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Klaus Doldingers most popular band has been the passport to jazz for many Germans in those days. "Down to earth, open-minded, easygoing and a pleasant character" - couldn´t put it better than Big Beat Steve, indeed! Thank you for all the good times, Klaus Doldinger! RIP

Was on a Ammons listening trip a while ago too, so my curiosity was piqued by your post, and I checked your titles on Discogs. So it lookls like the "House Warmin'" LP on Argo credited to Howard McGhee was the original release. An odd one - though. No line-up on the sleeve, no Gene Ammons mentioned anywhere (maybe omitted because he was doing time at the time?)  "Nothin But Soul" - the 1969 reissue - was on a budget label that looked budget-ish (Crown lookalike?) from a thousand miles away, and anything with artist credits can happen there. My guess is it was credited to Gene Ammons  because after his prison release and signing by Prestige he was fairly hot at the time - at least comparatively speaking vs. Howard McGhee. "Heavy Sax" on Olympic (Everest!) from 1974 looks just as budgetish and may have been credited for similar reasons. Howard McGhee had nowhere near the LP presence on the jazz market that Ammons had in the late 60s/early 70s during his final years. This reissue must have been distributed widely - I distinctly remember seeing it in the shops way back, but never picked it up because the back cover blurb did not tell anything about where or when it came from exactly. And Everest (or its clones) was notorious (at least in my impression) for mixing its musical contents haphazardly.  This reshuffling of album titles and covers (and leader credits) does not strike me as particularly odd - just highly annonying. And confusing for the collector - when you're in the receord shop this kind of mixups makes it hard to remember in each and every case what you have and what not. Happened to me more than once. A blatant example: Last spring I pulled a Woody Herman LP titled "All Star Session" on the Accord (huh??) label from the special offer bin of our local #1 brick-and-mortar record shop. Nondescript cover artwork and liner notes, but the presence of Eddie Costa mentioned on the back cover told me this must come from a time frame of interest to me. So I took it home, only to discover upon checking that this in fact was an 80s reissue of the 1959 "At The Roundtable" LP on Roulette - of which I already had picked up two copies from the Special Offers bin at different moments way earlier; a stereo copy with the original cover artwork (but on the Forum label - an early 1961 reissue) AND a mono copy on the (UK) World Record Club label (with a totally different cover and no mentioning of the Roundtable club). Oh well ... another one for the fleamarket vinyl crate ... 

So, what's the story on the Nothing But Soul/House Warmin'/Heavy Sax session appearing on different label with different album titles and different names for the tunes and sometimes credited to Ammons and sometimes to Howard McGhee? And why did Jug and Red Garland never record to together when they were both on Prestige?

October 19 Jean-Michel Pilc - 1960

Except for that legendary TV show where had to represent real jazz as opposed to Brötzmann's version, that was a bit embarrassing... Will think of him every Sunday when Tatort starts with his famous theme song (which we also played in the school orchestra back in the day)... And I agree that his 60s albums are nice...