Swinging Swede

In later years Woody Herman recalled with amusement how he around 1942 had advised Dizzy Gillespie to stop playing and concentrate on arranging!

If that goes well, hopefully it can finance some new CD releases. I still want the Benny Goodman 1952-1954 that was supposed to be part of the next batch. Plus a bunch of other stuff of course (Herman, Barnet etc etc).

WHO has raised its Pandemic Alert level to 5 of 6 possible levels, just days after raising it to 4. That at least sounds pretty serious.

Why Europe specifically? Outside USA should be enough. Canada, for example.

I don't have that one!

Actually it started when Obama visited Mexico and one man he met there even died the day after. This proves that Obama really is the Anti-Christ. And that the Rapture is coming.

I think Blue Note can lay claims to the #1 spot also when it comes to front covers:

There were two Berry sessions for Commodore, the second only two months before the fatal car accident. Don't have the Mosaic discography, but below is the info from Lord. I wonder if the take information for the second session really is correct. Chu Berry And His "Little Jazz" Ensemble Roy Eldridge (tp) Chu Berry (ts) Clyde Hart (p) Danny Barker (g) Artie Shapiro (b) Sidney Catlett (d) New York, November 10, 1938 23699-1 Sittin' in (*) Commodore XFL15353 23699-2 Sittin' in 516, XFL15353 23700-1 Star dust 1502,- 23701-1 Body and soul - - 23702-1 Forty-Six West Fifty-Two 516, - 23702-2 Forty-Six West Fifty-Two (*) XFL15353 Note: Commodore XFL15353 = Commodore CCD7004 [CD]. All titles, except (*), also on Classics (F)784 [CD]. All above titles also on Mosaic MR23-123. Chu Berry And His Jazz Ensemble Hot Lips Page (tp,vcl) Chu Berry (ts) Clyde Hart (p) Al Casey (g) Al Morgan (b) Harry Jaeger (d) New York, August 28, 1941 4178 Blowing up a breeze (*) Commodore 541, Queen (It)051, Mosaic MR20-134, Classics (F)784 [CD] 4178-3 Blowing up a breeze Commodore XFL15353 4178-2 Blowing up a breeze Mosaic MR23-123 4179 On the sunny side of the street Commodore 1508, XFL15353, Classics (F)784 [CD] 4179-2 On the sunny side of the street XFL15353 4179-3/4 On the sunny side of the street Mosaic MR23-123 4180 Monday at Minton's (*) Commodore 1508, Queen (It)051, Mosaic MR20-134, Classics (F)784 [CD] 4180-2 Monday at Minton's Commodore XFL15353 4181 Gee baby, ain't I good to you ? (hlp vcl) 541, XFL15353, Classics (F)784 [CD] 4181-2 Gee baby, ain't I good to you ? (hlp vcl) XFL15353 Note: All titles from Commodore XFL15353 also on Commodore CCD7004 [CD]. All titles, except (*), also on Mosaic MR23-123.

I wonder what will happen to those recordings whose copyright already has expired. Will they re-enter copyright, or will the 70 years only affect the recordings that so far haven't entered public domain yet? If the former, legally released CDs like e.g. many from Hep will suddenly become illegal and have to be pulled from the market, which I don't think is fair.

David Weiss & Michael Weiss!

Why not? He shot two other human beings, killing one and seriously disabling the other.

They show all the characteristic signs of being an Andorran label, including the "As a bonus" part. The Andorrans have also just released a Jimmy Smith 2-CD set called The Complete Sermon Sessions, which also contains 1958 Blue Note material (this however on the Groove Hut "label"). But hey, it's not like they are unfairly targeting Blue Note specifically (); their recent releases of recordings just over 50 years old also include material from Columbia, Verve and the OJC labels. There are several Miles and Ellington releases, for example.

Or Charlie Parker walking onto the stage with his sax. For some reason one just has to be a singer to become an idol in the music business today. Can't be an instrumentalist, no matter how good. As jazz listeners I'm sure we all have heard comments about how weird it is with music where no one sings. It's like people are brainwashed today that someone just must sing, otherwise there's something amiss.

Found the original 10" covers which I'm sure many haven't seen:

I'm sure many members here have it. It combines two original 10" albums plus an alternate take. The earliest chronologically is a Tadd Dameron nonet session from June 1953 which was released as A Study In Dameronia. This was recorded only two days after Brownie had made his first New York session with Lou Donaldson for Blue Note. Ira Gitler relates in the liner notes how Dameron had been talking for a week about the new trumpet player he was going to unveil at the session, but still, when Clifford stood up and took his first solo, Gitler nearly fell off his seat in the control room! The arrangements are full of Dameronian voicings, and apart from Brownie we get to hear some other new talents like Benny Golson and Philly Joe Jones who is prominently featured on Philly J.J.. Dameron also takes some piano solos of his own. A very nice date! It makes you lament that Dameron's own sessions were so few and far between. The Dameron group was a working band and after it broke up Brownie joined Lionel Hampton's big band which went on tour to Europe. There several of the young up-and-coming band members sneaked out to recording sessions despite being strictly forbidden to do so. Most wellknown are a number of sessions cut in Paris, but before that Clifford Brown and Art Farmer cut a session in Stockholm with the Swedish jazz elite of the time: Lars Gullin, Bengt Hallberg, Åke Persson and the recently departed Arne Domnérus. This September 1953 session was released on Metronome in Sweden and as Clifford Brown And Art Farmer With The Swedish All Stars on a Prestige 10" LP. The Swedish modern jazz scene of the time was more into the cool school, but all participants blend well together. There are some arrangements (supposedly by Quincy Jones) although the main focus is on a string of solos by the participants. I think Art Farmer takes the first trumpet solo on three of these four tunes, but, although Brown and Farmer shared some common ground, you should be able to tell them apart. Farmer plays fine enough, but Brown is the more extrovert and technically assured. The sound is fine on both sessions. Two alternate takes exist from the Swedish session, but they are not included here. The alternate that does is from the Dameron session. These would have been good sessions even without Brownie's presence, but especially considering his tragically short career, every session Brownie participated in becomes of increased importance. There may be other Brownie recordings you should get first, but you will want this one too. As much as I love Clifford Brown, hearing him also saddens me. The 1953-56 recordings we have were really just the beginning of his career. There should have been so much more. His meaningless death must be the single biggest tragedy in jazz history. That's how I feel in any case.

Thompson's single most obvious influence is Byas IMO. After that there is a general Hawkins influence. Prez I don't hear much at all, certainly he can't be classified as a Prez disciple. The Byas/Thompson strain can then clearly be detected in Benny Golson's playing.

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You have just successfully wasted your time reading this sentence.

As the recent Webster Storyville box is called: Dig Ben

what does YMMV mean? you crazy kids and your internets lingo.... FYI, IMHO it means Your Mileage May Vary. AFAIK.

You forgot to edit the French version which still only mentions Schaap.

Except that they pronounce "v" as "f". But otherwise I agree with you. Good at German too. And sometimes French. On the other hand, Dutch is after Frisian the language that is closest to English, so they should have a natural aptitude for it relatively speaking. By the way, I suppose Europe = European continent in this case. Otherwise it's an interesting claim!

Bird with Dizzy Gillespie's big band? I sampled a Stash CD that had that recording in a record shop in the 90s. I could hear a lot of noise and perhaps there were some faint hints of music somewhere behind it. I didn't buy it and I don't think bad sound has stopped me from buying any Bird otherwise.

The Coltrane/Henderson session has apparently been on some sort of CD, since it came to my attention that this recently was on eBay: