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Big Blues

Recorded	Feb 1978
Label	CTI Records
Released	1978
Personnel	5 credited players
Discogs	master 214243

The record

Small-hours CTI mood music, Jim Hall's chords and Mainieri's vibes wrapping around the horn while Gadd's brushes barely stir the surface. Nothing here rushes -- Moore's bass just breathes underneath a working group content to let silence do some of the talking.

Session personnel

Michael Moore — bass
Steve Gadd — drums
Art Farmer — flugelhorn
Jim Hall — guitar
Mike Mainieri — vibraphone

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

The earliest pressing on file is the 1978 German CTI, 0063.039, with a Dutch issue that year as GP 3158. The US copy followed in 1979, CTI 7083, in a gatefold, and Japan pressed GP-3158 the same year. Japan returned in 1981 with LAX-3278 and King issued K20P 6834 in 1982. For a modern copy, take the 2014 45 RPM cut of CTI 7083 or the 2010 gatefold remaster of the same number.

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 31 pressings on file.

1978	CTI Records · 0063.039 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo earliest on file
1978	CTI Records · GP 3158 — Vinyl, LP, Album
1979	CTI Records
1979	CTI Records · CTI 7083 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold · gatefold
1979	CTI Records · GP-3158 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold · gatefold
1979	CTI Records · CTC 7083 — Cassette, Album
1979	CTI Records · CTI 7083 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo
1979	CTI Records · CTI 7083 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold · gatefold
1979	CTI Records · CTI 7083 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold · gatefold
1979	CTI Records · CTI 7083 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold · gatefold
1979	CTI Records · CT8 7083 — 8-Track Cartridge, Album, Stereo
1979	CTI Records · GP-3158 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Gatefold · gatefold
1979	CTI Records · CTI 7083 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Stereo
1979	CTI Records · CTI 7083 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold · gatefold