Apr 7, 2025
Renowned archivist & record producer Zev Feldman, "The Jazz Detective", returns to discusses the Record Store Day 2025 releases of lost jazz recordings from Freddie Hubbard, Charlie Mingus, Bill Evans, Patsy Cline & more!
Topics Include:
- Introduction of Zev Feldman, nicknamed "the jazz detective"
- Status of finding lost jazz recordings - feeling optimistic
- Live recordings create a "renaissance" for jazz enthusiasts
- Concern about aging jazz colleagues with undiscovered tapes
- Feldman works with multiple record labels simultaneously
- Record companies are selective about which projects to release
- Concerns about tariffs affecting vinyl manufacturing costs
- Vinyl jazz releases often operate on slim profit margins
- Resonance Records uses Canadian pressing plant Le Vinylist
- Six Record Store Day releases coming from Feldman
- Patsy Cline "Imagine That" was most difficult release to assemble
- Patsy Cline release required coordinating multiple rights holders
- Country Music Hall of Fame involved in Patsy Cline project
- Feldman's personal connection to record stores and vinyl collecting
- Freddie Hubbard "On Fire" recorded at Blue Morocco (1967)
- Bernard Drayton engineered the Blue Morocco recordings
- Blue Morocco club owned by Sugar Hill Records founders
- Kenny Dorham recordings from same Blue Morocco venue
- Dorham's recordings especially rare and significant to Feldman
- Dorham was also a writer who contributed to DownBeat magazine
- Charles Mingus in Argentina - recordings from 1977 concerts
- Second Argentina concert added due to popular demand
- Mingus recordings made less than year before his ALS diagnosis
- Wes Montgomery with Wynton Kelly Trio reissue with new mastering
- Original Montgomery release now selling for $100+ in stores
- Time machine question - which historic jazz gig to attend
- Discussion of legendary venue Slugs and its important shows
- Feldman's collection of music memorabilia and venue posters
- Bill Evans live in Finland recordings (1964-1969)
- Feldman's 13th Bill Evans production with the Evans Estate
- Finland recordings feature three different Evans trio lineups
- Record Store Day helping introduce Evans to younger audiences
- Plans for Record Store Day Black Friday releases
- Value of releasing previously unheard music versus reissues
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