Well, their poster proclaims 'Vinyls are Back!' so I definitely won't be buying any more of them.
I do agree that the pressings are quiet, but since they don't seem to have access to the masters, the CD is probably the source. In which case, I'd just get the CD.
Half Priced books has a TON of these LPs these days.
This. In spades. On a stick. With a bag of chips.
Since
The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery was the first example given it's worth noting that originals, near-originals, and quality reissues of early modern jazz aren't necessarily hard to find nor expensive.
Some of you already know this:
Riverside was merged into Fantasy, and in the early '80s Fantasy released a bunch of titles as part of their "
Original Jazz Classics" that included titles from
other labels that had all rolled into Fantasy before Fantasy rolled into Concord today. Somewhere on the Hoffman forums there's a list.
These early '80s reissues predate the digital reissue era that began in the mid-late '80s. If you search eBay and see one with the cellophane still on it you'll learn they sold NEW for $5.98 or so. New titles were what, $8-$10 at the time?
As Concord's link above claims, they
were successful. However, it doesn't reveal WHY. Fantasy accomplished something everyone since as apparently failed to grasp: selling old content, well-done, at a discount is a good idea. "OJC" even became to be known as a "label" although it wasn't -- just a logo!
Look to spend around $15 for a lightly-played copy of whatever. They sound
good.
Addendum: I see on
Discogs the first series stretched to 1990 so don't hold me to that "no-digital" claim. Also, there was an "OJC Reissues" more recently (2010) that I believe was for CD titles.
