bertrand

Far worse bands came along after GFR. You dodged a bullet. Foreigner springs to mind...

I find it interesting that Blue Note is OLDER than Capitol.

It seems they have officially called it a day. Last gig was in Tokyo. It was a great run! Bertrand.

I have a $240 credit to spend. Group gift...

My new theory is that the Goerge Wein Estate made a fuss. Lucky I grabbed most of the good stuff years ago.

Copyrights don't tell me much, but Stern recorded it in 1998 on one of her records (with some sort of vocal choir), whereas Bonner never recorded it again, I lean towards Stern as composer. Bonner may have told Lacy that he was the composer, I assume they knew each other,

PC's last date shown in Tom Lord is a Wynton Kelly trio date on 8/4/68. He played Left Bank with Blue Mitchell on 9/15/68. The rest of the band was Sonny Red, Bobby Timmons and Lennie McBrowne. He died on 1/4/69. Based on a secret list I have, a tape existed 20 years ago. Not sure if John Fowler still has it, but PC's very last recording may still be out there and I am sure it is better than the Wynton Kelly date. Not sexy enough for Zev Feldman, I guess. Bertrand. PS: It is also one of the last Bobby Timmons dates. He was at Left Bank with Dexter Gordon on 5/4/69, and that seems to be his last recording.

Well, I am not sure what I may find. Possibly nothing. Unless proven otherwise, the composer is Stern because she was listed on the LP. The odds that Lacy is confused because Bonner is on the record are fairly high.

PC played at Left Bank after the last date listed in Lord. If that was recorded, it would be his last date. I will dig up details later.

Konitz and Stern were actually an item for a while, per Konitz. I met her once or twice in DC, and I am Facebook friends with her. I could message her asking how Woody came to record her piece. I will leave out the Lacy/Bonner bit. I can also check copyrights later.

Frank Haynes is awesome. I wish more was known about him. I have never even seen a photo.

It is on Woody Shaw's Love Dance. Credited to Peggy Stern there, but Frank Lacy recorded it recently and says it is by Joe Bonner, who plays on Love Dance. Where else did Woody record it?

Up.

Who wrote this tune?

You could send this to Mike!

It seems that Wolfgang's Vault is not offering downloads for sale anymore? What is going on? I got a lot of what I wanted over the years, but I was given a gift certificate for Christmas by a bunch of DC Jazz artists and I have a huge credit I need to use...

Bonus tracks I would like to hear are the other cuts that were played at Left Bank and presumably recorded. I wonder who has the complete set of tapes - the Left Bank members (John Fowler) or Barney Fields?

The Blakey set sounds great!

I have absolutely been posting a lot of my findings on Facebook, and it has indeed allowed me to interact with artists. But a scholarly type of article would still be a good thing. I have more time on my hands these days, so it is time to revive this idea!

What year did Pharoah Sanders stop using the name Farrell?

David and I talk a lot, and he has been one of my main sources for information and verification. But he lives in NYC. Ideally, I need to find a collaborator who lives in DC so we can go to the Library regularly. I am not going these days anyway. My last visit was February 2020. I looked at the Dolphy collection with a couple of musicians and were talking about a concert. I got permissions from the Dolphy trust to use the material for a concert. One of my many projects on hold these days...

I do need to find a way to put all my copyright research findings in an article of some sort. I had talked about it with Mike Fitzgerald but never actually did it. I would prefer having a co-author, but I am not sure who. I don't actually read music myself. My efforts were kind of lonely and rebuffed by some Library employees, so I kind of lost my mojo. But my chief nemesis there is retired now, so maybe it is time to revive the idea. I could at least compile a list of all that I uncovered. Creating a narrative around it will come later. Tons of unrecorded music to talk about. Don Sickler does address No Room For Squares/Up A Step in the historical notes sections for these two songs at jazzleadsheets.com. He may have gotten this from Hank himself.

The copyright deposits may or may not shed light on this. Don Sickler publishes these tunes, but I doubt anyone suggested it to him. I can talk to the guy who works for him who puts together the lead sheets for the website. Title switches are frustrating because no one believes them and they are never changed later. I cannot convince anyone that the Wayne Shorter songs 'Blues a la Carte' and 'Harry's Last Stand' were switched. The copyrights prove it. Someone would need to ask Wayne. Two Mingus tunes on the Changes records were also switched. Mingus actually announced it correctly in the Montreux DVD, and Jack Walrath confirmed it. And don't get me started on composer credits. I did get Blue Note to change a few, but got some pushback. Butch Warren did get some money from my efforts, so that is good. Bertrand.

You are basing this on the fact that the long track sounds like a second cousin to Impressions, or do you have some other source for this claim? The long piece is also what Lee Morgan plays on the Live in Baltimore CD and incorrectly calls The Vamp. It is also not from Baltimore, BTW. Why do you think the song titles were switched? There are several Mobley pieces that may have had the titles switched. There is a folder of Hank Mobley copyrights at the Library of Congress that were pulled from the warehouse at my request. I hope I can go back soon and figure this out.

Have you seen what jazz is at Wolfgang? This would fit right in. There are many incomplete tracks, hardly a precedent. Zev is only borrowing. Left Bank can still place recordings elsewhere. But they would need to be proactive. There is some great Jazz at Wolfgang, especially Newport. But yes, acquiring Left Bank tapes would definitely make their jazz collection far superior.