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Seriously, if he tries to take credit for the find as if no one thought of it before him, I will spill the beans on social media.

Are the Kenny Dorham and Wayne Shorter rejected sessions up next.

If there is a press release touting the Blakey as a lost treasure unearthed by everyone's favorite 'Jazz Detective' in the bowels of the Blue Note vaults, I will puke. I hope said Jazz Detective applied his skills to figuring out the composer of 'Jimerick'.

I think the son Chuck met passed away a few years ago. The relationship to Malcolm is fascinating. I know someone who might have more info. I will check in and report back.

Amazon used to say when a CD was an on-demand printing. It was hard to find on the page, but now I don't see it anymore. Can anyone find an example of where it says it? Did they decide not to mention it anymore? I was looking at Jack Wilson's Something Personal. In contrast, Deep Discount shows it clearly. Example: Got a Good Thing Goin (Manufactured on Demand)

Yes. I am talking about sessions that were released. Instead of having Frank or Duke as sole producers, they are given joint credit. Never noticed that before. Thinking of Home does not know which to credit. Another thing I noticed: Duke produced his first big band record, 12/15/67. Alfred retired in July/August 1967. I assume he was the only producer up until then, unless someone has a counterexample. So that first big band record may be the first session Duke ever produced, unless someone has a counterexample. I am wondering where info about producer credit is actually stored. The session logs? I am working on a website that will house all my ongoing research on Duke. One section will give a chronological listing of all sessions he produced. Hopefully, we will eventuelly establish which was first and last. 12/15/67 is one of the first. The 1975 Turrentine compilation may be one of the last, but he did not produce the original sessions. The 1974 Moceir Santos is one of the last he produced. Bertrand.

Interesting new find: several Hutcherson sessions and one Lee Morgan list Wolff and Pearson as co-producers.

There is a stash at the Library of Congress.

Someone could put them out as a 'true' bootleg.

My blog piece: https://americanart.si.edu/blog/take-five-duke-pearson-and-blue-note-records

Why are there still missing tracks? Was Sony not able to get the rights to the 6 tracks that were on the original Capitol LP? I thought these were going to come out one set at a time, so I bought Machine Gun, set 1, when it came out. I guess they changed their mind...

What else would be on that album, other than the three tracks? Is there really enough for an album? I played portions of a 1970 interview with Duke, a track from the Newport Jazztet date, and a rejected track from Solid which popped up on YouTube.

I will explain about the blurb at the concert.

Billy Preston was the 5th Beatle. Or 6th, if you also count George Martin. And of course, there was Stu Sutcliffe.

This Saturday in Baltimore, caught David with special guests Archie Shepp, Grachan Moncur III and Dave Burrell. They were in town for the Paris/Algiers conference at Johns Hopkins. I was in the front row.

Reminder: If you are in DC tonight, swing by the Cleveland Park Library for a FREE talk on Duke Pearson, 6:30PM. Including some rare audio tracked down thanks to this very board!

Any hope to find this at a reasonable price? Thanks, Bertrand.

My friend Integriti Reeves and I will be giving a talk on Duke at the Cleveland Park Branch of the DC Public Library on Monday 11/18, at 6:30PM. Details to follow.

Following up to see if anyone might have the articles I listed on September 5th above. Thanks!

Let's see what shape the piano is in.

Did anyone nominate Mabern?

That video was fantastic, one of the very best from the heyday of music videos.

I talk to him all the time, but he does not have all the details. He was young in the 70s. Well, for the purposes of the blog, saying that his affiliation with Blue Note continued into the mid-70s is sufficient. The affiliation was obviously not as strong, but it outlasted his tenure as a recording artist. When exactly that contract was not renewed is not clear, but I don't think it was because he fell ill around that time. He still was gigging well into the 70s. When exactly he stopped gigging is another good question. Wikipedia and others seem to think Duke was out at Blue Note the minute that Frank died, but that is clearly not true. George Butler came in and nudged Duke from a lot of his duties, but not completely as I thought up until recently. When did George Butler come on board? Frank died in March 1971, Butler produced a Grant Green record in May. Wolff and Butler probably briefly overlapped.

I have also been talking to Michael Cuscuna and that Turrentine from 1975 was apparently assembled by Duke. So my guess is we can say he was still involved up to mid-70s, the Santos record is 1974. I would like to find an exact departure date but that will be a challenge. Not sure how to find that out. Would anyone have the following articles on Duke? Thanks! Mark Gardner Jazz Monthly iii/8 1967 Mark Gardner Jazz Monthly no. 175 1969 (discography) Leonard Maltin Downbeat (?) 40:7 4/12/73 Bob Rusch Cadence vi/9 September 1980

Interesting, this one lists Duke as producer and George Butler as Executive Producer. So that twofer is from 1975? Interesting.