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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.

http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Label_Milestone_47000.htm

The bar is being lowered, meaning reduced benefit.

Giving the benefit of the doubt too often is just saying, hey, that's ok, it's not important. Well, it is important. And ok - how DO you not notice a totally different tenor player. An obvious difference in sound and tone. How do you get a drummer totally wrong when the source tape clearly gives the correct name. How do you not go forward with a major project without making sure that all the rights have been properly assigned/granted? These are not minor mistakes. A first-rate producer notices these things, researches them, and gets it right before taking the product to market. And I'm not somebody squawking from the bleachers. I'm a paying customer. I've got a right to bitch about stuff like this, if only because not once has this been a mea culpa issued. Not once. I believe the word that fits this guy is hubris?