Stereojack

Got it! Thanks! ;-)

Thanks. I didn't remember that. I assume that you refer to the Cadence that had the Everly Brothers and Andy Williams. Yes, that's the one.

This is very sad. I remember seeing him at Boston Garden when his team was playing the Celtics and marveling at his height. When he sat on the bench, his knees were level with his head. Probably not the most respectful memory, I admit.

I don't believe they are blood relatives. Kim was the daughter of Chan Parker by a previous marriage.

Ayler, Albert & Donald Bley, Carla & Karen Mantler (father Mike Mantler) Coltrane, John & Ravi Crosby, Bing & Bob Ellington, Duke & Mercer Gibbs, Terry & Gerry Goldfield, Harry & Don (Goldie) Hall, Edmond & Herb LaBarbera, Pat & Joe Lee, George E. & Julia Mangelsdorrf, Albert & Emil Mangione, Chuck & Gap Massey, Cal & Zane McCord, Castor & Ted McPartland, Jimmy & Dick Moncur, Grachan & Grachan III Moore, Oscar & Johnny Most, Sam & Abe Moten, Bennie & Buster Napoleon, Phil, Marty & Teddy Nash, Dick & Ted Rollini, Adrian & Art Russin, Babe & Jack Teagarden, Jack, Charlie, Norma & Cubby

Recorded in mono, February 7, 1958. All but one track issued for the first time on Prestige 7838 in 1970. I've got the Fantasy green label release, which says "Electronically Remastered for Stereo", but plays straight mono.

All the more reasons for getting to listen to those tapes. Just for the sake of curiosity (I have yet to hear Dorham playing soppily)... We all know that great artists have their bad days. They don't lose our respect for that! It was not my intention to dis KD, who happens to be one of my favorite musicians. However, playing in a big band ensemble with the kind of precision required is not everyone's forte. Anybody who's ever played in a brass or reed section knows that there is no short cut to excellence. The sloppiness of the ensembles may not have been KD's fault, anyway, but the joint result of lack of sufficient rehearsal.

Years ago, not long after the publication of the Blue Note discography, I asked Cuscuna about the Horace big band session. His response was that the performances were very ragged, sloppily played, and that Horace had chosen musicians who were great soloists, but not necessarily very good readers or ensemble players. He cited Kenny Dorham in particular, who could be heard on the tapes discouraging the band from the repeated rundowns that might have insured better ensemble work. After this disastrous session, Horace rerecorded the tunes with his quintet, and the result was the classic "Silver's Serenade".

FWIW, the daughter's death was mentioned in at least one obit that I read. I might add that the role that LSD may have played in her death is questionable.

He was a daytime TV staple when I was a kid. Certainly had a long run!

I've been very cynical about the wrap-up until now, but I have to admit that I found the finale very rewarding - a number of emotional high points, and an interesting and unexpected closing. Sure, not all the questions were answered, but I had a good feeling of satisfaction once it was over. I'm eating my hat.

The original one was on Cadence.

A great musician - played on hundreds of sessions anonymously. RIP.

Using the mono button won't undo the bad effects of fake stereo. There are different methods of rechanneling - some more insidious than others. Prestige EQ'ed the sound so that the highs are in one channel, the lows in the other. Hitting the mono button will restore the signal to mono, which makes it more listenable, but there will be some loss. However, other methods (not employed by Prestige or Blue Note) involve adding reverb or delay to one channel - this really alters the sound significantly, and hitting the mono button doesn't help - it still sounds like shit, perhaps even worse! Major labels like RCA, Capitol, and Columbia often employed this method, and those records should be avoided!

Listen more carefully. The record is true stereo. When Liberty issued stereo versions of titles from the Blue Note catalog that had previously only been vaialable in mono, they erroneously labelled many of them as "rechanneled" when they were in fact true stereo. A good rule of thumb - anything above 1562 is recorded in true stereo, and plays stereo regardless of the information on the jacket.

This session was not recorded in stereo. If 7249 claims to be stereo, it is rechanneled (phony). Many of the classic 1950's Prestige sessions were issued in rechanneled stereo in the late 1960's. As for the solo order, I currently have the session as part of the 16-disc Coltrane Prestige box, on which two of the titles from this date are reversed. Without listening, I can't tell you if Carl Woideck's liner notes follow the right order or the wrong one! I've always enjoyed trying to go blindfold with this date, anyway. Picking out Trane and Hank should be pretty easy, but separating Zoot and Al can be more challenging.

A large percentage of the live Count Basie set was unreleased. The Phil Woods and Charlie Parker sets were ALL unreleased.

I love Frankie Dunlop's playing with Monk! Always have, always will.

She was a marvelous actress - somewhat overshadowed by her older sister Vanessa, but very talented in her own right.

Can't deny that the program is entertaining, but each season they've added another level of bewilderment, culminating in this "sideways" business which has crossed the line for me. I just don't see how they can tie it all up in a few weeks, and I suspect that they will just leave us hanging with some cosmic bullshit of some sort. As much as I enjoyed Abrams' "Star Trek", it was seriously compromised with the rather lame time travel element just to shoehorn Spock/Nimoy into the film, and I fear that the loose ends at the end of "Lost" will be dealt with as cavalierly as they were in "Star Trek". As a long time sci-fi fan, it seems to me that the old values of storytelling are being cast aside. The old curmudgeon has spoken.

George Duvivier

I recall seeing this as a Showtime (or some cable channel) special at the time. The biggest surprise was Al Hirt!

Can't say for sure about the whole LP, but there's some great drumming on the medley on side two that HAS to be Earl Palmer. That'd make it LA.

Sad news. A marvelous musician. RIP

I heard that he got a very large tax credit.