God yeah! I used to hitch from Leeds to Manchester and back (across the Pennine mountains) to do the round of record shops, and budget OJC LPs were a big thing for me, learned so much. I got involved with the 80s "Jazz Revival" in the UK, and ended up writing poems about Leeds record shops for a Simon H. Fell project! Really enjoyed your video, Norman, the way you manage to bring all the old pleasures and important music to a new Internet audience. Yeah, smokin'!
In the US, black musicians were not free to perform whenever they wanted by law until the late 1960s. There was something called the Green Book. No wonder most of them went to France during that time where some were surprised at the freedom they felt.
Great news for Jazz fans ( and hopefully Blues buyers). There’s an extraordinary number of potential gems to be re issued. Bring it on. We’re going to need more shelving space.
Great video Mazzy! And lovely that you highlighted Sunday at vanguard...fingers crossed we get an OJC reissue soon. The OJC guide looks interesting! I wonder if the problem is that labels don't appreciate YT as an accessible way to speak to the VC (maybe a role for your good self?)
A few years ago you could pick up those OJC OBI in used record stores for around $15, Got a few Monks in mono, the way to hear them, like that and they sound great. The analog master tapes were still being used.
Agree also but MoFi had the same opportunity, if not a need, last summer to do the same but don't believe they've appointed a spokesperson to quasi-regularly interact w/ music & VC enthusiasts yet? Am not digging at MoFi; is simply an easy example, if not a contrast to VC interactions of other MFGs such as BN, AP/AS, etc.
Hello My Great Friend Norman Maslov I Hope You Have A Great Wonderful Day And Evening Blessed With Beautiful Accomplishments And Achievements Great Success Total Happiness Sunshine And Smiles That Will Allow To Enjoy Your Life As A Happy And Successful Person In The World May God Always Bless Your Life With Love Joy And Happiness.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Mazzy, Chad started with most of these around 2003 with the Fantasy series, starting with the best 25 (your favorite 2X12" 45 RPM), then the next 25 up to 100 that had all the Bill Evans, Monk, Coltrane, Baker and most others. These make up the Evans box and many of the current new releases. These are getting pricy so the new OJC and AS releases are welcome if they stick to Chads motto easy to press one after that be prepared to work hard and not sell us crap. Keep up the interesting content. Rich
I was in my late teens when OJC reissued all those titles in the 80s and it was just the thing for a young fan starting out. Very good prices and no nonsense but decent quality. If well kept they continue to play great , and are irreplaceable especially now that the market is so pricey. Also important to be reminded that there were so many important labels other than Blue Note with much to offer.
Just Hope that they will go for the most obscure 50’s records , because the jazz reissue labels are overflowed with hard bop and soul jazz to the point of erasing à large part of jazz history.
I have roughly 45% of the OJC catalog titles from the 1980s and early 1990s. Really great stuff. Those were mostly pressed by one of the Columbia Records Plants, Pitman, NJ or Terre Haute, IN. These new versions should be more like the tone poets. Cut by Bernie Grundman and pressed by RTI on 180 gram. Should be excellent.
Just a little feedback on the Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus Craft one-step. Just after I pulled the trigger on the pre-order I saw your video saying that they'd jumped the shark with this release. I was a little crestfallen that I might have been duped with this purchase. Good news though, I got it this week, and loved it.Sure, it's not necessary, and is a pricey version, but to my ears it sounds amazing. Getting more affordable re-releases from Craft is great news. Thanks!
I guess it was a mistake for Craft to market these under the OJC umbrella, since people are apparently not aware that it's not 1983 and differentiate premium audiophile vinyl done to the highest standards by the top companies in vinyl production today doesn't sell for $15.
Great video, Mazzy! Do you see yourself buying copies of the new OJCs when you have an 80s pressing? Or are you happy enough with your 80s copies, like the Monk/Coltrane you were holding?
Craft have also just announced the Top Shelf series. Mastering by Kevin Gray again. First two titles - Bernard Purdie-Purdie Good!. & David Axelrod - Heavy Axe
It’s a shame that they’re going to be almost $50 each after taxes. OJC being an affordable option was one of the only reasons I explored them as a young person.
