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Taft Jordan Plays Duke Ellington: Mood Indigo!!! (Prestige/Moodsville/Status mono). Just finished spinning a wonderful album I was not even aware of until a couple of hours ago, when I found it in an Atlanta record store. Jordan plays Ellington with Kenny Burrell, Richard Wyands, Joe Benjamin, and Charlie Persip - very nice. My copy is a typical Prestige hybrid - Status labels and a Moodsville cover.
The CD version (heresy here on the vinyl thread?) adds a second recording - The Swingville All-Stars - with Taft Jordan, Hilton Jefferson, Al Sears, Don Abney, Wendell Marshall, and Gus Johnson - a nice addition. I remember that Joe hipped me to this, perhaps back on the old BN Board, when I was looking to hear more Hilton Jefferson.
I'm sure I must have known about this, but never heard any of it. Must get it. Is the CD actually listed as by 'The Swingville All-Stars' or by one of the participants?
MG
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Nina recorded that in '66 on the LP 'Wild is the wind'. I thought it was a great song but I always preferred Chris Connor's version on the LP 'Ballads of the sad cafe".
MG
deep in my lp archives, i have that. thx for reminding me.
I haven't
It's one I used to have but never got around to replacing. Dunno why...MG
i was referring to the connor recording.
So was I
MG
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Nina recorded that in '66 on the LP 'Wild is the wind'. I thought it was a great song but I always preferred Chris Connor's version on the LP 'Ballads of the sad cafe".
MG
deep in my lp archives, i have that. thx for reminding me.
I haven't
It's one I used to have but never got around to replacing. Dunno why...MG
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Nina recorded that in '66 on the LP 'Wild is the wind'. I thought it was a great song but I always preferred Chris Connor's version on the LP 'Ballads of the sad cafe".
MG
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Yesterday
The Horace Parlan BN sessions
Tomorrow
Blue Mitchell 61-67
Today is NOT a Mosaic day
MG
Didn't manage to get time for the Blue Mitchell box until this morning.
This afternoon, it's the Louis Armstrong Decca sessions, 1935-46 - now on disc 5.
Today IS a Mosaic day
MG
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Two Swan Silvertones CDs yesterday
This is a Hob recording from 1967, some done live in the Scepter studios. Very, very good indeed, with extended versions of some of their great numbers.
This is a Collectables twofer of two VJ LPs from the fifties. I've got 2 of their VJ compilations already and pleased that only 3 cuts are duplicated on this CD. The VJ material is MUCH more delicate than the HOB material (and also the Specialty material) but not quite as good as the King material, which doesn't seem to be available.
MG
MG - You probably have it but, just in case others don't, The Swan Silvertones' King recordings are available here. It's a needle drop bootleg.
Also Ace released four of The Swans' King recordings on this legitimate release.
Also, you may already know it but, in case you don't, Rev. Claude Jeter: What Is This (Hob LP 2114) includes a great live version of "Only Believe". The rest of the LP doesn't come close to that one performance, but "Only Believe" alone is worth the price of the record.
Thanks Paul - I do have a few of those tracks - I only have a cheapo 10 track comp on LP, which is triff. Will get that one soon. Funnily enough, that CD came up top of the list when I did an Amazon UK search a couple of weeks ago, but it was listed as Swan Silvertones & Mills Brothers!!! I took one squint at it and said to myself, "I'm not even going to LOOK at an compilation of Swan Silvertones and Mills Bros," so I passed over it.
MG
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Here's a good 'un.
Just been listening to
Gene Ludwig & Cecil Brooks - Double exposure - Savant
In the sleeve notes, by Bill Milkowski, who shoud know rather better, I think, this gem:
"Ludwig adopts Earl Gardner's block chord style..."
Even better, Bill says that the album was recorded at the end of the session that produced Jimmy Ponder's "What's new" (HighNote 7100). There's so much about the circumstances, backed by quoted from Cecil, that I'm sure there's no mistake about this. On the reverse of the notes, it says "recorded in July 2000". But "What's new" was recorded on 5 August 2002, a trio session with Ponder, Ludwig & Brooks. Ponder's album "Thumbs up" was recorded in July 2000, but Gene Ludwig isn't on that album. So there's no reason why he should have been there to use up a couple of spare hours at the end.
So two different people made two different types of mistake on this one.
