Zev Feldman's #RecordStoreDay Releases - Black Friday 2023

Live interview with the Jazz Detective himself, Zev Feldman, discussing his five RSD releases, Cal Tjader, Wes Montgomery, Ahmad Jamal and more. #vinylcommunity #recordcollection Review copies provided by label. Ahmad Jamal: Emerald City Nights: Live at Penthouse (1966-1968), featuring previously unreleased performances by master pianist Ahmad Jamal. The 2-LP set will be issued on 180-gram vinyl transferred from the original tapes and mastered by the legendary Bernie Grundman. The music will also be available as a 2-C D set and download. The package was produced by Feldman and supervised by Ahmad Jamal himself shortly before his passing away in April 2023. In collaboration with the Bill Evans Estate, Tales is truly a ’holy grail’ discovery culled from the private collection of Danish jazz musician Ole Matthiessen and being released for the very first time as a limited-edition 180-gram LP. These 11 tracks are glorious; a gift for all of us to relish these many decades after Bill's physical departure from this earth. Tales is a wonderful document that captures the spirit, essence and beauty of what Evans was all about. Cal Tjader: Catch The Groove - Live at the Penthouse 1963-1967 is now available on Deluxe 2-CD gatefold box-set, includes reflections by producer Zev Feldman and Brent Fischer (son of pianist Clare Fischer), liner notes by DJ and music journalist Greg Casseus, as well as interviews with Poncho Sánchez, Eddie Palmieri, Joe Locke, Gary Burton, Carl Burnett, and a statement by Tjader's son and daughter Rob and Liz Tjader. The extensive booklet contains previously unpublished photos by Ray Avery and Fred Seligo. Vibraphone legend Cal Tjader is heard with a variety of quintets, backed by pianists Clare Fischer, Lonnie Hewitt and Al Zulaica, bassists Fred Schreiber, Terry Hilliard, Monk Montgomery and Stan Gilbert, drummers Johnny Rae and Carl Burnett, and percussionists Bill Fitch and Armando Peraza. Les McCann: Never A Dull Moment! - Live from Coast to Coast (1966-1967)" by the unsung piano and vocal icon. This is a previously unissued collection of live recordings captured at the Penthouse jazz club in Seattle from January 27 and February 3 & 10, 1966 with Stan Gilbert, Paul Humphrey and Tony Bazley; and also includes recordings by Resonance Records founder and co-president George Klabin from the Village Vanguard on July 16, 1967 with Leroy Vinnegar and Frank Severino. This is an official release in cooperation with Les McCann, and the audio was transferred from the original tape reels and mastered for vinyl by the legendary Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering Studios. Rare photographs by Lee Tanner, Jean-Pierre Leloir, Christian Rose and others; two sets of liner notes — by music journalist A. Scott Galloway and author/historian Pat Thomas (Listen Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975), who both contributed to McCann's photography book Invitation to Openness: The Jazz & Soul Photography of Les McCann 1960-1980; plus quotes and statements from Roberta Flack, Quincy Jones, Monty Alexander, Bonnie Raitt, Roger Kellaway, Nathan East, Bobby Lyle, Emmet Cohen and others.