I have never been what one would consider a big jazz aficionado. Some of the stuff I've listened to over the years probably borders a bit on jazz, but it's never been something I've concentrated on. And I think some here might consider the run of A&M CTi records as a sort of "jazz-lite" or even "pop-instrumentals".
The first time I ever saw a CTi logo and Creed Taylor's signature was on the old FAMILY PORTRAIT album. There were some asterisks on tracks by Wes Montgomery, Tamba 4, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Herbie Mann, all pointing to the CTi logo. I probably wondered what that was all about, but it didn't keep me up nights.
Over the years that I've been here at A&M Corner, very slowly, one-by-one, I've picked up some of the CTi records in one form or another. I think the first I ever dabbled in was Wes Montgomery with his three compact discs and then Tamba 4 with its Brazilian connection had CDs issued in Japan. Jobim was a natural in that respect too, and I picked up his two albums for the A&M CTi label. WAVE was in a jewel case and TIDE came out on one of those Verve digipaks. Walter Wanderley's two albums also came out in Japan and I picked those two up when they were available and the price was right.
A project came along where I needed a bunch more A&M CTi's and I scoured the used markets for LPs that I digitized and then made my own CDs. Recently we've gotten a new Tamba 4 on a record store day and now this month they've released the rare STONEBONE by Kai Winding and J.J.Johnson.
Wondering just how many of these I'd added to my collection, I assembled them all today. I apparently now have twenty-one of them and thought a picture was worth something. Here they are - some in standard jewel cases, some in thin jewel cases, some in digipaks, and some with Japanese obis.
Someone somewhere, I think, missed the boat on assembling all of these as a unified box set.
The first time I ever saw a CTi logo and Creed Taylor's signature was on the old FAMILY PORTRAIT album. There were some asterisks on tracks by Wes Montgomery, Tamba 4, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Herbie Mann, all pointing to the CTi logo. I probably wondered what that was all about, but it didn't keep me up nights.
Over the years that I've been here at A&M Corner, very slowly, one-by-one, I've picked up some of the CTi records in one form or another. I think the first I ever dabbled in was Wes Montgomery with his three compact discs and then Tamba 4 with its Brazilian connection had CDs issued in Japan. Jobim was a natural in that respect too, and I picked up his two albums for the A&M CTi label. WAVE was in a jewel case and TIDE came out on one of those Verve digipaks. Walter Wanderley's two albums also came out in Japan and I picked those two up when they were available and the price was right.
A project came along where I needed a bunch more A&M CTi's and I scoured the used markets for LPs that I digitized and then made my own CDs. Recently we've gotten a new Tamba 4 on a record store day and now this month they've released the rare STONEBONE by Kai Winding and J.J.Johnson.
Wondering just how many of these I'd added to my collection, I assembled them all today. I apparently now have twenty-one of them and thought a picture was worth something. Here they are - some in standard jewel cases, some in thin jewel cases, some in digipaks, and some with Japanese obis.
Someone somewhere, I think, missed the boat on assembling all of these as a unified box set.