MG
I just found this post and wanted to confirm that "What's New" and "Double Exposure" came from the same recording session done in July 2000. I was there, the trio did the tracks for Jimmy's CD and then Cecil and Gene stayed on to put some more tracks in the can for a future duo release. That was one long day.
pattye ludwig
Oh, I just found this post. Very interesting, thank you Pattye.
I wonder when Ponder's 'Thumbs up' was recorded. Surely not July 2000 as well...
MG
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Yeah, breakfast is THE important meal. I always have the same thing.
A third of a litre (half a pint, near as dammit, I think) of orange juice (not from concentrate by preference).
A bowl of muesli; Wally's de luxe, from a deli in Cardiff, (happily round the corner from Spillers records).
One or two slices of my own wholemeal bread, toasted, with Asda Valencia orange marmalade (THE best available anywhere in Britain - 66% fruit).
A LARGE cup of tea - whatever kind my wife wants to buy.
And a bit more than an hour's worth of CDs on the portable downstairs before my wife gets up.
I usualy take her a cup of Rhooibos tea before I start my own breakfast, plus toast or muesli, if she wants, but if she wants porridge, she has to make it herself
She doesn't trust me to make it reasonably well (probably right).MG
Well, still the same, but I've now been on the porridge-making course and do her porridge if she wants it.
But Asda have stopped doing Valencia marmalade, so we get Duerrs Mermelada de Sevilla - only 50% fruit, though.
MG
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Two Swan Silvertones CDs yesterday
This is a Hob recording from 1967, some done live in the Scepter studios. Very, very good indeed, with extended versions of some of their great numbers.
This is a Collectables twofer of two VJ LPs from the fifties. I've got 2 of their VJ compilations already and pleased that only 3 cuts are duplicated on this CD. The VJ material is MUCH more delicate than the HOB material (and also the Specialty material) but not quite as good as the King material, which doesn't seem to be available.
MG
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Yes, Ahmad had the first really MONSTER hit modern jazz album, 'But not for me'. And quite a few other hit albums, through into the seventies. Leonard Chess wouldn't have kept on recording him if he hadn't made money. 'Poinciana' is really terrific dance stuff, as are quite a few other cuts.
I found, shortly before the Mosaic came out, the whole lot of his early ARGO LPs, all in great condition, in the main Cardiff 2nd hand record shop. I asked the owner if someone had flogged them to him in anticipation of the Mosaic coming out but he said he'd bought them when someone had sold his whole collection of vinyl. So I bought a couple of Earl Grants, knowing I was going to get the Mosaic.
MG
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I hated the pop music of the early fifties. Still do.
In 1956, I heard Fats Domino. That was it! In 1959, the BBC stopped playing Rock & Roll, so in the summer, I decided that, if I ordered singles that had been recorded by Atlantic, no matter what they were, I could be pretty sure I'd get good stuff. The first one I ordered blind was 'There goes my baby' by the Drifters. The next was Ray Charles' 'What'd I say'. I didn't know what had hit me - BOTH times. And ever since then, I've regarded myself as an R&B fan (though it wasn't until 1961 that I ran across the term Rhythm and Blues). I still reckon what I like is R&B, but that I've found R&B in loads of different places.
Now as for social influences, well, kind of no and yes. I moved to London at Christmas '58 and started in my new school, near Buckingham Palace, in January. We lived near Marble Arch then, but in April, moved to Golders Green, and in June '59, to Ealing, continuing at the same school, but commuting a long way. So I had several (successive) groups of friends and they weren't as deep as friends probably were for other people. So I went my own way musically. Anyway, no one I knew liked R&B until I met my mate Rose, who was a friend of a neighbour. She and I definitely influenced each other. Then we started influencing other people, when we took our R&B records to the Ealing Common Lawn Tennis Club on Tuesday nights.
MG
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This is more like a groaning type Uhhhh
MG
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Singular genius is an excellent box. I'm getting a great deal of pleasure out of it. I love the Swingtime/Downbeat material I've got, though it's just a couple of LPs and isn't complete. Must go for the one Allen linked to as soon as I've moved Singular genius off the frequent listening list.
But the Atlantic material, whether jazz or R&B, is tops. Gawd, it's 53 years since I bought my first Ray Charles single...
MG
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Now that I think of it, "That's All" is a nagging tune.
