Ep492: Zev Feldman Returns! RSD Picks with The Jazz Detective
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Renowned archivist & record producer Zev Feldman, "The Jazz Detective", returns to discusses the Record Store Day 2025 releases of lost jazz recordings from Freddie Hubbard, Charlie Mingus, Bill Evans, Patsy Cline & more!
Topics Include:
- Introduction of Zev Feldman, nicknamed "the jazz detective"
- Status of finding lost jazz recordings - feeling optimistic
- Live recordings create a "renaissance" for jazz enthusiasts
- Concern about aging jazz colleagues with undiscovered tapes
- Feldman works with multiple record labels simultaneously
- Record companies are selective about which projects to release
- Concerns about tariffs affecting vinyl manufacturing costs
- Vinyl jazz releases often operate on slim profit margins
- Resonance Records uses Canadian pressing plant Le Vinylist
- Six Record Store Day releases coming from Feldman
- Patsy Cline "Imagine That" was most difficult release to assemble
- Patsy Cline release required coordinating multiple rights holders
- Country Music Hall of Fame involved in Patsy Cline project
- Feldman's personal connection to record stores and vinyl collecting
- Freddie Hubbard "On Fire" recorded at Blue Morocco (1967)
- Bernard Drayton engineered the Blue Morocco recordings
- Blue Morocco club owned by Sugar Hill Records founders
- Kenny Dorham recordings from same Blue Morocco venue
- Dorham's recordings especially rare and significant to Feldman
- Dorham was also a writer who contributed to DownBeat magazine
- Charles Mingus in Argentina - recordings from 1977 concerts
- Second Argentina concert added due to popular demand
- Mingus recordings made less than year before his ALS diagnosis
- Wes Montgomery with Wynton Kelly Trio reissue with new mastering
- Original Montgomery release now selling for $100+ in stores
- Time machine question - which historic jazz gig to attend
- Discussion of legendary venue Slugs and its important shows
- Feldman's collection of music memorabilia and venue posters
- Bill Evans live in Finland recordings (1964-1969)
- Feldman's 13th Bill Evans production with the Evans Estate
- Finland recordings feature three different Evans trio lineups
- Record Store Day helping introduce Evans to younger audiences
- Plans for Record Store Day Black Friday releases
- Value of releasing previously unheard music versus reissues
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| 0:29.2 | the show. Welcome to the vinyl guide. The podcast for record collectors and music nerds. Here's |
| 0:35.9 | your host, the biggest record nerd of them all, Nate Goyer. |
| 0:39.1 | Well, hey, everyone, it's Nate. |
| 0:41.2 | Welcome to episode 492 of the Vinyl Guide, |
| 0:45.3 | the podcast for record collectors and music nerds. |
| 0:48.3 | And wow, what a weekend. |
| 0:50.4 | Those of you who follow me on Instagram probably are aware that this last weekend this |
| 0:56.6 | Saturday April 5th was the Glebe record fair and Glebe is a neighborhood here in |
| 1:02.8 | Sydney, Australia and it's the big show. It's the big record show of the Sydney area. |
| 1:10.8 | There's several other really great record fairs in this area. |
| 1:14.5 | There's the Newtown Record Fair. There's some up in Newcastle. There's some all the way down |
| 1:18.6 | at Wall and Gong. But the Glebe Record Fair is kind of the Yankee Stadium of record collectors |
| 1:24.4 | here in Sydney. It's pretty massive. About 120 tables. It's twice a year, |
| 1:30.2 | and it is always a great day. So we had a couple tables. We had some rarities. We got to talk to a lot |
| 1:37.1 | of record collectors. And of course, I bought a bunch too. Some great records were to be had. |
| 1:43.5 | I put them up in Instagram if you want to see all the details, but some of the highlights were the Radio Birdman Burn My Eye EP. That's a very difficult one to get, their very first release. I also got a copy of the Sonic Rendezvous band City Slang single, which may be one of the best songs ever recorded. |
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