bertrand

What the hell is that??? Is it real? FM records had a motto: 'no static at all'.

Never noticed that! Did Blue Note try to sign Dolphy away? So FM records is Kay and Kameron, but the name Fred Miles also pops up. What a mess.

Not familiar with this label at all. So what label did Iron Man come out on? Blue Note had to ask permission for Out To Lunch?

Really? What is FM records?

The date I have heard that is being hunted for is a live date shortly before Out To Lunch. Maybe it has been found. I am always the last to know. I doubt Dolphy was under contract with Prestige by then. I always wondered if the Blue Note date was a one-off, or if he was going to make another record for them which of course was never to be.

He delegates plenty. The Mingus Ronnie Scott was also hardly lost.

From my brief experience trying to help him, 'easily distractable' is the understatement of the year. Is this the Dolphy thing with Joe Chambers or something else? The tapes for the one with Joe have not been located yet, IIRC.

The family had some of their own copies of material, which has allowed some unissued sessions to be released. But it is not clear if they have anything left or if that has been completely mined. I am curious about some of the last sessions, like the one Pim mentioned.

Gregory did pass away. His mother might still be around.

I can't find much about him online. Maybe one photo.

I was being facetious of course, but seeing these kind of collectors' prices when the artists were barely making a living is depressing. That True Blue price would have been a little under $700 in 1960. I doubt Tina made that much from sales of the LP in his lifetime.

Does Tina Brooks' estate get a cut of the sale price?

Avoid that wretched TV movie with Andra Day. Total crap.

Please message me your email address. So the New York Bass Violin Choir is from multiple sessions, but the Tom Lord Discography has it wrong, claiming all 7 tunes were done at one time, plus 4 extra tunes done live. Only 3 tunes were at the studio session, the other 4 live: https://www.jazzdisco.org/the-new-york-bass-violin-choir/discography/

I never shared the blog post! Here 'tis: https://americanart.si.edu/blog/take-five-duke-pearson-and-blue-note-records

Please message me your email address.

A very interesting conundrum has arisen related to this. For those of you who were fortunate to hear the rejected tune from the Grant Green Solid date: it was supposedly called Spanish Dancer, and was credited to Duke Pearson (who plays trumpet on the tune!) Although there is no copyright or BMI registration. Well, the song Spanish Dancer from the Brass Company Colors album seems to be the same tune, in a very different arrangement. I assume it is credited to Bill Lee. So what is the story? I see two options. 1) It is a Pearson tune that Bill Lee somehow appropriated. 2) It is a Bill Lee piece, but then how did it make it to a Blue Note date from 10 years before? Bill Lee was not part of the Blue Note family. A mystery that will probably never be solved.

Where can I find the Stars of Jazz book?

More info: https://www.nypl.org/press/archive-legendary-composer-and-musician-wayne-shorter-has-been-acquired-new-york-public

All good questions. It will get archived by someone very good at their job. I am most interested in the sheet music. Maybe some of the questions I had back in 2006 when I put together the inventory of his compositions for the bio will finally be answered. One question: does any sheet music exist for the 10/13/70 unissued Blue Note session.

This is big news. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DX5hRx3pq/

If I magically took over at Concord, I would reissue titles as boxes containing multipe LPs in slimline cardboard cases at a budget price. This is happening with Atlantic, for example. The first two would be: 1) Complete Emily Remler Concord dates, featuring all her leader dates and maybe the duo with Coryell. The record with Richie Cole on Milestone could fit in as well. Does she have any other dates under the Concord umbrella? Maybe a couple of sidemen dates. Will check Lord later. 2) Everything by Larry Young under the Concord umbrella. 3 leader dates (with the extra tune from Groove Street), a session with Booker Ervin, the Jimmy Forrest date, the Etta Jones date and the tracks with Gildo Mahones. Anything else? I would also put out the complete Lee Morgan Take Twelve. I am sure there are extra titles: different tunes (for which I have lead sheets) and possibly alternates. PS: Barry Harris claimed the song was called Take Twelve because they needed that many takes, but in fact the title existed before the Morgan date.

Three of the four tracks on the second LP of Cosmos, those recorded 7/21/70, were bonus tracks on the CD version of Asante. And the entire Cosmos 2-LP set was released in Japan. Another orphan session is the Elvin Jones date with Lee Morgan. That was in the Elvin Jones Mosaic only, and also in Japan as part of a reissue of the 2-LP Prime Element set. The 5 other tracks from Cosmos should come out as a US CD. Not raising my hopes. Bertrand.

Joe, thanks! Do you know anything about this list of titles that were never, ever going to come out on CD which allegedly circulated in the Blue Note Offices in the 90s?

People who were not born when Fantasy/OJC was reissuing this material on CD for the first time. Or, more specifically, the subset of that group that still collects CDs as opposed to collecting vinyl or downloads, or just listening on YouTube, Spotify, Bandcamp, etc. Both those people.