Swinging Swede

Super model Carmen Kass, who also is president of the Estonian Chess Federation. Playing against the Indian ace GM Anand

And speaking of Australia, here is WIM Arianne Caoili, 2144.

Haha, ChessBase and their chess babes. Here's another recent one: WFM Rebecca Harris, Australia

Thanks, I had completely forgotten that connection. Oh well, at least he's still collecting jazz CDs....

From a machine translation of that article: I wonder how it's going with that. A number of OOP titles were reprinted quite some time ago, but has anything happened since then? By the way, even new Classics titles seem to be poorly distributed, unfortunately.

...and this one:

With the sad state Verve is in you can forget about any expanded reissue. Perhaps a Mosaic Single might be an idea, but the Getz estate problem would have to be solved first, and if it were, would Verve lease a big name like Getz? It's worth mentioning here too that Verve reissued Reflections in 2003 as a straight LP reissue, without any of the four outtakes that exist from the same sessions. It was in the LPR series, and heck, even that series is discontinued now. As for mystery sessions for Verve, Getz made three of those in February 1961. The third of them is a full session with Scott LaFaro, just a few months before his death, as well as half of what had been the early John Coltrane Quartet (Steve Kuhn & Pete LaRoca). How's that for a session? Only one track has turned up on a compilation. Stan Getz Quintet Bob Brookmeyer (vtb) Stan Getz (ts) Dick Katz (p) Percy Heath (b) Connie Kay (d) NYC, February 13, 1961 23483-7 Upper Manhattan Medical Centre Verve unissued 23484-2 Just In Time - Stan Getz Quartet Stan Getz (ts) Victor Feldman (p) Sam Jones (b) Louis Hayes (d) Chicago, IL, February 20, 1961 23485-1 Evening In Paris Verve 815 239-1 * Stan Getz - Stan The Man (Verve 815 239-1) Stan Getz Quartet Stan Getz (ts) Steve Kuhn (p) Scott LaFaro (b) Pete LaRoca (d) Chicago, IL, February 21, 1961 23486-3 Baubles, Bangles And Beads unissued 23487-1 Little Old Lady - 23488-1 I Remember Clifford - 23489-2 For You, For Me, Forevermore - 23490-3 Airegin Verve 815 239-1 23491-4 Speak Low unissued 23492-4 Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most - * Stan Getz - Stan The Man (Verve 815 239-1)

Yes, there was another RCA album, Strictly Powell, which predated Swingin' With Bud. I haven't seen a RVJC (AFLA ) release of it, although that doesn't necessarily rule out anything as we see. There have in any case been other CD reissues of it.

Thanks for the addition; I've updated the list! I remember seeing almost all the 1993-94 releases in stores, but for some reason I saw very few of the 1995-96 releases, and the Winding/Johnson was one title I didn't even know existed until this thread, as was the Nat Pierce Baker mentioned. Incidentally the catalogue number of the Winding/Johnson is not close to any of the other releases. One wonders if there is more?

