Vinyl Me Please Anthology

High Rant District said:
IIRC, the relatively recent Rolling Stones in Mono box set had poorly-recreated album art. The sound quality is supposedly fantastic though.



I think the difference is that they had true long-time Blue Note aficionados working on those releases - people who grew up loving, buying and listening to Blue Note. Differences in labels are a big deal to folks like that, and they'd spot an aberration in a heartbeat. VMP didn't have that going for them (AFAIK) on this project.

That said, even the well-regarded audiophile reissuers make mistakes. The recent Analogue Productions UHQR Hendrix releases were supposed to be foil-stamped on the boxes but were not, and were supposed to have a hand-signed something-or-other in the package but don't.



I ordered for the education aspect as well ("Join us and become a true student of jazz."). I don't do Facebook so have no idea what's happening with that aspect of the purchase. Hoping to at least learn how to differentiate between the six different 'flavors' offered in this set, and maybe have something 'click' for me with old-time jazz. Worse-case scenario is I'll have a mostly AAA box set that should have pretty good sound quality; had it been pressed at GZ rather than RTI I wouldn't have purchased.
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ByersVinyl said:
Seeing you on here pleases me.
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Seconded.
 
High Rant District said:
IIRC, the relatively recent Rolling Stones in Mono box set had poorly-recreated album art. The sound quality is supposedly fantastic though.



I think the difference is that they had true long-time Blue Note aficionados working on those releases - people who grew up loving, buying and listening to Blue Note. Differences in labels are a big deal to folks like that, and they'd spot an aberration in a heartbeat. VMP didn't have that going for them (AFAIK) on this project.

That said, even the well-regarded audiophile reissuers make mistakes. The recent Analogue Productions UHQR Hendrix releases were supposed to be foil-stamped on the boxes but were not, and were supposed to have a hand-signed something-or-other in the package but don't.



I ordered for the education aspect as well ("Join us and become a true student of jazz."). I don't do Facebook so have no idea what's happening with that aspect of the purchase. Hoping to at least learn how to differentiate between the six different 'flavors' offered in this set, and maybe have something 'click' for me with old-time jazz. Worse-case scenario is I'll have a mostly AAA box set that should have pretty good sound quality; had it been pressed at GZ rather than RTI I wouldn't have purchased.
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Hi!
 
Enoch said:
so much for waiting to tell us all the albums
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<Shrug> I asked. He answered. He did edit it after to just the alternate six titles.

I'm sure Cam's just trying to get some positive conversation going on there after Dexter-gate. Can't blame him for that. I do think they could've put a little more forethought into the rollout in the FB group. Like giving us the alternate Bop and Hard-Bop titles and some reasoning on why they chose the titles they did. And then the same with the next two and so on.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
So I’ve seen this (I know you and he have a long-standing correspondence) and the offer Cam apparently made to chat with @johnpisme... It’s a little weird to do this level of individual customer contact for something you’re claiming was intentional, isn’t it? It’s either a problem for all of the customers, or it’s an intentional thing, but in neither case is the right-size solution for two of the company execs to be PMing individual customers and trying to talk them down over the phone.

That’s not even a criticism, it’s just something I don’t understand.
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It speaks of a level of concern bordering on panic to me.
 
@Lee Newman it looks like the foil stamped info has been removed from official website

Indymisanthrope said:
So I’ve seen this (I know you and he have a long-standing correspondence) and the offer Cam apparently made to chat with @johnpisme... It’s a little weird to do this level of individual customer contact for something you’re claiming was intentional, isn’t it? It’s either a problem for all of the customers, or it’s an intentional thing, but in neither case is the right-size solution for two of the company execs to be PMing individual customers and trying to talk them down over the phone.

That’s not even a criticism, it’s just something I don’t understand.
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Me either, I mean we had been emailing and then when Paul forwarded my complaint about the sleeve he said he received the email and then asked to talk over the phone.

I am not super versed in Skype anymore, could I just have him call me there so I am not giving him my personal phone number (I don't think it is on my account)
 
TCell said:
Cam just posted in the FB Group the 12 albums Don Was came to them with:

Bop
Bud Powell - The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 2
Horace Silver – Horace Silver Trio

Hard Bop
Dexter Gordon – Dexter Calling
Hank Mobley – Roll Call

Post Bop
Lee Morgan –The Procrastinator
Wayne Shorter – Schizophrenia

Soul Jazz
Big John Patton –Got a Good Thing Goin’
Lou Donaldson –The Natural Soul

Fusion
Bobby Hutcherson – Montara
Eddie Henderson –Heritage

Modern
Robert Glasper – In My Element
Ambrose Akinmusire – Origami Harvest
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I would have gone with the alternative choice for hard bop and soul jazz, but would've been really angry if VMP had sticky puddinged up the reissue of Roll Call. :whistle:
 
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