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  1. The discs are still chronological. What I don't like is that the 'lesser' pieces (disc 3) are separated from the masterpieces (disc 1 & 2). Just my opinion. One can always use the shuffle mode on one's CD player.
  2. Fremeaux just issued a 4 CD set with the Blanton-Webster recordings: Duke at his very best. The Jimmy Blanton, Billy Strayhorn, Ben Webster Sessions. On CD 1 & 2 are the masterpieces. On CD 3 the pieces deemed not to be master pieces and the Ellington-Blanton duet session. CD 4 contains the small group sessions. The booklet is in French and English. The Ellington piano solo’s are missing just as the alternate takes. The transfers are done by Alain Pailler mostly from 78’s. Pro this set is that it makes this music available again and Fremeaux is a serious company so the sound quality will be good. There is only a 31 second sample. Against it is the sequencing. Duke at his Very Best - The Jimmy Blanton, Billy Strayhorn, Ben Webster Sessions (fremeaux.com)
  3. After CD’s/DVD with concerts from the 1958 European tour recorded in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Goteborg, Munchen and again Paris Storyville will issue the November 7 1958 (DE5850) concert from Copenhagen. Apart from the medley the concert will be complete. As a bonus there are 1950 recordings made in Copenhagen. 3 unissued from the St. Thomas restaurant featuring Don Byas and Jimmy Hamilton on two tracks (DE5005). The CD finishes with Duke solo on two songs recorded at a charity event in Aarhus (DE5006). Release date 10 May 2024. Duke Ellington: Copenhagen 1958 – Proper Music
  4. Thanks for posting this. I did not know about it. As Ellington once remarked in introducing a song "... and then the piano player comes in and steals the show".
  5. Duke in Order vol 7 is now available on Spotify. 54 tracks from 29-7-1936 to 29-4-1937. Missing are the 16-12-1936 Rex Stewart session Rexatious and Lazy Man Shuffle (2 takes each), and the 25-3-1937 Gotham Stompers session (This is with Ellingtonians and members of the Chick Webb orchestra but without Duke). The tracks correspondent with the Mosaic Bigband set CD 6 track 8-22, disc 7 tracks 1-6 (master takes) 14-18 (alternate takes). And from the Small Groups set Disc 1 tracks 9-24. Tracks 5-8 is the Rex Stewart session. Disc 2 tracks 1-4 and 10-17. Tracks 5-9 is the Gotham Stompers session.
  6. Here is the list of Pathé/Plaza recordings. The Plaza group issued records on various labels (no claim to be complete): Cameo Romeo, Perfect, Banner, Oriole, Regal. MoJ = masters of jazz volume, track number, Cl = classics, track number, N = Neatwork volume, track number, COL 2LP = French CBS complete Duke Ellington 2 LP sets volume and Lp 1 or 2 (track info not included). I copied this from my excel file hence those lines. 