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Pure Pleasure Spins the Roulette Wheel, Reissues Mid-'70's Carter Album

When this record was issued in 1976, 47 year old Betty Carter (born Lillie Mae Jones) had already sang with Dizzy, Miles, Lionel Hampton, Sonny Rollins and many others.



Her choppy, aggressive, improvisatory style and intense scatting made for difficult listening for a mainstream audience, but she was beloved by beboppers and musical insiders considered her among, if not thegreatest female jazz singer of her era. Of course that could be said of Shirley Horn, Nina Simone and some others, who are probably better known.

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Artist: 
Betty Carter
Album: 
Now It's My Turn
Cred Label: 
Roulette/Pure Pleasure PPAN SR-5005 180g LP
Cred Prod: 
Fred Bailin
Cred Eng: 
Joe Ferla
Cred Mix: 
George Klabin
Cred Mast: 
Sean Magee at Abbey Road Studios

When this record was issued in 1976, 47 year old Betty Carter (born Lillie Mae Jones) had already sang with Dizzy, Miles, Lionel Hampton, Sonny Rollins and many others.

Smith-Burrell Combo Equals Tasty Licks

Listening to a straightforward, blues/gospel-drenched comping session like this reminds you that jazz has lost its soul today and aims mostly for the head. There’s nothing wrong with that, but it’s good to get back to the essential, visceral nature of the genre. This set, recorded in New York at an unidentified studio or studios on three days during the summer of 1963, let’s you know why.

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Artist: 
Kenny Burrell and Jimmy Smith
Album: 
Blues Bash!
Cred Label: 
Verve/Euphoria ELP 220 LP
Cred Prod: 
n/a
Cred Eng: 
Phil Ramone, Rudy Van Gelder and Phil Macy
Cred Mix: 
n/a
Cred Mast: 
Bob Irwin at Sundazed Mastering

Listening to a straightforward, blues/gospel-drenched comping session like this reminds you that jazz has lost its soul today and aims mostly for the head. There’s nothing wrong with that, but it’s good to get back to the essential, visceral nature of the genre. This set, recorded in New York at an unidentified studio or studios on three days during the summer of 1963, let’s you know why.

One of the Greatest Finally Reissued

It’s easy to understand why a cut-up rocker with one foot in metal and the other in Vaudeville like David Lee Roth would break out of Van Halen and go solo with a faithful cover of Louis Prima’s version of “Just a Gigolo”/”I’m So Lonely.”

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Artist: 
Louis Prima
Album: 
The Wildest!
Cred Label: 
Pure Pleasure/Capitol PPAN T755 180g mono LP
Cred Prod: 
n/a
Cred Eng: 
n/a
Cred Mix: 
n/a
Cred Mast: 
Sean Magee at Abbey Road Studios

It’s easy to understand why a cut-up rocker with one foot in metal and the other in Vaudeville like David Lee Roth would break out of Van Halen and go solo with a faithful cover of Louis Prima’s version of “Just a Gigolo”/”I’m So Lonely.”

He Swallowed His Pride and Puckered His Lips

You had to be there, and I was.



Not at this Santa Monica, California performance from October 20th 1972, but at Bowie’s legendary September 28th Carnegie Hall appearance as well as at shows in Boston (Music Hall, October, 1st), Chicago (Auditorium Theater, October 7th), and Detroit (Fisher Theater, October 8th). Iggy Pop sat a few seats away at that one (and stayed in room 405 at the St. Regis Hotel that night).

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Artist: 
David Bowie
Album: 
Live Santa Monica '72
Cred Label: 
EMI BOWLIVE201072LP 2 180g LPs
Cred Prod: 
Nigel Reeve and Jo Brooks for EMI and Henry Wrenn Meleck for RZO Music
Cred Eng: 
Mike Moran
Cred Mix: 
Grover Hesley
Cred Mast: 
Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound

You had to be there, and I was.

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