Bill Fenohr

I have Bish Bash Cubicicle Coral Keys I also have Speak Low, but if you have the Black Lion cd Milestones then you have the material for the Muse session. Get ahold of me and i will hook you up. Did you ever get the Pacific Jazz Don Ellis-Essence and Red Mitchell-Rejoice?

The Supraphon lp is kind of confusing. All but two songs appeared on other albums. So in one could say its a compulation. But as i say there are two songs Tarantas Drive and Sunday At Ten that only appear on the Supraphon. All of side two was on a German Columbia titled Folk Songs or something like that. One song from side one was on one of the Atlantic releases and another from side one was on one of the Columbia lp's. I don't know if this clears up any questons.

Come on Jim, give em a break, they got the season right. You may have unknowingly discovered the origin for the phrase "Close enough for jazz".

Its not that important, but the Donald Byrd and Mulgrew Miller were not Muse issues. They were originally on Landmark which was owned by Orin Keepnews. I think Muse may have ended up with the Landmark catolog, except for the Cannonball's which are owned by EMI, but i don't remember them issuing any of them on the Muse label.

Since many board members are fans of Mosaic, i thought i might mention that Michael Cuscuna produced a number of the original Muse dates. Some of the artists he produced were Ricky Ford, Robin Kenyatta, Eric Kloss, Barry Altschul, Boo Boo Shaw, Albert Daily,Eddie Jefferson ad Larry Coryell. Im sure there were others, but those are the ones i can remember off the top of my head. It seems like there should be a Mosaic box in there somewhere. The Big Mike's Muse Sessions. What do you think?

Swede, That last track, A Short One, only appeared on the Jazz Supreme issue according to Lord.

The Chico Hamilton Ellington Suite w. Eric Dolphy was mastered from a test pressing that someone found in a thrift shop or somthing like that.

You were'nt dreaming. That tune was from a concert at the Portland Civic Auditorium Feb. 25,1954. There are seven titles listed in Lord. They were out on record on Artistry AR2-102 and the Italian label Jazz Supreme JS 703. It looks like two tracks Night And Day and Valentine were on a Philology cd 3018. Here are the tunes Night And Day My Funny Valentine Cherokee On The Alamo Ooh Shoobie Doo Be Manteca A Short One Oh yeah, Dizzy is also on board.

I was informed of the passing this morning of reedman Gordon Brisker by Danny D'Imperio. Man we are losing too many good cats.

I guess in terms of price it depends on where you live. I have seen most of the titles he lists around Detroit for anywhere from a thrid to half what he's asking. But there are at least five stores there, so the competition is pretty stiff. On the other hand if you live in a area where the net is your only option, i guess they got you.

After telling this story to a few folks, they suggested that i should post it. I hope you all get a chuckle out of this. For the last couple months i have been putting a big push on finding a number of titles in the Muse catolog that never made it to cd. Among them are two Charles Earland dates that have been eluding me. Every couple of days i would check Dusty Groove, Gemm,ebay and used vinyl sites, all to no avail. I really started to obsess on those sides. About two weeks ago i was doing some work around the house and was looking for some lamp cord. I go into a storage area under the stairs that goes to the lower level of the house. As i am pawing around and moving boxes i glance over in the far corner and to my astonishment see a pile of about fifty albums.Well i start going through them and,you guessed it, there are the two Earland albums. The only thing i can figure is that my ex wife threw them in there just to get them out of her way. That would have been 22 years ago. This experience started me thinking that i should start visiting other areas of the house that i seldom go into. Who knows what i might find. For example, i could have swore we had more then two kids. Like most things, this story does have a down side. None of the albums had Jackets or dust sleeves, so they were pretty trashed. I cleaned up the Earlands the best i could and recorded them, scratchs and all. I will replace them at some point,but i sleep better knowing that i have them. I don't know if this was a great find, but it sure was a wierd find and i hope this story makes your day a bit lighter.

Thanks guys, Mike. My problem was that i am working off a printout that i downloaded a few years ago from your site and that one was not marked as unissued. Great, that means i have all the 10" material that they issued in one form or another.

