October 2004 Connoisseur Release (Proposed)

[felser]

I bought all the Conns, but replaced many of them with RVG's.

[Rooster_Ties]

11 minutes ago, felser said:

I bought all the Conns, but replaced many of them with RVG's.

With US RVG’s?  (Or Japanese RVG’s?)

Asking, because — and I could easily be misremembering — but I thought(?) the Conns and US RVG’s were entirely exclusive of each other (meaning a Venn diagram of Conns, and RVG’s… would result in no overlap).

Were any Conns ever re-issued as US Conns?

[dougcrates]

9 minutes ago, Rooster_Ties said:

With US RVG’s?  (Or Japanese RVG’s?)

Asking, because — and I could easily be misremembering — but I thought(?) the Conns and US RVG’s were entirely exclusive of each other (meaning a Venn diagram of Conns, and RVG’s… would result in no overlap).

Were any Conns ever re-issued as US Conns?

Several Conns were re-issued as US RVG's including

Jimmy Smith - Softly as a Summer Breeze

Johnny Griffing - The Congregation

Wayne Shorter - The All Seeing Eye

Don Cherry - Symphony For Improvisers

Clifford Jordan & John Gilmore - Blowing In From Chicago

Kenny Dorham - Whistle Stop

Andrew Hill - Judgement

Both Baby Face Willette albums

Horace Silver - Further Explorations

Lee Morgan - Leeway

Grant Green - Green Street

A couple of Ike Quebec albums

Probably several others as well

[felser]

And I rarely if ever replace U.S. BN's with Japanese BN's of the same title, but did replace McMasters, Conns, and older Japanese imports with U.S. RVG's eventually in all cases.