Swinging Swede

hm, the James Moody (Overbrook) is complete, the Zoot Sims and Art Farmers had two tunes from the second album missing, what other releases were done in that series? No, the Art Farmer had one tune from each album omitted, The Best Thing For You Is Me from Art and Change Partners from Perception, to be more specific. Keepnews writes "One selection from each album has been omitted. The reissue producer has used his own judgement [sic] in programming this CD, rather than following either original recording order or LP sequence.". The only problem with that is that the CD is 64:32 and easily could have included *both* omitted numbers, which are 5 and 4 minutes respectively!!! It is true that the Zoot Sims has one album complete and two tracks missing from one, but the running time of the CD is only 65:37, so why the omission in the first place??? I'm also reminded of the Keepnews-produced RCA CD The Great Ellington Units. There were 24 Ellington small group tracks recorded for Victor in 1940-41. Keepnews omits 2 tracks and writes "The expanded - although not unlimited - capacity of a compact disc makes it possible to assemble here virtually all the 1940-41 Ellington small-band material. (Since not quite everything could be included, the decision was to omit two selections generally recognized as the lesser items on the second Barney Bigard date: June and Noir Bleu.)". What he writes is a direct lie since the CD is 69:41 and easily could have included two more three-minute tracks. Can anyone explain this behaviour from O.K.? Did he find sadistic joy in driving collectors nuts? There were more Chess twofers; I'll check them later.

I'm not sure there is more. Two batches with five releases in each may have been all there was before the merger. After that more Deccas and Argos etc. were released in Verve's reissue series.

Keepnews frequently omitted one or two tunes from *each* album. Then he explained in the notes that it was becuase a CD couldn't hold everything. But the playing time of the CDs often was just 64 minutes or so, so they could easily have included everything. Stupid.

Max Roach - Max! was in there too, I think. Edited to add: Kenny Burrell - Ode to 52nd Street Al Cohn & Zoot Sims - Al And Zoot Quincy Jones - Go West, Man!

Count Basie - Straight Ahead was another one. That was an excellent series, but very shortlived since the Polygram/MCA merger came soon after it was started.

On the CD reissue the logo is replaced and the cover cropped. The original is better.

Count me in as an album fetishist. As for the Concord reissues, they are simply clueless. Despite Fantasy's efforts there is quite a bit left to reissue on CD, particularly from Prestige in the 60s. There are numerous albums left from artists like Shirley Scott, Don Patterson, Johnny "Hammond" Smith, Willis Jackson, Bobby Timmons and Freddie McCoy, the remaining Eric Klosses etc, etc... I would buy whatever they put out of those but I simply won't buy another copy of Bags Groove or Settin' The Pace (yawn).

These are (or have recently been) available from dustygroove for $5.99. Presumably they are all being deleted. In fact, I wondered if Columbia was busy deleting its entire non-Miles jazz CD catalog. Actually, truebluemusic.com has recently had several of the Miles Davises on their deletions list. Maybe Columbia is deleting its entire jazz catalogue, period.

The extra material from Baby Grand is missing from the tape vaults. It's like Stanley Turrentine's Minton's recordings with Grant Green. Only what was originally released exists. Or has been located so far; we can hope that it is misfiled somewhere and eventually will turn up.

Great minds think alike; I just mentioned Red Top earlier today! Water Records

Probably just a botched ending, maybe with the musicians laughing, and then packing it up and going home. Nothing that would have left a Charlie Parker take unreleased, but Cuscuna simply doesn't release stuff like that, even if it's great until it breaks down. I'm reminded of take 4 of the blues Parker's Mood (take 5 was the master take). It's great for 2 minutes and very different from the master take. Then Parker hits a bad note, and the take breaks down in laughter. But what's there for those two minutes is wonderful, and I wouldn't want to be without it. For all that Cuscuna has done as a reissue producer, stuff like that unfortunately remains in the can when he has his say. I'm sure that when there's a rejected track from an otherwise successful session, it's a botched ending or ensemble, maybe a soloist hitting a really bad note at some point, but nothing that makes the whole track uniformly bad.