10357-3 Rockin' Chair has never been reissued. There has been no official reissue of these recordings since the French 2LP sets. date Matrix DESOR title MoJ CL N COL 2 LP 11-09-25 106250 DE2501a I'm gonna hang around my sugar 1 9 24-27 3 1 1 11-09-25 106251 DE2501b Trombone blues 1 10 24-27 4 1 1 18-03-26 106729 DE2601a Georgia grind 1 11 24-27 5 1 1 18-03-26 106730 DE2601b Parlor social stomp 1 12 24-27 6 1 1 08-03-28 2944-A DE2803a East St. Louis toodle-oo 3 19 27-28 20 1 13 1 2 08-03-28 108079-1 DE2803b East St. Louis toodle-oo 3 20 1 2 08-03-28 108080-1 DE2803c Jubilee stomp 3 21 1 14 1 2 08-03-28 2945-B DE2803d Jubilee stomp 3 22 27-28 21 1 2 08-03-28 108081-1 DE2803e Take it easy 3 23 1 15 1 2 08-03-28 2946-B DE2803f Take it easy 3 24 27-28 22 1 2 19-10-28 108446-1 DE2811a The mooche 4 17 1 17 1 2 19-10-28 108446-2 DE2811b The mooche 4 18 28 14 2 1 19-10-28 108447-2 DE2811c Hot and botherd 4 19 28 15 1 2 19-10-28 108448-1 DE2811d Move over 4 20 28 16 2 1 05-12-28 108532-3 DE2817a Hottentot 5 15 28-29 11 2 1 05-12-28 108533-3 DE2817b Misty morning 5 16 28-29 12 2 1 12-12-28 3532-B DE2818a Hit me in the nose blues 5 17 28-29 8 2 1 12-12-28 3533-B DE2818b It's all coming home to you 5 18 28-29 9 2 1 15-03-29 3713-C DE2906a Saratoga swing 6 21 29 7 2 1 15-03-29 3714-A DE2906b Who said it's thight like that 6 22 29 8 2 1 15-03-29 3715-B DE2906c He just don't appeal to me 6 23 29 9 2 1 10-09-29 4062-A DE2914a Doin' the voom voom 8 1 29-30 3 2 2 10-09-29 4063-B DE2914b Flamin' youth 8 2 29-30 4 2 2 10-09-29 4064-B DE2914c Saterday night function 8 3 29-30 5 2 2 29-01-30 9319-1 DE3001a St. James Infirmary 9 5 29-30 24 2 2 29-01-30 9319-2 DE3001b St. James Infirmary 9 6 2 1 2 2 29-01-30 9319-3 DE3001c St. James Infirmary 9 7 2 2 29-01-30 9320-1 DE3001d When you're smiling 9 8 2 3 2 2 29-01-30 9320-3 DE3001e When you're smiling 9 9 30 1 2 2 29-01-30 9321-1 DE3001f Rent party blues 9 10 2 4 2 2 29-01-30 9321-2 DE3001g Rent party blues 9 11 2 5 29-01-30 9321-3 DE3001h Rent party blues 9 12 30 2 2 2 29-01-30 9322-1 DE3001i Jungle blues 9 13 2 6 3 1 29-01-30 9322-2 DE3001j Jungle blues 9 14 30 3 3 1 10-01-31 10356-1 DE3101a Them there eyes 12 19 2 20 3 2 10-01-31 10356-2 DE3101b Them there eyes 12 20 30-31 11 3 2 10-01-31 10356-3 DE3101c Them there eyes 12 21 2 21 3 2 10-01-31 10357-1 DE3101d Rockin' chair 12 22 30-31 12 10-01-31 10357-2 DE3101e Rockin' chair 12 23 2 22 3 2 10-01-31 10357-3 DE3101f Rockin' chair 10-01-31 10357-4 DE3101g Rockin' chair 12 24 2 23 3 2 10-01-31 10359-3 DE3101g I'm so in love with you 30-31 13 3 2
  7. I got out my copy of Verve 513 876-2 The Original Mambo Kings. Attached the track listing for The Manteca Suite. My Guess is that 6/8 is Rhumba Finale part 2. Running time 1:29. It sounds as an encore to me. We won't know for sure until a copy of the EP turns up.
  8. French RCA issued a complete 34-43 series on 24 LP's. Bluebird issued a number of 2 LP sets covering the same material. But I don't know if they went all the way to vol. 12. Discogs only listes 3.
