I am disappointed that we didn't see more impulse records and especially no more Coltrane on Impulse... Would also be great to see the McCoy trio albums like nights of ballad and Blues and reaching fourth
Always great content! Love your background information - previous releases, quality of the releases, etc. With so much vinyl being pressed today, the urge is to buy, buy, buy, but you've helped reign in the temptation to get everything. Sometimes collecting inhibits enjoyment of the music!
Oooo...Mel Torme, and two Jimmy Smith titles. Good year ahead! Fingers crossed they can get into some Cal Tjader in 2025 (Soul Burst and Soul Sauce are two good titles to start with).
Great video, super helpful for someone like me building out a collection, Root Down, Soulville, Getz/Evans, Nina Simone, Sweet Rain, Back to Back and Mulligan/Webster will likely get added to the growing collection as they drop
Ben Webster is my favourite tenor sax player, ahead of Coltrane, Lester and Hawk and I have the Acoustic Sounds Soulville already. So, Chad is threatening to empty my piggy bank this year, even though I have all of these albums on either LP or CD already. Chad and I share a lot of favourite artists in jazz and blues, so this is probably inevitable. 'See You At The Fair' would not be my favourite Ben LP, but the recording of ' Single Petal Of A Rose' on the album is one for the ages and his version is one of the most beautiful jazz performances of all time. It is a composition by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn in honour of the late Queen Elizabeth II of England. Duke recorded it and only one copy was pressed and it was given to the Queen. It was released much later as part of the 'Queen's Suite', but, in the meantime, Ben had got his hands on the music and had recorded it. I recall a time when the only version of that tune we could hear was Ben's, until Norman Granz got around to issuing the 'Queen's Suite'.
I will say, regarding both the Stan Getz & Bill Evans and Sweet Rain, there was actually a combined reissue released in 1976. It was released by Verve as Stan Getz -- The Chick Corea / Bill Evans Sessions and had both albums in one package.
There is another combined reissue in that same series of Ben Webster meets the Oscar Peterson trio and Soulville, which is a great way to get both of those amazing albums really inexpensively and was how I first heard them.
I say don't sleep on either of the Getz? Both releases have strong rhythm sections. Aggregates comprise heavy hitters of the day. To me, some of Getz best playing!
i have the 2007 Gerry Mulligan - Night Lights from Universal Japan, "top 100" series. these are probably digital, but they sound great. Gorgeous replica jackets and 200g pristine vinyl. Love that series, Acoustic Sounds imported them, for 49.99 back then. It's kind of weird that anything reissued on Phillips in the current day has all the label art switched to Verve.
Sweet Rain is an amazing record and will really benefit from this treatment. This is really really killer, It's one that I really thought they should do but I never thought that they would do.
Where in the Advertising does anyone say these titles are all analog? I read “mastered from the original tapes”. But I never see anything saying all analog. Just curious. Good video- the Gerry Mulligan is a must have.. I’m not a big fan of guitar in jazz.. but I like this one a lot
For interest, possibly some releases that we would class as easy to get or not worth much get released as a reissue because in some licensee agreements, companies like Universal music will allow the release of some more rare albums _but only if you release these albums as well!_ I have seen this mentioned as a reason with some CD box setsI have. e.g. a box set of 20 United Artists label soundtracks from the 60s, it was mentioned in the accompanying book that _'we hope you enjoy the more common titles as well, because without these included, you would not get the more rare titles'_ Just a thought...
I'm sure the reason why they are using those Classic masters is probably because they have a license for 33 rpm only. I'm sure they have access to the metalwork so are saving $$$ by not remastering and/or Chad thinks those versions are great enough. You can't take a 45rpm master and cut it at 33 as far as I know (not and keep it all analog anyway) Not to mention the agreement with Universal music might stipulate which ones can be recut and which must use a prior master. Just a guess.... Love the channel btw, you've helped an old man who recently got into jazz find his way!
Really great question. Given that Craft has been tackling the Evans titles one by one ever since Acoustic Sounds reissued their expensive box set, it’s possible Craft will be getting to it soon
Jimmy Smith's The Cat is a fantastic big-band date with Jimmy as the solo voice and arranged by Lalo Schifrin, which should tell you the kind of brassy, hard-swinging sound you are going to get. I love this record. The only reason there were so many copies floating around is that it was a Grammy winner and a popular album in its day, but that is no reason to fault it.
