The Most Mysterious Record King Record Ever Made!
The Most Mysterious Record King Record Ever Made!
Blue Note Unissued Master Series by King Record
The Most Mysterious Record King Record Ever Made!
Blue Note Unissued Master Series by King Record
Kenny Drew has many great piano trio albums and some piano solo albums as you know.But these 2 albums I got recently are not trio or solo…but DUO which I think are really RARE.Kenny Drew on Piano and Wilbur Ware on BassJackets designs are great too with beautiful women half naked…1st album isKenny Drew I…
CBS Sony Japan in the early 70’s reissued many Savoy titles with the series calledOriginal Savoy Recording SeriesAmong the titles they reissued, 2 albums I feel great but not known among the jazz collectors. These areArt Blakey and The Jazz MessengersCurtis Fuller Jazztet Featuring Benny GolsonArt Blakey and The Jazz Messengers was not originally released…
I got a very interesting question from our member.He asked me,Why is it that most Japanese pressings vinyl Mint or NM and sleeve having a lot of stain??He points out that there is a gap between the vinyl condition and sleeve condition with most of the Japanese pressings.That is true…As you are our JBJ clan,…
I always wanted to do this kind of sound comparison!Welcome to the JBJ Jazz Lab!Yes, now I have the same 2 copies ofKenny Drew Undercurrent Blue Note GXK 8120 King RecordThe difference is one is a normal copy and the other is a white label promo copy.Do these 2 same serial copies sound different?I used…
Welcome to the JBJ Jazz lab!I made another interesting experiment.Sound Comparison of King Record Blue Note Reissues, GXF, GXK and FRPAs you may have already known, King Record reissued Blue Note titles with GXF, GXK mainly. There are some other like DY as bonus records and K18 and K23 series, and premium 15 title reissues…
Yes, most Jazz collectors don’t know this fact and nobody talks about it…but I will tell you the truth.The Blue Note vinyl reissue series Toshiba EMI Japan made in the early 90’s, what they callBLUE NOTE RARE GROOVE COLLECTIONSare notorious to me.I have collected and sold many of these series and many have noise issue…unlike…
Hi Takashi,
This is an interesting record. I don’t have this one but I’ve been aware of it for many years. I do intend to get a copy someday. As for the GP prefix I don’t know specifically why they used it but I suspect that it was because this session was not actually recorded by Blue Note.
If you look at the full GP series which is about twenty titles you will see that it is all material that was not actually recorded by Blue Note. Among that series Lonely Town is about the only straight ahead date – it does not fit in musically with the rest of the GP series.
These were sessions that were owned by the company that owned the Blue Note catalog at the time. These GP dates are distinct from sessions that would have been bought by Blue Note back in the pre-Liberty days such as Louis Smith and several others.
As you well know record companies like to put the Blue Note name on anything they can whether it’s actually Blue Note or not especially in the United States.
Lonely Town reminds me of another Tommy Flannigan album which is titled Over C’s Prestige 7134. This was recorded in Stockholm I think and was leased by Prestige. I don’t have this album either but like Lonely Town I do intend to get it someday.
Leon Levitt once told me that the most he ever got for a single record by auction was for an original copy of Over C’s to a guy in New York. This was back in the late 80’s. He didn’t tell me how much – we would probably laugh at the amount now.
Anyway, if you can get a list of the GP series I think that that will help to explain why this record got the GP prefix as opposed to GXF etc. Look in the Michel Ruppli Blue Note discography, the GP series is listed there.
Peter