  9. The 3 tracks Don Byas Slam Stewart are on the CD Giants of the tenor sax Ben Webster/Don Byas Commodore CCD 7005. These recordings were stangely missing in my collection. I found a cheap copy at discogs. https://www.discogs.com/release/5977955-Ben-Webster-Don-Byas-Giants-Of-The-Tenor-Sax/image/SW1hZ2U6MTM4Njc3ODg=
  10. Miraculously my set arrived without VAT or import duties.
  11. November 18, 1970 Sun Ra gave a performance in Paradiso Amsterdam. The concert was taped. But the sound engineers had placed the microphones on stage. Not knowing the the Akestra would walk through the venue. Of the 3,5 hours taped a lot was not usable. But the Netherlands Jazz Archive assembled a CD from what could be used. It is a legitimate production in cooperation with Sun Ra LLC. Archief Producten - Jazzarchief
  12. The track listing per CD with timing per track is added to the discography.
  13. Indeed but I pointed this out for those who did not know that.
  14. The soundtrack recordings were issued on an Italian LP FDC 1021 Title unknown to me. These are studio recordings with Ivie Anderson and not with Mae West.
  15. Volume 6 is up. This volume contains from the RCA box disc 7 tracks 7-17. This ends the RCA box untill we reach 1940. From the Mosaic Big Band Box disc 4 tracks 15-18 and disc 5 complete and disc 6 tracks 1-7 Enter the Mosaic Small Groups box for disc 1 tracks 1-4. Plus as a bonus My Old Flame sung by Mae West. Not included in the Big RCA box because the recording belongs to Paramount Pictures. It was included on the French RCA LP Integrale volume 9 and Classics 646 Duke Ellington 1933-1935 and many more compilations.
  16. I have compiled a list of the missing tracks and sessions. This is not a discography but a survey there are many more issues of these recordings. I chose to mention Cd's that have complete sessions often Classics combined with Neatwork. The dates are European style. Tracks missing from sessions Don Byas Mosaic set: 12-9-1944 Hot Lips Page Savoy Lips blues Classics 809 Hot Lips Page 1940-1944 Blooey idem Blooey Neatwork RP2064 Hot Lips Page 1937-1949 18-9-1944 Buck Ram’s All Stars Savoy Morning mist Classics 819 Cozy Cole 1944 Ramsession idem 21-11-1944 Cozy Cole and his orchestra Continental Memories of You Classics 865 Cozy Cole 1944-1945 When day is done idem The beat idem 4-1-1945 Clyde Hart’s All Stars Continental I want every bit of it Classics 888 Dizzy Gillespie 1945 That’s the blues idem Dream of you idem 9-1-1945 Dizzy Gillespie Sextet Manor I can’t get started Classics 888 Dizzy Gillespie 1945 26-2-1945 Timmie Rodgers & His Orchestra Regis A good deal Classics 923 Benny Carter and his Orchestra 1943-1946 27-2-1945 Savannah Churchill and her Orchestra Manor Daddy daddy Classics 923 Benny Carter and his Orchestra 1943-1946 19-3-1945 Cozy Cole Guild Stompin’ at the Savoy Classics 865 Cozy Cole 1944-1945 Dat’s love idem April 1945 Cozy Cole Guild Strictly drums Classics 865 Cozy Cole 1944-1945 Night wind idem Why regret idem Now’s the time idem September 1945 Hot Lips Page Continental Corsicana Classics 950 Hot Lips Page 1944-1946 Sunset blues idem Big trees blues idem Florida blues idem November-December 1945 Earl Bostic Majestic The man I love Classics 5005 Earl Bostic 1945-1948 The major and the minor idem 7-1-1946 Benny Carter DeLuxe Who’s sorry now? Classics 923 Benny Carter 1943-1946 8-1-1946 Benny Carter DeLuxe I’m the caring kind Classics 923 Benny Carter 1943-1946 and Classics 1020 Maxine Sullivan 1941-1946 Looking for a boy idem 29-1-1946 Don Redman Pick-up Midnight mood Classics 24 Complementary tracks Carrie Mae blues idem The sessions not included: 12-2-1944 Albert Ammons Commodore 4 master takes on Classics 927 Albert Ammons 1939-1946. Complete session on Mosaic MR23-128 (LP) The complete Commodore jazz recordings vol. 2 and CD Commodore 824297 Boogie Woogie and the Blues. 