Iconic Jazz Label Candid Records Relaunches with Five Reissues of Legendary 60's Recordings

Oh my gosh -- I used to go there regularly, years ago, when I was at McGill. So pleased to hear they're still around.

Since the question has been asked (though of the vinyl, I presume), I ordered and received all the recent five titles on CD from amazon (US).

 

I just wrote them as well. These aren’t represses from June- they’ve never been released. None of these have been released in America I don’t think.

edit- my bad I just realized you’re not in America. At least here, the items have never had any option on the website besides “pre order”.

 

For the last batch of releases, I ordered directly from Candid and received them all at once. Yes, the shipping price was a bit high (especially when comparing to Amazon Prime free shipping), but at least they arrived with no issues.

I just went to the Candid site and ordered all the releases that has an August 26 release date from Candid. It still says these are "pre-orders" so perhaps the release data has been moved. If you read the product description of the Wayne Shorter double LP release it indicates a date of "September 9" so maybe the others are delayed?

I had preordered these same new releases from Amazon US as well, but they now show a much higher pre-order price and it indicates shipping from Amazon Japan... I will probably just cancel my Amazon US pre-orders at this point.

 

I had pre-ordered the Booker Little from Amazon US and got an email on Aug 26: "We're encountering a delay in shipping your order. We’ll make every effort to get the delayed item to you as soon as possible. If you still want this item, please confirm below. We apologize for the delay." When I clicked on the link to approve the delay, I was thrown into a loop where it kept asking me to approve. However, I did get multiple emails later confirming my order.

 

From the UK?

 

I've been looking to get some of these and listened to the Otis Spann and Charles Mingus on spotify in the last week and just noticed it is the new remasters
Otis Spann Is The Blues (Remastered)
Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (Remastered)

Definitely need to get these when they come out. It now says October 21st on Amazon!

 

Has anyone seen these in any shops in the US? Pretty much giving up on Amazon. Might try direct from Candid...

 

Same here. I had preordered three of the newest bunch from Amazon but got the same message as everyone else on the expected release date. I placed an order with Candid this morning. I had luck with them last time. We’ll see what happens this time around.

 

In America?

 

From...

CANDID Records

 

Online. The prices are in dollars and shipping priority mail.

They charged me $17 shipping plus sales tax for the for a total of $165.98 for the 5 previous releases ($26.98 each).

This preorder was for 6 records (one was a double LP). Total was $217.08 (including priority mail shipping of $27.79 and sales tax).

 

UK news... my local bricks & mortar have been told by their distributor that Out Front is out on 23rd Sept. I only asked about that one album.

 

I see that Mingus (companion album to Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus) is being released as an "RSD First" edition on Black Friday this year:

RSDBF '22 Special Release: Charles Mingus - Mingus



Presumably that means it will also be available after Black Friday.

 

Im in the same situation

 

Monk also on the list.

RSDBF '22 Special Release: Thelonius Monk - The Classic Quartet

 

It looks like this was originally released in 1977 in Japan as "Thelonious Monk 1963 in Japan", and wasn't released on Candid until 2006. Does anyone know more about this release?

 

Love it... they can barely get the regular issues to the normal online retailers without delaying them 4 and 5 times.... but they've got two releases ready for RSD.

Sorry to threadcrap here... but this resurrection of the Candid label has been a lot of smoke, but no fire.

 

These are the best reissues you'll never hear.

 

You might be right. The Booker Little and Booker Ervin totles of the so-called second batch totally disappeared from Candid website.

The World of Cecile Taylor, which was set to be release the same day, still have a pre-order status without any date.

At this point, it would be nice of Candid to explain what’s going on (it can be a simple : « sorry folks , we didn’t know pressing plants were so backed up ») I suspect there might be some other issues at stake but it is pure speculation on my part.

 

Both are still on the Candid website.

Out Front
That's It

 

You’re right. It seem I can’t search the web anymore. Thanks!

 

Amazon confirmed I'm getting Lightnin' Hopkins October 5th .

 

we will believe it when we see it

 

These guys carry a lot of AAA
They carry Candid and are very specific about whether it is AAA
If they don't explicitly say it, it's likely not
Pure Pleasure Records Shop foir180g Vinyl Records Buy Online


Example, not jazz
Speakers Corner Records Shop foir180g Vinyl Records Buy Online

AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head

 

Those listings are for the Pure Pleasure reissues of those Candid titles, not the current batch of reissues direct from Candid.