This is so awesome. I'm curious what the albums will be? Based on what hasn't had a recent reissues, here are my guesses:
Blue Note Leader (Edit: Empyrean Isles)
Miles' 2nd Quintet (Miles in the Sky)
Jazz-Funk Fusion (Sextant or Thrust?)
VSOP (VSOP)
80s/90s Herbie (Future Shock)
Elder Statesman Herbie (Gershwin's World)
I love some of these picks. I esp hope we get Point of View since Empyrean got a Music Matters release. Also think Miles in the Sky may be out too due to the mofi release. Moreover, I bet they focus on albums where Herbie's the main billing anyhow. Speak like a Child is still in stock with MM albeit for $100.
I think they'll discuss those eras but use his trajectory through the different labels/catalogs as guideposts, one would think 2 from each - Blue Note, Warner Brothers, Columbia and Verve. But, with the WB stint so brief, it could be heavier on one of the others. And, the WB releases all got recent MOV pressings.
Here's some that need reissues anyhow and aren't ones I frequently see in bargain bins:
Blue Note - Point of View
WB - (these got MOV releases last year or so)
Colombia/CBS - Directstep and The Piano (both need RE and represent his time recording Japan), VSOP (needs RE), Feats Don't Fail me Now (disco era; no LP RE since 79), Magic Windows (no RE since release in 81); The Quartet (no LP RE since 1982), Perfect Machine (Laswell, Collins period, no US LP, and the most divisive to be sure)
Verve - The New Standard (no LP, only South Korea); River: The Joni Letters (no US LP release, just euro 07)
I'm thinking its along the lines of:
Point of View (1963)
-(this jump bothers me, my hunch is its got to be something in this time frame and not the Quartet below)
VSOP (1977)
Directstep (1979)
- The Quartet (1982, recorded 81)
Magic Windows (1981)
Perfect Machine (1988)
The New Standard (1996)
The Joni Letters (2007)