Jazz "twofers"--remember those?

[Big Beat Steve]

40 minutes ago, optatio said:

We have had an earlier discussion here https://www.organissimo.org/forum/topic/23214-blue-note-two-fers/

 

Will read this again when I get around to it, so thanks for the link. But in THIS thread I would not want to go too far into BN territory. The "Prestige/Milestone" twofer experience is a case of its own! 

[gmonahan]

I loved all of those 2-fers. I think the Blue Note Reissue Series was by far the best. Had a lot of those!

[JSngry]

13 hours ago, GA Russell said:

Well, I'm going to disagree some about the "Fantasy" liner notes.

My recollection is that I didn't know what I was buying when looking at the exterior of the twofers.

Each OJC included new comments from Ira Gitler putting the album in historical perspective.  The OJC CD exteriors included the recording dates as well.

The OJC CDs had this info. Not the LPs, though IIRC. Unless they had OBIs?

[GA Russell]

3 hours ago, JSngry said:

The OJC CDs had this info. Not the LPs, though IIRC. Unless they had OBIs?

Yes, all of my OJC LPs had the OBIs, but as I recall the later ones had a sticker with the same information.