Stereo recordings released as MONO only, cuz tapes were lost

[Rooster_Ties]

Just got the Grant Green Club Mozambique date (finally), and got to thinking about what other "modern" dates (recorded after 1960), have been released as MONO only -- specifically because the Stereo masters were lost, or otherwise damaged or destroyed.

The only other date I could think of (off the top of my head), was the Andrew Hill Select date with Sam Rivers (the one withOUT Woody Shaw) -- i.e. the last of the two sessions on disc #3.

That, and the Mozambique date were the only two I could think of -- but surely there are some others I'm not aware of, or am forgetting.

Edited September 24, 2006 by Rooster_Ties

[paul secor]

Issued in mono (because they were recorded in mono after 1960 - not because the stereo masters were lost):

Ayler: Spiritual Unity

Coltrane Live in Japan

MJQ in Japan (Atlantic)

[Rooster_Ties]

Well -- in that case...

Also issued in mono (because it was recorded that way), are the two volumes of live Miles and Gil Evans recordings from 1961 (if I remember correctly).

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

i wish they always lost the stereo masters

[Quincy]

Issued in mono (because they were recorded in mono after 1960 - not because the stereo masters were lost):

Coltrane Live in Japan

I'll be durned. It's strange how sometimes something like that can be missed, but I suppose there's so much to deal with I hadn't ever really noticed it was in mono. <Insert David Byrne slapping forehead repeatedly emoticon.>

[medjuck]

As I recall there were 2 bonus cuts on the George Russell RCA jazz Workshop cd that were in stereo but all of the cuts on the original Lp were in mono on the cd release. Presumably the stereo tapes of were destroyed in the making of the original (mono) Lp.

[Swinging Swede]

Chet Baker's 1965 Prestige quintet recordings come to mind. Some of those tracks seem to always have been released in mono. This was discussed in a recent thread.

[Stereojack]

Chet Baker's 1965 Prestige quintet recordings come to mind. Some of those tracks seem to always have been released in mono. This was discussed in a recent thread.

All of the original LP's are stereo. Some of the CD's are mono.

[Swinging Swede]

You're right, I now see that you even said so in previous threads. It was the Japanese CD releases that also had some tracks in mono. Too bad if the stereo tapes have been misplaced.

A couple of previous threads on the subject:

Chet Baker 1965 Prestige sessions, which tracks are mono?

Chet Baker on Prestige

[Claude]

Wasn't Coltrane "Live in Japan" captured for radio broadcast, and only later relesed on record? That would explain why it's mono. Like so many european radio broadcasts from the 1960's now available on record.

Some 1960's studio sessions recorded or released in mono which come to my mind are french Barclay or Philips sessions reissued in the "Jazz in Paris" series, like Stephany Grapelli "Django" (1962) or Jean-Luc Ponty "Jazz long playing" (1964)

Another late mono session is "Chet is Back" from 1962.

[Daniel A]

The Duke Pearson album "Dedication", recorded in 1961, is mono. Recorded for Jazzline, but not released until 1970, then by Prestige.

OJC CD reissue says "stereo", but it sounds as if it's just a mono tape played through a stereo head.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I've got LOADS of African music recorded in mono post 1960.

MG

[medjuck]

I vaguely remember that one of the Billie Holiday Verve Lps was in stereo but they couldn't find the stereo tapes (or they'd been destroyed) for the box set release.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Before 1960, of course, but one track of "Soul brothers" by Ray Charles & Milt Jackson was only mono and issued only on the mono versions of the LP - that was "Bags guitar blues". All the other tracks were stereo. "Deed I do" appeared only on the stereo copies.

The CD reissue, of course, had both tracks, but no explanation of why this happened.

MG

[mikeweil]

I vaguely remember that one of the Billie Holiday Verve Lps was in stereo but they couldn't find the stereo tapes (or they'd been destroyed) for the box set release.

The last small group sessions before the Ray Ellis sessions were recorded in stereo, but the stereo tapes have been found only for six tracks.

[paul secor]

Wasn't Coltrane "Live in Japan" captured for radio broadcast, and only later relesed on record? That would explain why it's mono. Like so many european radio broadcasts from the 1960's now available on record.

Yep. Same with the MJQ in Japan LPs.