paul bley "blood" question...

[Guest akanalog]

for anyone who knows paul bley-i recently picked up a dubiously provenanced copy of a paul bley album called "blood" on CD. it looks like the CD is on fontana. the cover has a drawing of bley with hands shaking on his neck and some faces and a skull in his hair. from what i have seen, this is also the cover to "touching". what's the deal here? i thought "touching" was a black lion album with a photo of bley playing on it-not an illustration.

the CD i got has 10 songs-it statrtd with "blood" and ends with "pig foot".

what's the deal with the CD i got and is it considered a good bley album?

[Chuck Nessa]

for anyone who knows paul bley-i recently picked up a dubiously provenanced copy of a paul bley album called "blood" on CD.  it looks like the CD is on fontana.  the cover has a drawing of bley with hands shaking on his neck and some faces and a skull in his hair.  from what i have seen, this is also the cover to "touching".  what's the deal here?  i thought "touching" was a black lion album with a photo of bley playing on it-not an illustration.

the CD i got has 10 songs-it statrtd with "blood" and ends with "pig foot".

what's the deal with the CD i got and is it considered a good bley album?

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'Twould help if you named the label for these "dubiously provenanced" discs. Are they cdrs?

ALSO, as many questions as you ask, why not invest in a discography and stop mooching off those of us paying the bucks?

[Guest akanalog]

wha? i said it was on fontana.

i paid 15 bucks for it, chuck.

[Guest akanalog]

i bought it at a store and it seems sketchy is what i am saying.

i liked the cover and it had some good tunes.

since i bought it someone recommended "touching" and then i saw the cover to "touching" on a website and it looked like the cover to the album "blood" i bought except for the replacement of the word "blood" with "touching".

perhaps that was the wrong cover for "touching".

but i bought this CD in a reputable store here in new york.

[Chuck Nessa]

wha?  i said it was on fontana.

i paid 15 bucks for it, chuck.

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You said "i recently picked up a dubiously provenanced copy of a paul bley album called "blood" on CD. it looks like the CD is on fontana."

Not the same thing. Geez!

[Chuck Nessa]

Or did you mean you thought the cd had been stolen?

[Guest akanalog]

no i meant that i cannot tell how official it is.

it is possible that though i paid normal CD money for it that it is a homemade job or something. doesn't look totally professional.

i mean i guess it is legit. but who knows. i mean i have seen other paul bley albums in stores that looked a bit sketchy (mostly IAI or whatever it is called ones)

Edited August 10, 2005 by akanalog

[Chuck Nessa]

If you don't know what you mean/know I'm gone.

[Guest akanalog]

well thank you for the information!

[RDK]

Sure to be a future "classic" thread...

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no i meant that i cannot tell how official it is.

it is possible that though i paid normal CD money for it that it is a homemade job or something.  doesn't look totally professional.

i mean i guess it is legit.  but who knows.  i mean i have seen other paul bley albums in stores that looked a bit sketchy (mostly IAI or whatever it is called ones)

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Isn't IAI Bley's label?

[Guest akanalog]

it his label. i meant the production values suck. the cover and stuff look like it is out of a photocopier.

[Chuck Nessa]

it his label.  i meant the production values suck.  the cover and stuff look like it is out of a photocopier.

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Don't know the cd graphics but the lps were fine. Can you give examples?

[Bright Moments]

Sure to be a future "classic" thread... 

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[Guest akanalog]

chuck, they are just poor reproductions of the LP graphics. look shoddily put together and printed.

[Guy Berger]

If you don't know what you mean/know I'm gone.

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You need to mellow out, man.

Guy

[Michael Fitzgerald]

I still don't understand the confusion described in the initial question, but here is the cover of Blood, Fontana 883 991 JCY, artwork by Marte Röling.

I own Touching as part of the Arista/Freedom 2fer and as a Black Lion CD, so I can't help with the Fontana LP issue of that.

Mike

[Michael Fitzgerald]

All right, so I lied - I can help. Here is the cover (in b&w) of Touching, Fontana 688 608:

Mike

[Guest akanalog]

yeah that is what confused me, michael.

[brownie]

Got both 'Blood' and 'Touching' when they came out in the late sixties when there was not much interest in Bley's music.

'Blood' came out first on 'International Polydor'. It was subtitled 'Paul Bley in Haarlem'. Mark Levinson - a name familiar to people interested in HiFi now - was on bass then. Heard the Bley trio with Levinson perform at the Comblain festival Belgium in 1966, the year these two albums were recorded. A superb trio!

International Polydor vinyls were manufactured in Germany by Deutsche Grammophon.

[JSngry]

'Blood' came out first on 'International Polydor'. It was subtitled 'Paul Bley in Haarlem'.

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I've got a Japanese CD issue of that with this cover:

But the OBI shows the Fontana cover posted above. Go figure.

IIRC, this albm was also 1/2 of the Arista/Freedom 2-fer LP Copenhagen and Haarlem.

[Guest akanalog]

so "blood" is live? i have the colorful illustrated cover michael f shows above.

just to finish this up, here is my tracklisting-

1.blood

2.albert's love theme

3.el cordobes

4.only sweetly

5.seven

6.mister joy

7.ramblin'

8.kid dynamite

9.nothing ever was, anyway

10.pig foot

this seems to be a japanese issue as it has japanese writing on the bottom back cover.

it is labelled PHCE-1006

i agree-this is a nice trio. i am impressed. sometimes i don't enjoy bley's rhythm sections (with the lawrence cook and dick youngstein's of the world)

[JSngry]

I think there's two different albums called Blood - the Fontana one, which you have, and the International Polydor one, which I have.

My Blood only has two songs - Blood & Mr. Joy.

To confuse matters further, AMG gives the track listing for the Fontana on a page that shows the International Polydor cover, and then gives a review & track listing of the International Polydor issue under the album name Paul Bley in Harlem and shows no cover!

[JSngry]

'Blood' came out first on 'International Polydor'. It was subtitled 'Paul Bley in Haarlem'.

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I've got a Japanese CD issue of that with this cover:

But the OBI shows the Fontana cover posted above. Go figure.

IIRC, this albm was also 1/2 of the Arista/Freedom 2-fer LP Copenhagen and Haarlem.

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And it's this Blood, not the Fontana one, that was part of the Arista/Freedom 2-fer.

[7/4]

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