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1969, Reid Miles cop NOT "period-appropriate". Frank Gauna, maybe, but...who was that, you say? Of Love And Peace was the last Reid Miles Larry Young cover. Other than was it actually King that did that?, my point, exactly.

But can he bend a laser?

Adriana Popp Warner Herzog

Everybody talkin bout heaven ain't goin there.

My bad. I have no problem believing that. Not as random as a casual look might suggest. This: is FAR more random - and non-esthetic - than this: Doesn't that kittly look FRIENDLY?!?!?! There's more of this that just that one, trust me. There's a few themes running through all of them: No real, live people, ever. Even where there are signs of life, signs is all they are. A sense of abandoned space Often enough, a sense that nothing is there becuae of something that happened, and whatever it was, it wasn't pretty. Call it menace or whatever. Dance With Death, yeah, that other shoe...good luck finding that. Overall, it's actually a pretty coherent esthetic, those photographs are. And more than often enough, there's a meaningful tie-in to the title of the album. I mean, this means...what, exactly? Oh look! It's a picture of Hank Mobley, let's jsut use some "tasteful" graphic, he, we got a record! It could just as easily be called A Hank Mobley BLUE NOTE Record. This, otoh, low-budget that it may be, this is DEFINITELY about "thinking of home"..the story that gets to that point...you tell me. But yeah, thinking of home, no doubt. "Canon" is for people who don't want to think about shit. You tell me where the esthetics is in that. That sounds more like dilettante poseurism to me.

Oh, "to clarify", "period appropriate" and "Reid Miles" are not always the same thing. If, say, Dance With Death was to have gotten a "period appropriate" look, they would have gone for an ersatz Forlenza/Venosa or Frank Gauna cover or something like that. for pretty much (almost) anything that was released after the Liberty-to-UA era, a Miles-esque cover is NOT period-appropriate.

They weren't (usually) substandard, but they were rejects. Which is exactly the point. Everybody says, wow it's hard to believe that THIS went unissued for so long. Well, no, it's not hard at all. This shit is a business, not a freaking public park. Not then, not now, not ever. And UA did the right thing by looking the other way - if they were looking at all - while letting Cuscuna and Laurie put up the Have You Seen Me? milk carton records. Those really were record-industry guerilla warfare. Cuscuna was good at that back in those days, getting stuff out through "major" labels before they figured out what he was doing. Between Freedom, Novus & Savoy, god only knows how much of Clive Davis' Arista money he (and partners) spent... Those revisionist Smiling POW "period appropriate" covers don't look real, any of them, because they aren't real. When the King Japanese vault reissues started coming out, I LOL-ed at how they absolutely flaunted how UN-"real" they were. They didn't even try, because they knew how disrepectful that would be. So they did some really weird shit, LOL weird. Canon? Please. Canons are bullshit. Canons are for people who don't want to know what really happened. Canons are for people who want to be told what somebody else wants them to think happened. Canons are for people who believe that civilization should be "upheld" rather than allowed to evolve. Canons are the height of unnatural thought and behavior.

Ok, if this is all there is going to be...they could split Untitled Original into two LP sides. That gives you a double LP. But...really hoping that this is going to be something that nobody is seeing coming. Hoping...

Plus there's nobody there to pick them up...

Blue Note was all but done as a label (even as a corporately controlled one) and there was no guarantee that they would survive at all. The LT (aka "Rainbow" a cruelly ironic design choice) was a literally last-ditch/gasp effort by Cuscuna and Laurie to get vault stuff out in the open before the whole thing folded...which it did. Remember, there were no new artists releasing on the label at the time (Horace Silver was the last one, iirc), and the "reissue" series which gave us all that wonderful "brown paper bag" vault stuff had been discontinued. Remember- there was yet no Mosaic or anything, just this last gasp, And they seemed to (where I was, anyway) come out at random intervals and limited quantities), And then they stopped. Blue Note, where it existed at all, existed as a very limited back catalog or "known quantities)...and I seem to remember dealers having a hard time getting those for a while. And then Capitol bought it all up, and then there was...Applause. And it really did look like that was going to be it for going forth. In fact, I fully expected at the time that Mosaic was going to be the only place to get a real look into Blue Note,s historicity. The only place. Fortunately, Bruce Lundvall moved in, and things got saved for a little while. That's when everybody thought it was safe to breathe again,, but it's never really safe to breathe, not this air. Nothing short of a Cultural Genocide, that's what we were looking at. Might seem harsh, but only if you don't really value the culture that those records (all of them, the OGs and the vault records) were bringing to the public and the way it was being brought. If that doesn't matter, then all those things where they grab a picture and put all kinds of "homage" type covers to make it look like none of that ever happened, then, hey, enjoy that. I mean, maybe those types of things don' matter to most people ok. But they matter to me, and I know for a fact that I'm not alone.

My wife got some for free back in April that the nursery was going to throw away (because it's that type of a joint, they're there to move product, period) and she's got them doing great, thanks for asking!

3 CDs on 2 LPs would be a nifty trick!

Ok, but...if they use part of the old record to flesh out the new, that still leaves the rest of the old record unimproved...is that how desperate they think we are, I hope not?

Helped to forget...

Tiki!

No, it's not your imagination...

Yeah, and in a different key, iirc. What I remember of them is quite stimulating. There is this, but to get a valid 2LP set our of it is going to require a boost. I've pre-ordered the CD from DG, just because, boots don't last past legit time. And if this impulse! is something else altogether, iHEY!

If it was truly "period-appropriate" to the period in which it was recorded (I goes that's what you're thinking) it would be actual Reid Miles design or an actual Reid Miles forgery, not some nostalgic "homage " or some other mental marketing handjob behind the dumpster type crap The LT series, those records, those musics, their purpose was not to please you in any way. They existed solely for the purpose of popping up just long enough to prove that they existed before the whole species was exterminated. This is no metaphor or exaggeration We almost lost Blue Note, seriously. Lion escaped Hitler, but Blue Note's escape from Capitol was much more harrowing Never Forget.

"period appropriate'... WTF? does that mean, oh, this record gets made and sits in the can until either people die or go off into a totally different career direction, in the meantime, this record goes nowhere because they already got enough of that already and/or it's not quite what we want, so... What "period" is being neglected and forgotten? I'll tell you what period it's not - a period of oh wow, here's a new Blue Note record, look, everybody's happy and thoughtful and making another great record...like, yeah, forget about those 40 years you spent in a cage in the basement. There is no truth in those revisionist covers, unless Father Knows Best represents truth

Cover ART or cover DESIGN? I assume you're referring to the LT series, which was pretty much the anti-CTI of design. CTI was all about indulgent extroversion, calling attention to yourself. LT was all about just trying to get out alive before the bloodhounds got the scent and the bullets started flying.

Salty Parker Pilar Sanders Nick Turner

Pi is great!

In the context of Blue Note "records", Roques was a useful tool of a craftsman with no mission or vision other than to recreate a past that never existed. Again - that body had yet to be found and likely will never be found.