Just as an FYI to everyone, in the Special Features there is a "Performance from 1969 of “Fried Bananas” by Dexter Gordon, directed by Teit Jørgensen". Apart from making me hungry, there is also an album with a later live performance of this that Gearbox released a few years back. Really great pressing and a belter of a performance.
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Ill echo what others have said here: Bootleg Vol. 1 is an absolute gem. It may even be the best Second Quintet recording, or at least it is up there with the likes of Nefertiti, Miles Smiles and Plugged Nickel. Also, having several shows with a relatively stable setlist really shines a light on how they were able to reinvent those tunes night after night.
I saw that Khan Jamal passed and started looking into his music.
Khan Jamal, Jazz Vibraphonist, Dies at 75
The avant-garde experimentalist helped bridge the gap between free jazz and fusionpitchfork.com
I need some Sounds of Liberation, and of course the vinyl LPs are scarce, even though they were reissued a few years ago.
Sounds Of Liberation
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Eremite Records | The Khan Jamal Creative Arts Ensemble: Drum Dance To The Motherland
eremite records is an independent record label formed 1995. early activities emphasized music by 1st & 2nd generation musicians working in the American free jazz traditions. Present activities include producing historical & contemporary projects to quality-freak standards.eremite.com
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....$76 for a 2 LP! This is nuts.shoutout to @keylime_5 for finding this:
Genesis of Genius: The Contemporary Albums (2-LP Box Set)
Containing newly remastered audio, Genesis of Genius: The Contemporary Albums combines legendary Jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman’s albums for Lester Koenig’s Contemporary Records. This deluxe box set features Coleman’s first albums as a bandleader, Something Else!!!! and Tomorrow is the...
the first in the contemporary reissue series.
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FEATURES
- Both albums were recorded by Contemporary Records' legendary engineer Roy DuNann and are newly mastered from the original tapes by Bernie Grundman
- 180-gram vinyl pressed at RTI
- Lacquers cut directly from original analog tapes to lacquer by legendary mastering engineer Bernie Grundman.
- 32-page booklet features vintage photos and extensive new liner notes by GRAMMY® Award-winning music historian Ashley Kahn
- Features collective personnel: Ornette Coleman - alto saxophone, Don Cherry - trumpet, Walter Norris - piano, Don Payne - bass, Percy Heath - bass, Red Mitchell - bass, Billy Higgins - drums, Shelly Manne - drums
- Box set produced by Nick Phillips
is it? it's the going rate for AAA reissues in most cases. Tone Poets are $39 now for a 1LP. AP is $40. Intervention just raised their prices to $40 i think? MoFi is $40.
It's two Individual albums, AAA, 180G, Craft, pressed at RTI, Grundman, plus booklet and box presentation? I will probbaly pass on the Ornette, but look forward to the Pepper and what else they might choose.
i think i'll grab this one instead of the blue note box since i already have a few of the albums in the BN box and need to up my contemporary records count haha.
I know, I was thinking of the going rate of 2LP MoFi, but as @JohnnyCashFan said, they are 2 individual albums. Still, that price stings a bit.
Right--2LP Mofis are $60 now. pricing has gotten crazy sadly...really snuck up on me. 2-3 years ago I never considered paying $40 for a new LP...
I'm starting with Vol 1 and Vol 6 in digital. Is Vol 4 mostly Newport / Small sets ? I will try the electric stuff later on.
Just announced by the Criterion Collection...
’Round Midnight
’Round Midnight is a love letter from director Bertrand Tavernier to the heyday of bebop and the Black American musicians who found refuge in the smoky underground jazz clubs of 1950s Paris. In a sui generis, Oscar-nominated fusion of performer and character, legendary saxophonist Dexter Gordon...www.criterion.com
Nice article about the background of the story which is loosely based on Bud Powell and Herschel Evans.
Thank you for posting that!Nice article about the background of the story which is loosely based on Bud Powell and Herschel Evans.
Yes,It’s all the sets from various Newport festival appearances, 1955-75, so a wide variety of bands/styles.
Doug @Ethos99 should have a good deal on these in the Paladin Vinyl Club thread.
Unimportant but oddly coincidental to Criterion coming up at all in a jazz vinyl thread, I’ve been watching their currently featured series from their French New Wave collection, which has 45 films. I’m watching them in chronological order. My next movie in sequence, a day after Criterion showed up in this thread, is “Vivre sa vie” by Jean-Luc Godard, and the main character happens to work in a record store (Paris ~1961)! There have been records in a few of the previous films, and, of course, the killer Miles soundtrack in Elevator to the Gallows, but no record stores.
MD still has the old prices. Did JPC raise theirs too?
The old titles are same price for now…but the two preorders are more.
