Isaac Hayes Family Continues to Get Unreleased Masters Back
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Mac Casper
@adonnis - pull up, there's refreshments
His son seems to have a great handle on how to run this 
Hopefully Prince's sister is truly up for the task
Hopefully Prince's sister is truly up for the task
malbaker86
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So apparently this is part of the vault: This guy caught a bad break with the crumbling of Stax. He had so much ready to hit. Moses was smart, he knew Stax was legendary while he was there.
Though his discography includes 22 studio albums, five film soundtracks and three live albums, Hayes was a prolific composer far beyond what the public got to hear in his lifetime. His son and company president Isaac Hayes III is deep in undertaking the passion project of changing that, beginning with digitizing hundreds of unreleased master recordings he had unvaulted from Tennessee.
“I was just in awe of the organization and the quality in which he kept things,” recalls Hayes III. “Even [family] photos that I didn’t have or my mom didn’t have that he had, it was kind of just dope. Images and sheet music, photographs, all these masters; there was just so much stuff that he really took pride in preserving and taking care of, some going back to the Sixties.”
Friends, Family Pay Tribute To Isaac Hayes
ISAAC HAYES III (Credit: Carlton Adams)
Among these recordings are albums and songs from Hayes and artists he produced for his record label Hot Buttered Soul, outtakes from work with late jazz trumpeterDonald Byrd and R&B singer Major Harris, and instrumentals ranging from rock, pop and country to disco, funk and electronic music. Not everything has weathered the test of time, but Hayes III has gone to painstaking lengths to restore the recordings that have been damaged. Several reels of analog tape, for example, had to be dehydrated and baked in an oven to rescue the precious, precious arrangements.
Isaac Hayes’ work has been widely sampled for decades and has contributed to the foundation of broad genres including hip-hop and dance music. This top tier access to his masters could have an impact that will be heard and felt widely in popular music in the future.
In fact, it has already sparked the brains of several leading producers in Atlanta who Hayes III recently assembled for a listening session, men who have collectively worked with the likes of Beyoncé, Jay Z, Kanye West, Mariah Carey and many other top artists.
More elite performers, producers and music supervisors will be invited to hear excerpts of the music at a private event in Atlanta during September’s BET Hip-Hop Awards weekend in Atlanta, and Hayes III is considering listening sessions in New York and Los Angeles. He is open to all serious inquiries to license music, yet plans to be very careful in determining what is right for the brand.
Hayes III says there is the potential to officially release some of this music as well as a tribute album. He plans to relaunch the Hot Buttered Soul label, which will also put out albums that Hayes produced for other artists and intended to release before the fall of Stax Records forced him into bankruptcy in 1976; there are jazz, soul, Caribbean and cover songs hidden in the HBS archive. But, as with every mission of the new Isaac Hayes Enterprises, it’s more important to embark on the right endeavors for the brand than to put out products quickly. Timelessness, after all, does not need to be rushed.
“I was just in awe of the organization and the quality in which he kept things,” recalls Hayes III. “Even [family] photos that I didn’t have or my mom didn’t have that he had, it was kind of just dope. Images and sheet music, photographs, all these masters; there was just so much stuff that he really took pride in preserving and taking care of, some going back to the Sixties.”
Friends, Family Pay Tribute To Isaac Hayes
ISAAC HAYES III (Credit: Carlton Adams)
Among these recordings are albums and songs from Hayes and artists he produced for his record label Hot Buttered Soul, outtakes from work with late jazz trumpeterDonald Byrd and R&B singer Major Harris, and instrumentals ranging from rock, pop and country to disco, funk and electronic music. Not everything has weathered the test of time, but Hayes III has gone to painstaking lengths to restore the recordings that have been damaged. Several reels of analog tape, for example, had to be dehydrated and baked in an oven to rescue the precious, precious arrangements.
Isaac Hayes’ work has been widely sampled for decades and has contributed to the foundation of broad genres including hip-hop and dance music. This top tier access to his masters could have an impact that will be heard and felt widely in popular music in the future.
In fact, it has already sparked the brains of several leading producers in Atlanta who Hayes III recently assembled for a listening session, men who have collectively worked with the likes of Beyoncé, Jay Z, Kanye West, Mariah Carey and many other top artists.
More elite performers, producers and music supervisors will be invited to hear excerpts of the music at a private event in Atlanta during September’s BET Hip-Hop Awards weekend in Atlanta, and Hayes III is considering listening sessions in New York and Los Angeles. He is open to all serious inquiries to license music, yet plans to be very careful in determining what is right for the brand.
Hayes III says there is the potential to officially release some of this music as well as a tribute album. He plans to relaunch the Hot Buttered Soul label, which will also put out albums that Hayes produced for other artists and intended to release before the fall of Stax Records forced him into bankruptcy in 1976; there are jazz, soul, Caribbean and cover songs hidden in the HBS archive. But, as with every mission of the new Isaac Hayes Enterprises, it’s more important to embark on the right endeavors for the brand than to put out products quickly. Timelessness, after all, does not need to be rushed.
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Sax Work from Moses, so much to rediscover......
MusicConsulting
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The triumphant strings & horns ... Isaac could pick up Grammy's 
ThaRealness
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Dude he has so many classics... Even Truck Turner and Three Tough Guys are straight piff.Black Moses
I swear every Isaac song I've heard had me like "damn so that's where (insert producer) got that from"
If anyone was a genius it was Isaac. I mean he was doing shyt like looping a single sustained chord for minutes on end
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Dude he has so many classics... Even Truck Turner and Three Tough Guys are straight piff.
If anyone was a genius it was Isaac. I mean he was doing shyt like looping a single sustained chord for minutes on end
His soul must have been crushed when he had to use the synths for the strings in the eighties because no studios wanted to pay for the orchestras. How dare the suits who Isaac made countless amount for, be restricted to that, aint no one want to hear casio keyboard Isaac. They did the same thing to Barry White, both equally gifted musicians/songwriters/producers/
OGBobbyJohnson
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A God Among Kings
I bring Issac up the most when I school people on music
truly the most underrated artist of all time
truly the most underrated artist of all time