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  2. Best track you heard all week

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    Dial B For Beauty by Tadd Dameron featuring Clifford Brown. This is one of four Dameron originals recorded June 11, 1953 for Prestige Records. I remember buying it the week it was released. It was on a ten-inch LP titled A Study in Dameronia and was my first exposure to Clifford Brown, Benny Golson and Philly Joe Jones. There's some majestic trumpet playing here and wonderful "arranger's" piano from the leader. How tragic the loss of Clifford Brown at such an early age. Also, I've never been able to understand why Dameron never achieved the acclaim he so richly deserved. I remember in the fifties he was sometimes referred to as "the man who brought beauty to bebop". How true, and his compositions including the lovely Lady Bird and Casbah have become true classics.

    Beautiful indeed! I have that 10" LP on the British Esquire label and it's a prized possession, though at the age of 13 I couldn't be expected to buy it the week it was released!

  17. George Coleman

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    Amsterdam After Dark with Hilton Ruiz, Sam Jones and Billy Higgins and Big George by the wonderful George Coleman Octet (most of the writing by the leader).

    I think the first time I saw George at Ronnie Scotts was either just before or just after that 'Amsterdam After Dark' LP was cut - the quartet played most of those tunes. Pretty memorable it was too - George's circular breathing was astonishing. Either the next time or time-but-one he was at Scotts it was with the Octet (Frank Strozier, Danny Moore, Mario Riviera etc). They cut a disk that week on Ronnie's own label - not sure if it was the 'Big George'.

    Big George is an American record. Although I have it on the British Affinity label, it says it's a Catalyst Recording, recorded in NYC and mastered in Hollywood.

  20. George Coleman

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    I have three Coleman leader discs in my collection - all of them excellent: Eastern Rebellion (mentioned by Free For All), Amsterdam After Dark with Hilton Ruiz, Sam Jones and Billy Higgins and Big George by the wonderful George Coleman Octet (most of the writing by the leader).

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