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More July 3rd: 1959: The Jazz Couriers (Tubby Hayes, Ronnie Scott)- The Last Word (Tempo) 1962: Paul Desmond & Gerry Mulligan- Two of a Mind (BLuebird) 1971: Dave Brubeck & Gerry Mulligan- Last Set at Newport (Atlantic)

Both copies?!

Hmm... that would make a lot more sense! But Alan's tune is still there on the current CD even though the website still claims it had been erased. So... has the switch escaped even ESP's attention??!! Feels like we're getting somewhere now! Thanks, Mike! Bring on that 4 track CD!!

Many thanks, Brownie! So it seems 'Exhibition' was only on the original pressings of ESP1022 and hasn't been on any versions since. 'Mephistopheles' is well worth having if you pick up the current version. Hopefully the rumoured ESP reissue project will find room for both! ... and maybe, just maybe, the engineer forgot to hit the erase button on that Wayne track...

That site also has a third cover shot... Slightly less enigmatic, but kinda cool!

Thanks for that Brownie! It's strange... I was wondering about that cover (used as the cover on the current ESP issue) as it's different to the one I have, an enigmatic blurry black & white shot (this was apparently the original cover) Actually, the mystery has deepened since discovering this site: http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~schneide/mar...ownquartet.html According to this, all issues of the album after 1975 replaced track 3, 'Exhibition' with 'Mephistopheles', an Alan Shorter tune (and checking just now, it is indeed the same tune recorded by Wayne on 'The All Seeing Eye') but most versions (including the one I have, the Italian Abraxas CD) continue to list 'Exhibition'... So has 'Exhibition' never been issued on CD? Was it only on the original LP? And is Bennie Maupin on it?! I may be more confused now than when I started...

Just been playing the CD 'Marion Brown Quartet' a/k/a "Capricorn Moon' (originally ESP 1022) and was reminded of something regarding this album that had slipped my mind. The tracks are- 1) Capricorn Moon 2) 27 Cooper Square 3) Exhibition The personnel as listed on the booklet's reproduction of the LP sleeve is Brown (as); Alan Shorter (t); Ronnie Boykins & Reggie Johnson (b); Rashied Ali (perc).... ... and Benny [sic] Maupin- saxophone Maupin is listed as playing on Exhibition but appears to be absent. Shorter is heard, but not listed. Thought I'd go to the ESP website for clarification and found this: In November, 1965, Marion Brown made his recording debut as leader on ESP at the RLA Studio, Richard Alderson Engineer. The session went well. At one point, B was told that they had just recorded a composition by Wayne Shorter. B called Wayne and asked whether ESP could publish the composition. Wayne refused. Richard Alderson was directed to erase the recording , and the session went forward with compositions by Marion Brown. It was ESP policy to publish all composition by artists making their debut on the label. No incident of this nature ever occurred again on an ESP recording session. So, what was Bennie Maupin's involvement (if any)? Did he play on the (erased!) Shorter tune or is there more from these sessions? Any ideas?

Also July 2nd; 1928: Chicago Footwarmers (Johnny Dodds, Kid Ory, Natty Dominique, Baby Dodds, etc) record for Okeh 1941: Gene Krupa with Roy Eldridge records for Okeh 1942: Jay McShann Orchestra (with Charlie Parker) records for Decca (Sepian Bounce, Jumpin' Blues, etc) 1947: Sarah Vaughan with the George Treadwell Orchestra records for Musicraft 1962: Roland Kirk appears at Newport (a single track is included in the Rahsaan box set) 1964: Sonny Rollins records for Victor (Standard Sonny Rollins, etc) 1973 (July 2nd & 3rd) Oregon- Distant Hills (Vanguard) 1974: Cecil Taylor live in Montreal- Silent Tongues (Freedom) 1975: Sonny Stitt- My Buddy (Muse) 1985: Keith Jarrett Trio- Standards Live (ECM) 1993: (through to July 4th) Esbjorn Svensson Trio- When Everyone Has Gone (Dragon)

Grammy Winner Luther Vandross Dies at 54 By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY AP Music Writer July 01, 2005 Grammy award winner Luther Vandross, whose deep, lush voice on hits like "Here and Now" and "Any Love" sold more than 25 million albums while providing the romantic backdrop for millions of couples worldwide, died Friday. He was 54. Vandross died at 1:47 p.m. at the John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Edison, N.J., said hospital spokesman Rob Cavanaugh. Cavanaugh did not release the cause of death. Since suffering a stroke in his Manhattan home on April 16, 2003, the R&B crooner stopped making public appearances - but amazingly managed to continue his recording career. In 2004, he captured four Grammys as a sentimental favorite, including best song for the bittersweet "Dance With My Father."

