Swinging Swede

Babe had an older piano-playing brother, Jack Russin, who recorded with several of the same names: Red Nichols, Eddie Lang, Glenn Miller, the Dorseys etc. Could the confusion about who died stem from there?

If this is true, then wow! Russin recorded in the 20s with Red Nichols, Eddie Lang and Jack Purvis! He was in Benny Goodman's Carnegie Hall Concert orchestra; he also played in the orchestras of Artie Shaw, Harry James, Glenn Miller and both Dorseys; he was on a Lionel Hampton Victor session with Herschel Evans, and on JATP with Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young; he recorded with Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington and Frank Sinatra. This guy has seen it all! I kind of agree that it sounds too good to be true that he would still be alive.

The Acrobat release was discussed in this thread: Acrobat Music Releases Live Miles Davis Sextet Recordings There is a long version of What Is This Thing Called Love? which once was released as including Miles Davis, later thought to be Nat Adderley [sic], and now established by a Mulligan discography as being Art Farmer. Miles Davis and his band members are mentioned at the end of the track but that is an announcement for an upcoming gig. Losin rightfully doesn't list it as a Miles item. Acrobat messes it up completely and lists Miles Davis on trumpet and Nat Adderley on clarinet(!), according to Lazaro Vega in the other thread.

The Peterson Mosaic set includes these Songbook albums with his piano-guitar-bass trio: Clef MGC 603 Oscar Peterson Plays Cole Porter Clef MGC 604 Oscar Peterson Plays Irving Berlin Clef MGC 605 Oscar Peterson Plays George Gershwin Clef MGC 606 Oscar Peterson Plays Duke Ellington Clef MGC 623 Oscar Peterson Plays Jerome Kern Clef MGC 624 Oscar Peterson Plays Richard Rodgers Clef MGC 625 Oscar Peterson Plays Vincent Youmans Not so. The last three on your list are incomplete on the Mosaic since they include later material with Herb Ellis replacing Barney Kessel. It's a pity Mosaic didn't include the remaining 1953 sessions. We are talking about 9 tracks of which 5 are previously unissued, which very well could have fitted on the 7 CDs. It would have completed those three albums. The Irving Ashby tracks were included after all. Can we hope for a second Mosaic down the road? There are some more unissued and rare tracks with Ellis.

I should also add that since then the Oscar Peterson Mosaic has come out, which covers some of the Clef "songbook" material, but far from all of it, unfortunately.

It was the subject of this thread: oscar peterson songbook, new 6 cd boxset I then recommended getting the Avid set instead for the reasons given...

"52th Street"? "Charly Christian"? Lol, these belong in the mistakes thread! The Frankie Newton was recently discussed in this thread: Frankie Newton Live? No live recordings here. Misrepresenting these studio recordings in that way is puzzling. Do the producers believe that they will make a lot of money from people who think that these are new unknown live recordings? People who know about these musicians in the first place are probably too knowledgeable to fall for this anyway.

Charlie Barnet recorded In A Mizz three months before Duke Ellington. It's on one of the Classics volumes. By the way, Ellington takes the vocal on the Barnet version. Judy Ellington that is.

Because of the reasons mentioned in my last post, it is still pending whether this was the latest or last batch ! I sincerely hope it won't be. For example, the planned Benny Goodman release in the next batch (1952-54) will include BG's last 78 rpm releases, after which we will have reached the LP era, and with that Classics will have completed an incredible feat, so at least that batch must come out! But there really is so much more to do. Woody Herman's 1941-44 Deccas with the earliest First Herd recordings, not covered by the Mosaic, is one obvious example that immediately comes to mind. So here's hoping we can look forward to more wonderful Classics releases in 2009! Rest assured that there are many Classics fans around the world hoping the same!

