king ubu Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 I wasn't aware of this and think there haven't been any threads about these two discs (there was one about the Lionel Hampton release that's part of TCB's "Swiss Radio Days" series, though). Here's the TCB homepage. And here's some info (taken from the website): TCB 43062 Duke Ellington and his Orchestra, 'live in Zurich, 1950' Miracles happen. This recording was found by accident in a drawer...and it is an unbelievable recording. The performance of the Duke Ellington Orchestra on the night of may 2, 1950 at the Kongresshaus in Zurich, Switzerland is absolutely outstanding. On top, the recording quality is sensational. This CD is an absolute must and not only for Ellington fans. Even though this music was recorded some 57 years ago it sounds so fresh like it was yesterday. I am happy to be able to present this historic document to you. TCB 43072 - Louis Armstrong All Stars 'live in Switzerland 1949' Louis Armstrong, tp, voc Jack Teagarden, tb, voc Barney Bigard, cl Earls Hines, p Arvell Shaw, b Cozy Cole, dr Velma Middleton, voc Cover picture taken upon arrival of Louis Armstrongs All Stars at Zurich Airport in 1949....and immediately checking out the Swiss Alphorn...... For most of the elder jazz fans, Louis Armstrong was the important jazz musician per se. The New Orleans born trumpet player and vocalist did lead the way of jazz as far as articulation, timing and choice of notes are concerned. It would be futile to search for his complete influence and legacy within the playing of jazz by the thousands of renowned name-jazz interpreters during the past 80 and some years. His high estimation and musical traces can be found with even the most advanced jazz soloist of today. Armstrong has left an inestimable musical legacy and is rightly still highly estimated the world over by musicians, jazz fans and even by kitchen connoisseurs („Toast Louis Armstrong“). The band he offered his European audiences in 1949 was undisputable the best to be found amongst the New Orleans oriented musicians. The best of all trombonists, Jack Teagarden, Barney Bigard, a genuine Creole clarinettist from N.O., pianist Earl Hines, over towering virtuoso of that style, all of them featured with their own solo tune left to be judged by the ear of the beholder. The rhythm section was completed by Arvell Shaw, bass and Big Sid Catlett, the excellent swing drummer Cozy Cole. The vocal department was augmented by lady singer Velma Middleton, a typical blues interpreter. All of these virtuosos need no further introduction nor any information about their previous career – it remains the most impressive performance of solid and well played jazz and TCB Music can truly be proud to present this great and historic concert on CD. Some or most of the Ellington set will form part of the daily show "JazzZ" on Radio Suisse Romande 2 (Espace 2): http://www.rsr.ch/espace-2/jazzz You may be able to listen to the webstream later (many shows are archived in that form) by a little link that will appear next to the date (go to "émissions précedentes" on top to check out other shows that have been archived). And you will certainly be able to stream it live if you're interested, just go to the homepage at the right time (Friday 22:00-24:00 centralyuroptime) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted October 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 By the way, the design of the covers is very cheap, I think - almost looking like they're boots... but TCB has done their great "Swiss Radio Series" with historical recordings from the vaults of all three swiss national radios (DRS, RSR and RSI), so these will also be perfectly legit. (However the design is, the photo of Satchmo is great - it's been used for publicity here again and again, of course!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Storer Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 (edited) According to the CD cover pictured, Don Byas is part of the Ellington band! Now that's something I'd like to hear. Edited October 8, 2007 by Tom Storer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niko Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 According to the CD cover pictured, Don Byas is part of the Ellington band! Now that's something I'd like to hear. according to this source http://www.jazzdocumentation.ch/philippi/4personenusa.pdf the announced line-up had Charlie Rouse and Alva McCain as tenor saxophonists... the same google query yielded this phd thesis on Julius Watkins, btw http://etd.fcla.edu/UF/UFE0012940/smith_p.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 The Ellington in Zurich 1950 release on TCB was mentioned this weekend on The Duke Ellington Corner thread. That Armstrong set looks very interesting. Hope Pops blows the horn he is seen holding on the disc cover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted October 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 Possibly Byas is just guesting on some tunes, as there are six reeds listed, instead of the usual five that Duke had. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted October 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 The Ellington in Zurich 1950 release on TCB was mentioned this weekend on The Duke Ellington Corner thread. That Armstrong set looks very interesting. Hope Pops blows the horn he is seen holding on the disc cover Oh well, you're always faster than me... I guess Armstrong just held this horn ("Alphorn") to his mouth for a moment of publicity... Arkadji Shilkloper, the great Russian virtuoso of the French horn, he does play it though, and with some quite astonishing results, too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niko Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 The Ellington in Zurich 1950 release on TCB was mentioned this weekend on The Duke Ellington Corner thread. That Armstrong set looks very interesting. Hope Pops blows the horn he is seen holding on the disc cover ah, the Rouse/Byas mystery is solved there... so Ellington regularly had six saxophonists at that time? (strange idea that just in 1950 the saxophone section was bigger than at any other time...) (Hamilton, Procope, Hodges, McCain, Rouse/Byas, Carney) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted October 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphorn I wouldn't know if the Bavarians or any other weirdos call it "Alpenhorn" as wiki states, but here, no one would call it like that... I guess that's wiki's way of kwality kontrol... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted November 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2007 some of the Armstrong disc was on Swiss Radio (RSR 2) on Tuesday night, you can listen to a webstream here: http://www.rsr.ch/espace-2/jazzz/selectedD...3/11/2007#mardi (click on the little blinking icon next to the date on top, in blue colour, it will play in Real Player) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKE BBB Posted November 15, 2007 Report Share Posted November 15, 2007 I ordered the Ellington from Jazz Messengers a few weeks ago... and it was backordered (or better I'm afraid that "they still haven't received it but they're showing it as if it was in stock") Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKE BBB Posted November 15, 2007 Report Share Posted November 15, 2007 I ordered the Ellington from Jazz Messengers a few weeks ago... and it was backordered (or better I'm afraid that "they still haven't received it but they're showing it as if it was in stock") I'll order it elsewhere now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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