"i'm a fan of that kind of vibe music!" says the man who sold several milt jackson records a couple of months ago. i know that storage space is a concern but you need more than 50 OJC's if you're going to keep up with them. i had more than 50 before 1990 arrived but don't keep up anymore. you do. i had a couple of pink anderson records long ago but i've never seen that one. great video. i'm just teasing you about the milt records.
Back in the 80's OJC was a budget series, most selling for 1-2 dollars less than Blue Note. From what I see from the prices on Amazon it's no longer the case. 38 dollars is far from budget, that's in Tone Poets territory.
TO my ears, they are OLD the classic series sound Digital although they say they are Analog in a way,they just sound a little thin & bright to these old ears
Monk? What a unique enigmatic giant Monk was. There's many exotic personalities and fancy dans and cool dudes in jazz, but the mostest was Thelonious Monk and his Zen way of thinking. I had to read All the bios, see all the docs trying to fathom the man yet he always stayed inscrutable to his biographers and Clint decided the best introduction was just let the man dance. His solos stopped traffic. His playing was an ambidextrous take on the sound of one hand clapping. And when he finally stopped, it was another baffling koan, a tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it.
Thank goodness Craft went the Tone Poet direction, and not the BNC cheap pressings all warped and non-fill with a garbage jacket that splits when you look at it. These should be on par with the Analogue Productions versions they started doing in the Prestige Series nearly a decade ago.
I've only the talk that I've heard up to this point to base this on T. Monk is a crazy mixed up noise sound. I've personally never heard anything from him.
@@mazzysmusic maybe buying 340 wouldn't be such a bad investment. About 3 years ago I bought a box of jazz records that was predominately ojcs and quite frankly I don't think I would be able to own any of the originals. When I look on discogs, ebay, popsike and see how rare some of these titles are it just makes me marvel even more at my ojcs. Sorry for the rant!
So OJC´s for 39,00, maybe 45,00 here in Europe? Sorry, I pass. Get the older ones, most are analog and you get them still for a good price. The reissue scam continues.....
Absolutely grab the 80s OJCs at those prices if you can. But even those have been creeping up in price. This isn’t as scam as these records should be in print and the cost of the materials and labor has increased dramatically . I do feel that since these are being released in house, they really shouldn’t sell for more than $30-35 US
@@mazzysmusic With 30,00 I would think about them, but in general here in Europe when something goes for 39,00 in the US, here it is at least 45,00, I guess even closer to 50,00. This to me is to much and not because I am cheap, I pay way more for records, but for OJC´s? No way, I get the old ones cheaper, they are still out there because they pressed a lot, they are mostly all analog and people took care of them, I always find them in great condition. Let me clarify what I mean with "scam". I think with TH-cam and all the new collectors coming in (wich is good) record companies know what they can charge, the tone poets gave a role model, so it is not what I costs to make this records, it is what people accept to pay for them. Just remember CD´s, how expensive they where sold to us, "because it costs so much to make them", sorry BS, we where stupid enough to pay that. So its about supply and demand and a "collectors" community with FOMO in there head. Btw, the "real" collectors always looked down on OJC´s, they where a place holder until you found an OG.
I've got to ask: what do you think you've added to the conversation with this video? You repeated nearly verbatim and in order all the points that the Jazz Bums shared. This comes across as you realizing that there is 'big news' in the VC but you have nothing to add, you just want people to look at your monetized video. You said you're not a shill, but when you have nothing to add to the conversation and you're simply regurgitating what others said the night before... you're a shill.
The price of vinyl today seems ridiculous if you built your record collection out of secondhand finds in the 70sand 80s. Like others, I got into so much music because it was despised and unfashionable at the time, therefore cheap (avantgarde classical, Jimmy McGriff, P-Funk, Free Improvisation and more). However, vinyl started as a luxury item (78rpms of opera singers sold in jewellery stores), and later became a mass medium ... So the cash-in vinyl revival will bring good results one day maybe. Meanwhile, I'll go and find Pink Anderson on TH-cam (as someone said here, no BJC in the UK), download it and enjoy listening and broadcasting his music from a memory stick ... Good music via ANY MEANS NECESSARY to quote a great man.
nobody is saying you need to buy them. But this premium formula is exactly was Analogue Productions has been extremely successful selling since 2014, customers begging them for more, so it's not shameful to give their customers what they want, even if you don't personally. You're not their market, clearly.