Can someone give me the track listing for the Al Haig 10" Pacific Jazz PJLP 18. Lord is no help on this at all. Also is the material around on cd? Thanks in advance Bill

The last i heard of Eric Kloss was that he was living in the Northwest, either Oregon or Washington. What he's doing out there i don't know.

B3er, Fred used to have Pittsburgh guys on the show alot, since that is where it was taped. The pianist on the show was Johnny Costa who had a side out on Savoy. BTW i found a copy of the Gene Ludwig on Muse if your interested. He has a web site and has some great photo's of the old trio with a young Randy and one taken outside the old Trop.

Careful what you wish for Bertrand. If Joel Doran see's this thread, we are sure to be getting Cowbell Jazz For A Rainy Afternoon Vol's 1-10.

I have a Definitive cd that is called The Complete Live At Jorgies. The date is from 1961 and were out on VGM Records in vinyl days. The cd has 10 tracks,6 from Jorgies and 4 from a 1963 studio date. On the live stuff the band is Wes,Buddy,Monk and Billy Hart. The studio stuff is Wes, Billy Taylor, Ben Tucker, Grady Tate and Joe Williams vocal on two tracks. Don't know if thats the one, but its a start.

Bert Study In Rhythm is a drum solo, but the rest of the guys are banging on cowbell's and such. So i guess it's going to depend on just how much of a Jackie completest you want to be. It might be his only cowbell recording. Just yankin your chain Bert.

Jim is correct, the albums first release was on Elektra 120 titled Reflections Of Buhaina probably in late 57 or early 58. The Savoy Midnight Session was a reissue with new liner notes.

As i remember the label did not come along until the mid to later 70's. It was owned by Joe Fields, who i think now owns High Note.They recorded into the 90's and i think there are between four to five hundred titles in their catolog. Im not sure but i seem to remember that Joe sold the label a couple of times but keep getting it back when the buyers would default. They probably were a top jazz label in the late 70's and the 80's because the other labels had stopped recording jazz. Most of the artists on the label were ignored by the big labels or were'nt deemed commerical. Besides the guys Eric and Mike named, some others that recorded for Muse were Pepper Adams, Richie Cole, Eric Kloss, Mark Murphy, Cedar Walton, Eddie Jefferson, Dave Schnitter, Etta Jones, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Houston Person, Jimmy Heath and Willis Jackson. There still seems to be alot of the vinyl around at used stores at reasonable prices.

Just want to let those of you who know me that i am alive and well. As Dan mentioned i got a bit burned out, so i took some time to do other things. Since my return to collecting, i have been running down and picking up Muse titles that 32 Jazz never got around to releasing. So i am once again a presence at the used vinyl stores in my area. Which reminds me, if anyone has copies of Kwanza-Albert Heath, Jazz Caper-Bill Barron or Commitment -Harold Vick, that you could burn for me in a trade, i would be very gratful. Anyway i dont know how much i will be posting, but i will check in from time to time. Thanks for the birthday greetings bill

I have not heard it in many a year, but there was an album he did for Capitol, which i think was called Out!, that has some of his comedy routines on it. The one i remember was a bit about "The Mideval Jazz Quartet". Pretty wacky stuff, but it made me chuckle. Im going to have to try and find that album again.

Dick Bock was the king of the bad edit. You can find some real glaring ones on many of the Jazz Crusaders albums. But he left us some great recordings, and after a number of listenings, the edits just become part of the songs to my ears.

You might want to check two later dates by Frank on Steeplechase. Remember Me from 1976 with Harold Mabern,Danny Moore,Howard Johnson,Leslie Atkinson and Michael Carvin. The second is What's Goin' On from 1977 with Moore,Mabern,Stafford James and Louis Hayes. I think they are both still in print. Of the two, i lean a lttle more toward Remember Me.

Being an old dude, i saw Cannon a number of times. I think the first time when he was with Miles. Also anytime the sextet with Yusef played a gig in Detroit. Besides being one of the greatest alto players ever IMO he had a way of connecting with a audience that was remarkable. He made the evening just plain fun, which i think hurt him with alot of the "critics". He could work a room, and the people just loved him. Some of my favorite sides are Live At The Lighthouse, Nippon Soul and At The Jazz Workshop Revisited. Oh hell, you can't go wrong with any of his albums.