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Last week's Elsbeth.

October 19 Eddie Daniels - 1941

Miles Davis Plays Jazz Classics (Prestige) An Hour with the Ramsey Lewis Trio (Argo)

I believe that the original release of this music was not on Argo but on Winley records, which otherwise focused almost entirely on doo-wop. Note that Paul Winley also took composer credit for House Warmin'!

A warm, windy morning. Slept in and Memphis wanted to sleep in as well. Started off with a box set I finally found at a decent price that I have wanted, disc 1 of 2, Clarke-Boland Big Band “Blowin’ the Cobwebs Out” I’ve had most of this music on LP and cd for decades, but I always wanted this compilation and am glad to have it now. Sounds great here as well. This band was truly outstanding–dynamic, vivid, chockful of great soloists and exciting arrangements. One day I’ll find a decently priced copy of the other Emanonn box set of this band, “Historically Speaking”. . . .

I have the Japanese CD release. The personnel besides Ammons and McGhee seem to be Jake Fisher (g), Barney Richmond (b), Willie Mashburn (ds), and Waco (bongos). There's no information available about the sidemen, but they were likely Chicago locals active in the Soul, R&B, or Blues scene. Since it was released on Argo under the name Howard McGhee & The Blazers, perhaps there was a plan to market it similarly to The Aces (and not really about Ammons & McGhee?)

Yes, this does make sense if his Prestige contract was maintained even during his prison sentence in the 60s.

Any way you slice it House Warmin' is a great record. I did in fact purchase s second copy once - the Nothin But Soul issue - at a record convention but it wasn't overpriced and as memory serves, I think it sounded better than my first copy, which was one of those black and white Argo reissues. As for why no Ammons mention it seems pretty obvious to me that he was a Prestige recording artist and this was Argo. Pretty sure that after he helped make Prestige such a successful label that Weinstock kept him as a contracted performer.

I didn't know there is another famous musician, Sam Rivers, though the name might not be as rare as Ella Speed. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj3z0pypnpro

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...

The Cookers played that at SFJAZZ last night

Interesting band. Don't know that much about them, but they played here in SF recently. Unfortunately I didn't go. Excellent album.