This is indeed sad news...

Jeez, Bertrand... do you have any idea how difficult it is to open this Hancock box??! There's a few more tracks with Wayne: Para Oriente Domo medley: Stella by Starlight/ On Green Dolphin Street (all from Live Under the Sky) Eighty-One (from Tempest in the Colosseum) Live Under the Sky was reissued recently as a 2cd set and is well worth picking up if you haven't already. Not sure about Tempest. If you have those, you're really not missing much in the box. Apart from trying to open the damn thing!

As well as the rise of the 'jazz composer' in hte late 50s/ early 60s it may also have a lot to do with the conditions that jazz is played under. Many of the tunes we think of as standards became so during the swing and bebop eras, when the culture of the jam session/ cutting competition/ sit-in/ pick-up group was commonplace and musicians who may not have worked together before could find common ground instantly by playing (for want of a better term) a 'pop' tune of the day. As the training ground for jazz musicians- the clubs- declined the opportunities for spontaneous music-making went with it and so did the need for instantly playable tunes. To put it another way, if 52nd Street was still a row of jazz clubs, maybe we'd still have jazz standards.

I'm not quite sure that's comping, as Barron's basically the whole band there, but it is some truly great music. ← Oh, on 'People Time' Barron does a whole lot more than 'comp'.... I was thinking more of the later quartet albums, like 'Anniversary' and 'Serenity'. He really seems to tune in to Getz on a telepathic level (which must be scary in itself! ).

Yep, disc 1 of the original VSOP LP is: Piano introduction/ Maiden Voyage/ Nefertiti/ Eye of the Hurricane so that would be the whole quintet set. The only unissued thing in the boxed set is a version of 'Red Clay' with the VSOP quintet recorded July 18, 1977 in San Diego.

I knew this sounded familiar... Anyone remember that episode of The Simpsons where incompetent breakfast show DJs Bill and Marty are threatened with being replaced by the DJ3000? Radio station boss: It plays CDs automatically and it has three distinct varieties of inane chatter (Presses 'inane chatter' button on DJ3000) DJ3000: Hey, hey, how about that weather out there? Woah! That was the caller from hell! Bill: Wow, that thing's great! Marty: Don't praise the machine... DJ3000: Looks like those clowns in congress did it again. What a bunch of clowns. Bill: How does it keep up with the news like that?

How about Kenny Barron? Especially on the late period Getz stuff.

Yep, they're the same versions as on VSOP

July 1: 1935: Benny Goodman for Victor 1940: Gene Krupa for Okeh 1963: Eric Dolphy and Richard Davis record Alone Together, Come Sunday & Ode to C.P., issued on Iron Man/ Conversations (Douglas) 1966: Paul Bley- Ramblin' (BYG)

It's pretty big... But you should have seen the one that got away...

I'll add a couple to that list: Form (Contemporary/ OJC) from the year after 'Sail Away' again with Lovano plus Danilo Perez, Charlie Haden & Paul Motion Passages (Chesky) from 1992 with Lovano, Perez & Motion again And, if you have the earlier version of Sail Away without the bonus tracks, try hunting down 'Visions' (Contemporary, I believe OOP) a compilation of outtakes and live cuts that includes 'April Mist', a very attractive tune that ought to be a modern standard.

Jack? What the hell is Jack?! Jack and Chill?! -_-

Some good choices so far... I'm gonna put in a word for Wynton Kelly.

The label was Swing (founded by Charles Delauney). Django and Grappelli recorded together once more before the start of WWII. For Decca in London on August 25, 1939. When the War broke out, Grappelli chose to remain in England while Django travelled back to France! ← Thanks for your correction/ clarification, Brownie! Forgot about the Aug 25 session.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking as I heard the piece; golly, they're bringing back US3... ← And that's evolution ??! It's hardly the New Thing is it? ... or is it??!