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This has also recently been reissued by Fresh Sounds.

Jazz Studio One with the personnel listed above.. Johnny Smith was there as Sir Jonathon Gasser was recorded in 1953. It had nothing to do with Norman Granz or JATP. It was recorded for Brunswick or maybe Decca in the USA There were only two tunes recorded Side one was Tenderley.. introduced by typical Smith guitar at a slow ballad tempo. Each musician joins in and solos, leading up to an uptempo bit, with each soloist again taking their turn, then splitting some choruses, culminating about 20 mins later with Smith pulling it back to the opening tempo Side 2 is a 12bar called Lets Split.. uptempo simple blues riff, again with indivdual solos, leading to chase choruses..All the musicians perform at their peak. This album made me a big fan of the participants, especially Newman, Green, Foster, Smith and Quincehette ( at that time, 1953 when it was new on the market, I hadn't heard much of Pres and was nort really aware of Quinichette's " idolatry") and I have remained so since Unfortunately this has never made it to CD ( with the usual caveat about Japan) that I am aware of. Brunswick went on to record 5 more Jazz Studio sets, 2 throgh 4 were typical West Coast sets,based around Jimmy Giuffre, Mulligan and other L.A. musicians that one would expect, 4 was a Jack Millman set with similar West Coast personnel. 5 was led by Ralph Burns and 6 was a David Amram / Georde Barrow " experimental " session. Only Jazz Studio one fits into the theme of the thread.. the others a good, but as mentione, typical West Coast sets.. I haven't heard the Amram ( 6 ) None have made it to CD except number 4 which was reissued by Fresh Sounds under Jack Millmans name, and not the Jazz Studio title.

Some of the Felsteds made it to CD, mainly in Europe, but not all, and those that did are OOP by now Dance came to the USA specifically to record Mainstream musicians for records to be released in Britain. The Clayton Columbias and Vanguard sets were a huge success. Felsted, in the Brunswick group ( I think) wanted to feed off the popularity of this kind of music and the musicians involved There were nine albums.. not each beig by one particular group Rendezvous With Rex .. two groups based around Rex Stewarts leadership.. one fairly typical Ellingtonian small group sound, the other a bit " mellower" Earl's Backroom & Cozy's Caravan ..one side by an Earl Hines Quartet and the other by a Cozy Cole Septet. This is my least favourite of the albums basically because the Cole is centered around Caravan as a drum solo. The Hines has, as one would expect, excellent piano, but the rest of the group is weak. Bones for the King a group of trombonists with Dicky Wells as the leader. Vic Dickenson, Benny Morton and George Mathews filling out the front line. on one side of the LP, and a Wells led octet with Buck Clayton, Buddy Tate and Rudy Rutherford on the other Well's 1937 Paris sessions had been a well received 12" Lp in Britain around this time.. made him a natural for the leader spot. Blues A La Mode Under Budd Johnsons leadership. One side a septety with Charlie Shavers, Vic Dickenson and Al Sears ( on baritone), the other a quintet with Shavers. Swingin' Like Tate Buddy Tate as the leader of two groups. Side 1 with an octet based around Buck Clayton, Dicky Wells and Earle Warren Side 2an Octet featuring what was Tates working band at the time ( 1958) with Pat Jenkins on trumpet, Eli Ribinson and Ben Richardson on clarinet and alto. The High and Mighty Hawk A hawkins Quintet with Clayton and Hank Jones piano A Classic wit a long blues ( 11 mins) often cited as an example of a Hawkins 12 bar outing to refute those debates where the protaginists declare that Hawk couldn't play the blues. Buck is excellent throughout too. All About Memphis A combination of Buster Bailey Dates Side one,A Quartet feature for Bailey Side 2 A septet with Herman Autrey, Vic Dickenson and Hilton Jefferson added Cue for Saxophone A typical Ellingtonianian small group.. Hodges, Procope,Baker, Jackson..etc led by Hodges under the name of Cue Porter.. due to cintractual reasons and therefore issued under Billy Strayhorns name, but in feell it is definitely a Hodges datw Trombone Four in Hand Back to a Trombone foursome under Wells leadership.. Dickenson, Morton and Mathews, Kenny Burrell on guitar on one side of the LP. Due to typing one finger specialist, I kinda short changed the rhythm sections but Skip Hall shows up a lot on piano (and organ on some.. his organ veers towards the skating rink in my opininion). Everett Barksdale does nice in the guitar seat, Major Holley shows up on bass.. Slamming it a bit here and there and Jo Jones shows up in various sets without throwing his cymbal at anyone. All in all a fairly succesful set of albums that fit the threads criteria Make a good Mosaic ( I'm currentlybusy on my own interpretation of that, which is why they came to mind) These albums were very well received by the British Jazz press and the record buying public that another Jazz writer, Albert McCarthy visited America to try to repeat the efort with a similar set of albums. 12 were released on RCA, three were comps under the Swing Today title.. vols 1-3, the rest were under different musicians names, of whom perhaps Vic Dickenson was the most prominent at the time.. those Vanguards went over very big in the British Isles.. though I don't know if any of the 12 were issued under his leadership I have some of these, not all I know JazzBo has the Eddie Barefield.. he bought a set of three on Ebay ( I had the other two and chose not to bid against him) Anybody have a full list of the series??? They too would make a nice Mosaic