That was a great series! The majority of what was released had not been on CD before, and we got original album covers and liner notes in a fold-out, complete discographies, and in some cases bonus tracks. The reissues are listed as produced by ”Rolf Enoch/proJAZZteam”, and whoever he/they was/were, this series was very well done. It seems to have run 1993-96. Maybe it came to an end because many of the titles weren’t big sellers, but at least they weren’t the same old hackneyed titles being reissued over and over again, as often has been the case with the majors. I picked up many of the releases I saw in stores, but since this was in the pre-Internet days, I didn’t know about any titles I didn’t see, and some I’ve only learned about later. Below is a list I have compiled, which may not be quite complete, though. There are some gaps in the catalogue numbers (although that does not in itself mean that there is a missing release), and the 1995 titles are fewer than for the other years and disconnected catalogue-wise, so maybe there’s.more. Please feel free to make additions or corrections to the list. With our combined efforts we can probably make it complete (if it isn’t already). RCA VICTOR JAZZ CLASSICS 1993: 74321 13027 2 Jimmy Witherspoon With Jay McShann And His Band - Goin’ To Kansas City Blues (1957) 74321 13028 2 Andy Kirk And His Orchestra - A Mellow Bit Of Rhythm (1956) 74321 13029 2 Duke Ellington - In A Mellotone (1940-42) 74321 13030 2 [does it exist?] 74321 13031 2 Bud Freeman - Chicago/Austin High School Jazz In Hi-Fi (1957) 74321 13032 2 The Big 18 - Live Echoes Of The Swinging Bands (1958) 74321 13033 2 The Big 18 - More Live Echoes Of The Swinging Bands (1958) 74321 13034 2 Red Norvo - Red Plays The Blues (1957-58) 74321 13035 2 A String Of Swinging Pearls (various small groups circa late 20s-mid 40s) 74321 13036 2 Louis Armstrong - Town Hall Concert Plus (1946-47) 74321 13037 2 The Bix Beiderbecke Legend (1924-30) 74321 13038 2 George Wein’s Dixie Victors - The Magic Horn (1956) 74321 13039 2 Muggsy Spanier’s Ragtime Band - The Great 16! (1939) 74321 13040 2 The Four Brothers.…Together Again! (1957) 74321 13041 2 Bud Powell - Swingin’ With Bud (1957) 1994: 74321 18518 2 Jimmy McPartland And His Dixielanders - That Happy Dixieland Jazz (1959) 74321 18519 2 Shorty Rogers And His Giants - The Big Shorty Rogers Express (1953/56) 74321 18520 2 Ruby Braff - Hi-Fi Salute To Bunny (1957) 74321 18521 2 Jack Montrose And All-Stars - The Horn’s Full (1957) 74321 18522 2 Ruby Braff And His Men - Easy Now (1958) 74321 18523 2 The Jonah Jones Quartet - Jonah Jones At The Embers (1956) 74321 18524 2 Cab Calloway And His Orchestra - Hi-De-Hi-De-Ho (1958) 74321 18525 2 The Talkative Horns Of Rex Stewart & Dickie Wells - Chatter Jazz (1959) 74321 18526 2 Sonny Rollins - The Bridge (1962) 74321 18527 2 Artie Shaw - In the Blue Room/In The Café Rouge (1938-39) 74321 21821 2 Lionel Hampton - Hamp’s Big Band (1959) 74321 21822 2 Shorty Rogers And His Giants - Portrait Of Shorty (1957) 74321 21823 2 Joe Williams - Me And The Blues (1963) 74321 21824 2 Tommy Dorsey And His Clambake Seven - Having Wonderful Time (1935-46) 74321 21825 2 Gary Burton/Sonny Rollins/Clark Terry - 3 In Jazz (1963) 74321 21826 2 Cootie Williams In Hi-Fi (1958) 74321 21827 2 [does it exist?] 74321 21828 2 Gary Burton - New Vibe Man In Town (1961) 74321 21829 2 Great Moments In Jazz Re-Created At The Newport Jazz Festival (1964) 74321 21830 2 [does it exist?] 74321 21831 2 Joe Williams - At Newport ’63 (1963) 74321 21832 2 Mainstream Sextet/Andy Gibson And His Orchestra - Mainstream Jazz (1959) 1995: 74321 25723 2 Ahmed Abdul-Malik - East Meets West (1959) 74321 25727 2 J.J. Johnson - J.J.! (1964) 74321 25729 2 Eddie ”Lockjaw” Davis - Love Calls (1967) 74321 25730 2 Gary Burton - Duster (1967) 74321 29880 2 Kai Winding And J. J. Johnson - An Afternoon At Birdland (1954) 74321 30072 2 Freddie Green - Mr. Rhythm (1955) 74321 30073 2 The Nat Pierce Orchestra Featuring Buck Clayton - Big Band At The Savoy Ballroom (1957) 74321 32337 2 Shorty Rogers Courts The Count (1954) (any more 1995 releases?) 1996: 74321 36400 2 Lionel Hampton - Jazz Flamenco (1956) 74321 36401 2 Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - That Sentimental Gentleman Of Swing (1940-1944) 74321 36402 2 Bread, Butter & Jam In Hi-Fi (late 1950s?) 74321 36403 2 Who Is Gary Burton? (1962) 74321 36404 2 Red Allen - Ride, Red, Ride In Hi-Fi (1957) 74321 36405 2 Mundell Lowe And His All Stars - Porgy & Bess (1958) 74321 36406 2 Stan Getz & Arthur Fiedler - At Tanglewood (1966) 74321 36407 2 [does it exist?] 74321 36408 2 Brad Gowans And His New York Nine (1946) / Max Kaminsky And His Dixieland Bashers - Jazz On The Campus Ltd (1954) [two 10” LPs on one CD] 74321 36409 2 Manny Albam-Ernie Wilkins And Their Orchestra - The Drum Suite (1956) / Al Cohn - Son Of Drum Suite (1960) [two 12” LPs on one CD]

