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...and Bob Haggart could whistle and play the bass at the same time! Amazing...
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"...labels either currently owned by Sony Music (Banner, Brunswick, Cameo, Clarion, Columbia, Conqueror, Domino, Harmony, Lincoln, Melotone, OKeh, Oriole, Perfect, Romeo, Velvet Tone and Vocalion) and BMG (Bluebird, Signature, Victor and “X”). We have also included sessions that currently have no ownership and are in the public domain (Baronet, Ca-Song, Continental, Manor, Regis and Selmer)" says the link.
Hmm...does this include European stuff for Euro labels, then leased to Americans companies? As in for-Swing, released-on-Victor?
And look out, Andorrans! Mosaic is getting into Public Domain sessions...
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"...Norman Granz...English-only speaking..."
Is that so? Maybe not a fluent conversationalist, but there are some recordings I've heard of him introducing concerts in German. He may have learned the words/sounds by rote, but to my English-speaking ears, he sounds comfortable enough. And, he did live his last years in Switzerland...though in French-speaking Geneva.
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w/ Kenny Wheeler and John McLaughlin?? Would have never guessed in a million years from the cover. Damn!
Not only Kenny and Johnny (sic), but George Chisholm -- he who recorded 6 sides with Fats Waller back on August 21, 1938. And they all sound fine together... "Styles" be damned. Jazz is Jazz.
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I first recall Mars in a short-lived c. 1967 TV series, He And She. It starred Richard Benjamin and the scrumptious Paula Prentiss, and Mars was a fireman in the station next door to their apartment. IIRC he'd always enter their place via a window-to-window plank... A funny man -- RIP.
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How about the uncategorizable Scots clarinetist Sandy Brown's "Hair At Its Hairiest" (Fontana SJF 1921)? Quite a band, with Kenny Wheeler on trumpet, George Chisholm on trombone, Johnny (sic) McLaughlin on guitar, Lenny Bush bass and Bobby Orr on drums. Issued on CD as Lake LACD 160.
Quite a cover shot (which I don't know how to include) of Brown in a sporran and naught else but the bass clarinet he's holding. At least, I think that's what it is. I HOPE that's what it is.
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finally ordered one!
received today already halfway in - lovely stuff!
Given the discussion elsewhere, that's pretty good mail service. Ordered Feb 1 from Toronto, arrived in Zurich on the 10th...
And I'm delighted you're enjoying it. I've had a couple of buyers come back to me for another copy -- they want to get a copy for a friend. Now THAT'S a trend I have to encourage.
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That's true, John. Maybe somebody could seize the opportunity, and open a street-front retail outlet that sold "jazz discs" of some description...call it, I don't know, maybe: "Jazz Record Store".
You walk in, see what you want, pay CASH maybe -- no PayPal or Visa -- and take it home that artifact (not a download) immediately. Could this theory actually work, I wonder?
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I couldn't help but think of Kenny Guh today when reading this:
Michael Ruhlman, an expert in meat curing who is writing a book on Italian salumi, doesn’t flinch from calling pepperoni pizza a “bastard” dish, a distorted reflection of wholesome tradition. “Bread, cheese and salami is a good idea,” he said. “But America has a way of taking a good idea, mass-producing it to the point of profound mediocrity, then losing our sense of where the idea comes from.”
...from the NYTimes: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/dining/02pepperoni.html?ex=1312261200&en=c23f3fe2da5eae47&ei=5087&WT.mc_id=DW-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M187-ROS-0211-HDR&WT.mc_ev=click
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Have the discs been shipped?
Still waiting to get my copy!
Received mine in timely fashion.
Now you have me worried!
Realize I am on the other side of the pond but would like some confirmation that the disc is on its way here...
Same here in old Europe!
In Brownie's case, the PayPal authorization hadn't gone through, delaying the order getting to Jim...the system seems to take a bit of a while. I've sent a PM to you, EKE.
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(Julius Watkins relocated into the reed section).
He pulled an Eddie who?
(playing french horn with a sax mouthpiece?)
Or what?
You're thinking of Eddie Harris, right? Played a trumpet with a sax mouthpiece...
I think Watkins simply played the tenor part on the horn. I remember a period when Duke Ellington had two trombones and six reeds, so Norris Turney went into the trombone section and played a trombone part. These guys are good enough to transpose on sight...
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I finally got a chance to listen to the first five or six tracks today. Loved it! Vic is ...Vic - which is to say great. There's no more like him coming down the line. The sound is fine. The tune selection is good. The rhythm section swings and Jim Galloway sounds terrific also. Anyone on the fence about this just get it. A thanks to Ted and Jim for making this available and I hope the sales meet your expectations. If you have more in the can (Vic did 90 minutes without playing Manhattan?) I'm buying.
I'm glad you liked it, Harold...
Sorry, there's no "Manhattan", believe it or not.
There could be another track or two, I suppose, but Jim and I decided against them, because: 1) No Vic; 2) technically not good enough; 3) musically not good enough, as in end of the night when Spirits were high; 4) a couple of friends sitting in and detract from the real band -- including a singer who used the house mic, not the recording mic, and so on.
We thought this was the best representation of the night, and at a dozen tunes and nearly 68 minutes, it was enough. "Always leave them wanting more" as the saying goes, and I'm happy you do want more...
Once again, it's ONLY available from us directly, at http://www.jimgalloway.ca/
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Have the discs been shipped?
