Recently came across a Vantage Records release called Moods in Jazz. What do you know about Vantage Records? I couldn't find any information online. Any info is appreciated!

Incredible! I got many inspirations from your list. Thank you very much!

Very informative. Thanks again, Dan :)

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Love the episode, Dan. Learnt a lot. This early label series is super cool. Thanks a mill.

I was listening to this earlier but forgot to comment but well done as always. The last Bethlehem album I listened to was this great Paula Castle one. It’s still crazy how she did that album and then disappeared. Lots of good vocalists just didn’t get the recognition they deserved at the time.

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Hi Dan I have to say I'm so impressed . As a Jazz Lover . You're right Norman Grand was a Masterdont. All the music You have Whaoo many of the Jazz bands I Don't know ,and have to say I have learned something from you . Take care and Peace.

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Dan really enjoyed this episode you turn me on to stuff I’d never discover. The info on the labels is tremendous

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Interesting video, thanks for your thoughts. I haven't watched a lot of your videos, so I'm not familiar with the push back from the people you call "the idiots" (at 14:42), but a lot of what you said left me with a big question. As you say throughout, "jazz is a feeling, it's not intellectual, it's not driven by ego" and around 13:50 you say "it's an expression of immediate condition"--does this mean that free jazz is the ultimate form of jazz, the apex of its evolution? Spontaneous group improvisation coming from a tradition rooted in the blues, that seems to be not about ego (it's GROUP improvisation, after all), and it seems to be all about "immediate condition," creating and expressing the unfiltered emotions of a group of musicians. And it's not like the oppression of Black people in America disappeared after the Civil Rights movement--hell, there's plenty of that even today in the US, sadly--so it seems like free jazz could still speak to that condition that you find so compelling in the earlier music. A guy like Albert Ayler, who brings blues, RnB, Gospel, and marching band music into a free jazz context, seems like the ultimate jazz musician according to your definitions, but I get the sense that you think free jazz is part of what gives jazz a bad rap to most today. Am I misunderstanding your ideas here, or do you feel that free jazz is intellectual and thus not "real" jazz, despite it's foundation in group improvisation and immediate expression?

All my life I have had the politics of a young Archie Shepp. always will. Enough said

I love the fact that the likes of Jimmy Smith and probably Shirley Scott plus quite a few others are looked down upon. It makes such great records easier and much cheaper to find. Please keep on being pretentious if that continues!! Being an oldie from Manchester England I was/still am a big of Joy Divsion /New Order. Saw JD once and N.O. many times including at their night club-The Hacienda.

Astrid’s voice is a girl singing just to you,perhaps on a picnic date at Ipanema beach. Just a pretty one with you singing in your ear. Just imagine fellas.

Vacationed in Brazil late 1980s, three trips with the last stay four weeks. Bossa Nova is great jazz especially if you have the memories of the country, beaches and the girls of Brazil. Already a jazz lover the experience was so damn authentic even in the 80s. God bless Brazil!!!

When i listen to jazz, Ornette, Mingus, Monk, Corea, any great jazz act, my mind and soul, heart and spirit flows more freely. It’s like that for most music, but jazz more so. Greetings from Norway. Thanks.

Thoroughly enjoyed these two episodes Dan,watched ep 1 yesterday and 2 today during my lunch break at work,very interesting stuff.

Brother Dan, sorry I haven’t commented in a long time. Same guy, different email, faithful subscriber. Great vid and I recently bought a Blue vinyl🔵 reissue copy of Miles’ “Blue Moods” on Debut, but distributed by Fantasy. Digging the “Cool Jazz” vibe, Davis plays with beautiful restraint. it’s a VG 1962 copy. Am I wrong for saying that Debut / Fantasy colored vinyl isn’t well recorded? Be well, sir.

Fantastic show, Dan! Really enjoying this history tour series of the labels. Thanks again for the knowledge and tips. Enriching for sure

I recently purchased and enjoyed a 1986 French reissue of "New Orleans Rarities" on Imperial. 40 tracks on 2 LP's originally released 1949-1958. "Important note: this double album has been mastered from original 78 rpm recordings and the sound quality is not always at it's best." on the back cover. I was unaware that they were still releasing 78 rpm records in 1958! keep up the good shows

nice video, dan. i love seeing those illustrated album covers. do you know of a good book that covers that era of jazz album design? specifically Goldblatt designs.

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I finally feel much better after COVID and can sit down and relax with these label chronology videos you’ve been doing. Thanks once again for all you do!

A wonderful show! Thanks for all the knowledge and tips!!!! On don friedman ... pls check out Hot knepper and pepper ... no guessing whos in the band. On the 70s relaunch of Pregressive. Great DSM art. Sadly 80s prodn on the bass. Not sure why im so alergic to the such. Nice record besides

Some more maybe ... husker du?REM too. And another shout out for tge Beasties.... I know ... can be a bit smug lately

Pavement. Dinosaur Jr. Cool rock bands from the last 30 years. White Denim .... really love them. Check them out pls. Calexico also v cool. Fishbone. I suppose you have say red hot chillies too at time. Beasties.

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Hey Dan - don't you know that if you talk about jazz on youtube you need to talk all about the latest Tone Poets, UHQR's and tell us all how good the Kevin Gray audiophile pressings in 45 RPM sound?!?!??!? Just joking of course. These are the kinds of excellent and informative videos that remind me why your channel is the best jazz channel on KZbin. Truly valuable jazz history info - keep up the good work!!!

Listening to you articulate the cultural influences within the flow of the music and the labels as a Black Man born in 1977 I appreciate your open honest & brutal reality driven real conversation about race within this conversation. It was honest and refreshing to hear you speak the total truth about it all

Thank you, I haven't seen many obscure jazz labels discussed on KZbin yet. Some of these are so new to me that I have never heard of them

My man Dan! Breaking out the homemade spreadsheet with entries down to the 8 months that Vik was pressing records! There’s only one Jazz Shepherd! The BEST!

Dan excellent!!! I think you took my advice about not letting negative live rent free in your head

love this post on these sort of forgotten, under the radar small labels. Good job, mate. If anyone is interested I just had published on the Tracking Angle site a critique of Thelonious Monk's recordings.

Dan, So good to see you again. Hope all is well with the shop and life. Maybe get to your area in the fall, Your friend Terry in Cedar Falls, IA.

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18:53 Leo Parker could really burn up the baritone!!

Dan - fantastic session! Really a great jumping off point for understanding the jazz (not sure how to label) immediately prior to hard bop. I am not a free jazz kind of guy and have lately been bumping up into the mid-1970s soul jazz that I like, but really find little after 1980 that I listen to. So I have been going backwards into early 50s and 40s. I have listened to quite a bit big band (Artie Shaw, Goodman, Glen Miller, Chick Webb, Lionel Hampton, etc) mostly through compilations, so this sandwich period prior to the development of hard bop (say 1954/1955) has become a period of interest. Recently I have been picking up Clef, Savoy and early Prestige when I can - picked up a Dial 10” record (black cover) from Dexter Gordon that is fantastic. Thanks again.

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Great information and tour of some of the early labels. Appreciate what you do.

Shep.... Aladden also recorded Lightnin' Hopkins around 1945-1951 before he went to Bearsville...

Dan you write a book or your own Jazz magazine, you know so much and I really dig it. Thanks Dan. Looking forward for what's next

Great stuff Dan. Love your passion. The uncomfortable truth hurts doesn't it?

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