Droppin’ Science
Droppin’ Science
Customer Review: Why?
So Bluenote in the late Noughties is a blanket marketing brand device for EMI ‘adult’ audiences, far divorced from its original identity and purpose as the pioneering modern jazz label it started out as nigh on 70 years ago. That is an annoyance in and of itself. However, this is compounded by the chimps in charge of archives seemingly trying as hard as possible to stifle the legacy of the label’s output. We are seeing the same tracks by artists not technically signed to Bluenote (rather, any number of minors swallowed up by Liberty, United Artists or any other EMI buyout)coming out on compilation after compilation.
An example. Ok, so Lou Donaldson is most definitely identifiable with classic Bluenote but his offerings on this set are readily available on several other cds which also pertain to be round-ups of originals sampled by hippity hoppers.
Considering the number of sessions that have never seen the light of day (see The Bluenote Label discography and weep) or have not yet got their deserved RVG remaster treatment in the cd age, it seems to this reviewer to be mind-blowingly dumb just to roll out the same tired back catalogue that anyone with a passing interest in the music has already purchased maybe a couple of times over just to get to the one or two ‘new’ tracks they might tack on, which this offering totally lacks.
The content here is generally good, post-1967 funky music even if a few cats here are slumming it a bit, but why it has the Bluenote logo on it is a mystery, to me at least.
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