The 3-CD set you link to has the complete 1944-45 Victor sessions (including alternate takes) and the first Musicraft session which was the last by that particular band. As a bonus the third disc ends with two tracks with Basie from a 1944 Jubilee show and two tracks from a 1945 Bing Crosby show. Since it is on Hep I'm sure the sound is excellent and the notes too. You can also buy it directly from Hep, although I'm not sure how much cheaper that will be. But at least then all the money goes to the label. Shaw also recorded for Musicraft in 1946 with studio orchestras. The Musicraft recordings were released a long time ago on two CDs. All the master takes are of course on Classics, which also has reissued his 1949-53 big band (and other) recordings. As for the 1954 small group recordings with Tal Farlow and Hank Jones there were a couple of Music Master sets on CD that had most if not quite all of those recordings. They are OOP now. The latest Classics volume has reeached 1954, but they have not completed their coverage of the 1954 recordings yet.

Even worse, there's an unissued tune, Red Top, from that session. Yes, unissued, not rejected. It should of course have been included. Lou Donaldson Quintet Blue Mitchell (tp) Lou Donaldson (el-as, vo) Charles Earland (org) Jimmy Ponder (g) Leo Morris (d) Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, November 6, 1968 tk.1 Brother Soul (alt. take) Blue Note B1 31883 tk.2 Brother Soul Blue Note BST 84299 tk.3 Snake Bone Blue Note 45-1943, BST 84299 tk.8 Say It Loud, I'm Black And I'm Proud - tk.10 Caravan Blue Note BST 84299 tk.12 Summertime - tk.16 Red Top unissued * Various Artists - The Lost Grooves (Blue Note B1 31883) * Lou Donaldson - Say It Loud! (Blue Note BST 84299) * Lou Donaldson - Say It Loud c/w Snake Bone (Blue Note 45-1943)

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Actually it would be interesting to read DB reviews of some of those Blue Note Hits A New Note releases. What did they think about Bobbi Humphrey, Alphonse Mouzon etc? It must have seemed like a pretty quick transition from the Hank and Lee days at the time.

How soon things would change. Those were the last Blue Note albums for McGriff, Holmes, Reuben Wilson and The Three Sounds (if you can count it as a Three Sounds album). The next year Grant Green would make his last and Elvin Jones his last released Blue Note album. Hello, Blue Note Hits A New Note.

I've not had any problems playing or ripping CDs on my computer. I too think that something else must be wrong. Are you sure some of those aren't "copy-protected" discs? They will often behave just like that, play on the regular CD player, but not be rippable on the computer.

240 CD lot sold on eBay for US $2,276.89

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So, in order to maximize traffic to the board, members should adopt the most frequently googled names. Who are volunteering to rename themselves "Britney Spears" and "Paris Hilton"? You know it is for a good cause!

Here 'tis: Charles Earland discography

Wow, five years already! That's more than the original BNBB (four years). Thanks and happy birthday.

The thread is still there, but the attachments aren't. I think older attachments were lost in a board upgrade. I noticed this when I took a look at a thread with homemade album covers. I wonder if the files still exist on the server, but the links just are outdated. In that case it might be possible to restore them.

Yes, but it also remains in Running Low...

Carlsen was not seen from his best side in the Leko game. He seems to have problems against two of the top players. Against Anand it is understandable, but why he has to lose time and time again against Leko who otherwise isn't doing too well these days is more of a mystery. Anyway, Carlsen came back yesterday with a big win against Topalov (2-0 against Topalov in this tournament!). Thereby he moved back to the #4 spot with a new personal Elo record of 2767. Some feel that he will break the 2800 barrier before he turns 18! His performance Elo consistently is +2800 in his tournaments now. Aronian is currently #6 and very close to the others above. He actually was #3 at one point, but dropped. He is not always exciting though. He regularly mixes exciting games with short draws. As for Morozevich, I don't know. He is very efficient against lower-rated GMs, and has achieved his Elo through his results. But it is true that he hasn't won any of the top tournaments, although he hasn't played that many either. His opening play is probably too excentric when meeting Kramnik and the guys.