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A couple of questions : On Slide Hampton's Horn of Plenty , outside of the three standard tunes Hampton gets all the composing credit , yet on two tracks , Newport and Patricia I detect Booker Little's sonic fingerprints , to the point that I wonder if he shouldn't have been given composer credits . Listen to the characteristic melancholic , wistful harmonies and use of dissonance that opens and closes Newport . In Patricia I hear the characteristic Little harmonies and the sudden changes of mood through metrical modulation typical of Little's writing . I am familiar enough with Hampton's writing for octets not including Booker Little , that these two tracks seem uncharacteristic at best . However , perhaps there is some Hampton that I haven't heard that would make me less dubious . Does anyone else feel the same way about this ? I have the album on Fresh Sound CD # 206 ( 1994 ) and see that it has been re-reissued on Fresh Sound CD # 349 with the Two Sides of Slide cover ( both CDs have both records ) . Has it been remastered ? For what it's worth , although I love the music of Porgy and Bess , the Two Sides of Slide session is one I almost never listen to . Here is the original cover of Slide Hampton's Horn of Plenty on Strand : Although I doubt many have heard of let alone heard vocalist Pat Thomas' Strand record , can anyone here confirm that Booker Little is heard on this record ? The record doesn't appear in Alan Saul's Little discography , but Kenny Washington says Booker's participation is unmistakable . Here is the cover of this rare record :

Eddie Safranski and Ed Thigpen . From 1958 . Nice .

Don't know whether it was Woods or Getz that disparaged the WSQ , but Dave Liebman weighed in a couple of years ago in his Jazztimes blindfold test :

Although not listed in Fitzgerald's discography , J.R. Monterose is featured on two tracks of this very rare record : Introducing Sue Childs , Studio 4-200 ( 1964 )

Even if one doesn't share my objections , I think we can all agree that Ornette Coleman , John Coltrane , Fats Navarro and Sonny Rollins are unrecognizable as such .

I have my doubts that jazz lovers will be interested in these playing cards . With the admiration and reverence jazz lovers have for these artists , it is unlikely these caricatures will appeal to them , for they are not loving caricatures . What's more , depictions of black people have to be informed by some sensitivity to historical portrayals of black people . Would not jazz lovers be particularly sensitive to the history of blackface , minstrelsy , golliwoggs etc. ? Given these considerations how appealing are these : Are these the images we want to associate with these two artists ? :

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AFAIK , this is identical to , New York Hot : East Coast Jazz of the 50's and 60's . Daver's The rare and the beautiful , lives up to its name .

Question : Does the music from the aborted Don Cherry Savoy session of January 9 , 1964 ( w/ Sanders , Scianni , Izenzon and Moses ) " circulate among collectors " ? And Laton , your last sentence in this paragraph has me nonplussed :

Another favorite , in various guises :

For those who haven't seen them , the Jazz File series covers looked like this :

Still finding new depths in this one after much acquaintance :

I could list a lot of records with multiple jackets , but in the interest of brevity I thought I would limit myself to musical ( as opposed to cover art ) favorites . Much love on this board for this one , to which I add , " Amen" ! :

Nice review Jim . Looks like Mike Weil thought so too , as he seized the day , and won the LP for 99-cents !

Original cassette ?? Not in 1957 ! It was on an Omegatape reel-to-reel tape with this box cover :

What's most memorable for me about this film is not the car chase , but Pablo Ferro's main title sequence and the Schifrin music that plays during it . Very hip .

Jim , I don't have any answers for you , but FWIW , the record is currently up on EBAY with a 99-cents opening bid . http://cgi.ebay.com/AUSTIN-CROMER-Sings-Fo...1QQcmdZViewItem One track from this LP turned up on a Chick Corea compilation CD but thats it . I would like to know more about Cormer . What did he do between singing with Gillespie and cutting this side , and what happened to him after this record ?

Fitting perhaps , but not likely in 1997 , since while Capitol/EMI own Liberty , they don't appear to have the rights to the Nocturne catalog despite the fact that Liberty reissued most of the Nocturne material 50 years ago . I don't think Fantasy's Nocturne CDs were leased sessions . Moreover , even if Liberty owned the rights to the Nocturne material Liberty reissued , the Gonsalves ( Nocturne # 8 ) was never reissued by Liberty . However , now that all this Gonsalves material is in the public domain in the E. U. , I expect we will see that pairing sooner or later .

All of the Steve White Nocturne material went unissued until Fantasy issued it in 1997 . The White half of OJC 1889 had been slated for Nocturne # 9 ( Nocturne # 10 also unissued , was a Lou Levy session ). The reason Fantasy didn't put the White material from OJC 1889 & 1891 on one CD is that that would have orphaned the Virgil Gonsalves material ( ~ 20 mins. of music ) . There was no duplication at the time , since Fresh Sound had yet to put out their box set . By the way , the Steve White session released as Liberty 6006 is not a reissue of the Nocturne material . It has never been on CD . Frankly , the Steve White dates are not essential listening , quirky vocals notwithstanding . Sonic considerations aside , the Fresh Sound box is all you really need -- no OJCs , no Mosaic Select .

How can one impute an intent to someone absent some consideration of opportunity . How does one know that someone who burns a CDR wouldn't have purchased a used copy at a store or online if given the opportunity ? As noted , commodity fetishism in the form of wanting to own a commercial copy is still with us , of course the question is for how much longer . Now excuse me while I go fondle my LPs ....

A more complete list ( beyond Blue Note ) of Massey compositions is available here . Massey's sons Taru and Zane have been podcasting his music during this past year . You can download those podcasts here . As for the Blues to Coltrane album , I heard it years ago when it first came out and was somewhat underwhelmed by it . When it becomes more readily available I will re-listen . As I remember it , Massey's trumpet playing was serviceable without being terribly distinctive . I feel about Massey the way I feel about Gerald Wilson : love the pen , indifferent towards the axe

Who IS that woman? MG Helen Gurley Brown . A woman who never needs a Halloween costume !