mikeweil

I remember some Duke Ellington cover where he holds an LP, but can't find it .....

If you consider what is fashionable as jazz tenor sax in recent years, and how consistently excellent but unspectacular musicians like him are treated by most of the music industry, he might feel lucky he has that job. I saw him live with Cedar Walton and have quite a few CDs he plays on - all you can ask for. But ...

Are you goin' to sell it once you've reached letter "o"?

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That's one sexy hat!

Thanks, Chris - as I was born in 1954 this was a bit before I developped my listening habits. Must have been a funny place - Meyer Gustel - can't recall ever seeing a place like this in Wiesbaden.

Since Mongo is his conga, he's in the bag!

The Moment - Reservoir An excellent trio date with Barron and Ben Riley is Red Mitchell's "Talking" on Capri - audiophile sound, too.

Chris, you were stationed in Frankfurt? I was born there, and listening to AFN almost daily fo several years. What year was that theme song played, and in which show?

I once bought a Jo Stafford CD just to hear her based on Lester Young's recommendation. R.I.P.

Now why is this (very interesting) thread in the Hammond Zone???

Thanks all, got my copy of "For Lady" this morning, and saw the credits like you posted. A Webster Young session, no doubt. And I agree, he sounds a bit shaky in spots. Still, a very nice album, and one of the most fitting Lady Day tributes of all. BTW - the CD already bears the Universal imprint, so this was re-pressed and is not in danger to become deleted.

I have a Fresh Sound LP reissue - there was a CD reissue in the Original Jazz Classics series: Fresh Sound has three piano trio CDs available, none of them in my collection - good heavens!

I'm afraid you're right .... oh my aching credit line ....

This one? One of my favourite Ellington albums - great combination of players!

Sorry to hear this - always enjoyed his LPs for Contemporary, and especially that organ trio LP with Harold Land for HiFiJazz. Good, solid player - I will pull out some of his albums later today. R.I.P.

exactly here.

Still thinking about the For Lady album: Didn't Mal Waldron write some, arrangements and/or tunes? Now he was Lady Day's last pianist. The more I think about it, the more it looks like an all-star tribute to Lady Day, with as many players on it that actually performed with her as possible for a label like Prestige. Waldron and Quinichette is a pretty good choice! Webster Young just happens to be the first name on the cover and we tend to think of trumpeters as leaders ... I am aware it is listed as Young's date in the Prestige disco, just some thinking out aloud.

Well, I will know in a week or two - found a copy at a decent price.

He was born in 1932, so he had a chance to see her perform. Paul Quinichette definitely did play and record with Lady Day - this LP was part of a series of dates he did for Prestige at the time. Maybe they just didn't want to list him as a leader or co-leader each time. To me that cover, I mean the way the names are laid out, resembles these Prestige All-Star dates. Too bad I don't have that LP anymore ... did Young write any of the tunes, or Quinichette?

As that issue is on LRC, I'd be suspicious about the sound - most LRCs I have heard were inferior in sound to other issues of the same material. As I said, the LRC of the Vanguard material sounds terrible.

Just my thoughts - substitute congas for the trap sets!