2026 Tone Poet schedule

[JSngry]

Japan has used the original LT covers when reissuing those records.

Yet another point for Japan.

[felser]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

Japan has used the original LT covers when reissuing those records.

Yet another point for Japan.

YMMV.  I much prefer the Roques CD-era covers.

[JSngry]

Some people prefer Phil Woods to Charlie Parker.

[Dan Gould]

9 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Some people prefer Phil Woods to Charlie Parker.

This is not the "gotcha" you think it is.

Fetishizing original (poor) design choices is not the same.

The fact will always remain that they chose to put out archival recordings from an era with classic artwork on the covers in a way that made not the slightest nod toward the era of music it was mining.

Did Cuscuna ever say why those covers were used? I always presumed that for a label that was barely an afterthought, they said OK, put out these recordings but we aren't paying shit for the rest of it.

[felser]

15 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Some people prefer Phil Woods to Charlie Parker.

And some prefer smart phone calculators to slide rules....

[B. Clugston]

I've been mostly underwhelmed by the series (though the Rollins Village Vanguard set was great), but this is a good list. Particularly excited to see Big John Patton, Larry Young and Andrew Hill titles. Hopefully, the latter doesn't have the warbling piano issue that the Black Fire Tone Poet had.

[JSngry]

57 minutes ago, felser said:

And some prefer smart phone calculators to slide rules....

And some people can't even do math at all 

1 hour ago, Dan Gould said:

This is not the "gotcha" you think it is.

Fetishizing original (poor) design choices is not the same.

The fact will always remain that they chose to put out archival recordings from an era with classic artwork on the covers in a way that made not the slightest nod toward the era of music it was mining.

Did Cuscuna ever say why those covers were used? I always presumed that for a label that was barely an afterthought, they said OK, put out these recordings but we aren't paying shit for the rest of it.

You tell me - is it not also a fetish to "love" the fantasy of a design style that in reality has nothing to do with the reality of the record's original place in time? Not the music, the record.

Truthfully, I still dig what Prestige used to do with certain items - repackage everything, covers, liners, everything. It was the OJC fetishizing of original everything that led to the notion of Roques' Reid Miles porn...talk about a fetish ..

 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

When I talked with Michael about those LT album covers, he seemed generally pleased with them. That said, he did admit that it was partly budgetary and that he would not have reissued any of those titles with those covers.

He actually laughed when I told hm that the Japanese reissued a bunch of them using those covers.

[JSngry]

Japan has an amazingly resilient way of having the last laugh