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Gerry Mulligan - Art Farmer Quartet " Bernie's Tune " 1958 Horace Silver Quintet " Cool Eyes " 1959 Barney Kessel Trio " One Mint Julep " 1964

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Inner City may have repackaged and reissued a lot of music , but they were the first to issue Elmo Hope's Last Sessions . I remember how excited I was to find those two LPs . Really grateful I was .

I have to say that I don't find the music on this record 'superb' . I say this as one who genuinely likes the Moodsville jazz-even-your-wife-will-like concept . Since I like pretty much all of the artists who recorded albums for the series , I discriminate on the basis of the selection of tunes chosen . By that measure this record is not among the best of the series in my view. As noted above , the CD has in additon to Everything's Mellow , Terry's version of the score from Mel Brooks' musical All-American . The score from this less-than-successful broadway show is not memorable . I would love to have heard the band ( which includes Budd Johnson , George Barrow and Eddie Costa ! ) playing different material . The CD doesn't sport either of the two original covers . Since this is the vinyl forum , here is what your quarry looks like should you wish to hunt them down :

Joe Daley Trio at Newport . >> You can listen to the whole album here .<<

According to Fitzgerald's Hampton discography , Ferguson recorded Newport on March 15 1960 for his Newport Suite Roulette LP ( with Hampton credited as arranger ) . According to Saul , the Newport on the Strand LP was recorded sometime in October of 1959 ( "Late 1959" sayeth Fitzgerald ) . The Strand LP was done after his departure as a player , but he was still doing arrangements for Ferguson after the Strand recording if the October 1959 date is correct . I don't have the Ferguson LP , but it might be interesting to compare the Strand Newport with the one heard on the Roulette -- not that that would definitively settle its provenance . As I said , Newport and Patricia seem a better fit stylistically with Little's subsequent output , but it may well be the case that after hearing more Hampton I will come to see that Little's writing was in fact shaped by Hampton's .

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 :

Yes we really should abolish this discography forum , since all available discographies are complete and error-free .

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 :