As mentioned earlier in the thread, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is a great resource for retrieving old Mosaic discographies (and a lot of other web pages of yore...). Here is the one for Mosaic #170: Classic Capitol Jazz Sessions discography

Not again!

And of course the early Fletcher Henderson classic Shanghai Shuffle from 1924, which has a cornet solo by Louis Armstrong. In 1936 Henry "Red" Allen recorded Algiers Stomp. On guitar was Lawrence Lucie who just turned 100.

Original Dixieland Jazz Band had a couple of early ones,Soudan and Palesteena, both from 1920. I can't say for sure that they are the earliest examples, since by that time many jazz or jazz-influenced bands had recorded, and exotic references in tune titles were not uncommon.

Everything east of the English Channel is Asia, I presume?

I think 16 of the 29 tracks were not recorded commercially by Ellington, so that's a big reason in itself to get it. And it's by the Blanton-Webster band. Nuff said. 26 of the 29 tracks were previously out on a Vintage Jazz Classics single CD. The Soundies set is a double CD with all the tracks, but I must say that the sound is very different on the two releases. I couldn't decide which one I preferred though.

Perhaps JSngry is talking about this session: Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers Lee Morgan (tp) Hank Mobley (ts) Bobby Timmons (p) Jymie Merritt (b) Art Blakey (d) Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, March 8, 1959 tk.5 Jimerick Blue Note rejected tk.10 Quick Trick - tk.14 Hipsippy Blues - tk.15 M And M - tk.19 Close Your Eyes - tk.21 Just Foolin' - This is one of those sessions about which one wonders how bad it really can be. It should be made available as a download at least.

Update: I looked around and there is a Collectables CD from 2005, which has all King recordings except four. The good news is that those four tunes are different from the four tunes missing from the Charly CD. This means that if you buy both CDs you will have all the King tunes. If the Collectables CD has the master takes, it also means that the only thing you will be missing is the master take of Old Spice (the Charly CD has an alternate).

Excellent decision! Lucky Millinder had a great band. I'm particulary fond of the 1941-42 recordings. Some of those tracks are among the best big band sides ever laid down, for example Apollo Jump, Savoy and two tracks featuring Dizzy Gillespie: Mason Flyer and Little John Special, the latter using the 'Salt Peanuts' riff just three days before the regrettable recording ban started. There are also gospelish tracks, some featuring Sister Rosetta Tharpe. As the 40s went on the band became more R&B-ish of course. As for the 1951-55 King recordings no Classics CD exists, yet anyway. The latest volume, from 2001, says "To be continued..." so one was probably planned, but the release pace is very slow these days, and the label's future uncertain, so who knows whether the fourth volume ever will materialize? If Jaffa were here, he might be able to say something about it. There is however an OOP Charly CD, which shouldn't be too hard to find, called Ram-Bunk-Shush, that has 16 of the 20 1951-55 tunes, although some of them are alternate takes of the originally released versions. When you say 24 tracks, you are counting alternate takes also, right? The Charly CD is in any case currently the best choice I'm aware of for the 1951-55 recordings.

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The Riverside cover is the original. The Jazzland was a later reissue. By the way, what's with "Club Bohemia"? I thought it was "Cafe Bohemia".

I read some time ago that Charlie Parker showed great talent the first time he was on a golf-course. He was supposedly good at doing quick magical tricks with his hands too. Apparently he was born with an unusually good limb control, which is part of the reason he became such an extraordinary saxophonist. I find that to be a fascinating aspect of Bird. I think I read about this in some liner notes, but probably not to a Parker CD. Does anyone recognize the golf story and know from where it comes? Speaking of Kenny G and Bird, who can forget the following quote: "Charlie Parker would squeak a lot, and that's why they called him Bird, because his reed would chirp."