Fraud
P. Straub | New York, NY | 06/25/2008
(2 out of 5 stars)
"This is not at all a 1936 recording of Prez at the Reno Club in Kansas City. How exciting that would be! However, what we have here is a fraudulently packaged bootleg issue of the soundtrack for the Gjon Mili film, Jammin the Blues. It's all great music, but if you want it on CD, you should get it in the right package, where "Blues for Norman" is not garbled as "Blues for Melvin," and the intentions of all concerned in the CD's production are not so completely cynical, misleading, and criminal."
If only....
Harold Donohue | manhattan | 04/11/2009
(1 out of 5 stars)
"[[ASIN:B000W4KT4Q "Lester Young at the Reno Club": If only it were so! This would be worth 100 times the price. Live recordings from before the "Lady Be Good" studio session would be invaluable. Unfortunately, instead, it is the music from Gjon Mili's (I think I have the spelling right) "Jammin' the Blues," from 1944. If it were recorded, where is the audience applause and background noise. I'd call it fraudulent, but I allow for the possibility that whoever put this out didn't know any better. But then how would he know about the Reno Club."