Jackie McLean- Lights Out...what came first....?

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

there is the new jazz issue with a white cover with a b&w pic framed,- purple new jazz label- then there is a classic yellow prestige label issue with a different cover art. which one was 1st. the prestige cover one ive seen more i know. is the new jazz the 1st issue. is it rarer

[brownie]

This was the original release

got the original LP from Prestige records direct when it came out. They sent me a freak copy.

Labels show side A and side B but the music is side A on both sides!

[JSngry]

[JSngry]

[colinmce]

I'd say Jackie's music is about as unrelaxing as it gets.

[John L]

It can get even more unrelaxing - John Zorn, for example?

[clifford_thornton]

Oh my god - never seen that one! Killer!

[sidewinder]

First time I've seen that one too. There were a couple of Esquires in that style (the Burrell 'All Night Long' for example).

[JSngry]

"The dark can be very relaxing with Jackie McLean"....that's a weird enough thing to put on an album cover, but weirder still, perhaps even uber-weird, is what generated that thought in the first place. What possible confluence of events could be running through somebody's conscious and/or subconscious mind that the thought that the dark can very relaxing with Jackie McLean pops up?

[Dan Gould]

Spending time in the dark with Jackie McLean?

Seriously though I don't think its quite so weird. Its aiming the record as "mood music".

[JSngry]

Yeah, nothing says "mood" like being in a dark room with a harsh-toned junkie altoist with blatantly intentional alternative intonational proclivities!

[clifford_thornton]

[John L]

Spending time in the dark with Jackie McLean?

Seriously though I don't think its quite so weird. Its aiming the record as "mood music".

That still doesn't explain what the hell Donald Byrd is doing on the other side of that light bulb.

[Chuck Nessa]

He's trying to find out which way it screws.

[Late]

There was an EP too?

[brownie]

There was an EP too?

Not from Prestige but from its Swedish distributors Metronome.

Metronome was very big on EPs!

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

thats odd brownie! u should of wrote them and complained, lol!

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

so was new jazz a reissue label? or how did it work the relationship between the two- i mean newjazz IS prestige...but how did they utilize it, i guess is what im asking

Edited November 4, 2011 by chewy

[brownie]

New Jazz released new material and reissued a number of Prestige sessions.

New Jazz catalogue from the Plosin.com website.

chewy, about my copy of Lights Out, I was getting new releases from Prestige at $2,50 a LP at the time. That was more than half a century ago! And not a bad deal when the Prestige LPs were sold for much more money in the rare Paris shops which specialized in US copies back then. No reason to complain for one freak copy when all the other LPs shipped were without problems!

[Late]

There was an EP too?

Not from Prestige but from its Swedish distributors Metronome.

Metronome was very big on EPs!

I did see that Metronome logo, but didn't compute it. Makes sense. Thanks, Guy. Kind of weird that Metronome would do a series of EPs rather than an LP.

And I like that Metronome didn't actually have the lights "out," but rather dimmed — the exposure lets you see more of Jackie.