Phil handed it to me, saying with urgent economy, 'I think you need to hear this. It was initialed, in grease pencil, 'GR-CLS-King Records' Gene Redd and Chuck L. Pulling the tape off the shelf, he realized he had instead an anonymous-looking audiotape box that said: 'Second Show James Brown'. One day, Philip was searching the vault for a Max Roach tape, his hand landed on what he thought was Max's master. I shared this tale of woe with Phil Schaap, the noted jazz historian. The tape vault was 100,000 reels strong, and growing. It was tough to find, since the original LP didn't index individual tracks, meaning its song titles would not be properly listed in a database. In the booklet of the reissued Deluxe Edition of the album Harry Weinger explains how the lost masters of the album were found: Finding the primary master, not the readily available copy, became a mission. Artists and labels simply weren’t concerned with reissues and remasters. Many master recordings from the early ‘60s were locked up and stored in a vault only to be forgotten after a few years. Also featured was Brown's right-hand man Bobby Byrd, and Lyn Collins, a.k.a the Female Preacher.For the longest time Live at the Apollo was unavailable on CD and the transfers for the cassette and eight-track were less than desirable. But this lost concert was different from its predecessors because, for once, Brown seemed content to hang in the background and turn the show over to the other artists in his stable, especially his band, The J.B.'s. In all fairness, this release was never going to be as groundbreaking as the first 1963 Apollo recording - and Revolution of the Mind, the third in the series, had just come out the year before Vol. Now that it has been released, the performance is a marvelous time capsule, a window into a time when Brown was everywhere: on the radio, on television, in the public imagination. To this day, it's not clear Imade the decision to ice Live At The Apollo Volume 4: Brown himself, or his then label, Polydor. Though the shows and recordings from those September nights went smoothly, the master tapes sat on a shelf for the next four decades. 4 is finally out on vinyl, with a CD to follow this summer. James Brown is set to release a 50th Anniversary album titled 'Best of Live at the Apollo - 50th Anniversary' on June 24th 2013 through Universal. Now, Get Down with James Brown: Live At The Apollo Vol. But there was a fourth - recordings from Sept.
Beginning in 1963, Brown released three albums recorded there. The names James Brown and Apollo Theater have practically become synonymous it's hard to think of one without the other. The latest release of James Brown's music, Get Down with James Brown: Live at the Apollo Vol 4, was recorded in 1972 - and finally released this year.
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