To celebrate the opening of the Pete Turner exhibition at the Bruce Silverstein gallery in New York [1]https://www.ctproduced.com/pete-turner-the-color-of-light-exhibition/, I thought it would be a good time to look at one of the most iconic of the A&M CTI cover photographs by Pete Turner. At the same time finally get around […]
Happy Birthday George Benson!
March 22nd, 2023 marks George Benson’s 80th birthday. I celebrated his born day back in 2022 with a mixlcloud mix that is repeated below. I acquired a collection of George Benson CD’s from a collector, and my collection of Benson’s music from 81 shown on the mix image, to some […]
Pete Turner: The Color of Light (Exhibition)
A new exhibition of Pete Turner’s amazing color pictures opens this week in New York City. Sadly I won’t be able to attend. If you can attend, I thoroughly recommend making time. As good as Pete’s pictures look on CTI album covers or online, they take you to another level […]
Bebeto Castilho – Tamba 4
Bebeto Castilho, a founding member of the Tamba Trio and later, the Tamba 4, died on March 10th, 2023, in Rio de Janeiro. Mr Castilho died at age 83, just a month short of his 84th birthday. This post looks at his yearly years with Tamba Trio through to Tamba […]
CT 516
CT 516 Astrud Gilberto – Solo El Fin (For All We Know) Side A: Solo el Fin (For All We Know)Side B: Solo el Fin (For All We Know)Astrud GilbertoIssues: CTI CT 516 [45]Master No.: CT 516 B/CT 516 BRecorded: January 13th, 1971Released: March 1971 As the last of the […]
CT 512
CT 512 Astrud Gilberto – (Where Do I Begin) Love Story / CT 512 Where There Is A Heartache Side A: (Where Do I begin) Love StorySide B: Where There’s A HeartacheAstrud GilbertoIssues: CTI CT 511 [45]Master No.: CT 511 A/CT 511 BRecorded: January 13th, 1971Released: February 1971 This is […]
CT 511
CT 511 Stone Flower / God and The Devil in the Land of the Sun – Antonio Carlos Jobim Side A: Stone Flower (3:18)Side B: God and The Devil in the Land of the Sun (2:20)Antonio Carlos JobimIssues: CTI CT 511 [45]Master No.: CT 511 A/CT 511 BRecorded: Englewood Cliffs, […]
Reissue News and RSD 2023
I’m sure dedicated vinyl fans feel Record Store Day is still an exciting wait. As a more general music collector, from a jazz perspective while the first drop of 2023 looks more promising than perhaps the entirety of 2022, it still looks like labels trawling for unreleased or bootlegged live […]
CTI Online – The Paris Collection
Kim Paris is doing great things with live CTI sets and broadcasts at the Internet Archive. If you have not looked recently, Kim has posted 4x CTI All-Stars live sets; his radio shows from Freeform Portland to celebrate the life of Creed Taylor from last year(2022) and a couple of […]
Let’s talk about CTI/A&M Covers
Opinions about how to clean your vinyl records are 10-a-penny. You can purchase equipment that costs thousands of dollars, or you can do it yourself with a few carefully chosen chemicals and a brushes. I’m a squeekyclean Vinyl Record Cleaning machine myself[1]https://squeakycleanvinyl.com/products/squeakycleanvinyl-mk-iii. This post isn’t about that, it’s about something […]