Swinging Swede

AMG has this review of a George Shearing twofer: "Brass jazz legend George Shearing had two of his full-length LP releases (1958 and 1960, respectively) released here on one CD in 2002 by EMI." Ah yes, George Shearing, the acknowledged brass jazz legend.

Aha, so that is the "Milkowski" who writes the liner notes over at Wolfgang's Vault. I have noticed some factual errors in them, but here is an unfortunate statement about Oscar Peterson I spotted recently: "Following a stroke in 1993, Peterson returned to pubic performances on a limited basis beginning in 1995 and also made several live trio recordings for the Telarc label."

Back in the 12" LP era I heard something about the playing time having to be at least 30 minutes for it to be marketed as an LP. There could be some related observance of a 30-minute rule here. That said, many Argo LPs are around 28-29 minutes - that label was kind of notorious in that regard.

Lunceford recorded some combined Decca/World Transcriptions sessions in the mid-40s. I hope all tracks from them will be included, because Classics only included the Decca sides. I believe there are some unissued numbers from these sessions also, but they may have perished in the Universal fire. We know from the Armstrong set that mid-40s Decca recordings were among the victims.

Hadn't seen this before. Thanks.

Speaking of the Grammys, did you guys see this clip? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGJ2XRJBHM8

- which sounds pretty reasonable to me! I'm confused. Porgy And Bess was recorded at two sessions, the first being in July 1964 and the second in April 1965. So is this album included or not? If it is, the box covers 1956-1965, not -1964. Or is only the first session included, cutting the album in half? And if the April 1965 session is included, despite the name, then why not also include the May-June 1965 sessions that produced Jazz Dialogue? As mentioned above, they were MJQ's last Atlantic studio sessions before 1971, so it would have been a much more logical cut-off date. In other words, I agree fully with what Stompy Jones and king ubu write above.

That is one of the most amazing goals I have ever seen.

Do you mean that Wichita Lineman and Family Affair have been released somewhere (since they aren't in red)?

2 days ... and 10 years! Ype, I guess it should be July 7, 1958. Not if Ray Charles performed Beatles songs and the Don Ellis big band was there too. Then 1968 sounds right.

My life will not be complete until I have heard Tyrone Washington's Train Wreck.

2 days ... and 10 years!

Bobby Hutcherson Band Blue Mitchell (tp) Thurman Green (tb) Harold Land (ts) Bobby Hutcherson (vib) Reggie Andrews, Clarence McDonald (key) Arthur Adams, Cornell Dupree (g) Chuck Rainey (el-b) Stix Hooper (d) King Errison (cga, bgo) A&R Studios, NYC, December 21, 1971 (tk.8) Wichita Lineman unissued (tk.6) Workin' On A Groovy Thing - (tk.3) Inner City Blues Blue Note CDP 7243 5 21152-2 * Various Artists - Deep Blue (Blue Note CDP 7243 5 21152-2) Bobby Hutcherson Band Mike Deasy (g) Arthur Lewis (unknown inst.) replaces Dupree, Rainey A&R Studios, NYC, December 22, 1971 (tk.6) Family Affair unissued (tk.4) Brother Rap Blue Note (E) B1 97158 (tk.8) Brown Eyed Woman unissued * Various Artists - Blue Juice, Vol. 2 (Blue Note (E) B1 97158) Bobby Hutcherson Quartet Bobby Hutcherson (vib, mar) Todd Cochran (p, el-p) James Leary (b) Michael Carvin (d) United Artists Studios, West Hollywood, CA, May 24, 1972 Poem Blue Note rejected Unga - B's Thang - Mr. X - Twenty-Five -

So Lord has it wrong. Not the first time.

That's correct; on the 1952 version the backup orchestra was indeed led by Walter Rodell, and the advertisement you link to has the 1961 version. Both recorded in Chicago, on March 24, 1952 and December 4, 1961 to be more exact.

Such Sweet Thunder still not corrected, I suppose.

Yes, she is a huge talent, obviously the greatest female since Judit Polgar. But a chess babe? I offer you instead from the Olympiad: Viktorija Beinoraite, Lithuania, 2047 Khadidja Latreche, Algeria

Wow, he sure doesn't look like 81 in that video. And to think that his recording career started with Luis Russell's big band in the mid-40s...

Well, there is always Johnny Hates Jazz. And while not a group, there was a guy who took the artist name Various Artists. That may have seemed like a cool idea, but he cannot be easy to find in searches...

Dinah first recorded Mad About The Boy in 1952 as a Mercury single (in mono). It was then rerecorded in stereo in 1961 for a project called This Is My Story, which was the last thing she did for Mercury before she left the label. I can't hear your clips, but you should be able to tell yourself which is the earlier and later version, both because the later version is in stereo and because her voice had changed with age.

Notwithstanding the debate about when the century began, and the fact that I have included eleven years in the decade, does anyone have ten nominations? Yes, this thread idea deserves a better fate, so I'll start off. My top ten list of new releases 2000-09/10 could look something like this: Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker - Town Hall, New York City, June 22, 1945 Thelonious Monk Quartet With John Coltrane At Carnegie Hall Norman Granz' J.A.T.P. - Carnegie Hall, 1949 [with Charlie Parker, Fats Navarro, Sonny Criss a.o.] Duke Ellington - The Jaywalker Duke Ellington - New York, New York Duke Ellington - Togo Brava Suite Dave Brubeck - Jazz At The College Of The Pacific, Volume 2 Grant Green - Live At Club Mozambique Andrew Hill - Passing Ships Horace Silver - Live at Newport '58

Yes, we are so evolutionary conditioned to factor in vocal and facial information when interpreting what someone says, that people frequently misunderstand when someone is being facetious on the Internet, as regularly seen on for example this board. I'll put a smiley next to the smiley next time!

I must be missing something here. A decade = 10 years, but January 1, 2000 - December 31, 2010 = 11 years; just count them: 1st year - 2000 2nd - 2001 3rd - 2002 4th - 2003 5th - 2004 6th - 2005 7th - 2006 8th - 2007 9th - 2008 10th - 2009 11th - 2010 I think the answer is that the 201st decade started on January 1, 2001. The year 2000 is the last year of the 200th decade, which ended on December 31, 2000. There was no year 0, the Christian era started with the year 1. So the first decade was 1-10 AD, the second 11-20 AD, the third 21-30 AD, etc. Precisely! I made a joke based on the fact that decades can be counted in two different ways (2000-2009 or 2001-2010), hence the smiley!