Swinging Swede

Thanks for the info! It's pretty astonishing that new Brownie still can be unearthed after over 50 years. I will have to pick up this one eventually. What I really would like to hear though, is the recordings he would have made after 1956.

I have this very nice collection Yes, I have another compilation, Compact Jazz, and there is also the later Jazz Masters 55. I now see that there hardly is any duplication between them. Perhaps one or more albums can be cobbled together from them? I'll have to check that. I should also mention that "the Andorrans" recently has put out two MGM twofers: New Swingin' Band/Requests On The Road and Harry James Today!/Harry James Plays Neal Hefti (plus three tracks from The Spectacular Sound). They are however mastered from LPs and a Mosaic release would sound so much better.

But James was still recording regularly at that time. I count 9 MGM albums in 1959-64 and 5 Dot albums in 1965-67. Cubano Chant was on his second Dot album The Ballads And The Beat. But it's possible that those albums didn't create a lot of fanfare at the time. They certainly haven't in the CD age!

Roques apparently liked that cover since he did it twice.

FWIW, this is what Lord says: Lee Castle (tp) Charlie Shavers (tp,vcl,arr) Billy Marshall (tp) or John Frosk, Paul Cohen (tp) or Dick Perry, John McCormick (tp) or Art Tancredi (tp) Tommy Dorsey, Tak Takvorian, Jimmy Henderson (tb) or Vince Forest, Sam Hyster (tb) or Sonny Russo (tb) Jimmy Dorsey (cl,as) Skip Galluccio, Kenny DeLange (as) or Red Press (as) Buzzy Brauner, Joe Pamelia (ts) or Gale Curtis (ts) Teddy Lee (bar) Doug Talbert (p) Sam Herman (g) Billy Cronk (b) Cliff Leeman (d) Lynn Roberts, Bill Raymond (vcl) Sy Oliver, Dick Jones, Dean Kincaide, Ernie Wilkins, Neal Hefti (arr) Collective personnel August 1954 to August 1955. New York, October, 1954 Wagon wheels Note: The above title and following titles were recorded by Tommy Dorsey and the tapes were later bought by Columbia. It is believed that these titles were recorded between August 1954 and August 1955. Buddy Rich (d) replaces Cliff Leeman New York, late 1954 or early 1955 We’ve crossed the widest river (dk arr) How far is it to Jordan? (dk arr) Judgement is coming (dk arr) Where is that rock? (dk arr) Heaven help us (dk arr) Peace pipe (ew arr) Toots Mondello (as) Andy Ferretti (tp) added, or replaces an unknown (tp) New York, May 7, 1955 (or later) Flagler Drive (ew arr) Skirts and sweaters (ew arr) Do it yourself (ew arr) Stereophonic (ew arr) This is what Gabriel says (dk arr) Navada (hg arr) Yesterdays (dj arr) It started all over again (dj arr) Dream of you (dj arr) This love of mine (dj arr) Rain (dj arr) Do do do (hg arr) I should care (dj arr) Moonlight in Vermont (nh arr) Melancholy serenade Autumn in New York (hg arr) There are such things (dj arr) All titles were also released on Columbia CL1150 and CL1151. On the CD reissue Wagon Wheels and the original liner notes have been omitted. Lord doesn’t mention Bellson. Additional material from these sessions were released on CL1240 as Sentimental And Swinging. Btw, after mid-1954 the Dorsey orchestra didn’t record commercially (not counting these purchased sessions) again during Tommy’s lifetime, which may seem surprising considering that Tommy Dorsey was RCA’s best-selling artist before Elvis Presley, but that just goes to show how much things had changed since the Swing era.

Meanwhile, Saoul Mamby, the 1980-82 WBC Light Welterweight Champion, has made a comeback at the tender age of 60! He said in an interview that his goal is to become World Champion once again. Good luck with that... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saoul_Mamby

Does Lord list a location and/or a show name? And for that matter, who is the pianist? His name is Jack Perciful (not familiar to me either). Here's the full entry: Harry James and His Orchestra : Harry James (tp,arr) Nick Buono, Tom Porello, Fred Koyen, Tony Scodwell (tp) Ray Sims, Joe Cadena (tb) Dave Wheeler (btb) Joe Riggs, Bill Castell (cl,as) Corky Corcoran (ts) Chick Carter (cl,fl,ts,bar) Bob Achilles (cl,bar) Jack Perciful (p) Red Kelly (b) Buddy Rich (d) Cathy Carter (vcl) Big Band Syndicated Telecast, Chicago, August, 1965 Ciribiribin (hj arr) Swingtime Video 102 Don't be that way (rc arr) Swingtime Video 111 El solo torro (rt arr) Broad Trib 6 Walk on the wild side -, Swingtime Video 111 Come rain or come shine (cc vcl) Swingtime Video 102 That's all Broad Trib 6, Swingtime Video 102 Green onions - - Caravan (jti arr) - - Rainbow kiss (nh arr) Swingtime Video 102, 111 Ciribiribin (hj arr) Swingtime Video 111 Shiny stockings (ew arr) Swingtime Video 102 Tuxedo junction (tj arr) Swingtime Video 111 Sunday morning (nh arr) - I'm beginning to see the light (cc vcl) Swingtime Video 102 Take the "A" train (ew arr) - Prelude to a kiss Swingtime Video 111 Two o'clock jump (nh arr) -

