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Cuscuna did not give those tapes back to Wayne.  The only tapes that I'm aware of that ever were given back to an artist were to Horace Silver. At this point, I don't think I'm out of line to tell this story. Michael invited Horace to Capitol Studios to listen to all unreleased Horace material in the vaults to see if any of it was suitable for release. Horace chose a number of tunes that became the album "Sterling Silver" that was released in the 1979. Horace did not want any of the other material to ever see the light of day so he made a deal with United Artists and took all tapes of the material he never wanted released home with him where they still sit in the closet of his former home today (well, as of two years ago at least). I've heard the Tentet session and the Live at Pep's material and it is mostly not worthy of release. Michael was correct in saying that Carmel Jones was having a bad day or a bad week and it's mostly unusable. I talked to Horace about the Tentet session years ago and he talked about how the ensemble sections were not executed as well as he would have liked and he said he regretted not taking Alfred's advice to use some of his session guys for the date. A while back, I was talking to Michael about the Shorter date and I said in the context of Wayne's output up to 1972, perhaps this session was not up to snuff but in the context of the past 20 years of Wayne's current band, perhaps one could look at this date as a precursor to his current quartet. Michael asked me to send him a copy so he could have it handy and check it out and I think he bought it up to Don at some point but that part of it, I can't talk about. 

There's a multi-volume series spotlighting rare Berry solos with various leaders entitled "Dentistry in Rhythm - Filling Chu Gaps".   

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