Vinyl Album - Blue Mitchell - African Violet - MCA Impulse!

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Blue Mitchell
Title:	African Violet
Label:	MCA Impulse! / ABC Impulse [USA]
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	MCA-29050 / AS-9328
Date:	1977
Format:	LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
Price Guide:	Valuation Page
» Search on eBay

PRICE GUIDE

Add Valuation

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Blue Mitchell	Mississippi Jump	Larry Nash	Rate
A2	Blue Mitchell	Ojos De Rojo	Cedar Walton	Rate
A3	Blue Mitchell	Sand Castles	Dana Kaproff	Rate
A4	Blue Mitchell	African Violet	Steve Hulse	Rate
B1	Blue Mitchell	As	Stevie Wonder	Rate
B2	Blue Mitchell	Square Business	Cedar Walton	Rate
B3	Blue Mitchell	Forget	Don Sebesky	Rate

Notes

Produced by Esmond Edwards
Arranged and conducted by McKinley Jackson

Originally issued by ABC Impulse this re-issue album is a MCA Impulse release (although the labels state otherwise)

Images

Comments and Reviews


PhilMH SUBS 23rd Apr 2016		I think I can now date this MCA Impulse reissue with a bit more certainty, courtesy of a photocopy of a new release sheet from one of the Los Angeles one-stops; it is undated, but some of the brand new releases also listed, plus some Motown reissues in their M5-xxxV1 series, suggest that this is from January 1982. Most of the MCA Impulse numbers from 29000 to 29063 are listed, as are most of the double-LP issues from 2-4129 to 2-4158.



sladesounds 5th Jan 2014		Phil Thanks for the info. Just getting more and more into jazz and this is one of the first Impulse records I have acquired (£3 yesterday at a local market stall). I will change it over as it now starts to make sense why it was stamped. Steve



PhilMH SUBS 5th Jan 2014		Hi Steve, I understand why you have entered this the way you have, but I would do it differently, as MCA'a intent with these renumberings of the ABC-group back catalogue (and their own) was that the number (and label, in this case) stamped on the front became the new primary catalogue number and label, so I would have MCA Impulse as the primary label, and MCA-29050 as the primary catalogue number. All this started in 1981, a couple of years after the ABC purchase was finalised, and MCA seemed to be keen to eradicate all the old ABC labels (they kept Impulse because of its high cachet with jazz collectors), and the unsold ABC stock of the titles that they didn't delete was summarily renumbered. These things exist in different combinations - ABC pressings and covers with the new number stamped on them (like this one), ABC pressings inside MCA covers, even MCA pressings inside ABC covers, and if the albums were still selling well enough when the old stock ran out, then they were repressed with the new label and number on all parts of the release. So, the ABC Impulse titles became MCA Impulse with 29000 numbers, the Peacock and Song Bird gospel catalogues became MCA-28000 numbers, and much of the rock, pop, soul and country went into either the "Past Performance" series (MCA-27000) or "Platinum Plus" series (MCA-37000), with the more marginal releases receiving numbers in the MCA-700/800/900 ranges (much of this was to get the back catalogues into lower price points, as well as reducing the number of labels).



sladesounds 5th Jan 2014		You will see from the front cover scan this has been stamped MCA Impulse. ABC Impulse was taken over by MCA around 1978 I believe. I have added some information from Robert May in the ABC Impulse biography which gives some information on the label's history. This is not a bad album however it's a little bit too jazz-funk/jazz-fusion for my liking when compared to some of his excellent 60s recordings.

Add a Comment or Review about this album

See Also

Vinyl Album

Blue Mitchell - Step Lightly - Blue Note - USA (1980)

Next by Artist

Vinyl Album

Blue Mitchell - Blue Mitchell - Mainstream - USA (1971)

Previous by Artist

Vinyl Album

The Ahmad Jamal Trio - The Awakening - MCA Impulse! - USA (1986)

Next on Label

Tags: Arranger: McKinley Jackson, Conducter: McKinley Jackson, Producer: Esmond Edwards

This Record: Price Guide : Add Valuation : Add Image : Add Video : Add Missing Info : Make Correction : Add See Also : Add Linked Release : Add to List : Add Tag : Show Image Data : Edit Images : BBCode : Credits