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That's very interesting. There are seven unissued tracks from the same sessions - could have been another album! Tommy Turrentine (tp-1) George Braith (sop,stritch) Big John Patton (org) Grant Green (g) Ben Dixon (d) Englewood Cliffs, N.J., July 11, 1963 tk 3 Blue John Blue Note BST84143 tk 14 Nicety (1) - tk 15 Jean de Fleur (1) (unissued) tk 27 Extension (1) - tk 32 I need you so (gb out) - George Braith (sop) Big John Patton (org) Grant Green (g) Ben Dixon (d) Englewood Cliffs, N.J., August 2, 1963 tk 16 Hot sauce Blue Note BST84143 tk 20 Bermuda Clay house - tk 26 Chunky cheeks (unissued) tk 34 Dem dirty blues Blue Note BST84143 tk 36 Country girl - tk 45 untitled Patton tune (unissued) tk 49 Davene - tk 62 Kinda slick - Are the 5 bonus tracks being appended to the Blue John CD known yet?

I picked up the Pied Piper Japanese CD. It's a needle drop from an Lp. I guess the master tapes are missing in action. It would be cool if the original Heider multitracks were located and the complete show was remixed and issued. Oh dear, I just ordered it! Is the sound awful? The sound is ok for a needle drop. It's a Wally Heider recording so it was well engineered. You will hear slight LP surface noise on some tracks if you listen on headphones. Also, the original producer of the album had the stupid, cringeworthy idea of fading out "Walk On By" and then concurrently fading up post-production overdubbed applause over the musical fade out. Wilson's performances are of a high caliber, but one soon pines for the complete sets, remixed from the multis after hearing this Lp dub. A remix would also rescue the material from the stupid original production decisions and fade outs on some tracks. If the Heider multi-tracks still exist, one one presume they might contain unissued performances of other Wilson songs. This YouTube clip will give you an idea of the overall sound quality, although it's a compressed mp3 so the CD sounds a bit better. A very exciting rendition of Coltrane's "Impressions:"

I picked up the Pied Piper Japanese CD. It's a needle drop from an Lp. I guess the master tapes are missing in action. It would be cool if the original Heider multitracks were located and the complete show was remixed and issued.

Dusty Groove has the new Japanese import CD of Jack Wilson's Song for My Daughter (Blue Note 1969). http://www.dustygroove.com/item/682485/Jack-Wilson:Song-For-My-Daughter I hadn't heard this one. In general, I'm not a fan of string overdubs on jazz albums. But it looks like Wilson still gets some solo room.

Does Verve / Concord even have a Vault issue / reissue campaign these days? Seems like they have imploded and just reissue a remastered version of the Charlle Brown Christmas soundtrack every couple of years.

Mosaic should do a box and include your radio broadcast recordings.

The Jack Wilson Quartet Featuring Roy Ayers (Atlantic 1963) has been reissued on CD in Japan. I picked this up. It's a transfer from tape sources without any apparent use of digital noise reduction. This new remaster SMOKES the old crappy Collectables remaster published in 2000. That Collectables version employed massive digital noise reduction, sucking the life out of the music, dramatically distorting the cymbal and high hat. This new Japanese CD is the go to version and a massive sonic improvement. Highly recommended. Available at Dusty Groove: http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=b77zf4xrnf

Anybody know the fate of the unissued 1965 Willette Cadet session? Does the label have the tapes? Or were they discarded, reused or stolen over the years? If the tapes survived, what impact, if any, did the 2008 Universal have on the unreleased Willette material? I recall that a number of Argo / Cadet tapes may have suffered damage in the 2008 Universal fire (if they weren't destroyed outright). I would love to hear this session. If you email Verve and ask about it, they don't answer. Does anyone think this will ever see the light of day? Has there ever been an absolute confirmation of where/when/how Baby Face died?

I'd love to hear this unreleased session produced by Edwards. Does it exist in the MCA vaults? Or did it perish in the 2008 Universal fire? Will it ever see the light of day? "Baby Face" Willette, organ; remainder of personel unknown 1. When Lights Are Low 2. After Hours 3. Soul Elevation 4. Get To Steppin' 5. I Got A Woman Produced by Esmond Edwards Recorded October, ?? 1965 by Ron Malo © 1965 Cadet Records Source: Ruppli

By the way, here's a picture of Wes Montgomery performing on WGBH in 1966.

Unknown. Would like to know exactly which artists that WGBH does have. Came across a bit more about the Jazz program on WGBH. Some 1966 period footage of WGBH: http://wgbhalumni.org/2011/01/25/it-was-short-but-what-a-ride/

Regarding Lighthouse '69, M.C. noted as follows: " EMI plans to reissue nothing. Maybe things will change but not for the lower selling artists like the Jazz Crusaders. This was the only one I didn't get to because I wanted to remix it, but it was recorded on 8-track instead of four-track and had lots of repairs and some overdubs. So it would have been three times the cost to remix and I never could justify the cost. Ah well - win some, lose some." As far as what extras are on those multitracks, M.C. noted: "Mostly multiple versions of the album tunes plus a couple of old hits like Young Rabbits etc."

I've never quite fully warmed up to trombone solos on hard bop or soul jazz recordings from the 60s. I've tried. They often sound a bit corny -- not the playing though. I think it's more the timbre of the trombone itself. It's hard to take that sound seriously, especially compared to a tenor sax or acoustic piano. If I listen to the Jazz Crusaders, I want to bypass the trombone solo. Anyone else feel the same way?

