mikeweil

The organ and piano on this album are manned by none less than Herbie Hancock, who was not credited for contractual reasons. He is listed for one of the sessions in Ruppli's Atlantic Discography. Herbie had a special contract with Atlantic, allowing him to record a project for other labels every other year that Atlantic didn't want to do, that's how Glory Of Love came into being. There is a companion album The Soul Flutes, where he was not credited - some say Hubert Laws was the mystery flutist. Well, I can hear both. Laws was on Glory Of Love, too. https://www.discogs.com/Soul-Flutes-Trust-In-Me/release/11480826 That vibes player, Henry Watts, doesn't appear anywhere else, could be Roy Ayers.

This was long on my wish list - found a pristine copy on discogs two years ago.

That's the album that made me love Ellington's music! Just spinning:

The band swings like mad on this one! Nice fat arrangements with just four horns, Henry Boozier, Tom McIntosh (who wrote them), Jimmy Heath, and Tate Houston.

Vol. I & II are still available from Fresh Sound, the other two (their website lists only Vol. 3 as out of print) may be found used. https://www.freshsoundrecords.com/11308-jack-mcvea-rabon-tarrant-albums amazon has all four volumes at affordable prices. Their contents can be found in the Tom Lord Disco, I count 36 Black & White sides. (If Lord lists it, it must be jazz enough.) ..... and Lightnin' Hopkins and Otis Spann from the Candid label. EMI started releasing a lot of their R & B catalogue from Capitol, Aladdin, Imperial and other labels under their control, so Mosaic may have been interested but could't get licenses.

1993 Impulse/GRP CD version

Haven't heard these sessions and cannot comment on drummer Jimmie Smith's playing on them, but he had encountered the organist on the sessions for Kenny Burrell's two double LPs on Fantasy, Ellington Is Forever, in 1975.

I'm still curious - is there a photographer's credit?

To quote from the page linked in the opening post: "The projected Black and White label set will be 12 CDs at most, focusing on jazz content, and will include artists such as progressive big-band leaders Gerald Wilson and Earle Spencer, pianists Art Hodes, Cliff Jackson, and Willie the Lion Smith, vocalist Helen Humes, and clarinetists Barney Bigard and Joe Marsala. Saxophonist Jack McVea and some other musicians whose recordings for Black and White fall more into an R and B or blues category will not be included; neither will several jazz sides, such as saxophonist Charlie Ventura’s, that were sold for release on other labels, or recorded for other labels and then sold to Black and White (such as the recordings that Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie made with Red Norvo for Comet, subsequently licensed to Black and White)." Are the Jack McVea sides that much R&B? I can understand they omit T-Bone Walker as they covered these a long time ago. And is it really enough for "at most" 12 CDs?

To me, Keezer is the greatest jazz piano talent to appear on the scene in the last thirty years. He has such great technical abilities, but the focus always is on the music, and it all sounds so easy, as if he only has to slightly touch the keys. Amazing.

June 28, to be exact ;-) Maybe PC came in a long sleeve shirt like Klook and it was getting hot, no big deal. I like the casualty of that shot. Even the scenes with musicians talking etc. taken at Blue Not sessions always look a little posed. Who took that photo? Different photographers, different producers, different approaches.

I pull this out every few years ever since I got the Rhino CD reissue, but still don't know whether I like it or not. I dig Max, as always, but the pianist somehow doesn't reach me.

Agreed: Elbling sur lie - Weingut Ernst Hein

Much better than I thought. Hank Jones is superb here, and the four bonus tracks from Gene Ammons sessions are nice.

Couldn't find anything of that type in the Tom Lord Discography.

I'm shocked. He was 70 years of age. I saw him perform with Double Image, the band with his mallet buddy David Friedman, and he always looked younger than his age. R.I.P.

Now spinning some Gene Ammons while checking the discographical details. I didn't expect completeness from this box, but it happens to include all the EmArcy sides that were missing in my collection. But all the early Jug CDs on Chess or Prestige omit some tracks. Only the Chronoilogical Classics seem to be complete but need to be amended by Tom Archia and Sonny Stitt compilations. Oh well ...

Just saw, btw, that there was a reissue on LP in Italy: https://www.discogs.com/Johnny-Richards-The-Rites-Of-Diablo/release/4916803 - don`t ask me whether or not it is legit. But it could well be, as all the music they (So Far Out) reissued is from EMI associated labels.

On to the next two LPs ..... it`s years since I listened to some of that box.