I understand how frustrating that must be to see. However, the fact that some of them are illegally "available" as downloads, doesn't in itself mean that people who want Classics releases will download them instead of buying the CDs. I know how to download them, but I buy the CDs instead, both because I want the permanent physical product, and because I think it is the right thing to do, especially if I want the series to continue (which I dearly want). And I don't think I'm alone. I am sure there are many both here on the board and elsewhere who think likewise. I think many of those who download from those sites (or that one, since I think it is one in particular) are people who wouldn't have bought it anyway. They just download a lot of stuff because it is free. There may be some who download instead of buying, but there may also be some who discover the label and then buy Classics CDs they wouldn't have bought otherwise. I'm not defending it in any way, but I'm just pointing out that the downloads there can't immediately be equated to missed sales. Also, have you tried asking them not to put up Classics releases? I know some sites say that they will take down material if the rightful owners ask them to. Especially if the refusal to do so may lead to a label's demise they may be willing to oblige. I think that some of the people on those sites really are jazz lovers, but they just don't understand how their actions are hurting the possibility of new releases. They probably have a view of record companies as large entities, for whom it doesn't really matter if only they download, and they don't realize how small operations a label like for example Classics is. I'm sure they too would like to see new releases. It might be worth a try. That large record companies don't take action to close down those sites in the first place is another thing I don't understand though. I also have a suggestion. Why not set up your own Classics homepage and sell directly from there? Many smaller labels offer that option: Hep, Frog, Timeless, Jazz Oracle & Retrieval to take a few examples of other reissue labels. That way you can take a larger piece of the pie, and there will always be a clear source for customers to buy from, something I think is lacking today. I may know what French Amazon marketplace sellers to buy from, but not everyone does, and some releases that actually are available may show up for large sums on US Amazon marketplace for example. A homepage may also give information about what other places customers can buy from.

That just about sums it up, although one might also add the following 'sentence': "These are "Live" performances some sound quality imperfections may exist".

Yes!

This must take some kind of prize. How many errors can you spot? I wonder if it is because it was recorded at the Blue Note...

I agree 100%.

I think there is some confusion here. The Blue Note series was called Collector's Choice (reprints of earlier titles, including wrong trackings!), and then there are the unrelated labels Collectors' Choice Music (which has the twofers ubu was referring to) and the defunct Collector's Classics (which reissued Henry "Red" Allen and Wingy Manone among others).

Bobby Durham

The Japanese CD was fine too.

Less than five years? Several of these were released last year!! The following were released in 2007 and are deleted now in 2008!! Horace Silver - You Gotta Take A Little Love Introducing Kenny Cox Frank Foster - Manhattan Fever Stan Kenton - The Compositions Of Dee Barton

Didn't Paul Desmond say he was the world's slowest alto player?

I don't see physical shops closing down equating the end of the CD. For many years now all my CD buying has been online - CDON, CD Universe, Amazon, directly from some labels' websites etc. Much better selection, much lower prices, you can sample the tracks, read reviews, you get a fresh new copy where the booklet hasn't been greased and creased by some other customer, and you don't have to travel anywhere, but can sit in the comfort of your home and order. The only disadvantage is that you don't get the CDs immediately, but the advantages clearly outweigh the disadvantages IMHO.

Yowza!!! Yes, but hva sier naboen?

It means "cedarized to death".

Classics has released 13 Cab Calloway CDs covering his complete output 1930-1955. Many of them may be OOP now, but perhaps not impossible to find. I'm not a fan of Calloway's vocals, but his band was one of the best, and especially the late 30s-early 40s edition with Chu Berry, Dizzy Gillespie, Cozy Cole, Milt Hinton and others was great.

What was wrong with my reply here?

Baby Face Willette (org) + others unknown c. late 1965 14267 When lights are low (unissued) Cadet 14268 After hours - 14269 Soul elevation - 14270 Get to steppin' - 14271 I got a woman (incomplete) - I think this session was brought up at the old Verve board, but the board members obviously knew more about it than Mark@Verve. I don't remember if we came to any conclusion whatsoever whether the tapes were lost or stíll existed.