Is the Brubeck stuff that's been on the CD market before remastered? Like "Jazz Impressions of New York" for example? Early 90s purple border remaster recycled? Or new remaster? Stuff that's new to CD in the US -- new remaster or Japanese remaster? Like Anything Goes? What about stuff that hasn't been on CD before, like Bernstein/Brubeck? A brand new remaster?

Is this film available commercially on DVD or Blu Ray?

Hey Chuck -- is this confirmed? If so, very sad.

The mystery surrounding what became of RVG's location recordings at the Half Note is quite tantalizing. Only 2 of RVGs recordings from the gigs have been issued thus far. I think these live recordings could be the jewel of Wes' Verve years as they are bereft of turgid overproduction that Creed overlaid on Wes' Verve studio output. Will we ever get to hear them? Do they even exist?

I think only the first 2 are RVG recorded. The rest were FM stereo live remote broadcasts, perhaps engineered and recorded by the radio station? Can anyone confirm?

Are there any Verve research discographies which might indicate what unreleased outtakes and alternates were recorded by RVG at the same gigs that produced the two live songs on the original Smokin at the Half Note album? Surely there must have been a full set if, not multiple sets, recorded by Rudy Van Gelder on June 24th 1965. Anyone know what was laid to tape and what became of those tapes? Wynton Kelly Trio With Wes Montgomery Wynton Kelly (p) Wes Montgomery (g) Paul Chambers (b) Jimmy Cobb (d) "Half Note", NYC, June 24, 1965 65VK493 No Blues Verve V/V6 8633, VE2 2513, (J) J28J 25117 65VK494 If You Could See Me Now -

When will it be unbundled so one can purchase titles individually?

Riddle me this: Didn't Rudy Van Gelder engineer the 2 live tracks on the original "Smokin" album? But the live tracks (overdubbed) on the Willow Weep For Me album were apparently not engineered by RVG, but instead are live FM stereo broadcast remote transcriptions, right? So the question then becomes ==> what became of the rest of the RVG location recordings from which "No Blues" and "If You Could See Me Now" are culled? Have any outtakes recorded by RVG at those gigs ever be published? Remember, the live tracks on Willow Weep For Me are apparently just two track recordings made of FM radio broadcasts. You can hear these FM radio recordings without overdubs on the Smokin CD reissue that came out a couple of years ago and contained bonus tracks. The main issue with the two RVG live remote recordings published on the original Smokin album is the poorly recorded bass, IMO. The guitar is loud enough in the mix. I think a lot of Creed Taylor productions in the mid 60s suffered from anemic bass. It's almost like Creed told Rudy to pinch the bass or something.

I hate Collectables. It's long been a vortex of lousy remastering and tacky packaging into which much classic music disappears, never to be reissued by anyone else. Mosaic was put off doing a Dakota Staton set by Collectables bringing out its own slapdash releases. I'm hoping that this is a sign that that won't be a problem any more. Agree. The Jack Wilson Quartet with Roy Ayers (Atlantic, 1963) that Collectables issued on CD is sourced from a vinyl Lp needle drop with massive digital post-production filtering artifacts that suck out "air" (especially audible during the fade outs when you hear strange digital "swirling noises"). Collectables sucks because their crap remasters become a financial disincentive for any boutique reissue label to come along and reissue the same project with more care given to sonics. BTW, any more reviews of this Mosaic MJQ set sonics? I recall a lot of the old CD reissues of this material had big time hiss levels. Maybe that's a function of Tom Dowd's 8 track recording approach which boosted the noise floor. How did McMaster do with this material?

FYI. Dusty Groove is carrying the Jack Wilson at the Pied Piper CD (Japanese import) ===>> http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=885rcpxh27 Here's Dusty Groove's product description: "A great little set – and one that's got a bit of a mystery about it too – as the material's been issued with both Jack Wilson and Ike Isaacs as a leader! Wilson's one of our favorite players on the piano in the 60s – a soaring talent who's known for a few key Blue Note dates, and some important work with Roy Ayers – sounding equally wonderful here on piano, stretching out on the album's great extended numbers! Bassist Ike Isaacs is best known to most for his work behind Lambert, Hendricks, & Ross during their glory years – but is also a player with a really deep sensibility – one that makes for plenty of "up from the bottom" moments that really help the tunes groove nicely. Drummer Jimmie Smith (not the organist!) is the third member of the trio – and together, the group hit a great laidback soul jazz vibe – that deeper sound of the LA scene back in the 60s. Titles include "Impressions", "Soulin", "Red I", "Mercy Mercy Mercy", and "Walk On By". CD features 2 bonus studio tracks too – "Misty Night" and "Soulin". © 1996-2011, Dusty Groove America, Inc."

You will note that my repost with the CD tracklisting (with the bonus tracks) in post #66 was in response to Dan Gould's observation in post #65: "if there is extra music on this reissue then its definitely more than worth it. " Amazing that J.A.W. is quick to jump down peoples throats. Great atmosphere on this board. Thanks.

Here's the tracklisting for the CD reissue due out this month in Japan. The Jack Wilson Trio Live At The Pied Piper +2 Catalog No. XQAM-1614 JAN 4582260931042 Number of discs 1 Item weight 120g 1. Soulin' 2. Impressions 3. Mercy Mercy Mercy 4. I'll Drown In My Own Tears 5. Soulin' 6. Walk On By 7. Red 8. Misty Night 9. Soulin'