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I got this information from Miquel Jurado, Tete´s biographer and one of his best friends in the last fifteen years of his life. He travelled with him worldwide, including his US gigs in the 80s, and used to write notes of every recording session he attended. Jurado owns a large collection with many rare Montoliu recordings. Jurado was not present in those Fantasy sessions but, as he is also a good friend of Montserrat García-Albea, Tete´s widow, he took care and revised Tete´s "vault" when he died (in his own words, "many boxes with copies of the tapes from many of his commercial sessions, with private recordings, broadcasts..."), and confirmed to me that he had heard those tapes. Looks like the copy Tete received from the recording company only included “Love Letters” from the studio session, being the rest of the tunes standards, according to Tete’s remembrance. I also remember some conversations with Mike Fitzgerald where we got some further assurance that those sessions were recorded by Fantasy, but can’t find that email exchange which dates from 15 years ago. However, at my request, in 2006 Stuart kindly looked around Fantasy’s vault and in a number of different lists and files, and he was not able to find out anything about these sessions.

Sorry, I only copied and pasted the live recording. In fact there was a studio recording a couple of days later: Date: May 28, 1984 Location: Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA Label: Fantasy Tete Montoliu (ldr), Bobby Hutcherson (vib), Tete Montoliu (p) a. Love Letters (Victor Young, Edward Heyman) Additional unknown titles - reportedly all standard tunes. Material for a complete album was recorded but remains unissued. The LP was going to be called "Letter To J. H.". No trace of these recordings has been found in the Fantasy vaults.

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It is, in my Tete Montoliu discography. An outdated version is still available at Mike Fitzgerald’s Jazz Discography website: https://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Montoliu/tete-disc.php ———————————————————— Date: May 26, 1984 Location: Oakland, CA Label: Fantasy Tete Montoliu (ldr), Bobby Hutcherson (vib), Tete Montoliu (p) a. 01 Solar (Miles Davis, Chuck Wayne) b. 02 You Are Too Beautiful (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) c. 03 There Is No Greater Love (Isham Jones, Marty Symes) d. 04 Theme For Ernie (Fred Lacey) e. 05 No Blues (Miles Davis) f. 06 Stella By Starlight (Victor Young, Ned Washington) g. 07 Lament (J. J. Johnson) h. 08 All Of You (Cole Porter) i. 09 Well, You Needn't (Thelonious Monk) j. 10 Pel Teu Amor [aka Ros�] (Miquel Poal Aragall, Josep Ribas) k. 11 Star Eyes (Gene DePaul, Don Raye) l. 12 A Night In Tunisia (Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli) Recorded at a local college or university - name needed. Material for two albums was recorded but remains unissued. No trace of these recordings has been found in the Fantasy vaults. ————————————————————

Not sure if he will be able to provide you with information not in the discographies. When I was in touch with him, back in 2006, he was still working for Fantasy and he dug in their vaults, searching for the unissued Bobby Hutcherson-Tete Montoliu session. Unsuccessfully, to my loss.

Bertrand: Stuart Kremsky was the tape archivist for Fantasy Records for over ten years. I would start by contacting him. He’s a nice guy. You can get his current email at: https://mrstusrecordroom.blogspot.com/?m=1