Mather
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Oh thank God.but they aren't all AAA so you can rest easy
Oh thank God.but they aren't all AAA so you can rest easy
impulse will kill you
Good point! Maybe I’ll just do that and cancel the individuals. I can compare to the OG Pharoah, tooshoulda grabbed the bundle and sold Pharoah to save some cash!
you think they'll go out of business in 1 month.. because that's when impulse is on saleWarped records will kill VMP before Impulse kills me.
The individual descriptions say from analog tapes, but I guess that is stretching it. Still - a fantastic drop.but they aren't all AAA so you can rest easy
yea as @duke86fan said, they had the original quad tapes for 3/4 of the albums and used those so had to do ADA. Pharoah is AAA.The individual descriptions say from analog tapes, but I guess that is stretching it. Still - a fantastic drop.
It doesn't bother me too much. RKS knows how do do this really well.yea as @duke86fan said, they had the original quad tapes for 3/4 of the albums and used those so had to do ADA. Pharoah is AAA.
yea got the bundle plus the Sun Ra for @avecigrec !It doesn't bother me too much. RKS knows how do do this really well.
I ordered the whole set within minutes of getting the email.
you think they'll go out of business in 1 month.. because that's when impulse is on sale
Same. The already announced anthology titles didn’t do much for me, but the Shepp and Michael White are right in my wheelhouse, and the Sun Ra and Pharoah are solid enough for me to jump on the whole bundle for the discount.very excited for the spiritual jazz drop. more excited about that than the anthology to be honest...
yet weirdly the BN one is one of my favorite anthologies.Yeah, the Impulse and Blue Note anthologies to me are outliers in the VMP Anthology series because they are basically leftover stuff they were able to reissue, not the best, most important or definitive albums from the label or artist — which is what all the other anthologies tend to be.
I happen to think most of the Herbie stuff falls into that B and C tier titles too haha. It all falls down to licensing and what titles haven't been reissued to death in most cases. Quincy Jones too. Most of the Anthologies seem to try to release at least 1 album in it thats really hard to find, then some lesser known or appreciated titles and some of the B/C tier stuff. I don't think any are only definitive albums from an artist's entire career or a labels whole output.I mean there are some in the Herbie box that weren't totally ideal, but the box is basically Herbie's career as told through albums just like the Willie box, not necessarily their 7 best albums, but it has 3 of his biggest albums at least. If they did the same thing with Impulse or BN anthologies then you would've seen 3 or 4 albums as essential as A Love Supreme, the Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, etc for Impulse and 3 or 4 albums along the lines of The Sidewinder, Somethin Else, Moaning, Blue Train, out to Lunch, Song for My Father, etc instead of a collection of B and C tier titles.
I mean there are some in the Herbie box that weren't totally ideal, but the box is basically Herbie's career as told through albums just like the Willie box, not necessarily their 7 best albums, but it has 3 of his biggest albums at least. If they did the same thing with Impulse or BN anthologies then you would've seen 3 or 4 albums as essential as A Love Supreme, the Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, etc for Impulse and 3 or 4 albums along the lines of The Sidewinder, Somethin Else, Moanin, Blue Train, out to Lunch, Song for My Father, etc instead of a collection of B and C tier titles.