The Blue Note Thread
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dhodo
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I know you asked TP, but don't sleep on the Basra BN80 for those genres.
VinylGuy
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MikeH
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I ordered this one at the same time as the Blue Note Reimagined album so I sadly think I’ll have to wait to get this until that one comes out since they likely hold back orders until everything is in stock.
TCell
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agutierrezb
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I love those two records, but I think they lean more towards Post Bop, and sometimes even Free Jazz (especially Andrew Hill). @VinylGuy if hard bop and modal are your thing, pretty much all the TP reissues will please you. Definitely give Shorter and Hill a listen, but I would also suggest Lee Morgan - Cornbread for a quality hard bop record with occasional forays into other kinds of jazz.
TCell
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Yeah, the two I suggested are definitely Post-Bop. I was thinking more about which were good examples of modal jazz.
Rowan
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Chant is awesome. Not least because that's the only one in my collection where the perferated plastic bag rip is actually at the top of the record sleeve and not a random side or upside down!
The random bag openings has to be the most infuriating thing about this series.
jamieanderson1968
ninniest jackaninny
I think I have only had 1 upside down sticker. But I have 3-4 where the stick has the sleeve bunched up underneath. Do not like.
Rowan
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I've only have one where the sticker is in the right place once the bag is open and the right way up. And I've about 10 records.
dhodo
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Thanks for recommending Chant. Can't remember if I checked it out before or not, but I'm really digging it and might have to pick that one up next.
VinylGuy
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Will check it out, love a bit of Lee Morgan
jamieanderson1968
ninniest jackaninny
I went in blind on Money Jungle and was really surprised by it. Love that record.
papaharzi
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I'd need your help guys in identifying a first pressing...
As already mentioned in the "What's Spinning" thread I've received my 1965 OG Mono copy of "The Blue Mitchell Quintett - Down With It" BLP 4214 yesterday, after the package was on the road around the world for nearly half a year. It has the Plastylite "P" or ear, the Van Gelder stamp, and a original inner sleeve (27 YEARS OF BLUE NOTE) which was used from Dec.65 - Jul.66. So all that tells me it is the real thing. However, Discogs mentions Deep Groove, and Popsike auctions mentioned Deep Groove on Side B only. But, mine does not have any Deep Groove.
Does that mean it is a repress from the same year as the original release, which Discogs does not know about? Or did the pressing plant exchange dies during one production run? Or were more than one pressing machines used for one and the same production run?
No matter what, I keep that record, I love it... But I just would like to know what I really have. Thanks a lot!
As already mentioned in the "What's Spinning" thread I've received my 1965 OG Mono copy of "The Blue Mitchell Quintett - Down With It" BLP 4214 yesterday, after the package was on the road around the world for nearly half a year. It has the Plastylite "P" or ear, the Van Gelder stamp, and a original inner sleeve (27 YEARS OF BLUE NOTE) which was used from Dec.65 - Jul.66. So all that tells me it is the real thing. However, Discogs mentions Deep Groove, and Popsike auctions mentioned Deep Groove on Side B only. But, mine does not have any Deep Groove.
Does that mean it is a repress from the same year as the original release, which Discogs does not know about? Or did the pressing plant exchange dies during one production run? Or were more than one pressing machines used for one and the same production run?
No matter what, I keep that record, I love it... But I just would like to know what I really have. Thanks a lot!
Selaws
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There are quite a few Blue Notes that are listed as first pressings, with the same year and info but the only change is the deep grooves (one without, one-side only, both sides), so it might just be that a listing for your specific copy was never made. It's hard to say for sure at just a glance, but looking at the photo you posted it doesnt look like a later pressing. Down With It looks to have only been reissued in 1981 onwards, and yours certainly looks older than that.
On a side note, and this might cause controversy, but I really don't sign up to some of the subtler nuances some people use when distinguishing what is a first pressing and what isn't. A prime example is that in some cases you will have a first pressing with a NYC on one label and New York 23 on the other. I've seen people claim that a copy with the NYC on both labels is to be classed as a second pressing, even in situations where they had just used up all of the old New York 23 labels and moved to the next batch of labels (the label changed in 1958 mid-pressing in some cases). In this case the records literally came from the same batch, but just with a label from a different pile, yet I have seen people flat out refuse to accept they are the same, even going as far as saying the audio quality is different between the 2. Frank Cohen is a legend but even he uses the same level of strictness in some cases.
Yeah but the sound quality really sucks. It‘s good you can hear past the plenty of distortions, the muffled sound and the abrupt fade at the end of the track, to the great playing. I really hated the recording quality but your review made me try again to listen to this as a vintage gem recorded maybe by a janitor. What a struggle
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