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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Reissue News
2022 has been a pretty disappointing year for CTI/KUDU and A&M/CTI reissues. I wasn’t aware of any major reissues this year that made it worth updating the list I’ve maintained for the last 2-years[1]The 2021/2022 Reissue List – Creed Taylor Produced (ctproduced.com). Record Store day was also disappointing on that […]
The Reissue List
2021/2022 I get occasional emails from readers asking if I know if this album is on CD, or if there is a vinyl pressing available new? While I do buy occasional new vinyl and CD’s, it’s usually only to get a remastered version of something I already have, especially from […]
Pete Turner Prints
When writing “Pete Turner: Color, Content, Character” I saw an uptick in messages asking what happened to all the reproduction covers that were available for as little as $1.50, and the later $19.50 print on demand original prints? The answer is again, I have no idea, without access to CTI […]
Crying Song: Answers Will Likely Remain Unknown
I’ve spent more than a few days digging through my own, and online archives to try to answer questions about the CTI recording of Hubert Laws “Crying Song” album in 1969. Unless the Taylor family decide to donate or create an archive or library of Creed and CTI’s documents, Doug […]
The Tribute Mixes and Shows
It’s been a real pleasure to spend the last 2-weeks catching up with the various shows and mixes that have appeared following the announcement of Creed Taylor’s passing. Many of them are obvious journeys through the most well-known of the releases on CTI. As well as my favorites, I’ve listed […]
The Music Came First
The Snapshots Foundation, Johnathan Bewley produced bio-pic of Creed Taylor has been released on Vimeo. A great number of contributions from Herb Alpert, Ron Carter, Bob James, Harvey Mason, Lenny White, Hubert Laws, George Benson, Ashley Kahn and more. In many ways, as Creed would have wanted, it’s as much […]