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  5. "Listening to the Savory Collection With Loren Schoenberg

    in Jazz Radio & Podcasts

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    Bump. I was in New York last week and spent a morning (and part of an afternoon!) listening to the Savory recordings and talking to Loren Schoenberg at the National Museum of Jazz in Harlem. It's really just a large room with a few offices, but I became a patron/member anyway to do what I could. The recordings are...simply...fantastic. After four hours, I had barely touched the surface (there are five DAYS of music). Highlights included a "Fats Waller Block Jam" with Teagarden and Pee Wee Russell that included "I'm Coming Virginia," "Blues," and "Honeysuckle Rose," the three of them lasting a total of over 20 minutes. There was a gorgeous little version of "Star Dust" by Herschel Evans, a fabulous jam session by Bunny Berigan with members of the Lunceford band. The Teagarden material alone could occupy most of a cd. Several versions of "Strange Fruit" with Billie Holiday, and music from Adrian Rollini, Albert Ammons, Tatum, Shaw, lots and lots of Benny Goodman, Cab Calloway, Bob Crosby, Chick Webb, Hawk, Basie, Django, Ellington, Norvo, Krupa, John Kirby, Hampton, Satch, Stuff Smith, Teddy Wilson, Lennie Tristano among others.

    Loren told me that the big problem was with the estates, some of which just won't respond at all, including the Goodman estate with which you'd think he'd have an in. I guess there's also a big problem with the union (even though only three of the sidemen on the various recordings are still living). Otherwise, he said he's got the music ready to go.

    It is so frustrating. This music is an absolute treasure trove, and anybody who can should call and schedule a time to go in and hear it. Of course, it desperately needs to be released. To his credit, Schoenberg is working very, very hard to do it, but he appears to be something of a one-man show. I told him I'd post something about it here. Maybe some of you out there know people from the various estates (especially Goodman and Calloway) and can get them moving. It's not like there's any money to be made from these things. This stuff just HAS to be released!

    gregmo

    thanks, gregmo, for your report. it is mouthwatering!!! and a shame at the same point!!! about the circumstances to release this important material! let´s hope that we can all hear this historical recordings one day!

    keep boppin´

    marcel

  12. R.I.P. Werner Wunderlich (1926-2013)

    in Jazz Radio & Podcasts

    Posted

    i know him personal as the follower of "dr. jazz" dietrich schulz-köhn and his wdr (cologne) radio show "die rauhe rille" where listeners could wish jazz records from the big record archive of dr. jazz. there were anual meetings of fans of this radio-show with dr. jazz and one time with werner wunderlich when he was introduced as follower of schulz-köhn. those kind of radio shows are not anymore on the air...

    r.i.p.

    keep boppin´

    marcel

  14. 1940s Jazz Photos

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    i think i saw most of the mili jam session photos somewhere in color and not in black and white.

    keep boppin´

    marcel

    Indeed...

    http://jazzlives.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/gjon-milis-1943-jam-session/

    yes, this are the ones! reading the text and found out that there are two jam sessions. the black and white´s are from the second mili jam and the colors are from the first. it seems that the second jam was recorded (according to the text and to richard s. sears´s book "v-discs, a history and discography". imagine! somewhere must be this recordings...

    keep boppin´

    marcel

  18. Ode to the Hep label

    in Re-issues

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    great, if not sensational news for all bunny berigan fans: according to michael p. zirpolo, author of a book about bunny berigan hep records will release some unissued airchecks of bunny berigan this summer:

