Blue Note. Classic Or Dud?

Possibly...but maybe playing with Trane necessitated different mic placement or something.

― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, September 21, 2012 7:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It could be that, but I remember reading that the Lions were kind of particular about their sound, and other drummers sound bigger and wetter on Blue Note too. Still, it would make sense that drumming would need to be slightly drier to leave space for coltrane. Not that the impulse sound is dry, but it's a little more controlled than Blue Note.

yeah i imagine van gelder would adjust his engineering style slightly depending on whether it was bob thiele / creed taylor / alfred lion in the studio. i think those guys probably all had different conceptions of what a jazz LP should sound like.

The Spotify app was developed by my friend's company; he's super chuffed at all the feedback. Not a jazz fan, though!

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, September 21, 2012 5:14 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The app gives me hope for what the streaming experience can be in a post-physical-album world.

Yeah this is the most bad-ass thing. I haven't ever even clicked on a spotify app or cared about any of it. This is v eye opening.

this is the best one i've seen by a large margin

another one i'd recommend -- and it's way more "homemade" seeming than this -- is Ulysses' Classical...just because he makes really cool playlists and blog posts...but it's more Spotify playlist enabled blog within spotify than something as ambitious as the Blue Note one

i think those guys probably all had different conceptions of what a jazz LP should sound like.

I learned yesterday that Sun Ship wasn't recorded at Van Gelder's studio (or engineered by Van Gelder), and nothing in its' sound suggests otherwise. So yeah, I guess Thiele had more to do with the sound of the records than I'd previously thought (because I previously thought he left it entirely up to Van Gelder).

Cool, will check that xp. Thanks.

gentlemen: the Spotify app in question is neither available on the app store nor findable on my ipad--what am I doing wrong?

Here you go:

http://open.spotify.com/app/bluenote

aha! apps don't exist on iPad/Pod, which are the only version I've used for months know....good to know. thanks for the link!

somebody needs to set up a "greatest Blue Note" cover poll....

hmmm
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those are really boring cover photos, no offense to barrack

barack (d'oh)

the joe henderson PAGE ONE takeoff is good in the montage

and the sidewinder one is ok too

Downloaded Art Blakey's Indestructible (his last Blue Note album, from 1965, with Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, Wayne Shorter, Cedar Walton and Reggie Workman) and the two volumes of 3 Blind Mice (live stuff from 1962 with Freddie Hubbard, Fuller, Shorter, Walton and Jymie Merritt). There are days when all I want to listen to, ever, is Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers' stuff from 1960-65.

I have been loving Pete La Roca's awesome Basra album a lot recently. It is a travesty that such a talented dude fucked it all off and became a taxi driver.

Dud mostly. The less rhythmic propulsion a track has, the more likely the track title will be an intransitive verb with a dropped 'g'.
― dave q, Monday, August 12, 2002 7:00 PM (13 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol great dave q post

RIP RVG
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I picked up a great book of lp covers from the label from a cheap sale a few years ago.
They really did have a great sense of style.
Seems to have been a major influence on mod. Presumably the modern jazz that's initially a short form for was best epitomised by the record label.

RIP Rudy Van Gelder

humans will be listening to some of those tracks as long as the species has electrical power

.. must have at least 8 or 12 of the RVG remasters on disc -- will need to dig them out

Finally got around to watching 'Blue Note: Beyond the Notes' last night. It's nice and pleasant but didn't really contain much in the way of insights that any fan wasn't already familiar with. Highlight was watching Shorter & Hancock goof around. I could have gone for a lot more of that.