Soul Jazz comps are nothing to sadface over. It takes many years (the right years) of living in a reggae-induced city (Toronto, London, New York, Miami, Boston and JA itself) to come up on those tracks (and even then, you'd have to approach it from the dealing/collecting aspect). I'm still looking for a couple of those tracks - notablly The Black Brothers "School Children" off the Roots comp.
The pictures stem from my frustrations of buying vinyl online -I wanted an interaction that more simulated the store experience....and I guess that philosophy follows in my weekend finds. That, and I'm an outright nerd who loves to talk music/records any chance I can get.
I'm way to lazy at the moment to take good pictures, but here's some quickies juts to prove that i'm not one of these lying bastard! The full list : Eric Framond - Musique A Show - MP2000 - 197x Janko Nilovic - Classical Phases - MP2000 - 197x Janko Nilovic & J.J. Debout - Music Bazaar - Telemusic - 1969 Pierre Dutour & Co - Romance In Paris Vol.2- MP2000 - 197x Herve Roy - French Pop - Telemusic - 1970 Simon Park & A. Valotti - Black Sun - Hudson Music - 1980 P.A. Dahan & Co - Dramascope - Telemusic - 1985 Bob Elger And His Orchestra - Pop Slop - Selected Sound 9001 - 197x Heinz Funk - Signal And Bridges In Music - Selected Sound 9101 - 1982 Fabio Fabor - Abstraction, Suspense et Mystere - Sonimage 809 - 1973 Carlo Rustichelli - Bebo's Girl - Capitol - 197x Kaleidoscope #1 - Images D'Italie - Orly SBV 313 - 197x Claude Perraudin - Energie - Patchwork #34 - 197x Alessandro Alessandrini - Guitar Poetry - Colorsound CS11 - 197x Caravelli - Laisse-Moi T'Aimer - CBS - 1968 OST - vortex (The Score From...) - Neutral - 1982 Lamont Dozier - Black Bach - ABC records - 1974 Walter Jackson - Greatest Hits - Okeh Records - 197x Andre gagnon - Saga - London Records - 1974 Various Selected Sound Artists - Patchwork Party - Selected Sound - 1978 Janko Nilovic & Dave Sucky - Psyc' Impressions - MP2000 - 197x (the pink cover pressing...) The Musical Volunteers - World War One - DeWolfe Music - 196x (78rpm) Janko Nilovic - Tonton Roland - Neuilly - 196x (78rpm)
Does it bum out all you other Americans like me that the Europeans were given picture sleeves of all these great soul & funk (& psych and everything else) 45's? Whassup with that?? Was it good ole American racism again, the "no black people on the covers" shit, or just that our record companies were cheaper?
btw of course, no hostility to you IZM or Europe, just sayin'...how come the US got no PS love?
my guess is cuz these artists naturally got more exposure in the U.S. than Europe. PS's were used more in Europe as a marketing tool to spread their names' more?
alright, we'll see what the authorities gotta say.
Right off the bat, i can tell you why, but i won't speak for "europe", only for France (by the way, people have to stop using this "europe" word because such a thing is an economic construction, a market of you prefer. Being "european" means nothing at all as far as indentity, unlike being "american" means something).
The overall reason for picture sleeve is because French did not have any clue about this music. To make it "marketable", french execs decided to keep a picture sleeve for any release, arguing that since french don't speak english, since they don't understand neither the content nor the credits, since they don't know who's white, who's black, then we have to keep a picture so french have a reason to buy.
Granted, french always had a "picture sleeve tradition". Mostly because we used to give more value to a good cover than in USA. We had a crush on crazy-weird-pop-art covers. So much that it was mendatory that a record HAD to have a picture sleeve (if not, that wasn't a real one, as we used to say).
Another reason for those 45 is the fact that people was "fascinated" with Black people and Black Music in general. I feel weird typing this, but this is History as it was...The reason why Baldwin or Davis came here was that fascination for the art form more than the race factor. Those 45's pics was necessary for the white french to KNOW what they was buying. Black music as they said, then they had the proof that it was a "black" group. So far, those pics are the reason why people know Rare Earth got white people in it!!!lol...
I don't know if i made sense...i hope you got my point.