    "ANNOUNCEMENT!
    It is with great pleasure that I am able to announce that an agreement has been reached between the University of Wisconsin and Alastair Robertson of Hep Records, which will allow previously unissued aircheck and other recordings made by Bunny Berigan in the late 1930s that are housed in the University’s Mills Music Library to be sonically restored, digitally remastered, and issued on the Hep label for worldwide distribution and sale.
    Very soon, the acetate disks on which these recordings were made will be shipped from Madison, Wisconsin to sonic engineer Doug Pomeroy in New York City for digital transfers to be made, sonic restoration, and remastering. After that has been done, the acetates will be returned to the Mills Music Library, and the digitally remastered sound files will be sent to Alastair Robertson in Scotland. Mr. Robertson will then begin the production process.
    The contemplated CD issue, which we hope will be out this coming summer, will include previously unissued Berigan recordings made while Bunny and his band were at the Hotel Pennsylvania in the spring of 1937, the Paradise Restaurant in the spring of 1938, possibly a recording from their stay at Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan in October of 1938, and a recording that seems to have been made in a studio in the fall of 1938. “I hope to include at least a dozen previously unissued performances on this CD,” said Mr. Robertson recently. “I have heard dubs of the acetates that have not been optimally transferred or sonically restored. Although there is much great playing on them by Bunny and they are pretty good soundwise, until I get the final digital transfers that have been cleaned-up by Doug Pomeroy, I cannot say with certainty exactly how many of them will be of sufficient sound quality for commercial issue. But I hope that the CD will have at least a dozen previously unissued tracks on it. The balance of the tracks on the CD will be rare but previously issued airchecks that all have excellent Berigan playing on them, and range in sound quality from very good to excellent. My objective with this CD is to present as much previously unissued Berigan music as possible in the best sound possible with the best Berigan playing possible.”
    Among the musicians who will be heard with Bunny on this CD are: Buddy Rich, George Wettling, Johnny Blowers, drums; Georgie Auld, tenor sax; Joe Dixon, Gus Bivona, Joe DiMaggio, alto sax and clarinet; Sonny Lee and Ray Conniff, trombone; Joe Bushkin and Buddy Koss, piano.
    I will assist Mr. Robertson in any way I can with the production of this CD. I will be writing the liner notes, compiling the necessary information about each selection, and providing the photos that will be used.
    I will provide continuous reports on the progress of this project on the “Mr. Trumpet” website. You can also go to www.hepjazz.com and scroll down to “Hep Jazz News,” and click.
    MICHAEL P. ZIRPOLO"
    great news, indeed!!!
    keep boppin´
    marcel

  25. Q. Jones Orchestra personnel, Europe 1960

    in Discography

    Posted

    yes, yes, yes, another unreleased release by tcb records:

    135960.jpg

    N.K. COLE - Q. JONES BIG BAND - LIVE IN ZURICH 196

    Reference: TCB-135960

    As a singer, Nat ‘King’ Cole had a voice that enthralled audiences around the world for more than two decades and earned him success in the pop charts with a string of hit singles and albums on Capitol Records. What has remained underappreciated though, certainly among popular music fans, is that Nat was also an incredible jazz musician. His dexterity at the piano put him at the top of the critics’ and readers’ polls of magazines such as DownBeat who inducted him, posthumously, into the DownBeat Hall of Fame. Nat’s incredible phrasing, timing and perfect pitch, were the very cornerstones of a vocal style born out of his prowess as a jazz musician.

    On this rare and recently discovered concert recording from the archives of Swiss Radio, the balance between Nat’s pop and jazz output can be said to have been redressed. Jazz fans aplenty will be enthralled to hear the generous portions of Nat’s piano playing, and then equally enthralled by the added bonus of an all-star Quincy Jones Big Band in attendance. Whether in full-flight with the big band hanging on his coattails or in the intimacy of his trio, the performances captured on this CD are absolute treasures to be heard and appreciated, time and time again.

    PERSONNEL:

    NAT KING COLE, piano & voice

    BENNY BAILEY, ROGER GUÉRIN LENNY JOHNSON & FLOYD STANDIFER, trumpet

    JIMMY CLEVELAND, AKE PERSSON, MELBA LISTON & QUENTIN JACKSON, trombones

    JULIUS WATKINS, french horn

    PHIL WOODS, PORTER KILBERT BUDD JOHNSON,

    JEROME RICHARDSON & SAHIB SHIHAB, saxes

    PATTI BROWN, piano

    BUDDY CATLETT, bass

    JOE HARRIS, drums

    Kongresshaus Zürich, May 1, 1960

    TRACKS:

    01 Quincy Jones announcement

    02 Moanin

    03 The Midnight Sun Will Never Set

    04 Airmail Special

    05 Unforgettable

    06 Madrid

    07 Tea For Two

    08 Laura

    09 On The Sunny Side Of The Street

    10 The Phantom Blues

    11 Lester Leaps In

    12 Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup

    13 It’s Only A Paper Moon

    14 Sweet Lorraine

    15 Route 66

    16 Joe Turner Blues

    17 Interview Nat ‘King’ Cole-Lance Tschannen

    keep boppin´

    marcel

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