WHAT IS....the "midnight-slows" series

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

if you google it you can see all the lps--- sexy covers, w/ music by all these greats who kind of werent prolific recorders at the time, arnett cobb, buddy tate, milt buckner-- well id like some info on the series, is it american or european? what are all the volumes? theres a lot i know. i only have like one of them

[clifford_thornton]

Black & Blue put these out and they were/are a French label.

[brownie]

The Midnight Slows series was launched in the '70s by the French label Black & Blue. The label recorded many sessions with visiting jazz musicians.

The series success was due to its non-obstrusive music and its soft sex covers (mostly from photos by David Hamilton).

Lots of very enjoyable music there.

[Big Beat Steve]

@Brownie.

So these were diferent from and no overlaps with the commonly known black & Blue LP series of those times, e.g. the "Jazz Greatest Names" series?

This was the Black & Blue series I remember being all over the place in the record shops in the mid- to late 70s.

[sidewinder]

The 'Midnight Slows' LPs were all over the London LP shops in the 1970s. I often wondered what the music was like in them - but that was not their primary appeal.