Muse Masters - reissue series

[cliffpeterson]

I am with Kevin-I like most of the stuff that Zev has been involved with. But, thinking of Blakey's "Just Coolin" date, how can you call him a "Detective" when the session is listed on discographies?

[Dan Gould]

16 minutes ago, cliffpeterson said:

I am with Kevin-I like most of the stuff that Zev has been involved with. But, thinking of Blakey's "Just Coolin" date, how can you call him a "Detective" when the session is listed on discographies?

Because he "detected" that there was a market for it even if the decision to shelve it originally (and not release it during the heyday of reissue programs) was more than a defensible one.

[clifford_thornton]

20 minutes ago, cliffpeterson said:

I am with Kevin-I like most of the stuff that Zev has been involved with. But, thinking of Blakey's "Just Coolin" date, how can you call him a "Detective" when the session is listed on discographies?

The Huss Charles issue definitely made him out to be not much of a detective! 🙄

[JSngry]

+ an uncredited (or even noticed!) Mickey Fields on the Sonny Stitt record

+ the whole Palo Alto fiasco

+ the liner notes booklets  too often being full of fluff and low on substance

+ the ongoing overkill of self-serving hype in the press releases

All told, I'd be happy if he focused on getting the work done correctly first.

[clifford_thornton]

3 minutes ago, JSngry said:

 

All told, I'd be happy if he focused on getting the work done correctly first.

This.

[felser]

56 minutes ago, JSngry said:

the whole Palo Alto fiasco.

 

What was this?

1 hour ago, Dan Gould said:

Because he "detected" that there was a market for it even if the decision to shelve it originally (and not release it during the heyday of reissue programs) was more than a defensible one.

Doesn't take keen deductive skills to realize that there's a market for an unissued session from the heydey of BN.  And I agree, it's not an album that adds much of anything other than bulk.  Much less heralded but much more rewarding is the Donald Byrd 1970's Montreux historical issue, which tells a whole musical story we did not really know (Nathan Davis, Henry Franklin and the Mizell Brothers all on the same recording).

[JSngry]

37 minutes ago, felser said:

What was this?

The Monk Palo Alto record on impulse! that almost got cancelled because Zevvers didn't secure all the necessary rights before bloviating about his major new find.

That was very careless and almost torpedoed what did indeed torn out to be a major release. Some of the best, maybe the best, later Monk on record.

It was just a few years ago, surely you remember? It was getting hot up in here for a minute!

The guy is aggressively positioning himself as the new king of reissues, presumably in the wake of Michael Cuscuna, but Cuscuna (who would occasionally screw up, sure) was publicly humble about his work and his importance and seldom made the type of basic fuckups that this Feldman guy has made.

I mean, how do you NOT HEAR a tenor player who obviously NOT Sonny Stitt on a Sonny Stitt record? You have to either be deaf or just not give a damn.

[Dub Modal]

2 hours ago, Dan Gould said:

Because he "detected" that there was a market for it even if the decision to shelve it originally (and not release it during the heyday of reissue programs) was more than a defensible one.

Lol. Funny bc it's true.