God yeah! I used to hitch from Leeds to Manchester and back (across the Pennine mountains) to do the round of record shops, and budget OJC LPs were a big thing for me, learned so much. I got involved with the 80s "Jazz Revival" in the UK, and ended up writing poems about Leeds record shops for a Simon H. Fell project! Really enjoyed your video, Norman, the way you manage to bring all the old pleasures and important music to a new Internet audience. Yeah, smokin'!
It’s amazing how jazz has grown in popularity in the last few years.
I recently found an old Original Jazz Classics shirt at goodwill
Incredible thank you Mazzy
Hope Springs Eternal.Don Was is under appreciated!
Very good news 🎉Greeting’s from Bonn Germany. Love your channel.
Really nice overview, Mazzy. Thanks for the shoutouts! See you Friday!
Can’t wait! Bring it on!!!
Interesting news. Austria watching you, Mazzy!
In the US, black musicians were not free to perform whenever they wanted by law until the late 1960s. There was something called the Green Book. No wonder most of them went to France during that time where some were surprised at the freedom they felt.
Great news for Jazz fans ( and hopefully Blues buyers). There’s an extraordinary number of potential gems to be re issued. Bring it on. We’re going to need more shelving space.
And more money..
Great video Mazzy! And lovely that you highlighted Sunday at vanguard...fingers crossed we get an OJC reissue soon. The OJC guide looks interesting! I wonder if the problem is that labels don't appreciate YT as an accessible way to speak to the VC (maybe a role for your good self?)
Bring on the OJCs!!! Thanks, Mazzy! I so want those Bill Evans (Do have Sunday at the Vanguard) AND the Miles Davis releases!
A few years ago you could pick up those OJC OBI in used record stores for around $15, Got a few Monks in mono, the way to hear them, like that and they sound great. The analog master tapes were still being used.
was a little surprised at the sticker price on these. So glad I picked up a lot of them when they were cheap.
Same product and price as Analogue Productions has been selling for a decade. These are not your father's OJC's.... they're AP or Tone Poets.
sticker price is not bad especially that most of the records prices went up due to inflation
That Pink Anderson is fantastic
Pink Anderson, that is how pink Floyd got their name. Pink Anderson and Floyd council
Mazzy - totally agree Craft would be wise to anoint a “face”… it’ll be fun to see how this chapter of the jazz revival unfolds!
Agree also but MoFi had the same opportunity, if not a need, last summer to do the same but don't believe they've appointed a spokesperson to quasi-regularly interact w/ music & VC enthusiasts yet? Am not digging at MoFi; is simply an easy example, if not a contrast to VC interactions of other MFGs such as BN, AP/AS, etc.
Hello My Great Friend Norman Maslov I Hope You Have A Great Wonderful Day And Evening Blessed With Beautiful Accomplishments And Achievements Great Success Total Happiness Sunshine And Smiles That Will Allow To Enjoy Your Life As A Happy And Successful Person In The World May God Always Bless Your Life With Love Joy And Happiness.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I hope the Monk & Coltrane’Live At Carnegie Hall’ is issued on vinyl
Mazzy, Chad started with most of these around 2003 with the Fantasy series, starting with the best 25 (your favorite 2X12" 45 RPM), then the next 25 up to 100 that had all the Bill Evans, Monk, Coltrane, Baker and most others. These make up the Evans box and many of the current new releases. These are getting pricy so the new OJC and AS releases are welcome if they stick to Chads motto easy to press one after that be prepared to work hard and not sell us crap. Keep up the interesting content. Rich
I was in my late teens when OJC reissued all those titles in the 80s and it was just the thing for a young fan starting out. Very good prices and no nonsense but decent quality. If well kept they continue to play great , and are irreplaceable especially now that the market is so pricey. Also important to be reminded that there were so many important labels other than Blue Note with much to offer.
Just Hope that they will go for the most obscure 50’s records , because the jazz reissue labels are overflowed with hard bop and soul jazz to the point of erasing à large part of jazz history.
I bought a Wes Montgomery Brothers in Canada OJC from you and I haven’t taken it off my turntable yet
How does Kevin have all this time to cut records for everybody??
DITTO!!!
I mean ditto on obscure 50's!!
I have roughly 45% of the OJC catalog titles from the 1980s and early 1990s. Really great stuff. Those were mostly pressed by one of the Columbia Records Plants, Pitman, NJ or Terre Haute, IN.