Johnny Griffin's Big Soul Band on Riverside.. possibly the first usage of the term " Soul" to descibe this kind of Jazz.

Well there are many..... The Buck Clayton Jam Sessions to name a few Jazz Studio One... possibly the first 'studio recorded " Jam session Joe Newman,Bennie Green, Frank Foster, Paul Quinichette, Hank Jones, Johnny Smith, Ed Jones, Kenny Clarke.. to use Smiths pseudonym.. Its a Gasser Buck Clayton's Songs for Swingers on Columbia All the Stanley Dance Felsteds.. well nearly all.. the Cozy Cole I find a little weak and then there's........

Thats one beaten up cover. You must have played that a lot.

Pres seems to fall into two categories.. Early with Basie, and Basie small groups and the later verve period. I have no doubt you will end up wanting more than one CD SO EKE's Blue Moon suggestion is good for early sessions.. I think there were 5 CDs in all For the Verve period an absolute must is Jazz Giants 56 a sextet with Roy Eldridge and Vic Dickenson ( if you are not into those two this CD should convert you to them) and the companion disc by Pres and the Jazz Giants Rhythm section recorded the following day.. mentioned above Pres and Teddy

Looking for a cassette or CDr of Dave Pell's Jazz from Romantic places Alantic LP1216. I bought a copy off Ebay, but the grading description was way, way off. The disc is unplayable..looks like it had spent its 40 or so years of existence at the bottom of a certain parrot cage. Worst experience ever on Ebay Spotted a couple on the Web but they are asking a minimum of $20.. plus. I don't think I need it that bad. Also Hal McKusick Jazz at the Acadamy Want this mainly for the George Russell arrangements There is a Japanese CD, but again a bit pricey for my requirements. So thought I'd try here first. Plenty to burn in return.

I have this album. It's nice but not what I would call typical of the music that established Brown's reputation. It was recorded at the end of his career. I wouldn't offer it as an introduction to his recordings, for that I would suggest some of his earlier works from the 40's.

The CD has just the same minimal info. Tom Lord breaks it down, but as many of the tracks are the same title, and from the same group, its difficult to determine what tracks are on the cd. Lords notes to the milestone release are also a bit sketchy too, so the task is not easy. Most seem to be from October.. but I doubt that helps. Kai Winding appears to have been on dates recorded in september. Allen Eager is on some. If there is an Eager discography on line somewhere, that might be a help.

Proper boxes are $21.99 at my local store, and under $20.00 on the net.. so for the USA thats really not a great deal.

The Zoot is a set by the Zoot Sims / Dick Nash Octet. from1955 Zoot with Nash and Gordon plus an unknown ( to me ) rhythm section. It was on the Zim label which is why I called it rare. Not on CD as yet ,..I think..and Zim is not an everyday label.

From the Fresh Sound issue notes.. by Alun Morgan "Sometime in 1957 Dick Bock visited London and I was invited to have Lunch with him. During the meal I asked if any more material by Edison at the Haig was available to be added to the four titles he had issued as a 10" LP, to make it a 12" release. He told me there was no more material available, yet some time later Pacific Jazz PJ11 was released with three new tunes added.. Tea for Two,Just You Just Me, 'Swonderful. When I first played the new issue I was delighted to have the extra tracks, but something had happened to September in the Rain, Indiana and these Foolish things........" The details are listed in the post above by Roger I only ever had the 12" version so was not really aware that the earlier 10" had more music on it. The fresh Sound uses the original 10" issue to correct the problem.. we don't know if the three " new" tracks were Bocked. The recording is good for a club date. If you were happy with the LP you should have no problems with this I'm glad that I held off from the Jazz Factory version for the Fresh Sounds

Concert in the Rain ..JazzBand EBCD 2129-2 is a recording made at the Newport Jazz Festival July 1 1960 I believe it represents the first recording by rhe CJB. There are basically 8 tunes played, with a bit of Utter Chaos as an introduction and closing theme. Broadway I Want to Live You're Clear out of This World Manoir de mes Reves Walkin Shoes Sweet and Slow Gonna Go Fishin' Blueport. The Anthill recorded by the Sextet is also included with a German radio introduction. The concert was recorded by the US Information service.. As to current availability.. I guess you can search all the usual internet sites.It might just be listed as the Mulligan CJB and Sextet.

