interesting blue note cd on ebay

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

http://www.ebay.com/...=item3a72bcdca9

applause issue of FLUTE IN, this is strange- is this the only CD issue of this title? i dont recall seeing it elsewhere, i think ive seen an applause LP discog. but i know nothing of their cds. the only one ive seen in person is bobby hutcherson: natural illusions

Edited April 7, 2012 by chewy

[Rooster_Ties]

The single most disappointing thing I've ever heard with either Lee Morgan or Billy Harper.

Iirc, weren't all of Humphrey's parts (including solos) fully written-out?

Yeah, I think this is the only time this has appeared on CD.

Applause issues of Blue Note titles are among the very worst sounding things ever. I've seen 6 or 7 different titles over the years, and they always sounded like 5th generation cassette dubs using a cassette deck badly in need of having its head's cleaned.

[Dan Gould]

Agree about the Humphrey but I have an Applause copy of Wahoo! that sounds terrific. I seem to recall a Lou Donaldson too that sounded fine.

You know they did have access to the masters. IIRC, the contract was screwy or someone at Capitol screwed up and gave them more masters than they were entitled to, and that's how so many Applause reissues came into being.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

so they were a small time label, at a time when capitol had zero interest in releasing bluenote material, so they let them release some masters, at "low" cost?

yea i know the album kind of sucks, i just never have seen it on CD before. yea ive heard that before two, how her solos were all written out on paper

[Eric]

couple of my early exposures to jazz ... the Blakey was on cassette!

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Agree about the Humphrey but I have an Applause copy of Wahoo! that sounds terrific. I seem to recall a Lou Donaldson too that sounded fine.

You know they did have access to the masters. IIRC, the contract was screwy or someone at Capitol screwed up and gave them more masters than they were entitled to, and that's how so many Applause reissues came into being.

The contract wasn't screwy, it was very, very old. I know someone who worked at One Way Records (who legitimately re-issued Wayne Shorter's "Moto Grosso Feio") and Applause tried to sell the this "contract". Their reasoning for its legitimacy was that there was no expiration date. Whoever had (has?) the contract is acting like they have a license for these titles in perpetuity. My buddy told me the contract (today) isn't worth the value of the ink on the paper.

[JSngry]

As it was happening in real time, there was a year or two where it looked like Applause was going to be the only way to get Blue Note. The "real thing" was totally dead, and this was all that was coming out.

You talk about the future looking dark...