JSngry

Not necessarily...I think the premise of this thread, which, if I'm getting it right, is - were there CD issues of vault material that came out pre-Conn? - is a cloudy one, maybe? Because the Conn series was never about vault material, it was about catalog items that had not gotten a lot of sunshine, so to speak. Maybe at some point they started adding vault material to the series, or adding vault material to catalog items (pretty sure than got to be a thing) but Conn discs were always premised on catalog items in some for or fashion, I though? But I can't think, offhand, of any Conn disc that was a entirely a first release of vault materia? Maybe?

It's a most satisfying package.

Lou Blackburn/Imperial...obscure (for me, anyway), but previous LPs contained.

That one was part of a 70s 2-fer.

"Connoisseur series" was intended for existing catalog that perhaps had had a slower profile than the "staples". Is that right? Not to get vault items out.

IIRC, the "new BN" vault reissues came first on both LP and cassette, and then a few years later on CD. There was no "series" associated with them.

Guy Williams Zorro Nellie Fox

#instapreorder

There ya' go!

Is this a porn?

Not a resident, much less a voter, but from what I've heard from those who are/were, yeah, long before. Real e$tate gone wild.

Well, that might be harsh, maybe that was all he knew to say to a distinguished elder. But maybe not? Here we go again with jazz-as-career-path...I give up trying to give a damn about that. It's just getting too damn weird for me.

He name-checked. He's hip. He writes for the New York Times and has a book out that apparently is good to the kids. What have you done for him lately?

Oh, THAT Joe Henderson!

It means that you're in the next-gen canon!

Blue Oyster Cult Bill Darden and Charley Woodsby, founders of Red Lobster Klaus Green

Sincerely glad to hear this. It means he's NOT Leonard Feather for the kids today, or any other number of "important critics" who were not at all nice people.

fwiw....I kinda recall Chinen breaking into, I think it was Jazz Times (yeah, THAT long ago) with an introductory flairstatement along the lines of hey, I'm a young guy, this old stuff was before my time, so don't expect me to have either expertise or reverence towards that kind of jazz, I'm young, dammit, YOUNG! Not those words, but that attitude. and I was like, ok, that's legit, good, break some molds here, move some thinkings ahead, that's useful, so...get busy. and then, nothing happened. Dude wrote a lot of stuff about a lot of stuff that really didn't land (the music or the writing). so, like I said...not feeling a reason to read a whole book of that. Plenty of good/great music being made today, just nothing/nothing much that he seems to be excited about. Maybe he's the Leonard Feather for the kids today, I duno. but I'm no kid, nor am I ancient either, just old enough to not waste my energy on dead-ends that go nowhere and back again. I wouldn't mind a good Neo-Soul overview though, as I've had a sincere liking but small exposure to that genre for a few years now. But can I trust him on that if I don't trust him on jazz? Because for me, there is definitely an affinity between them.

who's NOT making the cut?

not yet...

never seen a US version...not sure if Ornette approved its release in any form. seems like not? gotta check that Artists House insert where it breaks all that down. yep, "unauthorized" per the Soapsuds, Soapsuds insert.

Stan Lewis had some kind of connection at Chess...he seemed to have open access to their Gospel catalog for years. For example, those CF Franklin sermons on Jewel (or Paula, can't remember) were staples in neighborhood record shops for decades around rhere, and then on cassettes in truck stops after that.