Ha!

Shouldn't a Mosaic box of Harry James's 1959-64 MGM recordings be a given at some point? They already released his preceding 1955-58 Capitol recordings in the now OOP Krupa/James box, and an MGM set would be a nice follow-up. While they're at it, they could throw in the 1965-67 Dot recordings too, since they also are Universal-owned. Green Onions is the title track of James's first Dot album, and Sunday Mornin' from the other thread was on that album as well. AFAIK, none of James's MGM and Dot albums have been on CD before. Rarely has a Mosaic box been more needed.

Lord lists the altoists as Joe Riggs and Bill Castell. I'm not familiar with either one.

It can be heard here: http://www.anorak.co.uk/wp-content/uploads...bit-giggles.mp3 What makes it even funnier is that the next news item is about someone who has died, which just makes the giggling even more inappropriate! Charlotte Green is the now famous newsreader's name, btw. Edited to add YouTube link without the beep:

Blue Note Quality Control The Conn did not have that error.

Hmm, I wonder what PristineAudio can do with that!

Saw him with the Dizzy Gillespie All Star Big Band three years ago. He was still playing fairly well, singing and smiling. It boggles one's mind to think that he was there back in 1946 with the revolutionary Dizzy Gillespie big band. He's a rare survivor from the almost mythical early days of modern jazz.

Nej, det gjorde jeg ikke. Som vel var.

Sonny Boy Williamson & Sonny Boy Williamson The funny thing is that the confusion was intentional since the second guy really was named something completely different.

I have to say though that some of my most favourite 50s Columbia Ellington recordings are the 78 rpm sessions he made in 1951 with the new Bellson-Smith band. The addition of Louie Bellson makes the band sound so much more powerful and rejuvenated on stuff like Fancy Dan and The Hawk Talks (sorry, Sonny G.). I think those recordings tend to be overlooked because they came at the very end of the 78 era when Duke already had started to make LP albums, but there's some great stuff there.

For the sake of completeness, the other albums not mentioned so far are: Jazz At The Plaza, Vol. II (with Jimmy Rushing guesting on three tunes, and also a couple of Billie Holiday tracks) The Nutcracker Suite Peer Gynt Suite & Suite Thursday First Time! (w. Basie) The Girl’s Suite & The Perfume Suite (This is one I would like to hear. According to Lord it has been on CD, but that's a CD I've never seen.) Then there are the various French 56/62 volumes of outtakes. Some of that material has been included as bonus tracks on CD reissues.

But the unreleased remastered version is in stereo. And wasn't it supposed to be a 2-CD set? Lots of extra material in other words. I think it could or at least should be released as a Mosaic Single, if Sony won't release it themselves. Why not? The remastering work is already done after all.

I can think of a few artists for whom that holds true... -_-

Pat Bowie and Patti Bown, who both recorded for Prestige in the 60s. What were the odds that there would be threads started about them both within half an hour?

Middlebrooks is on the recently OOP Hodges Mosaic.

Do you know if that was a limit on number of tracks or number of minutes? Because the CDs mentioned range from 11 to 22 tracks. In any case it does not explain why Keepnews falsely keeps referring to the capacity of CDs as the reason for omission. He does it again on the Hal McKusick CD Now's The Time: "this CD is made up of material drawn from two albums. Some selections have been omitted - there simply is not that much room on a single compact disc". The CD is 62:02!!!

Then we have the Ramsey Lewis CD Consider The Source, which includes tracks from Lewis's first three Argo albums. All three are incomplete of course, and the playing time is only 62:15. Argo albums are often short and instead for example the two first albums could have been complete. Keepnews excels again.

Another one is the Jazztet CD Blues On Down. It omits two tracks each from Big City Sounds and At Birdhouse, but the CD is only 67:22. The four omitted tracks are 15 minutes combined, so 3 of those 4 tracks could have been included, and one of the albums could have been complete.