Record Labels that Draw You In But Always Dissapoint

[leon]

crabmongerfunk said:


i actually think pablo has some decent stuff despite the dreary cover art and utter commonness: al gaffa, the dizzy gillespie ones, freddie hubbard live at north sea, oscar peterson silent partner ost, and dom um romao spring to mind..

Yes! I've slept on Pablo for years on end. Real quality stuff in there. Slightly off topic but why are all Perception releases i buy always bad quality pressings? Bad luck?

 

[Horseleech]

crabmongerfunk said:i actually think pablo has some decent stuff despite the dreary cover art and utter commonness: al gaffa, the dizzy gillespie ones, freddie hubbard live at north sea, oscar peterson silent partner ost, and dom um roma spring to mind..




Not to mention John Coltrane and Jorge Ben.





This one is pretty worthwhile also:

 

[tabira]

What about Xanadoo? Like Pablo looks way too dreary so I've never bitten- anything good?

 

[SoundOutLoud]

I have a great solo Joe Pass LP on Pablo (Virtuoso #2) that I picked up on the cheap. Q-Tip even took a sample off the record.





Co-sign Buddah. I like some of the folk they put out and they put out some good stuff for Curtis Mayfield but for the most part

Also I got a burner off of Hot Wax once, so I kept picking up 45s hoping it would happen again... it didn't.

 

[LoopDreams]

Horseleech said:crabmongerfunk said:i actually think pablo has some decent stuff despite the dreary cover art and utter commonness: al gaffa, the dizzy gillespie ones, freddie hubbard live at north sea, oscar peterson silent partner ost, and dom um roma spring to mind..




Not to mention John Coltrane and Jorge Ben.





This one is pretty worthwhile also:

this one's fantastic too

 

[Sunfade]

Dissing Buddah is so 2002.

 

[Rishan]

I usually find Mainstream quite disappointing. I have a handful of good ones (Hadley Caliman's are a personal fave), but you'd think some of the guys on the label (Harold Land, Roy Haynes) would deliver better stuff than they did.

 

[LaserWolf]

SoundOutLoud said:I have a great solo Joe Pass LP on Pablo (Virtuoso #2) that I picked up on the cheap. Q-Tip even took a sample off the record.




I was going to write a post defending Pablo in the same style as my post for ECM.





Pablo has many, perhaps dozens, of Joe Pass lps. They are all great, even the ones that have yet to be sampled.





I think there are one or two 'funky' Pablos that have not been mentioned, but that is not what the label is about.





Pablo had a rotating cast of musicians, like Ray Brown and Joe Pass plus they had all the great still living jazz musicians that no other label wanted record, like Ella, Duke, Dizzy.


Most of the lps are different pairings of these musicians in chamber jazz like settings.


All are worthy of a spin or three, to me.

 

[fishmongerfunk]

other good ecm lp's, especially if you consider JAPO part of it which it sort of wasn't:


-steve kuhn and sheila jordan ones


-mal waldron- the call


-magog


-children at play


-enrico rava


-dave liebman lookout farm


-percussion profiles


-bobby naughton units


-evening of a georgia faun





as for mainstream, the best stuff is actually the psych records from the late 60's but despite the generally awful covers (those stanky, ragged headphones!!) there are plenty of great jazz titles on that red lion imprint...

 

[Guzzo]

crabmongerfunk said:other good ecm lp's

 

[LaserWolf]

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