mikeweil

That's a wild video of a wild band!

Wait 'til I publish the finished tables. Just found another Puente RCA sampler that includes an alternate to "Honk Kong Mambo" and another one that has master numbers for each track - I tend to think that the people responsible for the two box sets didn't really care or whatever - if they had wanted to do the job right, the data were all there, they just have had to invest some research hours! p.s. the master number and recording date for "Caonao" on the latter disc are wrong! These are the data for the next track, "Ti Mon Bo", which can be confirmed by the booklet of the Bear Family reissue. Same goes for some of the master numbers of tracks from the "Dance Mania" album. They list the same numbers for several tracks. I trust the Bear Family people in this case. Lazy typists in the RCA offices!

Wasn't Jordan Silver's regular tenor at the time? No, wait a minute - Jordan had recorded his only date with Silver for Blue Note in January, 1958. Mobley was before him, last session in May, 1957. When did Mobley split? So maybe Silver was in need of a tenor player ...... BTW - I, too, am among those who got themselves a copy of the Shearing/Adderley Newport CD after Larry's recommendation, and like it a lot!

My best wishes for her. 82 years! I'm getting older ....... Saw her in Joe Henderson's quartet decades ago. She was always great when I heard her on records. Her last as a leader, a solo piano album, dates from 1999!

Just to keep you updated on my proceedings: The first part of the job is done, I think. I typed all tracks that I know of into an excel table, ordered by (sometimes guessed) recording date, including tracks that were released only on subsequent issues, or only on 45s/78s, and including "outtakes" or alternates that popped up on some CDs. It turns out those two dreaded RCA box sets do not inlude any outtakes or alternates, and missed one track from the "Dancing Under Latin Skies" sessions that was on the LP, "Chattanooga Cha Cha". Go figure. Now comes the next part of the work, collating all the personnel listings from the second box set and relating them to the session dates. The third part will be typing all these data into the BRIAN discography database. I ordered three more CDs to complete my collection, the one with Abbe Lane, the one with Woody Herman, and a Dance Mania compilation with lots of outtakes, some of which are not on the Dance Mania Legacy double CD. It still is a mess.

While looking for other stuff I stepped on the source for this track: https://www.discogs.com/Parco-Della-Musica-Jazz-Orchestra-Special-Guest-Irene-Grandi-Simona-Bencini-Jazzitaliano-Live-2007/release/3896607 An all-star Italian event that deserves some attention.

JPC in Germany now has a release date of December 31, 2020!

By far.

The Monk family probably is not the cause for the delay, as Monk jr. was full of praise for the find.

BBC Documentary on Annie Ross by Gil Parry, linked by Marc Myers in the features linked above but deserving a more direct link. https://vimeo.com/317095376

LP and CD issue. I wonder why this wasn't posted earlier.

The percussionist is Manolo Badrena. Most of you will know him from his tenure with Weather Report.

That's a really great cover photo - I regret I sold the LP after I bought the CD. It looks great in LP size. I always wondered who the model was.

Thanks for the clarification (I should have asked back then, ca. ten years ago)! IIRC he even quotes "Summertime" at one point in one of the recordings.

I always quarreled with my mates in one band if the changes to Wes Montgomery's "Four On Six" were identical to those of "Summertime".

Somehow the mysterious person reminds me of Monk.

I missed this one - will have to get me a copy!