PS : i still can't believe that my "people" do not understand SHIT when they listen to ANY american song. And i mean it. 99.9% of the population.
With all due respect to France, IZM - and I appreciate your involved response - I refer to "europe" and not specifically France because many other countries across the continent used PS where America did not - scandanavian countries, eastern europe, Italy, Spain, etc, etc. Probably for the same reasons you stated for France, to identify the record in a way that eases the language barrier - we had pop PS all over the place in the US back then, like the Turtles, Beach Boys, etc...and some black artists, more pop ones like Dee Dee Sharp or some Motown artists, had sleeves. But it seems like in countries like France, and the Netherlands, every single had a PS, and to be honest, I'm just jealous.
oh my god the kirk/cage video is so ill. it's some pbs special, i think the shows called "new sounds" or something like that, i'd have to double check. they don't perform together, but it's spliced footage of cage narrating while kirk performs. cage also builds a musical bike and kirk gives everyone in the audience slide whistles to play while he performs.
trane is footage of him performing my favorite things on german tv. i've seen it before, but needless to say it's
the "mingus" documentary is pretty crazy as well. i've seen clips of it before, but i've wanted to see the whole thing for a while. it's performances mixed with him getting evicted and playing with guns and his daughter. he was like the hunter s. thomson of jazz.
a lot of bootleg jazz dvd sites list all of this shit and i'd highly recommend ordering some if you've got any interest in any of these artists or holler if you wanna trade dubs (imma transfer some of this to dvd at some point soon too)
the "mingus" documentary is pretty crazy as well. i've seen clips of it before, but i've wanted to see the whole thing for a while. it's performances mixed with him getting evicted and playing with guns and his daughter
I saw this when I was very young, and have been wanting to see it again ever since, because it made such an impression on me at the age of 10, it was that powerful. My Pops used to take me to see old jazz flicks (most of them pretty much just OG music videos) with him all the time when I was really young...Lester Young's "Jammin' the Blues" always stuck with me, too, with the opening shot overhead closeup of his porkpie hat...Cab Calloway ones always worked for me as a kid, too, especially the animated ones with Betty Boop and shit, and dancing hypo needles as he sings about prostitutes doing heroin...
oh my god the kirk/cage video is so ill. it's some pbs special, i think the shows called "new sounds" or something like that, i'd have to double check. they don't perform together, but it's spliced footage of cage narrating while kirk performs. cage also builds a musical bike and kirk gives everyone in the audience slide whistles to play while he performs.
This movie is great! Kirk giving out the whistles is super next level
also I picked up a copy of this, a nice record to see in the dollar bin. It's been a while since that happened
Great album! The timbales on "Melao Pera el Sapo" are fire! Find Eddie's Mozambique LP and you'll hear how he plays with his rhythms through the years.
These are both great records that I've got in the shop. Need to go grab more of the lower one. The "Ain't No Sunshine" version on the top one is TOUGH!
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The pictures stem from my frustrations of buying vinyl online -I wanted an interaction that more simulated the store experience....and I guess that philosophy follows in my weekend finds. That, and I'm an outright nerd who loves to talk music/records any chance I can get.
K>
I'm way to lazy at the moment to take good pictures, but here's some quickies juts to prove that i'm not one of these lying bastard!
The full list :
Eric Framond - Musique A Show - MP2000 - 197x
Janko Nilovic - Classical Phases - MP2000 - 197x
Janko Nilovic & J.J. Debout - Music Bazaar - Telemusic - 1969
Pierre Dutour & Co - Romance In Paris Vol.2- MP2000 - 197x
Herve Roy - French Pop - Telemusic - 1970
Simon Park & A. Valotti - Black Sun - Hudson Music - 1980
P.A. Dahan & Co - Dramascope - Telemusic - 1985
Bob Elger And His Orchestra - Pop Slop - Selected Sound 9001 - 197x
Heinz Funk - Signal And Bridges In Music - Selected Sound 9101 - 1982
Fabio Fabor - Abstraction, Suspense et Mystere - Sonimage 809 - 1973
Carlo Rustichelli - Bebo's Girl - Capitol - 197x
Kaleidoscope #1 - Images D'Italie - Orly SBV 313 - 197x
Claude Perraudin - Energie - Patchwork #34 - 197x
Alessandro Alessandrini - Guitar Poetry - Colorsound CS11 - 197x
Caravelli - Laisse-Moi T'Aimer - CBS - 1968
OST - vortex (The Score From...) - Neutral - 1982
Lamont Dozier - Black Bach - ABC records - 1974
Walter Jackson - Greatest Hits - Okeh Records - 197x
Andre gagnon - Saga - London Records - 1974
Various Selected Sound Artists - Patchwork Party - Selected Sound - 1978
Janko Nilovic & Dave Sucky - Psyc' Impressions - MP2000 - 197x (the pink cover pressing...)
