MikeH
Well-Known Member
I'll give you the full BNC price
even though that's what i originally paid for it haha
I'll give you the full BNC price
Some hard hitting titles! Also happy to see Herbie Hancock’s Speak Like a Child. That’ll complete his Blue Note catalog for me.
They press so many BNCs that nothing sells out any more.Some hard hitting titles! Also happy to see Herbie Hancock’s Speak Like a Child. That’ll complete his Blue Note catalog for me.
I had been slowing down on Blue Note reissues this year, but I’m in for a lot of the albums on this list.
If BN upgraded the quality of the jackets for the BN Classics i'd be a happy camper. the Craft reissue series jackets are SO much nicer. I know that keeps the prices down on the BNCs but....cmon blue note.
Yeah, I'm already pulling a bunch of MM 45's that I will cash out of and replace.GREAT list!
Mosaic should be in every serious collection. IMO Blakey's best record.Making my way through the unfamiliars on the list.
• Horace Silver - Blowin The Blues Away (Will likely pass on this one, nothing jumped out, will relisten though)
• Jimmy Smith - Midnight Special (Think I'll pick this one up on sale, that first track is great and overall the energy is very fun)
• Clifford Brown - Memorial Album (gorgeous, definitely picking up)
Next up
• Art Blakey - Mosaic
Mosaic should be in every serious collection. IMO Blakey's best record.
I'm with you on Blowin The Blues Away, which always seemed to me to be a hodge-podge of a record.
It's just a perfect session, where everyone is hitting it out of the park. Every composition is outstanding, the solos are hot and tight, and Blakey is on fire. This was probably Blakey's greatest band.I’m very much a Free For All and Moanin’ , I will have to take a listed to Mosaic today. But what do you like about it?
It's just a perfect session, where everyone is hitting it out of the park. Every composition is outstanding, the solos are hot and tight, and Blakey is on fire. This was probably Blakey's greatest band.
Probably true. Not sure I fault Blakey for that, having every member in a suit, similar suit at that, was part of the Blakey brand esthetic.I was on vacation in Maine this summer. While wandering around Acadia National park I was wearing my Free For All t shirt. Somebody stopped me and said that they saw him. The person preceded to tell me a story about how the bass player forgot his suit for the gig. Blakey ragged on him all night in fort of the audience.