Originally Posted by
thanxal
Not at all. On the jazz side of things, with which I'm more familiar, Verve had mountains of alternate takes, Columbia Jazz recorded multiple takes [[my personal favorite is the alternate material for Lady in Satin by Billie Holiday - the Centennial Edition is amazing), and the old Victor records for big bands/jazz had lots of extra material. What differs are the audience's interest in alternative material [[its very high for Motown fans) and each current controlling company's willingness to release old alternative material. For instance, I very rarely see alternate material from the old Decca/MCA catalogue, but Universal is terrible at reissuing original material from those labels [[why I don't know). Verve reissues often get nice alternate tracks thrown in and some recent Duke Ellington material through CBS has had a lot of nice alternates. There was a series of jazz re-issues of piles and piles of unreleased material on the Mosaic label. Those boxed CD sets now routinely fetch $200-500 on eBay, so there is a market for this stuff. It really depends on the audience and the parent company of the old labels.
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