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“Fill Your Head With Jazz” 25 All-Time Giants of Jazz A groovy, two-record compilation from the vaults of Columbia Records. I had this as a kid and it introduced me to a lot of these cats. I pulled it out this past winter to play the Lambert, Hendricks and Ross vocal of “Moanin'” for my friend. Sadly, in my excitement, I laid it on the radiator and the remaining disk got baked and warped into an ashtray. And I don’t smoke. Now I’m really moanin’!
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June 27th, 2012 at 6:14 am
Bought this when it came out and still have it. Lot’s of good music on it.
June 27th, 2012 at 6:20 pm
I’m familiar with this album too. One surprising thing about this is the inclusion of “K.C. Blues” by Don Ellis. As anyone who followed this incredible band knows, they specialized in unusual time signatures and electronic instruments. This track is in 4/4 and sounds like any other big band of the time. Why not use what they were known for?
July 10th, 2012 at 9:01 am
Seeing that you’ve noticed this one brought me out of hibernation over here. I always LOVED this album, what a great bunch of tracks, arguably the greatest sampler EVER!
But what was really surprising about it was that it wasn’t really a sampler, if you consider those come-ons to buy other products. I’d guess that at least half of the original albums represented on here were out of print at the time this came out (’70 or ’71…though some of them were reissued later, and of course, since the cd era, probably just about everything at some time or other), so it was more like some nut was let loose in the Columbia tape archives and allowed to just slap a bunch of great old stuff together!
Too bad you didn’t open it up and do the full double-spread. (I know it was a gatefold, though it’s been so long since I’ve seen mine–it’s in storage, no doubt melting from the heat–that I can’t even remember what was inside.)