Great question... I'll say this, the last Classic Series calendar announcement was at the beginning of August, and the first. upcoming title in that announcement was for September (so one month out). My guess is we'll be hearing the next Classic Series announcement coming up in the next few weeks.
I picked up "Guitar Forms," a Kenny Burrell collaboration with Gil Evans, in the '80s after coming across a write-up in a book about "the 101 greatest jazz recordings of all time," or some such thing. It's an exploratory record, trying out different styles (flamenco, bossa, folk) to showcase Burrell's facility on various guitars (acoustic and electric). I love it. Recorded by RVG, produced by Creed Taylor (in 1964-65), arranged and conducted by Evans, with Elvin Jones, Charlie Persip, Grady Tate, Ron Carter, Steve Lacy, Lee Konitz... what's not to like? One of the "101 best ever?" Those lists are silly and pointless. But this one did prompt me to pick up a terrific LP I might have otherwise overlooked!
And the Ben Webster miss one that is and the Ben Webster One that is still missing is the one with Art Tatum and I was lucky enough to find a beautiful original of that I bet he'll do that at some point once he's done mining his classic record parts
Lots of good albums in the list. I'm probably most excited about Soulville, Night Lights, and East Broadway Run Down. Sure, you can get cheap used of copies of some of these on vinyl if you look around, but good luck finding copies that are in top condition. Most of the used bin copies I run across are trashed and Discogs is a minefield of overgrading the last several years.
A little disappointed by this release schedule, but hey, my wallet needs a break. The two key titles I will for sure be picking up is Sonny Rollins "East Broadway Rundown" (PUMPED for this) and Sonny Stitt's "Blows The Blues".
Many of these titles have already been issued by AP in the past, like you mentioned, and to be honest it kinda bothers me, idk why exactly, These are essentially just reissues of albums they already put out more than 10 years ago. There isn't a whole lot of effort here, in terms of going back into the Verve catalogue and actually choosing maybe 10 Verve titles, that they have never issued before. To me this is a bit of a cop out.
I'm pleased to see the excitement surrounding this list, and I extend my best wishes to Chad, AP, and Acoustic Sounds. However, aside from the Sonny Rollins and Nina Simone albums, the list doesn't hold much interest for me. It's clear that Chad prefers accessible jazz and isn't drawn to the more adventurous modal/avant-garde/spiritual jazz that Impulse! Records became known for from the late '60s onward. This list reflects that preference. If anyone from Craft Recordings is reading these comments, I implore you to remove Impulse! from this reissue series and develop your own, similar to the wonderful work you're doing with the gorgeous OJC. Impulse! is such a legendary label that deserves a reissue series with a supervisor that truly appreciate it.
I think the playing is great on both but I very much prefer the blues-heavy compositions on Back to Back. The opening track Wabash Blues is really phenomenal but then we also get the sparse arrangements of Basin Street, Beale Street and St Louis Blues etc that sound great. Side By Side by contrast sounds more dated and chamber music in terms of style and song choice for me anyway
As I have several of those on Speakers Corner (Soulville) and Classic Records (both Hodges) versions and the OGs, and Night Lights was just reissued in the very recent past, I'll pass on those duplicates. I've also got nice OGs of the Simone and Fitzgerald, and the Rollins LP re-issue from 20 years or so ago (I need to check on specifics), so I'll wait to see on those. I have all the Verve Holidays in the Japanese boxset, as well as a standalone Japanese LP and an OG, but as Chad's sound fantastic and I love Holiday, I'll pick that one up as well as the Webster-Mulligan even though I have that on a Verve two-fer, those pressings are generally quite good -- I just picked up a Johnny Hodges two-fer of some 1959 dates and it sounds very good, only $7, love Hodges but I guess not too many others do. Overall, Chad has done a pretty good job, but as I have most of these it's not that exciting for me. What I'd like to see is more Hodges and Lester Young, the Verve years. My ultimate set would be the Duke Ellington Webster-Blanton recordings even though I have the Smithsonian LPs and the CDs.
@@jazzvinylcollector Also Constellation. This is not to say he didn’t make bad ones. He made so many he forgot about some of them. I don’t know if you like organ but if you do, “At the D.J. Lounge” is fantastic.