The Musical Volunteers - World War One - DeWolfe Music - 196x (78rpm)
Janko Nilovic - Tonton Roland - Neuilly - 196x (78rpm)
And some 45's for my old eardrums...
That's all folx...
Does it bum out all you other Americans like me that the Europeans were given picture sleeves of all these great soul & funk (& psych and everything else) 45's? Whassup with that?? Was it good ole American racism again, the "no black people on the covers" shit, or just that our record companies were cheaper?
btw of course, no hostility to you IZM or Europe, just sayin'...how come the US got no PS love?
alright, we'll see what the authorities gotta say.
The overall reason for picture sleeve is because French did not have any clue about this music. To make it "marketable", french execs decided to keep a picture sleeve for any release, arguing that since french don't speak english, since they don't understand neither the content nor the credits, since they don't know who's white, who's black, then we have to keep a picture so french have a reason to buy.
Granted, french always had a "picture sleeve tradition". Mostly because we used to give more value to a good cover than in USA. We had a crush on crazy-weird-pop-art covers. So much that it was mendatory that a record HAD to have a picture sleeve (if not, that wasn't a real one, as we used to say).
Another reason for those 45 is the fact that people was "fascinated" with Black people and Black Music in general. I feel weird typing this, but this is History as it was...The reason why Baldwin or Davis came here was that fascination for the art form more than the race factor. Those 45's pics was necessary for the white french to KNOW what they was buying. Black music as they said, then they had the proof that it was a "black" group. So far, those pics are the reason why people know Rare Earth got white people in it!!!lol...
I don't know if i made sense...i hope you got my point.
PS : i still can't believe that my "people" do not understand SHIT when they listen to ANY american song. And i mean it. 99.9% of the population.
oh my god the kirk/cage video is so ill. it's some pbs special, i think the shows called "new sounds" or something like that, i'd have to double check. they don't perform together, but it's spliced footage of cage narrating while kirk performs. cage also builds a musical bike and kirk gives everyone in the audience slide whistles to play while he performs.
trane is footage of him performing my favorite things on german tv. i've seen it before, but needless to say it's
the "mingus" documentary is pretty crazy as well. i've seen clips of it before, but i've wanted to see the whole thing for a while. it's performances mixed with him getting evicted and playing with guns and his daughter. he was like the hunter s. thomson of jazz.
a lot of bootleg jazz dvd sites list all of this shit and i'd highly recommend ordering some if you've got any interest in any of these artists or holler if you wanna trade dubs (imma transfer some of this to dvd at some point soon too)
K.
I saw this when I was very young, and have been wanting to see it again ever since, because it made such an impression on me at the age of 10, it was that powerful. My Pops used to take me to see old jazz flicks (most of them pretty much just OG music videos) with him all the time when I was really young...Lester Young's "Jammin' the Blues" always stuck with me, too, with the opening shot overhead closeup of his porkpie hat...Cab Calloway ones always worked for me as a kid, too, especially the animated ones with Betty Boop and shit, and dancing hypo needles as he sings about prostitutes doing heroin...
This movie is great! Kirk giving out the whistles is super next level
also I picked up a copy of this, a nice record to see in the dollar bin. It's been a while since that happened
Great album! The timbales on "Melao Pera el Sapo" are fire! Find Eddie's Mozambique LP and you'll hear how he plays with his rhythms through the years.
These are both great records that I've got in the shop. Need to go grab more of the lower one. The "Ain't No Sunshine" version on the top one is TOUGH!