackson quite a bit. I like many of the Oscar Peterson albums on Pablo, but he sure recorded a LOT for them! I like many of the settings Dizzy recorded in, though I was not a big fan of his playing after the 60's. They did right by Zoot Sims. Pass doesn't bother me, though I don't seek him out. The OP comparison for him is an apt one, though I sort of hit middle ground with both of them, so not at all sure love or hate is necessary. In many ways, the label just felt like an updated continuation of Verve. Not sure what more could have been done with people like Roy Eldridge at that point. They sure didn't know what to do with someone like Freddie Hubbard. The label was more of a shockwave when it started in the 70's amidst the rhodes and fender bass era than is realized now. I'm thankful for it on its own terms, much prefer it to Concord, for instance.

Do we know if master tapes are used for this reissue? I'm not up for a $20 needle drop.

I heard they were just a quick fad, not expected to last beyond 1964, so not sure if anyone much remembers them today. But they may have a few stray reissues in print here and there on boutique labels.

Well, this also happened to the record industry, which changed all the rules/strategies overnight:

Essay question asked honestly: How could Granz have done it better with Pablo?

A lot of us did. I didn't financially, but did so in ever other sense.

I do, too , only label for which that is true, (not counting the 21st century Doug Carn album) and agree.

Saw her at the Philadelphia Art Museum a number of years ago, along with LWayne some past board members, and it was marvelous. My wife also loved it. I grab her CD's as I see them at sane prices.

I am used to seeing six month limits listed on the tray cards of Japanese reissues like that. Makes no sense to me, but there it is.

The only thing I can figure is that Impulse didn't want to go to a third CD, but that's a mistake.

Rhino is coming out with an expanded 2-CD set of the Mingus trio album with Hampton Hawes. 8 bonus cuts, six are alternate takes, and two are blues improvisations. At $22, I will probably pass, as I find the original album to be routine rather than special ('Money Jungle' with Ellington is special).

McCuen/RCA did some interesting Harold Vick dates in the mid-60's. Also Rod Levitt and J.J. Johnson albums.

From the samples, I'm simultaneously in the "made quesy by it" camp and the "who does that" camp. Don't know if I "like" it or not., but I do know I want to listen again. Even the title is subversive. Warwick never charted top 40 with 4 of the 11 songs, those were the Carpenters, B.J. Thomas, Jack Jones. Clearly Bacharach/David, not Warwick, was the unnamed target. And the arrangements both magnify and mock the originals. Who does that, indeed. We really need a Charles Stepney Chess Productions box set.

I still remember the gut punch of hearing "There Is" on the radio for the first time. And same for "I Can Sing a Rainbow"/"Love is Blue". Can't imagine what Peggy Lee (who I like) and Paul Mauriat made of that one.

Didn't know that Dells album existed - must check it out! Dells late 60's/early 70's period (my favorite) has not been well served in the CD era.