16-2-1944 Coleman Hawkins Apollo Classics 807 Coleman Hawkins 1943-1944 22-2-1944 Coleman Hawkins Apollo Classics 842 Coleman Hawkins 1944 2-5-1944 Eddie Haywood Signature Classics 947 Eddie Heywood 1944 24-5-1944 Coleman Hawkins Keynote 4 master takes on Classics 842 Coleman Hawkins 1944, alternate take on Neatwork RP 2011 Coleman Hawkins volume 2 1943-1944. Complete session on Mercury 830960-2 The essential Keynote vol. 6 the complete Coleman Hawkins 5-6-1944 Mary Lou Williams Ash Classics 814 Mary Lou Williams 1944 29-9-1944 Hot Lips Page Commodore 4 master takes on Classics 809 Hot Lips Page 1940-1944 The alternate takes (except the 2 composite takes) on Neatwork RP2064 Hot Lips Page 1937-1944 Complete session Mosaic MR23-128 (LP) The complete Commodore jazz recordings vol. 2 4-12-1944 Trummy Young Signature probably never issued 2-2-1945 Cozy Cole Keynote Classics 865 Cozy Cole 1944-1945 10-1-1946 Leonard Feather’s Esquire All American RCA Victor Bluebird 6757-2 Esquire’s All-American Hot Jazz Sessions 22-2-1946 Dizzy Gillespie RCA Victor 4 master takes on Classics 935 Dizzy Gillespie 1945-1946. Complete session on Masters of Jazz MJCD119 Dizzy Gillespie volume 6 1945-1946, Bluebird 66528-2 Complete RCA Victor Recordings 19-8-1946 Teddy Wilson Musicraft Classics 997 Teddy Wilson 1946 6-12-1946 Don Byas/Tyree Glenn/Peanuts Holland Swing Classics 1009 Don Byas 1946 Turned out I only miss the Albert Ammons alternates from 12-2-1944. This will be soon remedied.
  17. According to the notes in the booklet with Classics 1037 Trummy Young 1944-1946 Signature 15005 was announced it was never released. Lord gives Signature 15006.
  18. Mayby annoying. But the set will be 10 Cd's. Lester Young had 2 sets with a total of 12 (including the Basie Decca's he did not solo on) Coleman Hawkins had 8, Chu Berry 7. More CD's would probably make the set much harder to sell. There are 40 previously unknown tracks. In the 'C' section with recordings on 'orphaned' labels there are (if i counted correctly) 13 labels involved. A reason I thought there would never be a Don Byas Mosaic at all. I'm glad I was wrong. Most of the the reisusses of Bix and Tram were unlicensed or bootlegs depending on where you live. They didn't have to worry about who owns wich label. Makes live a lot easier.😄
  19. A small correction: This volume contains from the Mosaic Big Band box disc 3 and 4 tracks 1-14 for the master takes and 19-24 for the alternate takes. (Tracks 15-18 from 1934 will be the opening tracks of vol. 6.) From the RCA box the remainder of disc 6 and from disc 7 tracks 1-4. No takes missing.
  20. Ellington in Order so far used recordings previously issued on CD from the big RCA box and The Okeh Ellington. The Okeh Ellington has 50 tracks thus there was no room to include the 5 alternate takes. One off them is on the Frog CD. The two sessions you mention are the only Sony owned recordings on the Frog CD.
  21. Volume 3 is on line. Only the 2 alternative takes of ‘Sweet Mama’ and ‘Double Check Stomp’ from 12-6-1930 are not included. Included is the Trombone Red and his Blue Six session from 18-6-1931. Both Rust and Lord give a fantasy line up with Ellington as possible piano. But the Ellington band played in Philadelphia that day. And Jabbo Smith was either in Milwaukee or Chicago that day. The missing Columbia/Okeh tracks from volume 2 might be added at a later day. Volume 4 will start with the first Brunswick session of 1932. Of course the 30’s were covered by 2 Mosaic sets. So the following volumes should be complete.
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