Still waiting to get my copy!
Received mine in timely fashion.
Now you have me worried!
Realize I am on the other side of the pond but would like some confirmation that the disc is on its way here...
Brownie, I've sent you a private email that I hope will take care of this...
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and Eddie Gaedell?
Surely, that's the pocket book edition...
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Although the Four Freshmen predated Gene Puerling's Hi-Los, Puerling considerably upped the ante, perhaps even set the standard, for harmonic adventurousness and complexity for vocal writing of this sort. Brian Wilson has been more "vocal" (pun unavoidable) over the years about the Freshmen influence, but he has given credit to Puerling as well.
If you want to hear Puerling's Hi-Los writing at it's most insane, you gotta (pretty much) look for the old Spotlight sides. The later things for Columbia & beyond are missing a lot of the edge that can be found in abundance on those earlier sides. Although, there were two "reunion" sides from the 70s on MPS that are not at all bad.
Gene Puerling had a great connection with Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer of Saba/MPS, who let Gene do whatever he wanted. Gene loved Rob McConnell's harmonic sense, and joined with his Boss Brass to do a project with TSU. Gene and Rob became great friends, musically and personally, and as I recall it, it was Rob who got Gene to do a Hi-Los reunion, so as to work together again.
They even performed live at the Monterey Jazz Festival in September 1981. There's an aircheck from NPR floating around that I'd like to hear. I was backstage for that concert and couldn't record it... Anyone have it?
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I'd have thought anyone who loves the Beach Boys for their harmonies - and there's plenty of MOR arranging on Beach Boys records - could relate to the SU if they gave them a chance.
and Bonnie Herman has such a beautiful voice.Absolutely.
She's on this marvellous 1979 record alongside Norma Winstone:
Their voices weave beautifully through the instruments: Eberhard Weber (bass - cello); Norma Winstone, Bonnie Herman (vocals); Bill Frisell (guitar, balalaika); Gary Burton (vibraphone, marimba).
I always thought the Beach Boys took their stuff from the Four Freshmen, who in turn could do with four voices what it took Stan Kenton a whole orchestra to do...
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Irene Kral.
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Thanks for the lead... http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/Main.aspx is a great website.
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I went to check this one out, blinked when I saw it, then went to my shelves to see if the original LP also had the picture reversed. It does: Woody's playing a left-handed trumpet (with his left hand) there, too...
Maybe that could be a good topic: obviously-reversed cover photos.
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Well, they're a bit wrong..."Port Of Rico" was an Illinois Jacquet composition, and was recorded under his name, with Basie sitting in on organ.
As a St. Catharines, Ontario kid, hearing Buffalo people Joe and Carroll Hardy (mostly on WEBR as I recall), as well as Toronto people like Dick McDougall got me into jazz and radio. Thanks, guys. (I think
).In about 1959 I went to Offerman Stadium (with the lovely May Hill) for one of Joe's concerts. It was the first time I saw Dizzy Gillespie live. May couldn't get over Dizzy's cheeks, nor could I, though I wouldn't admit it -- wanted to be worldly in May's eyes.
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You young punks... Ozzie and Harriet on TV?!? Pah! That was never as good as it was on the radio. (...and stay off my lawn!)
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There's a "bonus track" ("Line For Lyons") on the CD issue of the 2 LP A&M album - I always assumed it was originally part of the Artists House issue, but that got away from me long ago...
Good catch! The tune's the same, and from the same engagement, but they are different takes.
The CD issue states "Track 9 previously unissued". Since both the A&M/Verve and Artist's House releases were produced by John Snyder, I'm sure there wouldn't be a duplication. (But without the AH at hand, I can't prove it...)
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BTW, to order: http://www.jimgalloway.ca/
now the link is working :-)
sorry to hear sales are going so slowly... I guess you don't mind if some of us spread word a little?
Oh, and I'd like my copy signed by Vic
Please spread the word as widely as you can...it's all appreciated. I don't think "sales are going so slowly", we don't expect it to sell as well as Justin Bieber (as a Canadian, I apologize for that). But we would like fans of Vic to be able to get it...
As to the autograph, can you wait until I see him again?
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I believe the rights to all of the Artists House recordings reverted to the artists. Since Desmond is deceased, perhaps whoever is handling his affairs has no interest in getting onto the CD business. Without checking, I believe that this material comes from the same sessions that produced the A&M live album and a live CD on Telarc.
You're sorta right, Stereojack, about those sessions. My friend Don Thompson is the bassist on them, and he recorded them. (Set up a 4-track machine with four mics direct in, mixing them later).
But the Telarc release comes from the first tapings, in March of 1975. The A&M 2-lp set (which was put on CD) and the Artists House come from late October and early November 1975.
There are other unreleased recordings from Thompson's collection of Desmond tapes done at Bourbon Street in Toronto. For example, there's Desmond with Rob MCConnell on valve trombone, Don on bass and Jerry Fuller on drums. Ed Bickert's father died during the gig, and Ed left for the funeral. Desmond was open to having another horn rather than guitar or piano replace Ed. I think there was a move to have that stuff released, but the deal fell through...
If you're a Desmond/Bickert completist, as I am, be aware of an April 1976 recording from the Edmonton Jazz Festival on Gambit. Bootleg? I'd guess so -- it comes from a CBC radio recording I think.
Blue balls -- not what you think
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But does it sound like a Cuban band on a bad day?