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Another soggy cool morning. Spring has really sprung though–it’s beautiful to see the lovely early shades of green on the thousands of trees around us. Starting off with this disc of Sarah Vaughan Mercury recordings. I really like Sarah. I want to love Sarah. I keep listening on and off trying to fall harder for her. “The Complete Sarah Vaughan on Mercury Vol. 4” disc 1  

That's where I heard about this one. It is streamable. A very nice record.  Similar to e.g. News from the Shed, it is from before the point at which Butcher's concept had coalesced and his playing is different to how it would become. I really enjoy that. Nice to hear him from that early stage. I love to see Butcher and feel spoilt by how often he plays in Hackney.

Thanks. That's good news!

May 6 David Friesen - 1942

While reading the recently-published Don Byas biography ("Sax Expat") I chanced upon a highly affordable copy of the CBS "A Tribute to Cannonball" Don Byas/Bud Powell LP of 1961 and took it home (and like it a lot): https://www.discogs.com/de/master/407175-Don-Byas-Bud-Powell-A-Tribute-To-Cannonball Looking for period reviews of the record in my historical jazz magazines, however, I drew a blank, and the Discogs page seems to indicate that the above 1979 release actually was the original one. During my searches, though, I discoverd a 4-page photo spread on this very recording session ("Cannonball supervising a jam session of the exilees") published in the February 1962 issue of (French) "Jazz Magazine". In addition to other background info this states that "the session yielded enough material for a 45-minute record that Columbia will release in the USA in spring (i.e. of 1962), and it is going to be billed to The Kenny Clarke Quintet." Anyone among you fellow discophiles familiar with anything of that kind? I usually do trust Discogs for such basic facts, so is it really so that this session sat in the can until 1979? (The new Don Byas bio is remarkably vague about when this record actually hit the market and may or may have not added to the discographical awareness of the jazz public of Don Byas in his lifetime.)