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A.K. Salim's BLUES SUITE


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Go get it! I got me a copy on ebay a few months ago and enjoy it to death! Everbody is playing great, Nat Adderley is in fine form, George Duvivier does some of his best work as accompanist and soloist on it, Costa's great too - Oscar Dennard plays on some tracks, but Costa has all the piano solos. Good writing too. A box set of all A.K. Salim Savoy sessions would be great.

If it's the DENON CD, the personnel listings are not quite correct. Shall I post the right ones? :tup:tup:tup

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Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, N.J., September 26, 1958

- Blu-Shout

- Blu-Barry

- Joy Box

- Like how long baby

Nat Adderley - cornet

Joe Wilder - trumpet

Buster Cooper - trombone

Phil Woods - alto sax

Seldon Powell - tenor sax, flute

Sahib Shihab - baritone sax

Eddie Costa - piano

George Duvivier - bass

Philly Joe Jones - drums

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same studio, October 6, 1958

- Pay day

- Full moon

- The sultan

Nat Adderley - cornet

Joe Wilder - trumpet

Paul Cohen - trumpet

Buster Cooper - trombone

Phil Woods - alto sax

Seldon Powell - tenor sax, flute

Sahib Shihab - baritone sax

Oscar Dennard - piano

George Duvivier - bass

Granville T. Hogan - drums

Ahmad Kharab Salim of course composed, arranged and conducted all tunes.

Philly Joe Jones and Oscar Dennard were not mentioned on the original liner.

Judging from the descriptions of the solo routines, title attributions are correct.

The Denon back cover mentions Jones and Dennard, but in a way suggesting Dennard comps behind Costa's vibes - but there ain't no vibes to be heard nowhere on this album ...

The Denon reissue staff NEVER did seem to take the time and look up the session listings in the Savoy disco by Michel Ruppli and Bob Porter, which to me looks like extreme disrespect for their work. A lot of the credits are partially wrong or incomplete, and they rarely took the pains to complete a session. Hope their new host does it better.

BTW, this is one of the best sounding Rudy Van Gelder recordings I have!

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Is this the wrong place to say yet another prayer that Fantasy SOMEDAY reissues Salim's AFRO-SOUL DRUM ORGY Prestige thing?

A British shop carries a used vinyl copy of it for 50 pounds sterling!

They also have a copy of the above mentioned plays pretty for the people with Kenny Dorham, Johnny Griffin and Max Roach for 100!!! :wacko:

(They also have a copy of Alkebu-Lan for 100 LBS)

I'm glad I have an orgy I found in a second hand shop in Paris 20 years ago... :P

As I said, how about a Savoy A.K. Salim box set?!!! The music is sure good enough!

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But there's still hope:

1) here's a sealed copy at an Italian shop for EUR 15,49:

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A.K. Salim at rarerecords Italy

2) ... or a 14 $ copy at downstairs in New York

3) I prayed for years that Fantasy may do a reissue of Victor Feldman's Latinville! album, and they did it in May, so i suggest we just keep on begging, Jim .... :tup

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  • 14 years later...

Heard this last night on the Fresh Sound two-fer, which also features Flute Suite.

Each player is featured on a blues by A.K.

Highlights- Nat Adderly, Seldon Powel, Eddie Costa doing a Monkish thing on his feature, an early Phil Woods, and Sahib Shihab.

After the high note trumpet feature, there's a few seconds of the band's reaction to it!

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