Michael Fitzgerald

Yes, absolutely long-term. Mike

Here's info on Coltrane's contract with Impulse, from Ashley Kahn's book A Love Supreme, p. 50 - ============= Even before the full impact of "My Favorite Things" had been felt, ABC executives had bowed to [Creed] Taylor's wishes, loosened the purse strings, and bought out Coltrane's contract. As Atlantic had done to Prestige, so a deep-pocketed label poached one of Atlantic's top jazz artists. The saxophonist now merited a $10,000 advance for one year, with two-year options that soon rose to a $20,000 annual advance. ============= I agree with Allen that as a "hit", Saxophone Colossus was nowhere near My Favorite Things (which was even a 45 single). Perhaps Colossus was the 25,000 seller mentioned in the db article. From J.C. Thomas's book Chasin' The Trane, p.133 - ============= [...] My Favorite Things was in the record stores and on the radio stations within months; it sold more than 50,000 copies during its first year of release. For a jazz album to do better than 5,000, or twice that at most, is roughly equivalent to a million-seller by the Rolling Stones. ============= In Musician 7/87, Peter Watrous mentioned that "My Favorite Things went gold and Newsweek covered Coltrane's week-long stay in July [1961] at the Village Vanguard." However, in checking the RIAA database, the only Coltrane records listed are Blue Train and A Love Supreme, both gold. Mike

But Coltrane had "My Favorite Things" on Atlantic - I can't think of any Rollins performance that was that kind of hit. Mike

Here's the lowdown on the RCA deal, reported in db 3/1/62 p.10: ========= Sonny Rollins, fresh from retirement, much romanced by record companies, has signed an exclusive contract with RCA Victor. Company executive George Avakian made Victor's position clear, concise, and cheery by outlining a company program built around Rollins, Paul Desmond, and Joe Morello (both signed exclusively to Victor beyond records they will make with Dave Brubeck for Columbia). Also on the Victor list is the Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake Duo, part of what Avakian calls "an expansion into untried jazz talent" and which he said he feels will be made possible because the initial "big-name talent" will establish a Victor jazz line capable of supporting young jazz musicians and capable of cutting through the "overabundance of poor records swamping the market." Behind that news: the Rollins contract is said to guarantee him $90,000 over a 2 1/2-year period for five albums. Any additional albums made for Victor during that time call for a $10,000 guarantee for each. Veteran record men, nonveterans too, estimate that Victor must sell 40,000 of each Rollins record (or 200,000 all told) to break even on this contract. In effect, since all companies measure money carefully, the fact of the money, and the projected fact of sales (Rollins' biggest seller thus far is a Prestige 25,000 winner) assures Victor's new interest in jazz, quickly building because it cannot bide. ========== Mike

Well, yes, obviously, because Jamal plays what Gould wrote in 1938. Jimmie Lunceford and Charlie Barnet had versions in 1940 - maybe Glenn Miller in 1939. Mike

The "what about the small guy" argument is exactly what is going on in the USA with BMI and ASCAP fees collected from clubs, radio, etc. People aren't matching up the playlist when they're writing the checks. So the biggest ASCAP or BMI composers just get more. It's unbelievably unfair. Mike

Yes, Ravel's Pavane pour une infante defunte and Morton Gould's Pavanne from his Symphonette No. 2 (kind of classical-pops). Put the two of these on top of So What harmonies and you've got Impressions. The Debussy is just titled "Reverie" and the Tchaikovsky is his "Melodie" Op. 42. Mike

That Steve Kuhn 3-CD set seems odd - why not keep the stuff with Sheila Jordan together (Playground and Last Year's Waltz) - exact same band. Maybe someone realized this. Anyway, I've got my vinyl. Mike

Can't help with sound files, but it's an excellent trio record. I daresay if one likes ANY KB trio stuff, one will like ALL KB trio stuff. Which is not to say it's all the same, but the basic character doesn't vary that much. Mike

