The 70s Green and Purple Capitol Label

[Teasing the Korean]

The early 70s green and purple Capitol label encapsulates so much of what I love about the 70s; The logo is sleek and minimalist, suggesting the post-Woodstock oil embargo aesthetic of solar energy and a future of free love within the sterile andromeda-strain environment of outer space. And the best music that came with this logo - notably David Axelrod or Axelrod-produced/arranged sessions for Cannonball Adderley - beautifully combines introspective psychotronic funk grooves with Planet-of-the-Apes mutant monk Godspell choirs, as filtered through a Cronenbergesque vision of a faux-benevolent pharmaceutical corporatocracy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhxdnq_1OcM

[GA Russell]

I remember that The Fourth Way albums came with that label. I enjoyed them.

[JSngry]

[Big Beat Steve]

So this label indicates Capitol pressings from a certain time frame, not regional differences, right?

Can't recall having seen many rock/pop Capitols with that label (the then current rock music that I came across somehow never was on Capitol, it seems) but I'll always associate this label with THAT Capitol Jazz Classics series:

Almost all the volumes from that series that I have are Dutch pressings so I associated this with DUTCH Capitols, especially since the only U.S. pressing that I have (see below) has that Capitol logo in various places on the cover but a totally different label (with a production date of 1972). So what's up with that? Was that green-purple label used longer outside the U.S.? (I doubt all the Dutch pressings I have date back to the very early 70s or even beyond)

Edited August 11, 2011 by Big Beat Steve

[mikeweil]

Anyone here had this one?

[JohnS]

Capitol Jazz Classics was a great series. In addition to the above I had the Konitz/Marsh Crosscurrents and perhaps some more, now forgotten but replaaced by cd.

[Stefan Wood]

Anyone here had this one?

I've had both, and the first one is an excellent jazz prog album.

"The early 70s green and purple Capitol label encapsulates so much of what I love about the 70s; The logo is sleek and minimalist, suggesting the post-Woodstock oil embargo aesthetic of solar energy and a future of free love within the sterile andromeda-strain environment of outer space. And the best music that came with this logo - notably David Axelrod or Axelrod-produced/arranged sessions for Cannonball Adderley - beautifully combines introspective psychotronic funk grooves with Planet-of-the-Apes mutant monk Godspell choirs, as filtered through a Cronenbergesque vision of a faux-benevolent pharmaceutical corporatocracy."

TK, you are either in the running for Dusty Groove reviewer or an art critic. Both wax poetic but not a lot of substance.

[Teasing the Korean]

TK, you are either in the running for Dusty Groove reviewer or an art critic. Both wax poetic but not a lot of substance.

Neither pays well either.

[Noj]

I'm a sucker for Axelrodian production, and Dusty Groove reviews too.