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,Sonny Rollins, Tour De Force (Prestige/Japan)

Issued on CD in 1989 and very affordable on Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/release/9138756-Gerry-Mulligan-Mullenium

I haven’t heard tons of Mulligan, but apart from the excellent Concert Band Mosaic, the single album I probably like best is The JM Songbook — which is really elevated by Bill Holman’s imaginative arranging. ❤️

Indeed and Collectors' Choice released a 3 cd set of V-Disks so they are out there in okay sound.

Very interesting quote indeed. I seem to recall that some of the Hurricane Restaurant broadcasts might have gotten their first release on V-Disc. In any case, with the Treasury Shows and the World Transcriptions, there is no shortage of Duke Ellington recordings from this period.

I've read that none of the Ellington V-Disks were recordings made for V-Disk, they were all other recordings put onto V-Disk. I think that puts them outside the scope of this set. Yes, I found this page. https://ellingtonweb.ca/Hostedpages/DoojiCollection/DoojiCollection-VDiscs.htm The following I found very interesting: "[George T.] Simon, a V-disc producer, asked Duke if he would let the band make V-discs. Duke suggested he 'ask some of the guys'. 'And so I went over to Harry Carney and Lawrence Brown, whom I'd known for years, and asked them. Their reply in essence: 'George, if you are asking us to do this for free as a personal favor for you, of course we'll do it. But if you are asking us to do it for the Army, forget it - not when you consider the way they have been treating our people.'"

RIP, I still remember arriving to Austin decades ago and seeing Jimmy Cliff painted on a wall across the street from UT-Austin. The painting is still there. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4qdren425o

No Ellington either. I believe the Ellington estate have the same lawyer as the Goodman and Calloway estates.

November 24 Scott Colley - 1963 Saw him with Donny McCaslin, Uri Caine and Antonio Sanchez In Göttingen November 6, 2010

Leafing through "BG On The Record" now (4th printing 1973, so admittedly maybe not totally up to date) and checking against the Goodman V-Disc recordings I have on Sunbeam and Dan (Jap.), I see that there were some sessions by the BIG BAND that look like they were specifically recorded for V-Disc: in Nov./Dec. 1943 (p. 352 in "BG On The Record"), as well as in February 1944 (p. 357) and July 1944 (p. 361). And these possibly weren't all but I did not do a complete check. So the reasons for omission would indeed raise a few questions. Overall I guess I'll pass. The major bands featured have been on the reissue market that often that the duplications just would have been too numerous for me. As for Kay Kyser, like other Sweet bands he may have had a few swingers that got recorded. And who knows - maybe Mosaic felt they just had to include his "Victory Polka" for its topical connotations? It's on a Time-Life V-Disc set, and listening to it and its girl singers now, I'd say there have been many Andrews Sisters tunes reissued under the "swing" flag that were not that much more jazzy either, for example. Any jazz listeners who'd already consider Bird old hat would of course shudder but would they be in the market for this set anyway? More seriously, though, checking the "V-Disc Catalogue" discographies (Vol. 1 by Wante & De Block, Vol. 2 by Teubig), I can see two tracks that might qualify for inclusion by their titles alone (no idea how KK treated them, of course): Bye Bye Blues on V-Disc 236, Limehouse Blues on V-Disc 318.

As regards previuosly unissued recordings released in the last 8 years (I'm going off memory, I could be forgetting some other disc; and some of this releases deserved a separate thread): (the original 'Tete Montoliu Presenta Elia Fleta' album, but adding previously unissued recordings of Tete Montoliu, Giovanni Tommaso and Gege Munari backing Elia Fleta when she was invited to play for the Italian radio station RAI in 1967)

Just to keep things together, a few updates on Tete Montoliu from the last few years, as far as books are concerned: - Benjamin Fraser: "Beyond Sketches of Spain: Tete Montoliu and the Construction of Iberian Jazz" (Oxford University Press, 2022) The blurb: "Beyond Sketches of Spain: Tete Montoliu and the Construction of Iberian Jazz explores the artist’s life, musical production, and international reception within a cultural studies framework. This book moves beyond mere sketches of Spanish nationhood to challenge conventional scholarly narratives and recover links between the United States, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, and Europe in the investigation of an impressive and often overlooked transnational modern jazz legacy. Eschewing Theodore Adorno’s denigration of Black American jazz, a more compelling model is found in Fumi Okiji’s notion of gathering in difference. In this work, Benjamin Fraser deftly mixes musical biography with urban history, spatial theory, and disability studies, fashioning a highly readable text for readers from all disciplines." The reality (well, "my" reality, also confirmed bysome other Spanish scholars): this is an amalgam of different and "external" approaches to Tete Montoliu (flamenco-jazz (!), blindness, catalanism, jazz in Franco's Spain). No one in the Tete Montoliu "circles" that I am in touch with, was aware that this bio was in the works at that time, so no "inside" information. And, what is worse, not a single addition to the overall knowledge on Tete. This is just a pile of topics within Fraser's agenda, wherein Tete Montoliu is just an excuse to write a book. - Pere Pons Macías: "'Round About Tete. Una Mirada Coral A La Vida Y La Obra De Tete Montoliu" (Libros del Kultrum, 2023) - Excerpts from the publicity blurb: ‘Round About Tete offers a kaleidoscopic perspective through experiences, opinions, articles, statements, letters, and other unearthed documents concerning his life and work, contributed by many who had the opportunity to know him: musicians, managers, programmers, producers, journalists, writers, filmmakers, singers, friends, relatives, lovers, entrepreneurs… The book, prologued by Paquito D'Rivera, is accompanied by transcriptions of several compositions that were part of his repertoire: standards, popular songs, and compositions by other jazz musicians. My personal opinion: Not much primary research, not too many pieces of new information or musical analysis are provided; hence, I would not deem this as a groundbreaking ouvre. Most relevant added value is, from my perspective, that some of the texts bring some 'flavour' on Tete Montoliu, the human being, from different angles.

Nope! This guy was very "local". But his locality was large enough sustain him with a bit (or more) of good old-school hustling. That, and being able to play his instrument quite nicely, as this sample hopefully attests to.

Some early Edward Wilkerson today

Earl Turbinton on 10? Or maybe Jimmy Greene?

Toshiko Akiyoshi Quartet -- Toshiko in Japan -- Liberty Japanese orig

Yes on #7, but no on Rusty Bryant.

Thanks!

I don't quite get Kay Kaiser either but as Krin Gabbard points out in "Jammin' at the Margins": " In the early 1940s, Kyser was one of the two or three most popular bandleaders in both record sales and popularity polls, often outdrawing Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey, not to mention the black bands." However a paragraph later he adds "But then, perhaps Kyser did not play jazz."

I can work around it. Just saying...

Well when you have a hit "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition" you would HAVE to make a V-Disk for the troops.

Kay Kyser?