These new versions should be more like the tone poets. Cut by Bernie Grundman and pressed by RTI on 180 gram. Should be excellent.
Just a little feedback on the Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus Craft one-step. Just after I pulled the trigger on the pre-order I saw your video saying that they'd jumped the shark with this release. I was a little crestfallen that I might have been duped with this purchase. Good news though, I got it this week, and loved it.Sure, it's not necessary, and is a pricey version, but to my ears it sounds amazing. Getting more affordable re-releases from Craft is great news. Thanks!
Thank all that matters. If you like it then it’s a success
Had no idea that Original Blues Classics even existed. Never seen them in the U.K
Really hoping they do the Bill Evans Riverside albums. 🤞🏻 I couldn’t bring myself to spend $1k on the box set. 🤷🏻♂️
I guess it was a mistake for Craft to market these under the OJC umbrella, since people are apparently not aware that it's not 1983 and differentiate premium audiophile vinyl done to the highest standards by the top companies in vinyl production today doesn't sell for $15.
So good to see more and more people getting into Jazz and other forms and eras of music. I hope these sell well.
Good video Mazzy.. can I preorder the 950?
Great video, Mazzy! Do you see yourself buying copies of the new OJCs when you have an 80s pressing? Or are you happy enough with your 80s copies, like the Monk/Coltrane you were holding?
I won’t double dip 😵💫
Craft have also just announced the Top Shelf series. Mastering by Kevin Gray again. First two titles - Bernard Purdie-Purdie Good!. & David Axelrod - Heavy Axe
looking forward to those too!
It’s a shame that they’re going to be almost $50 each after taxes. OJC being an affordable option was one of the only reasons I explored them as a young person.
Agree...total rip off,OJC was an 'affordable' entry to a wonderful selection of labels....Craft as usual cashing in....sigh
Music Matters Jazz used to be $30 msrp and often on sale for $27 - You're not in Kansas anymore.
"i'm a fan of that kind of vibe music!" says the man who sold several milt jackson records a couple of months ago. i know that storage space is a concern but you need more than 50 OJC's if you're going to keep up with them. i had more than 50 before 1990 arrived but don't keep up anymore. you do. i had a couple of pink anderson records long ago but i've never seen that one. great video. i'm just teasing you about the milt records.
I have ten other OG Milt Jackson albums plus another dozen MJQ.
The OJC I sold were not all mine to keep.
Back in the 80's OJC was a budget series, most selling for 1-2 dollars less than Blue Note. From what I see from the prices on Amazon it's no longer the case. 38 dollars is far from budget, that's in Tone Poets territory.
Thanks for the shoutout!
Ken's a cool cat but, for me, it was Tracking Angle that broke the news. I heard Ken's comments later. I could be wrong ...
TO my ears, they are OLD the classic series sound Digital although they say they are Analog in a way,they just sound a little thin & bright to these old ears
Monk? What a unique enigmatic giant Monk was. There's many exotic personalities and fancy dans and cool dudes in jazz, but the mostest was Thelonious Monk and his Zen way of thinking. I had to read All the bios, see all the docs trying to fathom the man yet he always stayed inscrutable to his biographers and Clint decided the best introduction was just let the man dance. His solos stopped traffic. His playing was an ambidextrous take on the sound of one hand clapping. And when he finally stopped, it was another baffling koan, a tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it.
Monk is one of my 3 all time favorite musicians. I've broken down some of his songs on youtube posts.
I am a little disappointed in the price point. I would have thought they'd be priced like the BN Classic Series, not the Tone Poets.
Thank goodness Craft went the Tone Poet direction, and not the BNC cheap pressings all warped and non-fill with a garbage jacket that splits when you look at it. These should be on par with the Analogue Productions versions they started doing in the Prestige Series nearly a decade ago.
I dont understand what tone poet means Mazzy. What exactly sets a tone poet apart from someone else?
I miss the old KSAN and Nancy too.
Remastered or from the original metalwork??? If remastered I don't give a rollin' f***!
fiends/fans/friends - you've been at the scotch again
Not today 😏
What went flying at 10:05?!
