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Where can I find the Stars of Jazz book?

More info: https://www.nypl.org/press/archive-legendary-composer-and-musician-wayne-shorter-has-been-acquired-new-york-public

All good questions. It will get archived by someone very good at their job. I am most interested in the sheet music. Maybe some of the questions I had back in 2006 when I put together the inventory of his compositions for the bio will finally be answered. One question: does any sheet music exist for the 10/13/70 unissued Blue Note session.

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If I magically took over at Concord, I would reissue titles as boxes containing multipe LPs in slimline cardboard cases at a budget price. This is happening with Atlantic, for example. The first two would be: 1) Complete Emily Remler Concord dates, featuring all her leader dates and maybe the duo with Coryell. The record with Richie Cole on Milestone could fit in as well. Does she have any other dates under the Concord umbrella? Maybe a couple of sidemen dates. Will check Lord later. 2) Everything by Larry Young under the Concord umbrella. 3 leader dates (with the extra tune from Groove Street), a session with Booker Ervin, the Jimmy Forrest date, the Etta Jones date and the tracks with Gildo Mahones. Anything else? I would also put out the complete Lee Morgan Take Twelve. I am sure there are extra titles: different tunes (for which I have lead sheets) and possibly alternates. PS: Barry Harris claimed the song was called Take Twelve because they needed that many takes, but in fact the title existed before the Morgan date.

Three of the four tracks on the second LP of Cosmos, those recorded 7/21/70, were bonus tracks on the CD version of Asante. And the entire Cosmos 2-LP set was released in Japan. Another orphan session is the Elvin Jones date with Lee Morgan. That was in the Elvin Jones Mosaic only, and also in Japan as part of a reissue of the 2-LP Prime Element set. The 5 other tracks from Cosmos should come out as a US CD. Not raising my hopes. Bertrand.

Joe, thanks! Do you know anything about this list of titles that were never, ever going to come out on CD which allegedly circulated in the Blue Note Offices in the 90s?

People who were not born when Fantasy/OJC was reissuing this material on CD for the first time. Or, more specifically, the subset of that group that still collects CDs as opposed to collecting vinyl or downloads, or just listening on YouTube, Spotify, Bandcamp, etc. Both those people.

So my friend who I thought interviewed Tyrone said it fell through due to a logistics issue I will not get into. However, there is s chapter on Tyrone and Woody Shaw in Barbara Kukla's book America's Music: Jazz in Newark (2015) and there are a few quotes from Tyrone so she talked to him at least briefly.

I know two people who did get to interview him in the last 15 years or so, so he is not refusing to talk about his career. I believe he attended Howard University right here in DC.

I wondered about that too. Maybe he only played the Montreal dates and not NYU which is why it sounds like Garnett on that date. The guy to ask is Tyrone himself!

This is similar to the reply I got from Strata-East but I was told my wish list was being forwarded so that is promising. The Blue Note reissues now are almost exclusively vinyl.

I think that pretty much proves it. Blakey certainly announced his name. Not we have to wonder how Tyrone got in at all and why his stay was so brief. I assume this was after his tenure with Horace Silver but we know that was brief because Horace was dissatisfied with his outside playing. Bertrand.

Great! So now we have something in print mentioning Tyrone's presence. But does it say he appeared or is scheduled to appear? Is it after the fact? It does sound like Tyrone was briefly in the band. I don't think the unidentified piece at Rutgers is Taurus Woman but I need to do more listening.

Taurus Woman is also on the Roy Brooks Left Bank Understanding CD.

It has to be Garnett then. This tune would not have been in the repertoire before Carlos joined since it is his tune. Remains the mystery of why Tyrone was credited. Could it be an error in the Coda review? I thought it might be that tune since it was also the mystery tune on a Blakey Newport recording with Shaw/Garnett/Cables I had bought at Wolfgang's Vault. I think we figured it out on this forum, perhaps someone can find the thread. All in a day's work for the Organissimo Jazz detectives!

It's not Taurus Woman, I assume?

Which tape are you referring to? The one from March from the Loeb center? Rutgers is from April and by then it was definitely Carlos. If Tyrone was there at all, it was briefly in March. Billy Harper was before that. So Carlos replaced either Billy or Tyrone.

I posted on Facebook and tagged George Cables. He does not remrmber.

Yes, 3/20, dumb typo. I wonder how Tyrone's name got in the mix. I am also curious as to what the Untitled piece is.

Wait - it might be Tyrone after all who would have been in the band briefly. The 3/29/69 Downbeat issue (page 15) might clear it up. Rooster, do you have it? This is from Mike Fitzgerald's Blakey chronology which I cannot seem to paste the link to from my phone, check jazzmf.com Does anyone have a copy of the tape? What is the unidentified tune?

That makes more sense.

Moonscape is one of Jackie's finest performances.

Definitely a title that should be on the front burner if ever Blue Note starts a CD reissue campaign again. Surprising that it has not even come out in Japan. It is a great record and the title track was a semi-hit.

The Cuscuna/Ruppli book specifically mentions Lee being absent on Popi. That is where I saw it. No note about Midnight Cowboy so it must be him but yes, his playing is nondescript. The Duke Pearson arrangements are weak. How did this session come about? Maybe an effort to cash in on the movie?