Mark Stryker Posted April 16, 2023 Report Share Posted April 16, 2023 Holy shit, what might have been ... https://open.substack.com/pub/lewisporter/p/coltrane-projects-that-never-happened-8b5?r=1p3m1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted April 16, 2023 Report Share Posted April 16, 2023 Fascinating article! Two questions: how could RCA be in play for a Miles/Trane album, when they didn't have either under contract. And did RCA really have more money than Columbia at that point? I thought Columbia was the biggest record company in that era. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Stryker Posted April 16, 2023 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2023 1 hour ago, felser said: Fascinating article! Two questions: how could RCA be in play for a Miles/Trane album, when they didn't have either under contract. And did RCA really have more money than Columbia at that point? I thought Columbia was the biggest record company in that era. I assume that RCA would have "rented" Miles and Trane from their respective companies for a one-off -- not unlike if Columbia "rented" Trane from Impulse or Impulse had "rented" Miles from Columbia. Yes, it would have been expensive for RCA, and I don't know the relevant financial condition of the label at the time. But I'm guessing that even if they were smaller than Columbia, they were still flush. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spontooneous Posted April 16, 2023 Report Share Posted April 16, 2023 Given that the interest RCA showed in forward-looking jazz by 1966 was minimal (not zilch, but very close), and given that by the time of the second letter in Porter's post the unrealized project has migrated to Impulse -- Is it unreasonable to think that the mention of RCA in the first letter is a misstatement on Miles' part, if not a fabrication to press Columbia for more money? Or a misstatement or memory lapse on Townsend's part? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted April 16, 2023 Report Share Posted April 16, 2023 Brad McCuen was doing some stealth work for RCA. Doesn't seem like his bag, though. But he did do Bill Dixon and was doing Gary Burton (including A Genuine Tong Funeral) so... RCA had plenty of money. Think about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted April 16, 2023 Report Share Posted April 16, 2023 This seemed to be RCA's idea of what to do with a good tenor player at that point: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted April 16, 2023 Report Share Posted April 16, 2023 or... only one of the most sexy ballad albums ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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