So is the upcoming Boston 2001 release (Without A Song) on Milestone from a "bootleg" tape or is there another that we haven't heard about yet? Mike

I don't have a problem with the idea of a surcharge - but ONLY if no one is going to bitch and moan about copying and distributing copyrighted material. You get it one way OR the other but NOT both. Mike

Having once been the subject of one of these "where are they now" threads, I have to wonder why these end up in public discussions - has email failed? Because in my case, plenty of folks were apparently wondering, but no one bothered to ask me! Mike

I had the pleasure of attending the studio recording session for the Ribot - look forward to hearing the finished product. Mike

Why not try the Andrew Hill discography on my website? Mike

Yes, it was a Half Note broadcast, recorded June 6, 1964 and broadcast on August 9, 1964. Mike

"One Life To Live" is a soap opera - you mean "Look Up And Live" - a religious broadcast done by the National Council of Churches. Had a lot of great folks at one time or another: Roach with Booker Little; Don Ellis; Dave Brubeck; Clark Terry. Some episodes do still exist - don't know about the Konitz/Marsh/Tristano. Mike

Oh heavens - I can think up a billion TV broadcasts that I have found mentioned in magazines and newspapers which have never been seen again, and not just from the days of live TV. Somewhere along the line people got the idea into their heads that this kind of thing was not worth preserving and it just went out into the ether. I suppose the fact that one had no market for it had something to do with it - you couldn't sell people these broadcasts like you could sell records (and like you now can sell VHS and DVD). Thankfully, those bright enough to preserve their films can now sell them to us and we will gladly buy. You wanted an example? How about the Summer 1963 series done from The New School - one week it was Thelonious Monk Quartet with Rouse, Warren, Dunlop; the next was Sonny Rollins Quartet with Paul Bley, Henry Grimes, and Roy McCurdy. Also in the series: Art Farmer Quartet with Jim Hall (probably also Steve Swallow and Walter Perkins); Horace Silver Quintet with Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor and Roy Brooks; and Al Cohn & Zoot Sims. The Europeans were much more on the ball about this kind of thing. Quite a bit of their TV stuff has been saved. Mike

Brown/Roach are included in the 13 LPs reviewed: Brown/Roach Inc., Study In Brown, Basin Street. Can't say for certain based on this but obviously issued sometime between March 1974 and May 1975. I'll put a Trip Records listing on my website in a minute. Mike

Albert Heath's Kawaida (Trip 5032) was reviewed in db 6/6/74 p.27. Announcement from db 3/14/74 p.46 - "Phonogram Records (formerly Mercury Records) has announced the leasing of over 200 long-dormant jazz recordings to Trip Records, who will make them available to the public for the first time in years, all of them on 8-track tape as well as disc. The recordings, culled from the Emarcy, Limelight, Mercury, and Philips labels, include albums by Clifford Brown, Sarah Vaughan, Max Roach, Dinah Washington, Quincy Jones, Maynard Ferguson, Roland Kirk (before Rahsaanica), Eric Dolphy, Milt Jackson, and Dizzy Gillespie. A minimum of 60 albums will be released by Trip in the next 12 months." Mike

Everything I saw regarding the Canyon issues listed above gave dates in the 1969-1972 vintage. Mike The Trip mention in db was a "spotlight review" of a slew of their reissues - 13 of them with numbers between 5501 and 5538. The other series was the 5000 (Turrentine was 5006) series. I'll do some checking but it makes sense to me that this began first. Mike

Here's what I got for Canyon, subject to confirmation: Turrentine, Stanley: Flipped Out Canyon 7701 Errison, King: King Arrives, The Canyon 7703 Duke, Doris: I'm A Loser Canyon 7704 Simone, Nina: Gifted & Black Canyon 7705 Swamp Dogg: Total Destruction To Your Mind Canyon 7706 Bliss: Bliss Canyon 7707 Bolling, Tiffany: Tiffany Canyon 7708 Lynne, Gloria: Happy And In Love Canyon 7709 Wanderly, Walter: Return Of The Original, The Canyon 7711 Phillips, Sandra: Too Many People In One Bed Canyon 7712 Mike

