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From http://www.draeseke.org:

What´s the story of this label? I remember I asked in the old BNBB with no luck. Some of their discs have been reissued by Fresh Sound Records (i.e. Hawk´s "Accent on tenor sax") Here´s their catalogue, compiled by Michael Fitzgerald: Jazz Label Listings Project ---> Urania Records Thanks in advance!

From Wikipedia.com:

Usually taken by the very same Nils Winther (owner of Steeplechase) or by his wife (???) Lissa Winther.

Gambit is (supposedly) part of the Definitive/Disconforme emporium. Their catalogue so far (from Fresh Sound Records website): GAMBIT 69221 Hard Driving Jazz Cecil Taylor Featuring: Cecil Taylor, John Coltrane, Kenny Dorham, Chuck Israels, Louis Hayes € 12.45 (USD 14.80) 69219 Let's Fall In Love Betty Carter Featuring: Gigi Gryce, Ray Bryant, Richard Weiss, Jimmy ClevelandUrbie Green, Conte Candoli, Jerome Richardson, Wendell Marshall, Philly Joe Jones € 12.45 (USD 14.80) 69218 The Trio Tommy Flanagan - Ron Carter - Tony Williams Featuring: Tommy Flanagan, Ron Carter, Tony Williams € 12.45 (USD 14.80) 69217 First Place Again Paul Desmond Quartet Featuring: Paul Desmond, Jim Hall, Percy Heath, Connie Kay € 12.45 (USD 14.80) 69216 The Tokyo Albums Johnny Hartman Featuring: Yoshiko 'Chin' Suzuki, Miko Masuda, Terumasa Hino € 12.45 (USD 14.80) 69215 Tranesition - The Complete Paul Chambers Sessions John Coltrane Featuring: John Coltrane, Donald Byrd, Curtis Fuller, Kenny Drew, Pepper Adams, Kenny Burrell, Horace Silver, Philly Joe Jones € 12.45 (USD 14.80) 69214 Bill Evans And Orchestra - Brandeis Jazz Festival Bill Evans Featuring: Bill Evans, Gunther Schuller, George Russell, Art Farmer, Jimmy Knepper, Don Elliot € 12.45 (USD 14.80) 69213_2 The Complete Uppsala Concert (2 Cds Set) Eric Dolphy Featuring: Eric Dolphy (as, bcl, fl), Rony Johansson (p), Kurt Lindgren (b), Rune Carlsson (dr) € 15.45 (USD 18.37) 69212 Stitt Goes Green Sonny Stitt Featuring: Sonny Stitt (as, ts), Bunky Green (as), Benny Green (tb), Bobby Buster (organ), Joe Diorio (g), Dorel Anderson (d)... € 12.45 (USD 14.80) 69211 Blues Is Everybody's Business Manny Albam Featuring: Manny Albam, Art Farmer, Bob Brookmeyer, Al Cohn, Phil Woods, Eddie Costa € 12.45 (USD 14.80) 69210 Third Dimension And Beyond Roland Kirk Featuring: Roland Kirk (ts, manzello, whistle, stritch), Ron Burton (p, organ), Donald Garrett (b), Gerald Brown (dr)... € 12.45 (USD 14.80) 69209 Westcoast - Eastcoast Encounter John Lewis Featuring: John Lewis (p), Dizzy Gillespie (tp), Sonny Stitt (as), Jim Hall (g), Percy Heath (b), Chico Hamilton (dr)... € 12.45 (USD 14.80) 69208 The Final Concerts Oscar Peterson Featuring: Oscar Peterson (p), Ray Brown (b), Ed Thigpen (dr) € 12.45 (USD 14.80) 69207 Blues On The Rocks Jim Hall Trio Featuring: Jim Hall (g), Red Mitchell (p), Red Kelly (b) € 12.45 (USD 14.80) 69206 Complete Recordings With Kenny Burrell & Barry Galbraith Hank Jones Quartet Featuring: Hank Jones (p), Barry Galbraith (g), Kenny Burrell (g), Milt Hinton (b), Elvin Jones (dr) € 12.45 (USD 14.80) 69205 I Love Everybody Johnny Hartman & Oliver Nelson Featuring: Oliver Nelson, Ollie Mitchell, Al Porcino, Conte Candoli, Billy Byers, Mike Barone, Gabe Baltazar € 12.45 (USD 14.80) 69204 Complete Recordings Carmen Mcrae Featuring: Ray Bryant, Ike Isaacs, Specs Wright, Raoul Poliakin, Jimmy Cleveland, Barry Galbraight, Charlie Shavers € 12.45 (USD 14.80) 69203 All Roads Lead To Rome Ella Fitzgerald & Her Trio Featuring: Ella Fitzgerald, Lou Levy, Jo Jones € 12.45 (USD 14.80) 69202 Live In France 1978 Chet Baker Featuring: Chet Baker, Phil Markowitz, Scott Lee, Larry Ridley, David Lee € 12.45 (USD 14.80) 69201 The Original Trio Jimmy Giuffre & Jim Hall Featuring: Jimmy Giuffre, Jim Hall, Ralph Peña € 12.45 (USD 14.80)

An easy example: Verve LPR series (Impulse, Argo, Mercury, Contemporary, Smash...)

