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I just noticed that the VMP Monk's Music doesn't have the B3 track Crepuscule With Nellie. Which appears to be in line with all the early stereo versions, so perhaps there isn't tape of it? Did Storf mention this on Discord?
 
TCell said:
I just noticed that the VMP Monk's Music doesn't have the B3 track Crepuscule With Nellie. Which appears to be in line with all the early stereo versions, so perhaps there isn't tape of it? Did Storf mention this on Discord?
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Producer Orrin Keepnews explained:

Our new stereo series had begun with a sound effects disc, so Riverside 1102 [Monk's Music] was our first stereo jazz album. But we had to deal with the fact that the studio had not yet taken the drastic step of converting to the new process: the installed equipment at Reeves Sound Studios (on 2nd Avenue between 44th and 45th Streets in Manhattan) was still monaural. Thus, we had to improvise a dual system. Studio engineer Jack Higgins presided at his usual control panel; our staff engineer Ray Fowler was in the soundproof isolation booths in the studio with a newfangled portable stereo tape recorder. Thus, on this and several subsequent occasions, ‘binaural’ was an entirely separate operation. Among other things, every musician found himself surrounded by a doubled quantity of microphones.” [10]
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In the notes to the 1986 Riverside Monk box, Keepnews wrote:

This was one of our very first stereo recordings (although the separate machine failed us on Crepuscule); confusingly, the monaural version has sometimes been used in reissues, but I have managed to include here in stereo form everything that is available in that form.[11]
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That’s from wiki.

Tl;dr, there are no true stereo tapes of the song (never were)
 
Classic Hints:

July: Jazz, Year of artist’s debut: 1962
August: Jazz, Year of artist’s debut: 1982 (Wynton Marsalis - Black Codes (From the Underground) seems like a lock.)
September: Blues, Year of artist’s debut: 1971
 
TCell said:
Classic Hints:

July: Jazz, Year of artist’s debut: 1962
August: Jazz, Year of artist’s debut: 1982 (Wynton Marsalis - Black Codes (From the Underground) seems like a lock.)
September: Blues, Year of artist’s debut: 1971
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July: Freddie Roach - Down To Earth maybe?
 
TCell said:
Classic Hints:

July: Jazz, Year of artist’s debut: 1962
August: Jazz, Year of artist’s debut: 1982 (Wynton Marsalis - Black Codes (From the Underground) seems like a lock.)
September: Blues, Year of artist’s debut: 1971
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Are these on discord or something?
 
Ghost said:
They should just break everything out into a track honestly.

Blues, Soul and Jazz all deserve their own tracks. Or at least Jazz since it eats up so much of the Classics line up anyways. Why not actually through some Classical into Classics?
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Let’s not give them ideas. They get more money from me than I would like already.
 
grendel627 said:
Highly doubt it simply because May was Freddie Roach. I know they change rules about repeating artists as they go along, but I wouldn't think they'd repeat an artist in the same track in a three-month period.
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Been out of Classics for a few months, didn’t even realize that’s who the May release was!

Other big name options would repeat, but from a long time ago (Herbie’s Takin Off, Archie Shepp, McCoy Tyner - Inception). Have no idea who it might be.
 
The clues don't specify that the years are also the year of release, only the year of the artist's debut - the album could be from another year...

A couple of previously unused candidates for July could include:
  • Bill Dixon
  • Clare Fischer
  • Hugh Masekela
And a couple of repeat candidates could include;
  • Archie Shepp
  • Herbie Hancock

My longshot hope would be for them to put out the first ever pressing of Hancock's Dis is da Drum - but being from '94, I doubt that'll be the case!
 
avecigrec said:
The clues don't specify that the years are also the year of release, only the year of the artist's debut - the album could be from another year...

A couple of previously unused candidates for July could include:
  • Bill Dixon
  • Clare Fischer
  • Hugh Masekela
And a couple of repeat candidates could include;
  • Archie Shepp
  • Herbie Hancock

My longshot hope would be for them to put out the first ever pressing of Hancock's Dis is da Drum - but being from '94, I doubt that'll be the case!
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Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass also debuted in 1962, so maybe VMP is finally doing Whipped Cream & Other Delights!
 
avecigrec said:
Able to share Essentials and Hip Hop clues at least, if not the spreadsheet?
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Yeah, this is what I was asking, not the spreadsheet.
If this is where they're going to share the clues from now on that sucks. Used to be able to check the store drop email or twitter. Don't make me sign up for something new.
 
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