V/a / School Me Vol. 1 - 1968-1975

Stage Band Research

formats available

LP
$18.95
STA 001
933654000112
Street Date:
March 17th, 2009
Ship Date:
March 9th, 2009

BACK IN STOCK!!! School Me!—the first release on the newly formed Stage Band Research label—compiles the best funk, jazz, psychedelia (and a healthy combination of the three!) that America’s high school stage band and university lab bands and jazz ensembles have to offer. This is not an easy task —for every one hundred stage or lab band records you find (when you’re lucky to find them, as they were micro-pressed and never properly distributed outside of the region where the school in question sat), perhaps you’ll find five interesting ones. Out of every hundred interesting tracks you hear, maybe five will contain a little magic. Out of every hundred magical tracks, maybe twenty deserve reissue. The diggers at SBRL focused on the era between 1968 and 1975 for this compilation. But this is only the beginning. Let’s hope it doesn’t take another decade to find enough to make it to volume two.