mikeweil

BTW, Chris: Are you aware you're next on the test masters list?

Anyone here that has the Fritz the Cat Soundtrack LP or its CD reissue on Fantasy? Cal Tjader is reported to have played on Mamblues. Is there any personnel for this track on the liner, details about the recording date and studio? Or is this the version Tjader recorded September 21, 1954 - this one runs 2:24 - and first released on the Tjader Plays Mambo or Mambo With Tjader LPs? Thanks as always!

BTW - with that disc recorder I will finally make my own custom CDs of these sessions in recording order with all takes included - thanks for reminding me of this mess!

After comparing takes from the box set and my OJC CD of Portrait: The 6:16 take mistitled Movin' Along on the LP is the one recorded at the October session left off the box set. That's why I kept my single CD of Portrait - everything else but these four takes is on the box set.

Thanks for the kind offer - the chicken pox struck me (at 51!) and I thought I'd have some time to get used to BRIAN, but a friend offered me to lend his disc recorder to transfer some LPs, so ..... plus I have headaches part of the time so my mind is not quite working the way it should. On a base note, I find it ridiculous that Keepnews left off four well known takes from the box set for the plain reason he messed up decades ago! And it wasn't even his fault, at least not his alone - or was it? He should have listed them in the set discography, at least. Trying to re-write history .... I, for one, like the groove on the earlier version of Lolita much better - although I can see Wes preferred a more subtle approach. But I think this was one more occasion where he was over-critical with himself.

I'm not familiar enough with Tadd's bio to say .....

Thanks a lot, Mike, for contacting Avakian - this sheds a lot of light on this.

Same here .....

I wish I had the time to listen more thoroughly before the answers were posted - this would have been a lot of fun. I have the Tony Williams disc and remember I was reminded of this by some track at first listen, although my thoughts went tworads the Great Jazz Trio records; have the Bennie Wallace, and like it - wonder if I would have got it ....

Now that could be the right direction - Tadd's Riverside was mainly reworkings of known tunes. Bill Hardman unearthed a tune or two every now and then from a trunk at the Dameron house, though .... but Alfred Lion insisting on an album of entirely new tunes, that would fit into the picture!

I agree that this is one of Abercrombie's best sessions, and one of the great organ trio sessions of its time. Bought the LP right away and the CD as well when it was issued. Jan Hammer is great on any keyboard, IMHO - the closest to this would be Elvin Jones Is On The Mountain (P.M. Records) with Hammer, Gene Perla, and Elvin, as far as Hammer's intensity is concerned, but he plays acoustic piano or Rhodes only on this one. Hammer recorded on organ before for MPS, but this is a very rare LP recorded live at the Domicile in Munich. I, too, was disappointed when Night was released - Brecker was superfluous on that one. I love Jan Hammer, have most of his jazzier efforts, the Steve Grossman LPs, the duets with David Earle Johnson ..... I wish they would have continued this trio, oh yes.

... and did Columbia at that time issue any recordings not made in their studios and supervised by a producer of their choice? Who produced all of these sessions - Mike, do you know (of course you do!)? Even if the Transition sessions fit in, where is the Mobley album involved? Is there any report about the modalities of the initial Columbia contract - how long, how many albums?

From me, too!

Looks more like a senior moment ... What was issued, in the end, was one Jazz Messengers LP, two Blakey LPs and one Silver LP. Looks like a two or three year, four album contract. The problem was that the collectively led band broke up after that fabulous first Columbia LPs with three albums still left to record - and things looked pretty bad for Blakey when Mobley, Byrd and Watkins went with Horace ..... I know that doesn't answer your question, but that's what I found at our master chronologist's site:

That's a good one! Same goes for Farrell's Outback with Corea. Did they even play the same instrument in RVG's studio? Those Farrell albums on CTI are all good but pretty neglected as far as CD reissues are concerned.

That's the one and only problem I have with them.

Your previous US incarnation?

German NTV reporters watched busses leaving New Orleans empty or half-empty and even watched one convoi stopping a few hundred yards before a group of people and turning around without picking them up!

The problem is, Orrin Keepnews was plagued by his bad conscience for decades: After Wes' next-to-last session for Riverside he had test pressings made of the takes selected with Wes' agreement, but after listening Wes wanted to re-do some tunes - thus the November session. But before the album was issued Riverside went out of business and the new owners released the LP as assembled on the test pressing. Here's what I found after meticulous comparisons of takes while reseaerching Melvin Rhyne's recordings (I'm sorry that some of the formatting is fouled up - but I'm a little feverish - some day I will type all of this into BRIAN ......) p.s. added timings

I'll answer that one. The session was never completed. Only four tunes were cut (about 20 minutes) so it would never have been feasible as an LP. The "Lost Sessions" CD includes these four excellent tunes, plus a few other orphans from unfinished sessions by Charlie Rouse, Duke Pearson, Sonny Stitt & Dexter Gordon, Ike Quebec, Fred Jackson, & Herbie Hancock. Well worth picking up. ← So far, so good, but that still does not explain why they did not throw in some more rehearsal and recording sessions and complete the album .....

Discs arrived here today - some challenging choices!

This is mine right now: So what are you looking at when it's not forum posts ? (No offensive stuff, please ..... I know how bad some tastes are ..... )

I have them all, and love them all. I'd suggest you buy them in backward session order, to follow up a listening session of the Mosaic programmed backward .....

Gordon Beck played a Hohner Electra piano, and I found it sounded very nice with him. There is an interesting Nucleus record with Beck pure Electra sound opposite Dave McRae playing a Rhodes with fuzz and wah-wah pedals - great stuff.

My all time favourite Rhodes playing is on Herbie Hancock's three Warner Bros. albums.