Diz made four tracks for Savoy at this time(1948).. under James Moody's leadership For Hecklers Only Smoky Hollow Jump Boppin the Blues Moody Speaks These are pretty good and are on the 3cd Odyssey set.

I like this too.. mainly because, as has been pointed out, you get Pepper playing in a variety of different settings, somewhat unusual for his later recordings, and with some musicians that he rarely recorded with.

Thanks Brownie, I ordered the GNP and another bord member has the Les Brown in the mail to me, plus a rare Zoot / Bob Gordon date. The local record store has the Les Brown Lp but want $25.00 for it, not being a big Les Brown followere ( although the line up for that particular disc seemed interesting) I didn't want to buy it " sight unseen" so to speak

The Savoys were Diz's Dee Gee recordings from 1951 There were 22 tracks, plus two alternates These were all on the original Savoy release.. THE D.G. DAYS The music ranges from straight bebop to some of Diz's " silly" songs. It has the original Champ.. with Bud Johnson putting on his Jacquet Tracks with Stuff Smith and Diz's response to Louis Armstrong many vocals Tin TIn DEo Birks Works We Love to Boogie Lady Be Good Love Me Pretty Baby The Champ I'm in a Mess School Days Swing Low Sweet Cadillac Bopsie's Blues 2 takes I Couldn't beat the Rap Caravan 2 takes Nobody Knows The Bluest Blues Sunny Side of the Street Stardust Time on My Hands Blue Skies Umbrella Man Pops Confessin Ooh Shoo Be Do Be They Can't Take that away from Me This I believe is his toal Dee Gee output.. I doubt it is all in the Proper Box as some titles are probably not considered to be up there with his best workfrom this period. You will have to check the track listing on the new Savoy release, but I don't see any reason why they wouldn't give you what was on the earlier issue.

Thanks for the info... For $10.00 its worth a shot Do you have it? What is it like Typical west coast stuff???

Carmell no still looking.. had I found the Mombassa you would have received a copy. Some yes.. but they really aren't every recorded note.. Would you like a list? It passes the time in this best of all possible worlds

I thought the Buddy Rich's were a concert, but they are taken from a verve release.. The Swingin' Buddy Rich. A Definite rip off But It's verve and at least Definitive try to fill up the CD with relevant material. Well the Fresh Sounds is on its way.. Still would like to know where they got the unedited tapes.. if they have similar sources which allows them to restore other bits of Bock Butcherey.. especially the Gil Evans PJ's.. more power to them. If they can do it.. it should be done here.

I'm trying to put together my own CDr ' Mosaic" of Bob Gordon, the West Coast baritone saxophonist who is touted by critics as being a serious challenge to Mulligan had he lived. Seems possible, but I'm not really into ' might have beens", but I do like Gordon. He played and recorded with Les Brown towards the end of his career. Any Les Brown, or Gordon , addict know if he solo'd on any Brown records? I don't want to buy old Les Brown records on spec. Also the Lyle ' Spud" Murphy recordings on GNP Only interested in Gordon solos If you have information and/or discs CDr swaps welcome.

You are correct about the quality of this music. I think Mainstream Jazz would be a good category for it. Most of it has been in my collection for close on 50 years. All of it has been there since the Mosaic issue of this material. It was their 9th set. All of this music is available elsewhere.. though as you say.. not necessarily in the sequence of this disc, and perhaps with different sonic qualities But for $25.00( or a little bit more that will supply additional music by these artists) I'm sure that it can be obtained on 2 or more discs.. Still it should be heard by all and sundry, though I doubt it will be accepted by those who listen to Electric Miles or ECM 8 hours a day.

Damn wish I knew before I sent the care package.. wudda include a Bottle o Broon... All the Breast..oops... Besot .. oops best

On the Harry Allen thing... is all the album Getz i"inspired" or just this one track... Perhaps in the notes it points out that this specific track was Harry trying to do Stan Rather like Jack Purvis doing Copyin' Louis. Jim once declared that Purvis sounded like " His kind of guy".. though I agree, not for totally musical activities. Allen certainly doesn't do Getz impressions on his other albums.. least the ones I've heard. The covers of these always bothered me a bit though... the music is far from being a Blakey impression.