c'ball on TRIP/Emarcy

[Guest ariceffron]

how come 'trip' can reissue a mecury (emarcy) lp? is it beacuse in the 70s companies like mercury couldnt envision actually reissuing ev'ry obscure lp they printed back in the day, so they gave rights to trip, or what. anyone have info on that as well as the label itself?!@??!?

[JSngry]

Trip leased and reissued a WHOLE bunch of Mercury/Emarcy sides in the mid-70s. The best Mercury could come up with (a little later, iirc) was a series of 2-fer LPs, some of which were more or less complete, and some of which were just nice-but-basically-useless compilations. It got better as it went along, but Trip was in the mix first, I think.

And buddy, let me tell you how exciting those Trip things were at the time. The vast majority of the Mercury/Emarcy catalog had been OOP for too long to remember, so these things were COOL!

Fantasy/Prestige/Milestone was the first company to do the 2-fer thing, and they had great success. Within a few years, Savoy (by then owned by Arista, and then, later, Muse) and Verve got into the mix. Columbia was on and off with the notion, but mostly off.

[sidewinder]

Those Emarcy twofers were pretty exciting at the time.. B-) . I've got the Clifford Brown/Max Roach and (pre 10CD set days) that one was the biz. There was also a Cannonball Adderley 'Spontaneous Combustion' which was pretty good but - again - superceded by that great 2CD Verve compilation of Emarcy material. Here in the UK these were US imports and usually found as cutouts.

The Trip reissues are also seen quite a lot here as cutouts (the Mole Jazz shop seems to have a 'black hole/red dwarf' effect on these ) but I hate the lousy vinyl quality so tend to avoid them.