I feel for you. I hope that you didn't sell your daughter too. ← WHAAAT !!!! I hope there were no Blue Note originals amongst them.. ← I think life can go on without 3000 Blakey recordings on your shelves... (*) There´s life outside jazz, isn´t there? (*)...even without 3000 Ellington recordings...

There´s a web dedicated to this topic: Elvis Pelvis but is not currently working.

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=2101

You can order "Lingua Franca-Cosmic dialects" (Nota299) and "Gentle Ben" (Nota 296) at Jazzos.com. Oops, now I see that "Cosmic dialects" is out of stock.

Lord has two (apparently) redundant and contradictory entries: 1947/11/19 [J2080-4] Jazz Band Buck Clayton (tp) Edmond Hall (cl) Teddy Wilson (p) Sid Weiss (b) Jimmy Crawford (d) Canada Lee (narration) Kenneth Spencer (vcl-1) New York, November 19, 1947 YPR410A Jazz band (ks vcl, cl narr only) (1) Young Peoples Records 410 YPR410B Jazz band (cl narr) Young Peoples Records 410 1947/11/19 [L2212-4] Canada Lee Canada Lee (vcl,narration) Kenneth Spencer (vcl) acc by Jimmy Crawford (d) New York, November 19, 1947 410A Jazz band (pt 1) Young People's Record YPR410 410B Jazz band (pt 2) -

This one? http://www.theallineed.com/news/0502/209950.htm

In fact there are a lot of articles (and even reviews), mistaking Joe Turner for Big Joe Turner. The great stride pianist must bear with that!

There will be a collectors edition in 2006, including four numbered and autographed photographs by Claxton. It will go for about 2.500 €!!! (so this current edition is a bargain!)

I also tried to find the creator´s name, with no result. Not even in the "Notes" section, where the genesis of the website is briefly explained.

bichos mentioned it on another thread, but I thought this amazing website should deserve a separate discussion. A real labour of love! BIRD LIVES...

Thanks for your input, Allen. Let´s hope someday the Eubie Blake Music LPs will be reissued on CD.

Looks like the Golden Reunion in Ragtime LP [stereoddities: C1900] recorded on 1962 by Eubie Blake, Joe Jordan and Charlie Thompson has been reissued on CD by Hapi Skratch (???) :

Eubie Blake playing "Charleston Rag" to be found here (1979): "10th Anniversary New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival" (Flying Fish):

Eubie Blake is included, leading a trio on "Maple Leaf Rag" and "Maryland, My Maryland", in this Jazzology release, "Jammin´ at Rudi´s", recorded on 1951.

There´s also Eubie Blake on CD, as an accompanist for Alberta Hunter:

Gracias, Fernando. There are also three tracks by Eubie Blake and his orchestra on this Frog CD, "Thumpin´ and bumpin´" [DGF11]:

To my knowledge, "The eighty-six years of Eubie Blake" (Columbia C2S847/22223) recorded December 1968-March 1969 [Eubie Blake, Piano solo] hasn´t made it to CD. Neither have made it any of the LPs he made for his own label, Eubie Blake Music: -Eubie Blake, Vol. 1 Featuring Ivan Harold Browning [Eubie Blake Music: EBM1], recorded 1971 by Eubie Blake and Ivan Harold Browning. -Rags to Classics [Eubie Blake Music: EBM2], recorded 1921 & 1971 by Eubie Blake. -Eubie Blake and his Friends Edith Wilson and Ivan Harold Browning [Eubie Blake Music: EBM 3] recorded 1971, performed by Eubie Blake, Edith Wilson and Ivan Harold Browning. -Sissle and Blake: Early Rare Recordings, Vol. 1 [Eubie Blake Music: EBM 4], recorded 1921- 1927 by Sissle and Blake. -Eubie Blake: Live Concert [Eubie Blake Music: EBM 5], recorded May 22, 1973 by Eubie Blake. -Eubie Blake Introducing Jim Hession [Eubie Blake Music: EBM 6], recorded 1974 by Eubie Blake and Jim Hession. -Sissle and Blake: Early Rare Recordings, Vol.. 2 [Eubie Blake Music: EBM 7], recorded 1919-1931 by Sissle and Blake. -Eubie Blake and his Protégés [Eubie Blake Music: EBM 8], recorded March 18, 1974, by Eubie Blake, Jim Hession, Mike Lipskin, and Terry Waldo -Eubie Blake Song Hits [Eubie Blake Music: EBM 9], recorded 1975 by Eubie and His Girls. Right?

Being such a giant, and with that amazingly long-lived career, the ammount of Eubie Blake´s music available on CD is embarrassingly scarce, IMHO. -We have that Biography CD with piano rolls, "Memories of you" later reissued by Shout! as -And the AIE release "That´s ragtime!", taken from a Stereodditty LP plus a two LP set intended for broadcast and never issued commercially: -And there´s some live Eubie Blake in this Chiaroscuro CD, "Jazz piano masters" (alongside Dill Jones, Teddy Wilson and Claude Hopkins): -"Tricky Fingers" on Quicksilver: And what more is on CD?