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Billy Vera knows his shit. His work on the Specialty reissues was pretty damn solid too. Look at that though, how this video is credited to "Billy Vera", like Judy Clay was an afterthought. It never stops...

Uncloudy Day & Will The Circle Be Unbroken?

Blue Moon, eh? Jonki Purpos again. The real Vee Jay was ran by Billy Vera. It was short-lived but excellent. The Staples Singers volume remains a desert island set for me!

I found an OG copy at a flea market in the 70s, and jumped at the CD reissue (with some alternate takes at the end). And yet I forgot about that CD. Jeesh....

I get the "sameness" thing...but lately it seems to me that it's a kind of cold, dead-eyed stare that dares you to blink first. Like, ok, this is what I DO, dammit. And I find myself more and more blinking first.

The original liner notes (by Frank London Brown https://www.discogs.com/artist/2645584-Frank-London-Brown) are some of the truest musings on "black blue collar jazz" that I know of. Oh yeah = Tootie Heath on drums!

I don't know that too many people are. It's popped up a few times under different guides, but AFAIK never on its own terms. It's s a pity, really. A very... vernacular- heavy session! Ok, my bad. It has been reissued on CD, and remains available!

It's just one cut with Cannonball, the last cut on Side Two, from IIRC, a Paul Chambers Vee Jay side (it's in the Mosaic). The first two on Side Two are from that great Benny Green Vee Jay album. I mean hey - Gene Ammons, Frank Foster, AND Frank Wess! (off the record...anybody who doesn't like Gene Ammons has something wrong with them...)

Listening now. QUITE invigorating. Thanks for the tip!

Oh yes, very real. Both of them. Early 70s cutout bin staples, both of them.

Also note that FM was initially distributed by Vee Jay, which might explain this: and maybe this? which is actually a fun record to play as a recreational listen.

Iron Man came out on Douglas, but posthumously, and after FM had folded. Alan Douglas was the producer and it looks like he ended up with the whole session(s).

Eustacia Aurell - Meet Me In Hi-Fi!!!

This one is da'bomb:

I'd think that the best way to promote shit is to simply get it right every time out. Or if something slips by, admit it and do what can be done to fix it. This guy just plows ahead with no acceptance of his failures whatsoever. I don't know the guy, but to me he projects an arrogance about his responsivity.

Now the real work begins.

What is Andy Williams doing conducting Beethoven? Does he do Moon River Sonata on here?

For a good while that was the only place you could find the Prestige Quintet "Round Midnight" if you wanted to compare it with the omnipresent Columbia version.

Jane Bunnett's music always speaks to me with an core integrity that I find extremely rare in musicians who do the "culture-hopping" thing.

The OJC CDs had this info. Not the LPs, though IIRC. Unless they had OBIs?

Thanks, looks like we can make it!

It's time for Creation.

Just looked into both of them and...I think we'll try to hit that one as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Care_Moore

Pre-OJC Prestige was always good (or bad, depending on how you looked at it) about putting new covers on some items in their catalog every few years, and with that came new, contemporaneous liner notes. That continued into the 24000 series The OJC juggernaut put a stop to that There's some interesting reading in there. A dedicated geek with proper resources could compile a nifty PDF for circulation to fellow geeks.