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  • Edith Piaf, Pleins Feux Sur Edith Piaf, 1973(?) on Philips

    Edith Piaf, Pleins Feux Sur Edith Piaf, 1973(?) on Philips

    Not entirely sure on the year of release here, but “Pleins Feux Sur” (which translates as “spotlight on”) is a series of early 70s Canada releases on Philips. You can see some of the other releases in the series (“egalement disponible dans la même série”) in the gatefold. My copy via Cheap Thrills in Montréal,…

  • Gerry Mulligan Tentette & Quartet, Walking Shoes, 1953 on Capitol

    Gerry Mulligan Tentette & Quartet, Walking Shoes, 1953 on Capitol

    This LP was a reissue of what had been a 10″ record – Gerry Mulligan And His Ten-Tette – with two tracks from Gene Norman Presents The Gerry Mulligan Quartet added. Just as labels created bonus tracks when reissuing LPs on CD, these were bonus tracks added when the 10″ became a 12″ LP. The…

  • Abbey Lincoln, Abbey is Blue, 1960 on Riverside

    Abbey Lincoln, Abbey is Blue, 1960 on Riverside

    I first discovered Abbey Lincoln via Vinyl Me Please’s reissue of It’s Magic from 1958, in the VMP Classics Series. This album was a followup to that, her fourth full-length album and the third on Riverside. Musicians here include Stanley Turrentine, his broth Tommy Turrentine (on trumpet), Max Roach (to whom Lincoln was later married),…