mikeweil

I read the Dameron book on my Kindle last year - plenty of new insights into the man's life and work. A few days ago I finished Sheila E. memoir - she tells about many nasty habits in the pop business .....

Earlier today: Just finished:

"Sweer Bebop" - oh, that's a nice melody without that hectic dee-doodle-de-be-bap stuff, right?"

I have that CD and know what the credits say, but my ears tell me differently - no need to turn your flat upside down to find it. Exactly. As I said I have that CD and know Hendricks' liner notes, which are the same on the LP and CD, but would like to know whether there are personnel credits on the LP.

The Tjader LP was recorded February to May, 1962. Henderson's "Page One" was recorded in June, 1963. "So Danço Samba" was recorded December, 1964. Exact release dates of these albums are hard to find, but the Tjader should have been out by the time Dorham recorded with Henderson. TTK, you're thinking about "Vai Querer"?

"Blue Bossa" was Kenny Dorham's tune. Now could he have heard the "So Danço Samba" LP? No idea ....

Perhaps they wanted to avoid a mixup with "Manha de Carnaval" by Luiz Bonfa. Charlie Byrd recorded a tune "Carnaval" for Riverside on his "Latin Impressions" LP in 1962, and this is the Bonfa tune.

Thanks!

I need to know what the exact personnel credits on the back cover of that album were. Discogs only has the front cover. I can't seem to find the original back cover on the web. The music was, if the disographical sources I have access to are correct, recorded at three sessions, with the Adderley Brothers on the third. Since they were under contract with Riverside they appeared as "Blockbuster on alto sax and his brother on cornet". Obviously it is taken for granted that Cannonball plays all alto sax solos on this session Pony Poindexter was credited for alto sax and vocals on the other two, but is omitted from the third session. But the alto sax style I hear on the third session is not Cannonball, but Pony Poindexter - while researching Poindexter's discography during the last three months I have listened to most of his recordings and know his style very well, and in his autobiography he also writes about the tracks that were his feature numbers. The only Cannonball solo I hear is the opening theme on "Music In The Air". As I said everybody seems to take it for granted that Cannonball is the soloist, but think this is wrong. They even changed the front cover for the 2006 CD reissue: On the cover, left to right: Gildo Mahones, Wes & Monk Montgomery, Pony Poindexter, Natt Adderley, Jon Hendricks, presumably Bill Perkins (who shook a tambourine on some tracks), Cannonball Adderley. Anybody with good ears is asked to listen and tell me what they think about the sax soloist, and anybody with the original LP please tell me what it says about the personnel for the tracks in question (my own discographical version below): Date: probably October 1959 Location: Fugazi Hall, San Francisco, CA Label: World Pacific A Good Git-Together Jon Hendricks (ldr), Julian 'Cannonball' Adderley, Pony Poindexter (as), Nat Adderley (c), Wes Montgomery (g), Gildo Mahones (p), Monk Montgomery (eb), Walter Bolden (d), Bill Perkins (tam), Jon Hendricks (v) a. Music In The Air - 3:56(Jon Hendricks) b. Pretty Strange [lyric version] - 2:42(Randy Weston, Jon Hendricks) c. The Shouter - 5:02(Gildo Mahones, Jon Hendricks) d. Social Call [lyric version] - 2:20(Gigi Gryce, Jon Hendricks) e. Out Of The Past [lyric version] - 4:54(Benny Golson, Jon Hendricks) All titles on: World Pacific LP 12"WP-1283 — A Good Git-Together Vogue LP 12"LAE 12-231 — A Good Git-Together Pacific Jazz CD0946 3 69812 2 2 — A Good Git-Together LoneHill Jazz CDLHJ10133 — A Good Git-Together Jasmine CDJASMCD 2612 — A Good Git-Together - 2 Original Albums Essential Jazz Classics CDEJC55482 — Wes Montgomery - Cannonball Adderley And The Poll Winners Bill Perkins (tam) on c. Solos: a - Julian 'Cannonball' Adderley (as) Theme; Jon Hendricks (v) Theme; Pony Poindexter (as); Wes Montgomery (g); Jon Hendricks (v) scat; Gildo Mahones (p); Jon Hendricks (v) Theme b - Jon Hendricks (v) Theme; Pony Poindexter (as) obligato c - Jon Hendricks (v) scat; Pony Poindexter (as); Wes Montgomery (g); Gildo Mahones (p); Jon Hendricks (v) scat during fadeout d - Pony Poindexter (as); Wes Montgomery (g) e - Pony Poindexter (as); Wes Montgomery (g)

The problem about believing is, you believe what you want to believe. That goes for science, too.

If there ever was one real jazz entertainer, it was Slim Gaillard. But Isla Eckinger has a hard time remembering that music is fun, too. I would have had a ball playing that gig, and for me, music is a deadly serious thing, too.

Nice to see this will include the MGM sides, too .... were these associated with Granz? Some were reissued on Verve Gaillard LPs. That said, I count 20 MGM Gaillard tracks in the Lord disco - four of them unissued. that makes the 16 to be included in this new issue. I wonder about the discographical details.

That's what I would have recommended ..... if their construction allows them to be flipped.

Thanks for posting this - I had given up on this, but I am delighted and pre-ordered.

My LP shelves are made by Lundia (the company IKEA copied their shelf system Ivar from). I have them for 35 years now, fully loaded, one foot two inches deep, two feet 8 inches wide, and no warping whatsoever. Solid spruce, a little more than half an inch thick. No support. There are books on the selves, too, which are even heavier. If the wood is selected with some care, there should be no warping. My girlfriend at the time alerted me to them. It can be assembled without drilling or screws (except for securing them with a wall attachment), can be taken apart and mounted differently in a room with different dimensions. When I moved the last time I took a list of all the parts I had and a sketch of the living room to the dealer, and he sat down with me and in one and a half hour we had a new design using all the parts and a minimum of extra shelves to be ordered. No idea if they have US distribution, but there should be something similar.

R.I.P. - he really had it down. Spinning some of his albums right now.

Thanks for that info - I will have to add Collins to the personnel of that session in which Tjader played drums. The second revised edition of S. Duncan Reid's Tjader bio with my disco is coming up sooner than we thought.

Inspired by Larry Kart's thread on Dick Collins.

Cal Tjader engaged the Herman trumpet section with Dick Collins for a 1954 session, the first ever that Fantasy recorded in stereo, it is part of "Tjader Plays Mambo". However the trumpets do not solo. Dick and his brother Bob both were members of Dave Brubeck's Octet which Tjader joined in 1948; trombonist Bob and Tjader were close friends and shared a sailboat. Will have a look for those RCA albums.

Just sent sixty bucks, if you need more, just let me know. Looking forward to connecting.