Post by gst on Sept 24, 2018 18:13:44 GMT
I was recently discussing the color variations of Chet Baker's Plays the Compositions of Russ Freeman (PJLP-6) with Rich (dgmono) trying to determine what cover came first. Per James Harrod fantastic website "The same Claxton photo from a Radio Recorders session was used for the covers of PJLP-6, EP4-8 and EP4-9. PJLP-6 covers were issued with three different colors. The original was in black and white, the same as seen on EP4-7. Another version used an orange tone as seen on the cover of EP4-8. A third PJLP-6 version used a shade of light pink. The back liners were all the same."
I reached out to him to confirm there were multiple pressing of this album and this was his response:
When I interviewed Claxton he said that the color tints were just variations to “jazz up” the original jackets that were B&W. The vinyl was the same. I did not scan the labels of the other versions as they were exactly the same, sometimes white on a matt balck label, sometimes silver lettering on the label, etc.
pacificjazz.blogspot.com/2012/04/pacific-jazz-pacifica-10-lp-line-first.html
pacificjazz.blogspot.com/2012/04/pacific-jazz-pacifica-10-lp-line-first.html
Also found this interesting:
Pacific Jazz was on a tight budget during these early years. Claxton recalled that Bock would only allow him one or two rolls of film for a recording session. As a consequence Clax would wait for extended periods of time before clicking the shutter, partly to be sure that it clicked when the level of music was high so as not to be recorded or disturb the musicians, and partly to make certain that the exposure was perfect and caught the musician at an expressive moment. Virtually all of Claxton’s exposures were “keepers” as a result.
Feel free to discuss anything related to Pacific Jazz.
