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Mike Le Donne: Heavy Hitters

[BillF]

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

In a big band frame of mind this afternoon.

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49 minutes ago, jlhoots said:

Mike Le Donne: Heavy Hitters

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2 hours ago, JSngry said:

As such, and this is a very trivial concern, the logo on that reissue "pisses me off" That's an early PJ logo. The OG cover very much reflected the corporate transitions that were going on

That's interesting.  I have the CD release, and the cover has that Pacific Jazz logo in the upper-left corner.  So it's a bit of revisionist history on the part of Universal and/or producer Michael Cuscuna, eh?   

Liberty was in an acquisitive mood back then:  Blue Note and Solid State and Pacific Jazz.  I guess they were flush with cash.

 

 

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Marlene VerPlanck Loves Johnny Mercer (Audiophile, 1978)

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[Kevin Bresnahan]

On 3/11/2023 at 11:55 AM, mikeweil said:

from this box set:

I always thought this might make a good Mosaic set but only if they could find the masters and especially if there is any unissued material on them.

[JSngry]

42 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

That's interesting.  I have the CD release, and the cover has that Pacific Jazz logo in the upper-left corner.  So it's a bit of revisionist history on the part of Universal and/or producer Michael Cuscuna, eh?   

Liberty was in an acquisitive mood back then:  Blue Note and Solid State and Pacific Jazz.  I guess they were flush with cash. 

And I think they were already on the way to the Transamerica/UA world. That was a bit of a fluid time for all the labels in that family - and the label's labels! 

I mean, was this one World Pacific Jazz or Pacific Jazz? And whatever happened to plain old World Pacific?

[HutchFan]

27 minutes ago, JSngry said:

And whatever happened to plain old World Pacific?

It went "dodo bird"!  No more.  Gone!

 

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Now:

Milton Nascimento - Milton (A&M/Verve, 1976)

 

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Instant Composers Pool (ICP) Tentet - Tetterettet (Instant Composers Pool/Corbett vs. Dempsey, 1977)

 

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[mikeweil]

2 hours ago, bresna said:

I always thought this might make a good Mosaic set but only if they could find the masters and especially if there is any unissued material on them.

They say in the liner notes that the discographically known unissued material was nowhere to be  found and is considered lost.

Edited March 13, 2023 by mikeweil

[Larry Kart]

Ronnie Cuber's "In a New York Minute" (Steeplehase) 👍 Kenny Drew Jr. plays his ass off on this one. A sad loss he was.

[dougcrates]

[ghost of miles]

Part of the Herbie Hancock Columbia box set:

[BFrank]

[medjuck]

9 hours ago, JSngry said:

It truly is. I still maintain that people who haven't heard/didn't get to hear a real live REAL Big Band have no idea of how much physical impact the sheer sound of it would make. It could pin you on your ass and not let you back up.

 

And without making your ears bleed.  I heard the Herman band with Jake Hanna on  drums in a club in Montreal and it was as you describe. I once danced right in front of the stage to a local band called Manteca at the El Mo in Toronto and thought they might blow me off the floor but without hurting my ears.  Whereas for some reason when rock bands are too loud I need ear plugs but they still don't give me that lift. 

[Gheorghe]

3 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

Part of the Herbie Hancock Columbia box set:

IMHO the very best VSOP until then. This one was a "must have" among the jazz freaks in my high school class (I think it was shortly before the "bac" in 1978 and one guy had it and we all came together to listen to it and make cassette tapes....

Just fantastic, and that incredible live version of "Red Clay", also a favourite album / composition among us youngsters...

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7 hours ago, dougcrates said:

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Zbigniew Namysłowski Quintet – Kujaviak Goes Funky

 

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