Art Blakey at the Jazz Corner of the World

[Kevin Bresnahan]

The Jimmy Smith Doubletime 2-CD set, "A New Sound... A New Star...", has also never been reissued since that release except on CD in Japan.

[adh1907]

 Interesting. Has whoever produced the Doubletime CDs ran off with the tapes?!

[jazzbo]

Nah. The label just doesn't think this stuff will sell. That's the bottom line.

[mikeweil]

14 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Nah. The label just doesn't think this stuff will sell. That's the bottom line.

My thoughts exactly.

[Brad]

I messaged Joe Harley about this. He says they intend to get to this but didn’t specify a time frame. 

[bertrand]

9 minutes ago, Brad said:

I messaged Joe Harley about this. He says they intend to get to this but didn’t specify a time frame. 

With extra material?

[Kevin Bresnahan]

10 hours ago, bertrand said:

With extra material?

They don't really do extra material now. They are doing mostly LP reissues. They have only been releasing what was on the original LP unless they decide to go with a "complete" version. like they've done with a few sessions like Trane's "Blue Train", Rollins' Vanguard or Burrell's Five Spot material.

[bertrand]

9 hours ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

They don't really do extra material now. They are doing mostly LP reissues. They have only been releasing what was on the original LP unless they decide to go with a "complete" version. like they've done with a few sessions like Trane's "Blue Train", Rollins' Vanguard or Burrell's Five Spot material.

I was thinking a Burrell 5-Spot kind of scenario.

[Brad]

23 hours ago, bertrand said:

With extra material?

We didn’t get that deeply. I’m not even sure this is on their radar but maybe will be now. 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

If they do a "complete" release and they find more takes of these tunes, I'd be interested. However, I do hope that they don't copy the format of the Rollins' Vanguard release, where they cut all of the banter between songs. That was included in the RVG CDs and I really enjoyed hearing Sonny's little talks.