Impulse vs Blue Note

For the title of greatest jazz label evar.

covers: impulse
close, respect to reid miles and francis wolf, but those gatefolds and orange black spines.
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Madness....


Blue Note in all respects by a mile.
You don't dig the out stuff though, right?

I don't even think its even close . Impulse was basically a sixties imprint, while Blue Note was around since '39. Blue Note's catalog is so rich and deep, it includes boogie woogie/ bop/ hard bop / modal/ funk and to a lesser degree avant garde/free cuts. Blue Note's "out" records are dope, they had Ornette Coleman/ Sam Rivers/ Eric Dolphy/ Andrew Hill / Larry Young/ Wayne Shorter/Tony Williams/ Grachan Moncur III/ Jackie McClean/ Cecil Taylor all cut sides for them.
 
You should compare the best BN releases with best Impulse releases. The records that aren't great don't really matter and shouldn't figure in.
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i disagree. to me, the greatest art and artists enter a realm where trying to rank them in comparison is fruitless. Personal preference is one thing, but after a certain point there is no objective way to prove the superiority of a given masterwork over another.
To take the example at hand, trying to decide whether 'A Love Supreme' is better or worse than 'Speak No Evil' is a futile exercise.
 
You should compare the best BN releases with best Impulse releases. The records that aren't great don't really matter and shouldn't figure in.
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i disagree. to me, the greatest art and artists enter a realm where trying to rank them in comparison is fruitless. Personal preference is one thing, but after a certain point there is no objective way to prove the superiority of a given masterwork over another.
To take the example at hand, trying to decide whether 'A Love Supreme' is better or worse than 'Speak No Evil' is a futile exercise.
A Love Supreme.
 
For the title of greatest jazz label evar.

covers: impulse
close, respect to reid miles and francis wolf, but those gatefolds and orange black spines.
Click to expand...

Madness....


Blue Note in all respects by a mile.
You don't dig the out stuff though, right?

I don't even think its even close . Impulse was basically a sixties imprint, while Blue Note was around since '39. Blue Note's catalog is so rich and deep, it includes boogie woogie/ bop/ hard bop / modal/ funk and to a lesser degree avant garde/free cuts. Blue Note's "out" records are dope, they had Ornette Coleman/ Sam Rivers/ Eric Dolphy/ Andrew Hill / Larry Young/ Wayne Shorter/Tony Williams/ Grachan Moncur III/ Jackie McClean/ Cecil Taylor all cut sides for them.
Those are great points. I'm changing to Blue Note. F*ck.
 
You should compare the best BN releases with best Impulse releases. The records that aren't great don't really matter and shouldn't figure in.
Click to expand...
i disagree. to me, the greatest art and artists enter a realm where trying to rank them in comparison is fruitless. Personal preference is one thing, but after a certain point there is no objective way to prove the superiority of a given masterwork over another.
To take the example at hand, trying to decide whether 'A Love Supreme' is better or worse than 'Speak No Evil' is a futile exercise. What I meant was to compare the amount of great art produced by each label, which is objective if one agrees that such a thing as great art exists.
 
Personal preference
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What Rey meant to say is that you should stack up the best in each catalog, then popsike each entry. Whatever's worth more is better.


(Totally gonna be Blue Note)
 


You don't dig the out stuff though, right?

I don't even think its even close . Impulse was basically a sixties imprint, while Blue Note was around since '39. Blue Note's catalog is so rich and deep, it includes boogie woogie/ bop/ hard bop / modal/ funk and to a lesser degree avant garde/free cuts. Blue Note's "out" records are dope, they had Ornette Coleman/ Sam Rivers/ Eric Dolphy/ Andrew Hill / Larry Young/ Wayne Shorter/Tony Williams/ Grachan Moncur III/ Jackie McClean/ Cecil Taylor all cut sides for them.
Those are great points. I'm changing to Blue Note. F*ck.
Don't give up so easy. I like this record tawk.
 
For the title of greatest jazz label evar.

covers: impulse
close, respect to reid miles and francis wolf, but those gatefolds and orange black spines.
Click to expand...

Madness....


Blue Note in all respects by a mile.
You don't dig the out stuff though, right?

I don't even think its even close . Impulse was basically a sixties imprint, while Blue Note was around since '39. Blue Note's catalog is so rich and deep, it includes boogie woogie/ bop/ hard bop / modal/ funk and to a lesser degree avant garde/free cuts. Blue Note's "out" records are dope, they had Ornette Coleman/ Sam Rivers/ Eric Dolphy/ Andrew Hill / Larry Young/ Wayne Shorter/Tony Williams/ Grachan Moncur III/ Jackie McClean/ Cecil Taylor all cut sides for them.

Seems to me that Blue Note did boogie woogie and trad in the '39-'55+/- period.

But most of their catalog '55-'70+/- is very consistent small group jam sessions around a few themes.
Some artists tended to be more be bop, some more blues, some more modal.

Impulse on the other hand ranged far and wide.
An impulse lp can surprise you.

You always know what you are getting on the Blue Note lp.

For many labels this would be a liability.
But the quality of all aspects of a Blue Note product make it an asset.

I am going with Prestige.
 
You don't dig the out stuff though, right?
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I don't even think its even close . Impulse was basically a sixties imprint, while Blue Note was around since '39. Blue Note's catalog is so rich and deep, it includes boogie woogie/ bop/ hard bop / modal/ funk and to a lesser degree avant garde/free cuts. Blue Note's "out" records are dope, they had Ornette Coleman/ Sam Rivers/ Eric Dolphy/ Andrew Hill / Larry Young/ Wayne Shorter/Tony Williams/ Grachan Moncur III/ Jackie McClean/ Cecil Taylor all cut sides for them.
Those are great points. I'm changing to Blue Note. F*ck.
Don't give up so easy. I like this record tawk.
It's not giving up. Like if this was CTI vs Impulse.
 
Personal preference and my Great Record theory are compatible. If one can check off more favorite albums in the Impulse catalog than the BN catalog, then at least they can say that they think the Impulse catalog is greater to them by some quantifiable standard. And yet dudes shrink from even this for some reason.
 
Yeah. The consistency with the actual Blue Note catalog could have been a liability. On the other hand, Impulse took a lot of risks with an incredible rate of success.
 
Personal preference and my Great Record theory are compatible. If one can check off more favorite albums in the Impulse catalog than the BN catalog, then at least they can say that they think the Impulse catalog is greater to them by some quantifiable standard. And yet dudes shrink from even this for some reason.
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I'm just around the corner from completing both catalogs. So i'll get back with ya'll in a few years.
 
I am going with Prestige.
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Yeah, for it to be done right it would take giving every record in both catalogs a fair listen, which might take a while.
 
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