mikeweil

ubu, expect a letter next week with a Bruyninckx disco printout.

That sure looks tasty .... do they make non-alcoholic beer as well? p.s. I just imagined two dozen board members collectively flooding New York's biggest record store at one of the annual organissimo conventions ...

Each member his own couwatar!!! A serious case of animatitis, of epidemic dimensions.

Their Concord distribution deal ended several years ago, AFAIK they're out of the jazz business completely now. The CDs rarely turn up on ebay Germany, collectors here keep them!

Sure would make a nice Legacy CD I would buy without hesitation!

I'll have my tape recorder running, thankx a lot, ubu!!! Didn't work out, damn, somehow my tuner had deleted all pre-programmed radio frequencies.

Oh jeez ... where is this going to end ??? I really know how hard it is picking material for only one disc, I could easily fill three of them - considering we all are at it about once in two or three years, it is reasonable - so I'd say go ahead Jim!!! Any distributor in the old world needed?

Oh yeah, Eddie was open on all sides. Cool, hard bop, funky, he had it all down, and he was one of the most humorous musicians I ever saw. I miss him. One of the few who really got kicks from making fun of himself and everybody around - and that for sure wasn't commercial.

Keep the soul stream running! We have to, who else can? I feel downhearted myself, after two weeks of straining rehearsals for a (successful) gig and an even more straining three days demo recording session afterwards. Right now I feel like I need a break from that band, from any band, but you got to make a living ...

The UA session was produced by Alan Douglas and arranged by Teacho Wiltshire, recorded by Bill Schwartau at Sound Mixers in New York in September, 1962. The Aladdin session was recorded at Capitol Studios, L.A. in October, 1956, no engineer or producer credited. I'm pretty sure Michael Cuscuna would have found out if possible when preparing the Blue Note King Pleasure CD. The Golden Days session (originally on HiFiJazz, now owned by Fantasy) I have only on the old Prestige twofer LP, which says it was produced by David Axelrod, but gives neither engineer nor studio. Are these credited on the OJC reissue? Thus we have three versions of Moody's Mood For Love with Ann Onimous; only Blossom Dearie was credited on the first Prestige recording. The Ann Onimous singers do not sound like prolific jazz singers. If they had some importance, they would have insisted, like Jon Hendricks on the UA LP version of Don't Get Scared. BTW, by purchasing three CDs one has King Pleasure's entire recorded output: I'd say get the Blue Note before it's OOP, it has his rarest recordings.

I say it again: couw is the master couwatar animator!!!

I think that was the issue I listened to, in a shop in Munich. What do you think about that date?

I have these on a Warner UK twofer CD # 9362478742. Amazon UK

Some tunes from The Grand Wazoo or Waka/Jawaka albums would make nice blowing tunes, I guess. There have been Zappa arrangements by European classical ensembles in recent years, for woodwind quintet, large woodwind + percussion band, and for baroque ensemble - the latter is intriguing: Ensemble Ambrosius

Beaucoup de congrats and thankx from me too - let's try and make it 100.000 posts by the end of the year!!!! ... and if you ever need some dough to keep the board up - go ahead!

We should name these ditties couwatars, not avatars!!!

That particular Lateef is a compilation. The latter was not a Frank Wess session but another compilation featuring several Wess tracks.

These AMG guys drive me crazy: so he plays liner notes! and accompaniment! With all likelihood he doesn't solo on the Roy Brown dates. Here's a listing of the first LP issues: New Jazz 8218 Yusef Lateef - Other Sounds New Jazz 8234 Yusef Lateef - Cry! Tender New Jazz 8261 Yusef Lateef - The Sounds of Yusef Prestige 7122 Yusef Lateef - The Sounds of Yusef Prestige 7243 John Coltrane - Standard Coltrane Prestige 7268 John Coltrane - Stardust Prestige 7353 John Coltrane - Bahia Prestige 7398 Yusef Lateef - The Sounds of Yusef Savoy MG 12117 Yusef Lateef Savoy MG 12120 Yusef Lateef Savoy MG 12123 Yusef Lateef Savoy MG 12127 Wilbur Harden / Tommy Flanagan - Mainstream 1958 Savoy MG 12131 Wilbur Harden - Jazz Way Out Savoy MG 12134 Wilbur Harden - The King and I Savoy MG 12136 Wilbur Harden - Tanganyika Strut Savoy MG 12164 Curtis Fuller - Images

I'm currently attempting to write a discography of Harden, but due to the enormous number of reissues of the stuff with Coltrane this will take some more time. Besides some early sessions with R&B groups there are his sessions with Yusef Lateef for Prestige and Savoy and one with John Coltrane (complete on the Prestige Stardust Session CD) and his own four dates, all for Savoy, and the one issued track from the abandoned Curtis Fuller Savoy date (on Images). That's all there is ...

OH MY GOD !!! Yet another series by some subsidiary company, instead on one doing it right!!! That aside, the David Newman is one to get, an excellent debut. I hunted the Christlieb/Marsh for many years until I got an LP; Lou Levy told about the unissued material in an interview. Glad they include it. The Stitt plays Bird is great, Lewis plays as humorous as can be, Hall is great, Davis and Kay swing like mad. If the Swiss Movement were in concert order ...... Brownie, please keep us informed! Thanks!

That's a good one!

Me too - thanks for the pointers!

I had the Mosaic and sold it on ebay after re-buying Back to the Tracks, True Blue & The Waiting Game on CD. Minor MOve was the session I played the least often - it has a vibe of Lee Morgan, Sonny Clark & Art Blakey showing the shy youngster where the hammer hangs - and the ride cymbal was recorded too hotz and sounds distorted. To me, not one of the most successfull 1950's Blue Note sessions. I have almost all of Tina, and find Back to the Tracks, True Blue and Street Singer to be the indispensable ones. And yes, the disco in the Mosaic is complete - that's all there is, there ain't no mo'! The Felsted Howard McGhee probably is the one that's most difficult to find - but I once listened to a reissue CD and was a little disappointed.

The Keepnews liner notes in the Savoy double CD are about as much as you can find. Harden's last recording was the aborted Curtis Fuller session during which he "fell ill". Only one track was releasable.

His recordings with Coltrane were chosen as Album of the Week some time ago. Click here, there's some info along the discussion.