Compacta? This is Super Common. :^)

"Xaver Fischer Trio" is definetely Compacta, the face on the Donald Byrd Cover probably too, but this was done before digital type i presume, so there might be small differences to the various digitzed versions…

Xavier Fisher Trio is a new group.

Donald Byrd- to my knowledge- old Blue Note stuff.

Mikey

No, it couldn't, your image actually shows Compacta (edit: or something very close), poms.

Helvetica Compressed:

> Blackjack… and Xaver… are the same face I’m sure.

Nope, definitely not -- we're looking at two different faces here. Compacta, the face of the second sample, has a very recognisable square structure, while the blackjack face has unmistakably rounded tops (check the lc 'a' and 'c' for example).

The first one is pre-digital, so it could even be a different width of Anzeigen Grotesk that didn't end up being digitised. I don't think it's Helvetica Compressed as the ascenders extend higher and the typical awkward swoop at the top of the bowl of the lc 'a' is clearly different than your sample.

> I just thought it might have been a characteristic of the “pre-digital” cut

Sometimes this is indeed the case, but if the underlying structure doesn't match odds are it probably is something else.

@franzheidl
No problemo :)

Thomas

PS… now if only I could actually sing to music I like…hehehe

Ever hear King Pleasure? (King Curtis had some good sax stuff- check this one out, but turn your speaker up first)

When it was down to twelve on American Idol, Elliot Yamin did a version of Moody's Mood for Love" (done by K.P. with another personal favorite, Blossom Dearie singing a female response part), and did a very admirable job of it. It was a vocal transcription with words of a James Moody sax solo on a "I'm In the Mood For Love" recording that Eddie Jefferson made into lyrics. This was given the style name of "vocalese". Probably the best known in this category is Manhatten Transfer.

But in my mind the champs are a group from France in the '60s called the Swingle Singers. They did a bunch of Bach tunes with The Modern Jazz Quartet, some of which were quite complicated arrangements, that to this day still amaze me. Using mainly the syllables Dubba-dubba.

As an aside, one of my favorite lyrics in all music is from I'm in the Mood For Love:

"Funny Butt when you're with me, I'm in the mood for love."
; )
I also like the work of the A&M/CTI designers in the '70s that did things like this:

Fontplayer> Really good jazz there. I love that kind of swanky jazz. good stuff.

Mikey