Big Beat Steve Posted 19 hours ago Report Posted 19 hours ago 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! Quote
gmonahan Posted 14 hours ago Report Posted 14 hours ago I loved all of those 2-fers. I think the Blue Note Reissue Series was by far the best. Had a lot of those! Quote
JSngry Posted 14 hours ago Report Posted 14 hours ago 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? Quote
GA Russell Posted 10 hours ago Report Posted 10 hours ago 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. Quote
JSngry Posted 7 hours ago Report Posted 7 hours ago 18 minutes ago, Milestones said: For a good while that was the only place you could find the Prestige Quintet "Round Midnight" if you wanted to compare it with the omnipresent Columbia version. Quote
Big Beat Steve Posted 1 hour ago Report Posted 1 hour ago (edited) 9 hours ago, GA Russell said: Yes, all of my OJC LPs had the OBIs, but as I recall the later ones had a sticker with the same information. So there were specific US-printed and equipped OJC covers? I bought lots of OJCs new throughout the later 80s and the 90s but cannot recall ANY single European-printed OJC cover (i.e. usually from Mikulski/ZYX in Germany in my case) or other printing distributed over here that had anything resembling an "OBI". There often was a much smaller sticker either on the shrink wrap or on the front of the cover itself, but it included only some sort of promo texts. And as it was easy to detach them without leaving marks they did not survive. However, in some cases the reissuers added the recording dates on the Prestige OJC reissues that did not have them originally (squeezing in a line of text in a font that usually differed from anything else on the back cover and that looked very much like an afterthought). Examples: OJC 054 (7031 - "Art Farmer Septet") and OJC 296 (7166 - "Workin'" / Miles Davis). I don't know, though, how many of these there were overall. Edited 1 hour ago by Big Beat Steve Quote
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