Two Errors

[Peter Friedman]

Just very recently I discovered two mistakes regarding CDs I played.

The first was the personnel information on both the traycard and back of the booklet for

Lee Morgan - The Rajah - Blue Note. Gene Taylor is listed as drummer in both places, while the actual drummer is Billy Higgins. On the front cover of the booklet Billy Higgins is listed. Can't figure out how bass player Gene Taylor ended up beong credited as the drummer in the two prominent places I referred to above?

The second error is on the Timeless CD titled "Up Front" with David Williams, Cedar Walton and Billy Higgins. Track 6 on this CD is listed as "Funji Mama" in all three places that has tunes listed.

Those three places are the traycard, back page of the booklet, and on the CD itself.

Track 6 is actually "Django". What makes this even more strange is that in all three places "Django" is listed CORRECTLY as track 2. It seems as if by mistake "Django" was used twice on this CD and "Funji Mama" never appears. The other tunes on this CD are all listed correctly.

Have these two errors been mentioned here before?

[Jim R]

The error on "The Rajah" has been mentioned before, perhaps on the BNBB.

That second error is even worse!

[BFrank]

I have vinyl of "The Rajah" and the credits are correct - Billy Higgings (d) & Paul Chambers (b).

[Brad]

I played the Rajah recently and noted that. Not good proofreading I guess.

[couw]

I have vinyl of "The Rajah" and the credits are correct - Billy Higgings (d) & Paul Chambers (b).

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same on the TOCJ

[Jim R]

How many US CD issues of The Rajah have there been? My CD has a 1988 copyright date on the tray card, and 1995 on the disc itself.

[Peter Friedman]

Jim,

My copy has 1988 on both the tray card and back page of the booklet. I am unable to find a date on the CD itself. Where on the disc are you finding a date?

[couw]

The TOCJ has a 1998 © and is a 20bit remaster by Ron McMaster. Was this master never used for a US domestic release?

[Jim R]

Peter, my disc (which is blue and white as opposed to blue and silver, fwiw) has "Blue Note is a registered trademark of Capitol Records, Inc, © 1995 near the bottom of the text on the label. It's possible that I bought this used, which makes me wonder if I have a marriage of two different issues.

BTW, my booklet has no copyright date on the back.

John, good question...

Edited November 12, 2005 by Jim R

[Spontooneous]

The 1995 sounds like a Collectors Choice issue, which is a straight reissue of the older American CD. But the discs are painted white for some reason.

[Peter Friedman]

Well, it sure looks as if there are a number of different CD releases of THE RAJAH. Mine is silver and blue with copyright dates (1988) on both tray card and back page of booklet, but no date at all on the disc itself.

[DCox]

I have two cd copies of The Rajah but I discovered yesterday that one of the discs is not The Rajah at all. The disc, tray insert etc. all indicate say Lee Morgan, The Rajah etc. but the music on the disc is a completely different Lee Morgan album, although I don't know which one. This seems like a little bit more than a packaging screw-up.

[DCox]

Update on the two cd copies of The Rajah: it took a little detective work but the second disc, as it turns out, is not even a Lee Morgan album that has been mislabeled and mispackaged. It is Stanley Turrentine's 1963 album Jubilee Shout. I wonder how many copies of this cd were labeled and packaged as The Rajahbefore somebody caught the error.

[king ubu]

Update on the two cd copies of The Rajah: it took a little detective work but the second disc, as it turns out, is not even a Lee Morgan album that has been mislabeled and mispackaged. It is Stanley Turrentine's 1963 album Jubilee Shout. I wonder how many copies of this cd were labeled and packaged as The Rajahbefore somebody caught the error.

That brings back memories of the Art Blakey Bohemia disc (can't recall which volume) that used to be in the shelves of a local store for quite a while... it contained some silly acid jazz crap... a friend and I who both wanted to buy these Bohemia discs returned there several times, to find they still had that (or maybe several) faulty copy in their bins. The printing on the CD was giving Blakey and all the info you'd actually expect... but us being 13 or 14 back then, we didn't dare to inquire, being afraid we might be accused of having exchanged the disc or whatever... so we just returned until they had good copies, eventually

[Shawn]

All those collector's choice discs had white CD labels and white jewel case trays. The older 80's discs I believe were silver.

I've never even seen an actual copy of the CD, though I have seen the vinyl before.