I've only the talk that I've heard up to this point to base this on T. Monk is a crazy mixed up noise sound. I've personally never heard anything from him.
great news. 🙏
Breaking news: the new series is being shut down because Mike from the In Groove made an offer to buy all of them (kidding).
😵💫🥺😳
Haha then he makes a 3 hour video slowly holding each release
why did you sell over 300 ojcs? Do you have originals of all that music?
I was helping someone sell a collection. They were not mine to begin with. I bought about twenty of them and wasn’t about to buy 340 of them myself .
@@mazzysmusic maybe buying 340 wouldn't be such a bad investment. About 3 years ago I bought a box of jazz records that was predominately ojcs and quite frankly I don't think I would be able to own any of the originals. When I look on discogs, ebay, popsike and see how rare some of these titles are it just makes me marvel even more at my ojcs. Sorry for the rant!
@@zacksjazz9172 I’m sure but I never buy records as investments. I chose the titles I wanted to supplement to the collection I have ✌🏼
Actually Craft sent out an email
Why isn’t anyone talking about the horrifically poor quality of the Concord reissues?
Haven’t experienced many bad issues from Craft. The Chet box releases were fantastic. Can’t think of a bad one I received 🤷🏻♂️
So OJC´s for 39,00, maybe 45,00 here in Europe? Sorry, I pass. Get the older ones, most are analog and you get them still for a good price. The reissue scam continues.....
Absolutely grab the 80s OJCs at those prices if you can. But even those have been creeping up in price.
This isn’t as scam as these records should be in print and the cost of the materials and labor has increased dramatically . I do feel that since these are being released in house, they really shouldn’t sell for more than $30-35 US
@@mazzysmusic With 30,00 I would think about them, but in general here in Europe when something goes for 39,00 in the US, here it is at least 45,00, I guess even closer to 50,00. This to me is to much and not because I am cheap, I pay way more for records, but for OJC´s? No way, I get the old ones cheaper, they are still out there because they pressed a lot, they are mostly all analog and people took care of them, I always find them in great condition. Let me clarify what I mean with "scam". I think with TH-cam and all the new collectors coming in (wich is good) record companies know what they can charge, the tone poets gave a role model, so it is not what I costs to make this records, it is what people accept to pay for them. Just remember CD´s, how expensive they where sold to us, "because it costs so much to make them", sorry BS, we where stupid enough to pay that. So its about supply and demand and a "collectors" community with FOMO in there head. Btw, the "real" collectors always looked down on OJC´s, they where a place holder until you found an OG.
@@gunnerdunbar I have no tears, I buy OG´s anyway and they are a real investment and not wanna be´s. 🙂
I've got to ask: what do you think you've added to the conversation with this video? You repeated nearly verbatim and in order all the points that the Jazz Bums shared.
This comes across as you realizing that there is 'big news' in the VC but you have nothing to add, you just want people to look at your monetized video.
You said you're not a shill, but when you have nothing to add to the conversation and you're simply regurgitating what others said the night before... you're a shill.
wow, you're a buzz kill. must be fun at parties.
they better listen to the peanut gallery that's who is buying the records dont fff it up craft. i wonder who is doing the pressing?
Pressed at RTI.
@@mazzysmusic Thanks Maz that's good
Yes but many of the OJC's on CD sound terrible, respect has to be earned it's not given. They need to evidence an ongoing commitment to quality
More BS overpriced 're reissues' I'll keep my original $6 or $10 copies thanks.....shame on you Craft
The price of vinyl today seems ridiculous if you built your record collection out of secondhand finds in the 70sand 80s. Like others, I got into so much music because it was despised and unfashionable at the time, therefore cheap (avantgarde classical, Jimmy McGriff, P-Funk, Free Improvisation and more). However, vinyl started as a luxury item (78rpms of opera singers sold in jewellery stores), and later became a mass medium ... So the cash-in vinyl revival will bring good results one day maybe. Meanwhile, I'll go and find Pink Anderson on TH-cam (as someone said here, no BJC in the UK), download it and enjoy listening and broadcasting his music from a memory stick ... Good music via ANY MEANS NECESSARY to quote a great man.
@@benwatson8244 Totally missing my point....🙄
nobody is saying you need to buy them. But this premium formula is exactly was Analogue Productions has been extremely successful selling since 2014, customers begging them for more, so it's not shameful to give their customers what they want, even if you don't personally. You're not their market, clearly.