target wrote:Lewd/- do you like any of the revival stuff? I’m a Sharon Jones fan and think Daptone gold is a great comp
SamDBL wrote:I love it. I also kind of prefer the Stax stuff. Maybe because it’s less known to me, and therefore more exciting, than the motown roster. Although when I go on expeditions, I find the genre to generally be less consistent than blues and jazz. I’m surprised at how often some of the most highly praised stuff is not my cup of tea. I did not like Al Green as much as I thought I would. And I just checked out the first Isaac Hayes album today on a lark. Was not really into it.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
lewdd wrote:Interesting that Chess put out that song. I didn't realize they had that style of music on their label. Must have been when blues was big in Europe but not in the USA.
lewdd wrote:I found a thread on the Hoffman forum that lists a bunch of Northern Soul comps. In process of procuring some of them now.
patient_ot wrote:Chess also had the Argo/Cadet sublabel which put out loads of great jazz. Most of that stuff is long OOP and the old records are hard to find in decent shape.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
JGJR wrote:patient_ot wrote:Chess also had the Argo/Cadet sublabel which put out loads of great jazz. Most of that stuff is long OOP and the old records are hard to find in decent shape.
I admittedly don't know the Cadet catalog very well at all, but after getting into Terry Callier a few years back, I bought reissues of 2 of the 3 albums he put out on Cadet in the early '70s, so at least those aren't impossible to come by (though not cheap) and there have been CD versions, too. And they're GREAT albums, too. His music isn't really jazz (though he was majorly influenced by it, especially John Coltrane), but sort of a hybrid between soul, folk, and jazz. In the '90s, when he returned to performing live and making records after a decade as a computer programmer, he was feted in the UK as a pioneer of the nascent acid jazz movement, so there's that, too.
patient_ot wrote:JGJR wrote:patient_ot wrote:Chess also had the Argo/Cadet sublabel which put out loads of great jazz. Most of that stuff is long OOP and the old records are hard to find in decent shape.
I admittedly don't know the Cadet catalog very well at all, but after getting into Terry Callier a few years back, I bought reissues of 2 of the 3 albums he put out on Cadet in the early '70s, so at least those aren't impossible to come by (though not cheap) and there have been CD versions, too. And they're GREAT albums, too. His music isn't really jazz (though he was majorly influenced by it, especially John Coltrane), but sort of a hybrid between soul, folk, and jazz. In the '90s, when he returned to performing live and making records after a decade as a computer programmer, he was feted in the UK as a pioneer of the nascent acid jazz movement, so there's that, too.
Callier's What Color Is Love is a masterpiece. Occasional Rain is very good too, and he has some other good stuff. I don't know his later era at all.
Re: Argo/Cadet, I was more talking about jazz albums they put out in the late 50s/early 60s. You can find old vinyl in shops, but it will usually be beat to utter shit.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
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