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Blute Note Collectors

yuichiyuichi Urban sprawl 11,332 Posts
edited October 2008 in Strut Central
So on my way to finding out what the heck an "Ear" was, I stumbled upon this site. How the hell, people differentiate between what press is from what year is beyond me...b,121a href="http://www.organissimo.org/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t11722-50.html" target="_blank"1web page

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  • holmesholmes 3,532 Posts
    people love their Blue Note & can get up in arms about trying to outknowledge each other on the subject of BN pressings.
  • JustAliceJustAlice 1,308 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121 How the hell, people differentiate between what press is from what year is beyond me...b,121 b,121b,121h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b, 21only ones without the "T" are differentiatable.
  • proteusproteus 77 Posts
    Did you find out? If not the ear is the pretzel like scribble signature on the run out of NY pressings.
  • hcrinkhcrink 8,729 Posts
    There used to be a really good site that explained all the pressings in super thorough detail with label scans and allathat. Can't seem to find it anymore but this one has most of the info sans pictures...b,121b,121http://kleene.ss.uci.edu/~rmay/Bluenote.html/a1
  • Skip DrinkwaterSkip Drinkwater 1,694 Posts
    Blue Note is one of those labels where finding the LP doesn't mean you've found the OG. It's so much more fun to look for LP's on labels that didn't have 5 different pressings for a single LP, where if you found it, you found it.
  • hcrinkhcrink 8,729 Posts
    I actually like the fact that you can get a vintage pressing of most of the good titles for fairly cheap because there's hoards of different pressings.
  • holmesholmes 3,532 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121There used to be a really good site that explained all the pressings in super thorough detail with label scans and allathat. Can't seem to find it anymore but this one has most of the info sans pictures...b,121b, 21a href="http://kleene.ss.uci.edu/~rmay/Bluenote.html" target="_blank"1http://kleene.ss.uci.edu/~rmay/Bluenote.html/a1 b, 21b, 21h,121
    font class="post"1b,121 a href="http://ronpenndorf.com/labelography.html" target="_blank"1Blue Note Labelography/a1
  • hcrinkhcrink 8,729 Posts
    That's the one.
  • MurdockMurdock 542 Posts
    Collecting Blue Note records is a phase most people go through. But, in the end. Who really cares?
  • hcrinkhcrink 8,729 Posts
    I pretty much agree. I used to think I needed a ton with one track I liked each but nowadays I've kept maybe half a dozen total.
  • LoopDreamsLoopDreams 1,195 Posts
    I like Jazz...I've got many BN LP's. I couldn't care less if it's the OG press, BUT any euro repress from the eighties sounds like shyte. Also, if your lucky enough to have a clean deepgroove Mono from the sixties from some cat like Grant Green, your in for a fantastic listening experience...wicked sound quality.
  • parsecparsec 5,087 Posts
    BLUTE NOTE
  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121Collecting Blue Note records is a phase most people go through. But, in the end. Who really cares? b, 21b, 21h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b, 21That statement might fly with hipsters and breakbeat kids, but if you said that in front of straight-up jazz fans, you'd get a serious argument.b,121b, 21Just sayin'.
  • hammertimehammertime 2,389 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121I pretty much agree. I used to think I needed a ton with one track I liked each but nowadays I've kept maybe half a dozen total. b, 21b, 21h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b, 21semi-crazy.
  • MurdockMurdock 542 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121/font1Quote:/font1h,121b,121b1Collecting[/b] Blue Note records is a phase most people go through. But, in the end. Who really cares? b, 21b, 21h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b, 21That statement might fly with hipsters and breakbeat kids, but if you said that in front of straight-up jazz fans, you'd get a serious argument.b,121b, 21Just sayin'. b, 21b, 21h,121font class="post"1P1b,121I hear you. But I think you missed the point. Straight-jazz fans are not mindlessly collecting[/b] Blue-Note records because that's the only label they identify with. They are actually listening[/b] to those records. And probably have a larger repertoire than just one label.
  • hcrinkhcrink 8,729 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121/font1Quote:/font1h,121b,121I pretty much agree. I used to think I needed a ton with one track I liked each but nowadays I've kept maybe half a dozen total. b, 21b, 21h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b, 21semi-crazy. b, 21b, 21h,121font class="post"1b,121b, 21There just aren't that many interesting titles if you're not into straight bop or funky jazz. If there were more things like Out To Lunch or the 2 Tony Williams lp's it'd be a different story.
  • johmbolayajohmbolaya 4,472 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121people love their Blue Note & can get up in arms about trying to outknowledge each other on the subject of BN pressings. b, 21b, 21h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b, 21People get into verbal feuds because of it, I like knowing that the information exists so that if I ever did come across an early Blue Note or significant BN album, I can just pick it up and hope for the best.b,121b, 21Like anything, people study the numbers and letters and know what it means. People get crazy over wanting to find the Robert Ludwig pressing of Led Zeppelin II[/b], the album that always seem to be sold with its share of mold and mildew.
  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121Collecting Blue Note records is a phase most people go through. But, in the end. Who really cares? b, 21b, 21h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b, 21Dude, you just summed up the entire Strut Experience???
  • JustAliceJustAlice 1,308 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121BLUTE NOTE b, 21b, 21h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b, 21b, 21Its been repudiated. img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ss.gif" alt="" /1
  • proteusproteus 77 Posts
    There's plenty of wicked BN LPs. I never understand these threads, the words 'toy', 'kids' and 'fad' come to mind...
  • Strider79itStrider79it 1,176 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121/font1Quote:/font1h,121b,121/font1Quote:/font1h,121b,121I pretty much agree. I used to think I needed a ton with one track I liked each but nowadays I've kept maybe half a dozen total. b,121b, 21h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b, 21semi-crazy. b,121b, 21h,121font class="post"1b,121b, 21There just aren't that many interesting titles if you're not into straight bop or funky jazz. If there were more things like Out To Lunch or the 2 Tony Williams lp's it'd be a different story. b,121b,121h,121font class="post"1b,121b, 21b, 21mann....b,121b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21img src="http://www.jazz.com/assets/2007/12/22/albumcoverLarryYoung-Unity.jpg"1
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