A good day for Blue Note...

I really love this RVG series. I wonder how long they'll go with it.

i wonder when unit structures will get the RVG?

They will probably go with it until RVG is too sick to do it. ;-)

From this Joe Chambers interview, maybe I had come across this before but it makes a ton of sense:
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/joe-chambers-blue-note-years-interview/
Unlike other jazz labels of the time, Blue Note paid musicians to rehearse beforehand, usually several days prior to the session date. According to Joe Chambers that was the reason why Blue Note recordings had a sense of focus and cohesion. “We sounded like a working band in the studio because we went and rehearsed for about a week. All of the rehearsals were held at Lynn Oliver’s studios. The music for Blue Note was more complex than just blowing sessions, so you required a little more time. We would put in four to five days for each album and by the time you went in the studio, you sounded real tight, like a working band.”

That makes a whole lot of sense.

FWIW I've really been coming to appreciate Joe Chambers more - first from going on a Bobby Hutcherson kick and more recently listening to all the Wayne Shorter records. I used to kind of think of him as poor-man's Tony Williams (I imagined to myself that they'd call him at Blue Note when Tony was busy), but I think that was unfair, he had his own thing.

So much good can happen when you don't just insist on doing everything the cheapest possible way in the short run. That's why we're still talking about Blue Note and not Vee-Jay.