Try Houston Person's version.
Or David Newman's, from 'Many facets of David Newman' (Atlantic). If you don't like the tune, David doesn't play it; he just solos from the start. S'wonderful
Hm, never heard a jazz version of that song...
MG
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Yesterday
The Horace Parlan BN sessions
Tomorrow
Blue Mitchell 61-67
Today is NOT a Mosaic day
MG
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Its probably inappropriate to put this here, but does anyone know about this era of Percy's career:
Came right after Tangerine, I guess ... the reviews I see are good but I'd love to hear from people I trust on the board, if they know this release or the original LPs (apparently the set is incomplete).
I think there were 3 LPs
PM sings PM, which I've got and lurve
Blues, & then some, which I used to have but it got fucked up and also lurved
PM is a blues master, which I never heard but my friend said was great.
Dan, is this available now? I'll get one if it is.
MG
It's available and very good!
The first of the albums, PM sings PM, is also part of one of those big Sony essential something albums boxes and is excellent! All but one of its tracks are on the RCA years compilation, while the two other albums are present with about half their tracks. Too bad they didn't do a 2CD set and include all there is!
Damn! Oh well, I shan't bother. Thanks Ubu.
MG
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This morning's vinyl was
Les McCann & Gerald Wilson - McCann/Wilson - PJ (Fontana UK with really crappy sleeve)
MG
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I don't mind what people play, so long as it comes out right for me.
Yes. There aren't many tunes I dislike in themselves - 'Misty', 'Feelings' etc aside.
But there are some I could do with a break from due to their constantly being played - not necessarily a problem in the tunes themselves. But that weariness can be overcome by an inspiring performance.
Groove Holmes has done super versons of those two.
MG
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Cufflinks, baby, cufflinks!
Go nicely with my Spillers T-shirts
MG
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Not the foggiest. Quite a few. What's jazz, anyway? I saw Tony Crombie in 1957 at the Bradford Odeon. He was second on the bill to the Platters.
MG
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It's getting very hard to find a digital watch over here. I like very cheap ones. My last one bust a few weeks ago - the strap bust, anyway and, as it was a rubber strap connected to the body of the watch, you can't get it replaced, so the watch has to be junked. And I couldn't get a digital watch at all, whereever I went. So I got one with a dial. Well, sure I can tell the fuc king time, but now I never know what the date is; I have to go and find a calendar.
MG
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After cassette players, people have always carried music only on mobile phones.
John, would you say most of Africa skipped CDs altogether and went straight from cassettes to digital files on phones? Do bootleggers sell massive mp3 collections on CD or DVD ROM in markets, like in Mexico?
I can't speak for the rest of Africa, but CDs are still quite common in Nigeria, although the vast majority of them are of the pirate variety. I don't know if Discman was ever popular here as a way to carry around music.
CDs didn't start becoming popular in Senegal until about 2003. And I think they're still not the format of the majority of the population.
MG
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In the last few days, a few gospel albums have turned up
The Bells of Joy - The collection
Damn fine group I had only heard of before.
Rev Clay Evans - Songs from the Ship
I've got lots of Clay Evans. This is great.
Mighty Clouds of Joy - Best of vols 1 & 2
I decided I needed some of their earlier material, as I only have LPs from the eighties. This is Peacock stuff from the sixties. Very cheap, but bit of a swiz that three of the tracks are on both CDs.
Dr Charles G Hayes & the Cosmopolitan Church of Prayer Choir - Chapter one
I've got a lot of this choir. This one's from 2008 and I'm listening to it now. Damn fine choir from Chicago which I've always thought of as the hottest northern gospel choir.
MG
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Its probably inappropriate to put this here, but does anyone know about this era of Percy's career:
Came right after Tangerine, I guess ... the reviews I see are good but I'd love to hear from people I trust on the board, if they know this release or the original LPs (apparently the set is incomplete).
I think there were 3 LPs
PM sings PM, which I've got and lurve
Blues, & then some, which I used to have but it got fucked up and also lurved
PM is a blues master, which I never heard but my friend said was great.
Dan, is this available now? I'll get one if it is.
MG
Death watch for EMI?
in Miscellaneous Music
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Maybe it's best for companies like this to go bust and then the creditors flog bits that are of some interest to whomever's interested. Most of the really interesting stuff will be in the public domain soon.
MG