Black Lion CD List?

[pdiddy413]

Hi everybody. I am new to the forum, and am wondering if anybody has a complete list of Black Lion titles available on cd. any help would be greatly appreciated. I have a few of the titles (about 10), and I want to know what else is out there.

Leafgreen

[Gheorghe]

Hi Leafgreen, welcome here!

About the Black Lion label......, well I doubt there´s a complete list. Much of the stuff was periodically re-issued in Japan, since the japanese are huge collectors of everything that´s historic and got that be-bop sound.

I remember when I was young, I really tried hard to purchase a lot of LPs from that label, since the artists (Bud, Dexter, Don Byas etc.) appealed to me and still do. Even then it was very very hard to find albums, even if they where in a cataloge, record dealers over here in Europe told me they are out of print.

Eventually I got Bud Powell´s "The Invisible Cage", "Strictly Confidential" and "Hot House (with Johnny Griffin). Also "Hawk in Germany (actually Bud Powell trio with Hawk added on the second half of the album, sometimes the album is called "Essen Festival All Stars").

I also liked very much Dexter´s album from 1967 from the Montmatre, with Kenny Drew on it (especially the fast version of "Like Someone in Love"), or Don Byas´ "Anthropology", with Byas playing bop-standards.

I also had the Monk sessions from London 1971.

Yes, this was really beautiful stuff, mostly Americans in Europe, quite the stuff I used to hear live when that music still was happening, and Europe was a good place of african-american artists to work or even to live....

I also would like to re-buy all that stuff on CD

[Brownian Motion]

Hi everybody. I am new to the forum, and am wondering if anybody has a complete list of Black Lion titles available on cd. any help would be greatly appreciated. I have a few of the titles (about 10), and I want to know what else is out there.

Leafgreen

If you go to Amazon advanced music search you can search for Black Lion label items. You'll get 200+ hits.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Hi everybody. I am new to the forum, and am wondering if anybody has a complete list of Black Lion titles available on cd. any help would be greatly appreciated. I have a few of the titles (about 10), and I want to know what else is out there.

Leafgreen

If you go to Amazon advanced music search you can search for Black Lion label items. You'll get 200+ hits.

Oooo! You learn something every day! I must try that with Dakar Sound and Popular African Music.

MG

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Actually, are all the Black Lion recordings that are on CD on the Black Lion label? No; I have a Dexter Gordon - "For all we know" on the Jazz Life label, which contains one track from "Blues walk", which is part 2 of "The Montmartre collection" on Black Lion, and four other tracks, which I suspect are the other LP in that series; all done the same night, anyway.

Black Lion (and Barclay, MPS, Timeless and Black & Blue) would be suitable candidates for a Mike Fitzgerald label discography. There's a lot of very interesting material on them and much less is generally known about them than the big US jazz labels.

MG

[jostber]

A list that may be incomplete, is here:

http://www.discogs.com/label/Black+Lion

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

VERY incomplete, but a start, perhaps.

MG