Frontier info
When Clifford played the tapes for me Cuscuna copied (by hand) listings from the tape boxes and added more info from questioning Clifford. Mike then gave me the paper and I am reproducing the contents below.
Wilbur Ware w/Jordan, Cherry, Blackwell
A – 1 Symphony For …… 10.16 bass solo
2 Red Cross 8:21
3 Mod House 5:49
B – 1 Wilbur Ware Tune 7:24
2 A Real Nice Lady 8:35
3 All By Myself 7:43 bass solo
Note: B – 1 has “Superbass” scribbled above title and “? BeWare” below
B – 2 is really Sophisticated Lady
Ed Blackwell
A – 1 Shades of General Lofty 21:10
2 That Moment of Glance 4:50
B – 1 Farid 9:05
2 Eternal Rhythm 13:55
A – 2, B – 1 Blackwell, Ware, Cherry, Lugman Lateef
A- 1, B – 2 Blackwell, Higgins, D. Charles, Roger Blank, Frank Charles
Note: Lugman was Clifford’s spelling – “Tenor man from New Orleans” he said.
Are you familiar with Rabin’s A Discography of Free Jazz? Published by Knudsen in 1969 with a manuscript date of August 1968 noted by Rabin. The newest entry in the book is from September 2, 1968 (!). This Sept entry is a Cherry session from Stockholm with “unknown titles”. He lists the Ware session as Jan ’68 along with the Blackwell, Cherry and Brackeen dates which leads me to believe my info of Blackwell on this session is correct.
In this book, Rabin lists the Cherry session as a quartet – no mention of Maffy.
The tune listing is as you report from Lord, with the following spelling difference:
“Ahmed Mouvafak”.
I did not hear (or see) the Cherry tapes since Clifford said Don didn’t want his session included in the sale.