Stan Getz and Bill Evans Album on Verve

[mikeweil]

23 hours ago, Shrdlu said:

Ha ha. That's a good one. Thought Elvin was Paul Motian. Were the notes written by an office junior?

Probably so - I found more mistakes like that, as if someone had written the credits and added personnel by copy & paste without really looking. Were there liner notes in that rusting steel box set? They could have thrown in a cheap copy of these.

Edited September 23, 2019 by mikeweil

[jazzbo]

EXTENSIVE liner notes.

[gmonahan]

Arg! The RUST BOX! Slowly I turn...step by step...inch by inch...….

 

 

 

gregmo

[Ken Dryden]

When I didscovered that the dreaded Bill Evans metal rust box was spreading rust to the CDs adjacent to it, I mentioned it to my father and he suggested cleaning it with Comet. I think that halted the progress, though I haven't checked it in awhile. It is easily one of the worst designed boxed sets, along with that pathetic 4 CD Charlie Christian set where the CDs rested in a ceramic like base.

 

[gmonahan]

I don't even know where the original box is anymore--rusting in some storage box somewhere I guess. I took the cds out of it not long after I got it, put them in jewel cases on my shelf with the (sometimes unreadable) book. Great music, legendarily dreadful packaging.

 

 

gregmo

[sidewinder]

The booklet with that red Italian box version is absolute rubbish. I’ve almost thought it was worth buying the ‘ammo box’ version just to get hold of a decent set of notes. Frustrating !

[gmonahan]

As Lon indicated, the notes in the original Rust Box booklet are extensive and pretty good, just occasionally difficult to read because of the dumb design (light green letters on cream background, white letters on light grey--one is grateful when the designers actually allow black lettering).

 

 

gregmo

[mikeweil]

They just wanted to prevent any of you making me a photocopy of the booklet notes!

[Ken Dryden]

Good luck trying to photocopy the book, it would be a challenge to flatten it enough to get a good scan, let alone get readable text. I hope the designer was fired and banned from the music industry for the overall horrible design.

 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

9 minutes ago, Ken Dryden said:

Good luck trying to photocopy the book, it would be a challenge to flatten it enough to get a good scan, let alone get readable text. I hope the designer was fired and banned from the music industry for the overall horrible design.

 

Didn't it win some sort of award for best packaging or some such thing? Best graphic design maybe? 

[Teasing the Korean]

52 minutes ago, Ken Dryden said:

I hope the designer was fired and banned from the music industry for the overall horrible design.

The music industry?!?  The graphic design industry. 

[Shrdlu]

I have the Evans Verve book here. If anyone wants to know any details, drop me a message and I will do my best to supply the information.

Edited September 26, 2019 by Shrdlu