Vinyl Me Please Classics

Its no secret that I LOVE jazz but I have to admit that when I think of my favourite Classics releases so far most tend to be the ones that I am not familiar with, especially the soul stuff.

I wonder if this is an indication of sales? Jazz selling more than the others?
 
Jeff Lerner said:
Don't they usually do a "big" soul artist in December? Aretha, Nina, Mavis. I'm forgetting who it was last year.
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I mean I expect one of these to be soul or funk fused jazz. They could do a soul jazz album like Jimmy Smith, Idris Muhammad, George Benson, etc and it would pretty much fit the soul thing.
 
keylime_5 said:
I mean I expect one of these to be soul or funk fused jazz. They could do a soul jazz album like Jimmy Smith, Idris Muhammad, George Benson, etc and it would pretty much fit the soul thing.
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Star People is pretty out-there in terms of jazz. Definitely interested to see what other titles there are though. They are probably pushing jazz since it sells really well for them, but I'm with others in that jazz fatigue is setting in a bit and some of the soul albums are definitely my favorite VMP releases.
 
MikeH said:
Star People is pretty out-there in terms of jazz. Definitely interested to see what other titles there are though. They are probably pushing jazz since it sells really well for them, but I'm with others in that jazz fatigue is setting in a bit and some of the soul albums are definitely my favorite VMP releases.
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Maybe not considered “classics” per se, but I would love to see VMP branch out more and do some world/international albums that fail to get proper releases but are considered “classic” albums. I guess similar to Now-Again, but stuff like reggae or afrobeat that rarely get quality releases.

I do feel that Classics goes stale at times.
 
Colonel4Bin said:
Maybe not considered “classics” per se, but I would love to see VMP branch out more and do some world/international albums that fail to get proper releases but are considered “classic” albums. I guess similar to Now-Again, but stuff like reggae or afrobeat that rarely get quality releases.

I do feel that Classics goes stale at times.
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Yeah it's stupid IMO the they won't do reggae in classics but they'll do Salsa/Fania stuff. Classic reggae is just as much in the vein of soul/funk/blues as anything else. But I'm content with them sticking to just pre-80s Soul/Jazz/Blues/Funk.
 
Colonel4Bin said:
Maybe not considered “classics” per se, but I would love to see VMP branch out more and do some world/international albums that fail to get proper releases but are considered “classic” albums. I guess similar to Now-Again, but stuff like reggae or afrobeat that rarely get quality releases.

I do feel that Classics goes stale at times.
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yea now-again and Luakabop put out some killer world reissues. Would love for VMP to add stuff like that, although maybe a "world music" track is one of the rumored add-ons they are working on.
 
MikeH said:
Would love for VMP to add stuff like that, although maybe a "world music" track is one of the rumored add-ons they are working on.
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That would be awesome. We know they’re willing to go there and they’ve done well, like the Zamrock box, but so much good music out there that could use proper reissues.
 
Colonel4Bin said:
That would be awesome. We know they’re willing to go there and they’ve done well, like the Zamrock box, but so much good music out there that could use proper reissues.
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They have worked with Luakabop too on store variant/exclusives so a partnership exists there as well.

Strawberry Rain is finally getting their shit together too. Apparently they have their own pressing plant now and are starting to press albums. Definitely looking forward to those. I picked up 2 reissues of theirs a few months ago. Price was pretty high but the music is awesome.
 
jfitzy said:
Six actually. John Coltrane, Dinah Washington, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and then whatever November and December is.

REALLY lame. So this year we'll have had 1 Soul, 1 Blues, 1 Disco, and then NINE JAZZ selections. I love Jazz, but I expect more variety from this sub.
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The thing is that VMP Classics is a grab-all misnomer. It’s supposed to draw on blues, soul, jazz, classic pop…

I love the jazz selections the most although the occasional soul album they save from obscurity is quite welcome. It’s just a weird umbrella…
 
MikeH said:
They have worked with Luakabop too on store variant/exclusives so a partnership exists there as well.

Strawberry Rain is finally getting their shit together too. Apparently they have their own pressing plant now and are starting to press albums. Definitely looking forward to those. I picked up 2 reissues of theirs a few months ago. Price was pretty high but the music is awesome.
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Hell yeah, that’s great to hear. Never heard anything from Luakabop I haven’t liked, too. Anything Byrne touches is gold.
 
Lee Newman said:
I mean, I'd like some Soul and Blues too, but I am confused what is this Jazz Fatigue you all speak of?
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For me, I can’t even keep track of all the jazz reissues coming out every week. I was buying all the tone poets when they first came out because it was a cool way to discover some albums I hadn’t listened to. Now you have tone poets, BN Classic, AS verve series, the AP prestige, VMP doing jazz every month…and lots of other jazz reissue series all going on.

Most of my favorite VMP releases have been soul or blues albums that I hadn’t really heard of or listened to in awhile. Maybe they will split things into a Jazz track and a soul/blues track at some point because they have heavily skewed toward jazz this year it seems.
 
e.s. said:
To be fair, the AP Prestige releases are just represses of records that were reissued several years ago, but yeah, it would nice to see more soul and blues in Classics.
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Right--but it's still another series in production now and lots of us didn't get them the first time around.

It's great for jazz music fans right now with all the awesome releases out there. I just think VMP has a chance to be in their own lane for soul/blues releases. There aren't a ton of really great soul reissue campaigns out there right now. You get the occasional album like the KG cut of What's Going On, or the ROG Curtis stuff. I guess it was just more fun/interesting for me with VMP when they were trying to do their own thing in the classics track instead of going with the trends of what others are reissuing.
 
MikeH said:
For me, I can’t even keep track of all the jazz reissues coming out every week. I was buying all the tone poets when they first came out because it was a cool way to discover some albums I hadn’t listened to. Now you have tone poets, BN Classic, AS verve series, the AP prestige, VMP doing jazz every month…and lots of other jazz reissue series all going on.

Most of my favorite VMP releases have been soul or blues albums that I hadn’t really heard of or listened to in awhile. Maybe they will split things into a Jazz track and a soul/blues track at some point because they have heavily skewed toward jazz this year it seems.
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Yeah, between AP, Blue Note Tone Poet and Classic Series, Verve/Impulse Acoustic Sounds Series, Candid records anniversary series, AP Prestige represses, Contemporary Records Series, plus VMP and Craft reissuing a lot of AAA jazz left and right, there has been an overload of audiophile jazz reissues the past few years, all coming in faster than I can keep up. I used to buy every one of these that came out but now I'm at the point where I'm buying maybe 1 a month at most and wishing for more non-jazz reissues of the same quality.
 
bdrummond said:
Looks like Miles Davis' "Star People" will be a Classics pick next quarter.
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So going back to this from a while ago, I just noticed that it says it'll be a 2 LP reissue. I wonder how that'll work out... would they be bold enough to include additional songs? Are they going 45 RPM even though the title song is nearly 19 minutes long? Or will we just end up with a couple of sides that are about 10 minutes long and a lot of dead wax?
 
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