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The very best of James Brown?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2002

Charlie Ford
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Abstract

Certain critical voices, typically in the world of jazz, have suggested that reissuing alternate takes can be both aesthetically and ethically disrespectful to the artists' and producers' original decisions about the relative value of the various takes. This point of view is, for example, exhibited on ESP discs, which all bear the slogan ‘THE ARTISTS ALONE DECIDE WHAT YOU WILL HEAR ON THEIR ESP-DISK’. In other words, when Charlie Parker recorded ‘Parker's Mood’, and the studio team decided to issue only one take, should we be able to listen to the other four that they rejected, but which were all released by Savoy on The Charlie Parker Memorial Albums?

Type
Brief Report
Information
Popular Music , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , January 2002 , pp. 127 - 131
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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