Dorham prestige late 60s issue

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

did they, or didnt they, design this new cover to be reminincent of a bluenote cover!!!

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[brownie]

Don't think the cover had anything to do with BN design. It was typical of Don Schlitten design.

He took the photo and designed the cover. Like quite a number of Prestige releases/reissues in the late 60s/early '70s.

That KD Prestige reissue added one track (Mack the Knife) to the original New Jazz LP.

[Brad]

Doesn't look anything like one of the BN covers.

[Neal Pomea]

Isn't this the same one called Quiet Kenny?

[Free For All]

Isn't this the same one called Quiet Kenny?

You are correct sir.

[DrJ]

Isn't this the same one called Quiet Kenny?

You are correct sir.

And I prefer the original cover.

[clifford_thornton]

Wonder if there's an Esquire variant?

[JSngry]

Those late-60s/early-70s Prestige repackagings almost always had really good liner notes. That was the one thing I didn't dig about the OJC LP reissues, too often the original liner notes were not as good.

[Chuck Nessa]

Those late-60s/early-70s Prestige repackagings almost always had really good liner notes. That was the one thing I didn't dig about the OJC LP reissues, too often the original liner notes were not as good.

They had really long liner notes. Many times the writers took time to dis more current music.

[JSngry]

That they did, Mark Gardner's in particular as I recall. Maybe Ira Gitler's too. But I just laughed at that while I enjoyed the pleasure of a well crafted essay as opposed to some (mostly" promotional blurbs.

Edited March 16, 2010 by JSngry

[John L]

That's a good point. I first got into jazz in the mid-70s, and I really appreciated many of the extensive educational liner notes in 2-fer reissues from Fantasy, Blue Note, and Savoy. There seems to be a preference today for original liner notes, which can, in some cases, add valuable historical context, but often not.

Edited March 17, 2010 by John L

[JSngry]

And, as in the case of David Himmelstein's notes to that Booker Ervin side (the one w/Dexter, purple & black cover, right?), you get a real work of art, wacky though it may be.

I used to really enjoy Mark Gardner's essays, though. The guy just poured out all kinds of stuff, a lot of it not necessarily stuff that I agreed with then or now, but still stuff that just read well & reflected on the music in a "then vs now" way. Blue Note quite often had good liner notes, but Prestige, at least up until the Don Schlitten days, not so much.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Amiri Baraka's sleeve notes for Prestige were always a good read.

And so were Chris Albertson's, whether pseudonymous or fully credited. It was Chris who first pointed out that Trane was interested in the Gator horn.

And in the early seventies, Cobblestone/Muse often had good sleeve notes, as well. Again, Mark Gardner, Neil Tesser, Ralph Burton, Don Schlitten...

MG