All jazz discography references to the Canyon label appear to be to unrelated labels - Japanese, for example. I wouldn't assume 7701 means a 1977 date with any certainty. Maybe in the world of Sun Ra, but not for this, I don't think. Lord surely just copied from the Bruyninckx entry (note the remarkable coincidence of the annotations). Bruyninckx knew about the Trip issue in his 60YORJ. Mike P.S. - Trip was absolutely around in 1975. Here's a quote from db 5/8/75 p.22: "Trip Records has leased many of the EmArcy masters and has begun the important job of restoring much of this material to circulation. [...] The series will reach 100 this year." So, 100 issues by 1975 sounds like a start of 1974, at least. Mike

This says the Canyon was issued in 1971, which sounds good to me. I believe the 1974 date is for the Trip issue. http://sudo.3.pro.tok2.com/Quest/cards/S/S...ippedOut_x.html As the Bruyninckx listing shows, Canyon issued 45 rpm singles of Flipped Out/Wedding Bell Blues and Flipped/My Cherie Amour. West Wind has issued a CD "Flipped" with a great Blue Note-style cover ("featuring Wilton Felder") http://tanieplyty.pl/product_info.php/cPat...712/language/en Mike

Bruyninckx CDROM - -Yester me, yester you- : Stanley Turrentine (ts) Joan Crowler (p) Al Vescovo, Freddy Robinson (g) Wilton Felder (b) Paul Humphrey (d) King Erisson (cga) Victor Feldman (perc) Monk Higgins, Art Freeman (arr) Los Angeles, 1974 Flipped out (*) Trip TLX5006, Canyon 32 Let it be (*) - Love's finally found me (take 1) - Love's finally found me (take 2) - Deuces wild - I'll take you all the way there (take 1,*) - Flipped (*) - , Canyon 27, LP7701 I only get that feeling (*) - , - Flipped out pt 2 - , - Wedding bells blues (*,+) - , 32, - Yester-me, yester-you, yesterday (*,+) - , - Ma cherie amour (*,+) - , 27, - Brown eyed woman (*,+) - , - Love's finally found me (take 3)(+) - , - I'll take you all the way there (take 2) - - I'm the one (*) - Too old (*) - Note : All titles from Trip TLX5006 also on DJM (E)DJSLM-2012 entitled "Another fine mess". (*) These titles on Drive DE2-41085 as "Flipped". (+) These titles on Versatile NED1122 as "Love's finally found me" and rest of this LP by Gloria Lynne a pop singer of no interest. Canyon LP7701 as "Flipped out". Lord CDROM 5.0 - Yester me, Yester you: Stanley Turrentine (ts) Joan Crowler (p) Al Vescovo, Freddy Robinson (g) Wilton Felder (b) Paul Humphrey (d) King Errison (cga) Victor Feldman (perc) Monk Higgins, Art Freeman (arr) Los Angeles, 1974 Flipped out Trip TLX5006 Let it be - Love's finally found me (take 1) - Love's finally found me (take 2) - Deuces wild - I'll take you all the way there (take 1) - Flipped Trip TLX5006, Canyon LP7701 I only get that feeling - - Flipped out (pt 2) - - Wedding bells blues - - , Versatile NED1122 Yester-me, yester-you, yesterday - - - Ma cherie amour - - - Brown eyes woman - - - Love's finally found me (take 3) - - - I'll take you all the way there (take 2) - - I'm the one - Too old - Note: Canyon LP7701 titled "Flipped out". Versatile NED1122 titled "Love's finally found me"; further titles by Gloria Lynne (not included as outside the scope of this work). All titles from Trip TLX5006 also on DJM (E)DJSLM-2012 titled "Another fine mess". Mike

Yes, unquestionably. Mike