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  2. COUNT BASIE ZONE....

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    Let's not forget the dedication to Basie of many West Coasters. Shorty Rogers Courts the Count is a beautiful album with ex-Basieite Harry Edison on trumpet and a mixture of Basie and Rogers numbers.

  3. Ornette Coleman -Something Else

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    I remember the moment when I first heard Ornette - on a jazz record radio show in 1959. My first impressions were twofold: "Bird", I thought, and then, "madness". This is how Bird must have sounded inside the Camarillo institution, I mused.

    And, in truth, there is a hint of Ornette in the rough, unfinished cry of the "Lover Man" which Bird put on wax before they dragged him off to Camarillo. I quickly learnt to love Ornette and invested in seven albums recorded between 1958 and 1961 which I'm still listening to and marveling at now. So I've never had any problems with Ornette. Cecil Taylor, however, is something else. But that's another thread ... !

  8. Jazz on television

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    I heard a rumour that BBC4 was going to run a season of vintage Jazz 625's and other gems but can't substantiate it, I'm afraid. Anyone know anything on this?

    All I've heard is that the current season of Brecon programmes, of which we've now had two, will run to four in all. No mention of Jazz 625. Mind you, the impact of a Jazz 625 series rerun wouldn't be what it might once have been, now that so much of it is on YouTube, albeit chopped into ten minute chunks!

  10. Jazz on television

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    Once again BBC 4 delivers the goods! This evening , from 8 to 8:30, it was Joe Lovano as Artist in Residence at the Brecon Jazz Festival. We saw excerpts from an interview , a masterclass and a concert performance. Trouble is, I could have watched three hours of this stuff! Anyone else see this?

  14. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

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    He brought the price of Blue Notes down big time. My hero!

    MG

    PS it was a 22% reduction!

    Weren't they over £3 prior to that? (or was it £2 10s 6d :g ).. In any case, they cost very serious dosh back then, in relative terms. No wonder there were never too many over here - the 47W63rd/NY USA pressings in particular. Maybe the French got a bit of a price break, as there seems to be more of them over there..

    Now playing Gilles Peterson 'Impressed - Vol 1' (UK Universal 2LP set, LP1). Ronnie Ross :tup

    Although I still have British-bought Blue Notes from that era, I don't remember what they cost. But I do have an imported Riverside (Monk's Music) from the late 60s on which you can still see 42/- written faintly in pencil!

  16. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

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    All this has got me drowning in a wave of nostalgia! The late Ed Dipple (one of Mole's three proprietors), Brian Priestley and I were all at Leeds University together in the sixties and of course united by jazz!

    Amazing ! First bought an LP from Ed Dipple pre-Mole when he was doing mail order. I've still got one of his lists and it has a near-mint Fontana of Tubby Hayes 'Mexican Green' for £3. Brian Priestley I used to listen to every week on his excellent Capital Radio jazz radio show. He sure knows his Mingus !

    Speechless!

  17. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

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    The Individualism of Gil Evans (Verve twofer)

    :blink:

    I didn't know this one. I have "The Individualism of GE" on a Speakers Corner reissue, and it's a single LP, plus I have the cd with the bonus tracks.

    What's on the twofer?

    Record 1: Side 1: 1 "The Barbara Song" 2 "Las Vegas Tango" Side 2: 1(a) "Flute Song" (b) "Hotel-Me" 2 "El Toreador"

    Record 2: Side 1: 1 "Cheryl"("Blues in Orbit") 2 "Spoonful" Side 2: 1 "Concorde" 2 "The Underdog" ("Isabel") 3 "General Assembly"("Barracuda")

    It looks like a British pressing of a Verve album. I bought it at the once-famous Dobell's jazz record shop in Charing Cross Road, London in the 1970s.

    I also have that very UK Verve double album ! Bought in my case at Mole Jazz, Kings Cross. Dobells site on Charing Cross Road - now a takeaway (or something like it) I believe.

    All this has got me drowning in a wave of nostalgia! The late Ed Dipple (one of Mole's three proprietors), Brian Priestley and I were all at Leeds University together in the sixties and of course united by jazz!

  18. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted · Edited by BillF

    BillF,

    seems that my stuff lacks the following tracks:

    1 "Cheryl"("Blues in Orbit") Side 2: 2 "The Underdog" ("Isabel") 3 "General Assembly"("Barracuda")

    Assuming that "General Assembly"("Barracuda") is Time Of The Barracudas on the cd, may you provide some details about the other tracks?

    "Cheryl" and "Underdog" are by a quartet whose personnel is given as Gil Evans (arranger/piano), Jimmy Knepper (trombone), "probably" Bob Cranshaw (bass) and "probably" Charlie Persip (drums). The recording date is given as c.1963-64.

    My good friend, Brian Priestley (name dropping again!) says this in his learned sleeve note:

    "The existence of two Gil Evans quartet pieces comes as something of a surprise. Jimmy Knepper, who played with Gil's working band of 1960, is recognizably the trombonist and, since the names of Cranshaw and Persip have been added to the collective personnel, there seems no reason to doubt that it is they on bass and drums. However, the track which was code-named 'Isabel' is actually a song by Al Cohn called 'The Underdog' (with words by Dave Frishberg, the composer of 'I'm Hip' and 'Peel Me a Grape') although Cohn's original instrumental version went under the name 'Ah Moore'. And, finally, what was issued in the States as 'Blues in Orbit' is not 'Blues in Orbit' but Charlie Parker's amazingly inventive line 'Cheryl'. It's fascinating to think of this as a reduction of a full orchestral Gil Evans arrangement, and indeed the bass-part after the opening theme and before the out-chorus makes it hard not to think in these terms. Is it taking guesswork too far to imagine this as a sketch for the album Gil was to have made for Verve featuring Bill Evans, but which was never recorded?"

  20. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    The Individualism of Gil Evans (Verve twofer)

    :blink:

    I didn't know this one. I have "The Individualism of GE" on a Speakers Corner reissue, and it's a single LP, plus I have the cd with the bonus tracks.

    What's on the twofer?

    Record 1: Side 1: 1 "The Barbara Song" 2 "Las Vegas Tango" Side 2: 1(a) "Flute Song" (b) "Hotel-Me" 2 "El Toreador"

    Record 2: Side 1: 1 "Cheryl"("Blues in Orbit") 2 "Spoonful" Side 2: 1 "Concorde" 2 "The Underdog" ("Isabel") 3 "General Assembly"("Barracuda")

    It looks like a British pressing of a Verve album. I bought it at the once-famous Dobell's jazz record shop in Charing Cross Road, London in the 1970s.

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