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Babs Gonzales, of course! I remember something like that from Alfred Lion but was curious if someone here has an exact quote.

Got mine yesterday. Going through it today. Very good.

All sets now sold. Thank you.

“Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster” Verve/Analogue Productions SACD

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Bobby Hutcherson, Craig Handy, Lenny White, Jerry Gonzalez “Acoustic Masters II” Atlantic cd Bass – Ron Carter Drums – Lenny White Piano – Mulgrew Miller Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Flute – Craig Handy Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Jerry Gonzalez Vibraphone – Bobby Hutcherson Recorded at Sound On Sound Studios, New York in March 1993. 300×261 7.86 KB

Evensmo on line version of his research is more up to date than Koster/Mobach. Search Results for "Lester Young" | JazzArcheology.com

Kurt Elling “The Gate” Concord cd

yeah that´s right and it feels so good to help a talented young musician from Hungary. You are a saxophone player, you might like the way he plays, but I think anyway you heard him on our last album and maybe on youtube. You sure must like him ! And now that I get more and more away from straight ahead boppish kinda music he sound so good on my new stuff also, it´s just wonderful to have such a person !

Yes, I am doing this.

Don't forget the little bit of Babs Gonzales that made it onto Blue Note 78s! I don't know why other than I remember Michael Cuscuna mentioning to me that Alfred didn't feel he himself was a good "judge" of vocalists.

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If you rip all your albums to a hard drive (and have a fairly extensive collection) it's a snap to do this with any reasonably good music player application, such as itunes. I often check out all the versions I have of a song. Not all album metadata contains all the participants but it often does, so I can often search and find sideman appearances too. The difficulty for most with a large collection is if you haven't been ripping everything to hard drive all along, it could take a long time and a lot of labor to rip them all now! Many years back I wrote to allmusic asking them to expose an interface which would allow you create queries connected by 'and' and 'or' to allow search for two musicians on the same album, etc. They never replied and the site has gone downhill so badly I no longer use it.

Is there any knowledge about why Alfred Lion rarely recorded vocalists? I only know the 45's by Bill Henderson and the two albums by Dodo Greene and Sheila Jordan. There even was a new numers series started for the latter. So what?

A number of times I’ve pulled up a few favorites — mostly semi-standards, or “almost standards” (primarily written in the 1960’s & 70’s) — to try and find as many different versions of those tunes. Like who the heck has recorded anything of the better known tunes by Charles Tolliver, or Joe Henderson beyond “Recorda Me” and such. So not ‘standards’ per se — but the best-known tunes by some of the post 1963 greats. Or I’ll look up every single tune from a favorite slightly-lesser-known album — like from Speak Like A Child or The Prisoner — to see which (if any) have been covered. Shame that has to be done song-title-by-song-title — and that there’s not an easier way (on the streaming platforms directly) to, say, give me every song written by Andrew Hill that doesn’t have him as the recording artist. Fortunately you can sorta get to some of that thru Discogs — but it’s very tedious, and relies on composer-credits having been entered (which isn’t done nearly enough). And then you gotta go digging for an online version to stream (if you even can), or maybe it’ll be on YouTube — but then maybe in an entire album or album-side upload (and not just the one track as its own video). A major pain in the ass, but still light years more to be found online than 10 or especially 20 years ago.