Ken Dryden Posted November 20, 2019 Report Share Posted November 20, 2019 I will be doing a survey of Sackville Records this Sunday, November 24, from 3 to 5 pm ET on wutc.org. I will post the playlist later tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgcim Posted November 20, 2019 Report Share Posted November 20, 2019 There better be a lot of Ed Bickert on there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Dryden Posted November 20, 2019 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2019 There will be, though this label is one I pretty much had to purchase, as promos were few. I did interview John Norris a few months before his sudden death, though the publisher inexplicably held it until the day after he died. I may broadcast it at some future date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Tapscott Posted November 20, 2019 Report Share Posted November 20, 2019 (edited) 7 hours ago, Ken Dryden said: There will be, though this label is one I pretty much had to purchase, as promos were few. I did interview John Norris a few months before his sudden death, though the publisher inexplicably held it until the day after he died. I may broadcast it at some future date. John's death may have been sudden, but he had dealing with health issues for a few years. I remember meeting and speaking with him in the summer of 2009. I hadn't seen him for a few years and I was a bit shocked by how frail he had become. But he was speaking enthusiastically about a Rossano Sportiello solo piano recording he had produced just a few days before. And he still had some projects in the pipeline. He kept going to the end. Here's a Sackville recording I missed when it first came out in 1979/80. I only discovered it a few years ago when I bought the Delmark CD re-issue. It is excellent. edited to ask - Ken - do you have the 3 CD set - 40 Years of Sackville? - a superb compilation of prime tracks from the label's recordings, chosen by Norris himself. Very few labels had the breadth of Sackville in stylistic terms - from very traditional jazz right through to the avant-garde. Edited November 20, 2019 by John Tapscott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Dryden Posted November 20, 2019 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2019 (edited) I don't have the 3 CD compilation. John sent me a new Rossano Sportiello CD just after the interview and told me to put together a request list for back catalog items and for some dumb reason, I never did. It's not that I didn't want a lot of things that were still in print. Here is the playlist for both hours: Artist/Band - Song - CD tTtle Hour 1 Canadian All Stars Straight Back European Concert Willie The Lion Smith & Don Ewell Keepin' Out Of Mischief Now Doc Cheatham & Jim Galloway Way Down Yonder In New Orleans At The Bern Jazz Festival Ed Bickert & Don Thompson What Is This Thing Called Love At The Garden Party Ben Webster & Teddy Wilson In A Mellow Tone Ben & Teddy Harold Mabern Pent Up House Joy Spring Joe Temperley & Harry Allen Blues In The Closet Cocktails For Two Ronnie Mathews Tenor Madness At Cafe Des Copains Dick Hyman & Dick Wellstood California, Here I Come Stridemonster! Hour 2 Ruby Braff My Funny Valentine The Canadian Sessions Jay McShann & Don Thompson Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You? Solos & Duets Buddy Tate Quartet I'll Remember April Texas Tenor Jim Galloway's Wee Big Band Aluminum Baby Blue Reverie Don Friedman & Don Thompson Stella By Starlight Opus D'Amour Sonny Greenwich & Ed Bickert Oleo Days Gone By Dick Hyman & Ralph Sutton Viper's Drag Just You Just Me Junior Mance Yancey Special Junior Mance Special Ralph Sutton S'posin' More At Cafe Des Copains Edited November 21, 2019 by Ken Dryden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Tapscott Posted November 21, 2019 Report Share Posted November 21, 2019 5 hours ago, Ken Dryden said: I don't have the 3 CD compilation. John sent me a new Rossano Sportiello CD just after the interview and told me to put together a request list for back catalog items and for some dumb reason, I never did. It's not that I didn't want a lot of things that were still in print. Here is the playlist for both hours: Artist/Band - Song - CD tTtle Hour 1 Canadian All Stars Straight Back European Concert Willie The Lion Smith & Don Ewell Keepin' Out Of Mischief Now Doc Cheatham & Jim Galloway Way Down Yonder In New Orleans At The Bern Jazz Festival Ed Bickert & Don Thompson What Is This Thing Called Love At The Garden Party Ben Webster & Teddy Wilson In A Mellow Tone Ben & Teddy Harold Mabern Pent Up House Joy Spring Joe Temperley & Harry Allen Blues In The Closet Cocktails For Two Ronnie Mathews Tenor Madness At Cafe Des Copains Dick Hyman & Dick Wellstood California, Here I Come Stridemonster! Hour 2 Ruby Braff My Funny Valentine The Canadian Sessions Jay McShann & Don Thompson Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You? Solos & Duets Buddy Tate Quartet I'll Remember April Texas Tenor Jim Galloway's Wee Big Band Aluminum Baby Blue Reverie Don Friedman & Don Thompson Stella By Starlight Opus D'Amour Sonny Greenwich & Ed Bickert Oleo Days Gone By Dick Hyman & Ralph Sutton Viper's Drag Just You Just Me Junior Mance Yancey Special Junior Mance Special Ralph Sutton S'posin' More At Cafe Des Copains An excellent choice. It's hard to go wrong. I have every CD from which these tracks are chosen. I personally would have chosen a track by Phil Nimmons, Canada's premier jazz composer, who has several fine Sackville CD's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Dryden Posted November 21, 2019 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2019 Unfortunately, I don't think I own any of Phil Nimmons' Sackville releases. I am also unable to play LPs on my show since the station retired its last turntable a few years before I retired, a horrible decision prompted by the news director's demand for more space (there was plenty of room for it). I may donate one just so I can play stuff there instead of having to dub tracks onto a CDR at home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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