Reviving this thread to see if anyone can confirm whether the first six titles in the Black Jazz catalog are in fact QS-encoded. (It seems pretty clear that most of the subsequent ones are, except for a couple at the tail end of the label's run.)
All the jacket photos and most of the catalog numbers I've been able to find on the web list them as BJ/1 through BJ/6, and the album jackets do not sport the QS logo or make any mention of quad compatibility. (Subsequent titles, numbered BJQD/7 forward, do feature the QS logo.) The 2005 P-Vine and 2012-13 Snow Dog CD reissues seem to replicate the LP jackets, so that's no help.
Ovation's ad in this August 1973 issue of Billboard (page 41), touting their commitment to QS, lists the entire Black Jazz run up to that point--1 through 16--and gives all of them BJQD prefixes. But the first six titles were actually first released in 1971, which would have been the dawn of the QS era, no? An online Walter Bishop Jr. discography claims that Coral Keys was issued as both BJ/2 (stereo) and BJQD/2 (quad-compatible)--which suggests, perhaps, that Black Jazz 1 through 6 were initially released in stereo, then later "upgraded" to quad. But again, I've yet to see any physical evidence of the latter.
All the jacket photos and most of the catalog numbers I've been able to find on the web list them as BJ/1 through BJ/6, and the album jackets do not sport the QS logo or make any mention of quad compatibility. (Subsequent titles, numbered BJQD/7 forward, do feature the QS logo.) The 2005 P-Vine and 2012-13 Snow Dog CD reissues seem to replicate the LP jackets, so that's no help.
Ovation's ad in this August 1973 issue of Billboard (page 41), touting their commitment to QS, lists the entire Black Jazz run up to that point--1 through 16--and gives all of them BJQD prefixes. But the first six titles were actually first released in 1971, which would have been the dawn of the QS era, no? An online Walter Bishop Jr. discography claims that Coral Keys was issued as both BJ/2 (stereo) and BJQD/2 (quad-compatible)--which suggests, perhaps, that Black Jazz 1 through 6 were initially released in stereo, then later "upgraded" to quad. But again, I've yet to see any physical evidence of the latter.
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