Swinging Swede

Not that close really, since it was recorded on 31st May 1955, over a year before his death. Which takes nothing away from the music, of course.

I don't remember anything more specific than that. Don't think much more info was given. This may have been on the old BNBB or even the All About Jazz board. Since it was pretty much the same people posting on the old BNBB and then here, I must say I generally find it difficult to keep track of whether a discussion that happened years ago took place before or after the migration. Perhaps some other member knows more? At least the Clifford & Dolphy tapes came out.

This question has come up before. The info provided then was that a recording does exist, but the audio quality is very bad.

Or maybe they can add Jarrett's whining to Tatum's tracks?

He said that everything he's gonna do gonna be funky. At least from now on.

That's what I've read about it, probably on one of the jazz boards. I did a Google search now and came up with this All About Jazz post from 2005. It's not necessarily the one I read, but it says the same thing: "Writing about Tubby's recordings with American jazz musicians I should of course have mentioned Tubbs In New York, the super album he recorded during his first Stateside visit in 1961. Originally issued in the UK on the Fontana label (and in the USA on Epic) the album certainly ranks among Tubby's best, so it's a crying shame that it hasn't yet appeared in Universal Japan's CD reissue programme. This absense may well be explained by the copyright issues surrounding exactly who owns the album. A CD reissue of the complete October 1961 sessions which appeared in 1990 on the CBS label (Tubby Hayes with Clark Terry - The New York Sessions; CBS 466363 2) was swiftly withdrawn after a bit of legal wrangling. Epic (part of CBS) may have recorded the album but technically it was a Fontana production, which must mean that it is now under the banner of Universal." http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showpost.ph...p;postcount=288 So it seems that this case is analogous to Miles Davis's Lift To The Scaffold soundtrack recording which was originally released as half of the Columbia Jazz Track album, but now is being reissued by Verve. As for myself, I bought the CD in 1990, directly after it came out, and since that was in the pre-Internet days I had no idea about what had happened afterwards until I read about it. The European copies, by the way, said "CBS Jazz Masterpieces", since they weren't allowed to use the "Columbia" name in Europe.

This CD was withdrawn shortly after release since it turned out that Columbia didn't have the rights to the recordings. That's why it is so rare.

So, which is the next set to go OOP? The Johnny Hodges because it's Verve? (The later Max Roach and Gerry Mulligan sets have already gone OOP.) Gerald Wilson? HRS? I'm thinking of using this offer to buy the next endangered set earlier, but I don't want to buy one set, and then one or two others hit the running low list and I won't be able to afford them. Have been buying too many OOP OJCs lately for that.

The information provided by Verve is so bare-boned that it's not possible to know what they are. That's why he's asking!

Not a stupid question. Three of the tracks overlap, but the other three don't, as MG mentioned. It could simply be that when Verve didn't want to release it, some of the tunes were rerecorded at a later session (not uncommon when the first session remains unissued). But that begs the question: If not Verve, then what label was Iron City recorded for? It was released years later on Cobblestone, but Cobblestone did not exist in 1965. And yet it is a professional studio recording. So what label could it have been recorded for?

It is my understanding that they do have copies remaining of these titles, but only a very limited amount, and have no plans of repressing them, so perhaps they are thinking that they earn more by selling the last copies directly to customers than by selling them to Amazon. Either that or they once again don't know what they are doing (like releasing Kirk's Work twice within a few months)!

Sometimes those premium price copies can be found among other marketplace copies going for much less. I think these sellers are simpy waiting for other copies to sell out (which could happen rather fast for OOP titles), after which their copies will be the only option. I have to wonder though if a +300€ copy ever will be sold.

You guys are all wrong. It was Orrin Keepnews who recorded Trane with Monk, an affiliation that was crucial in Coltrane's development leading up to this session. So the one to really thank is Orrin Keepnews!

"In 1992, in Gramophone, the critic Bryce Morrison found that Yefim Bronfman’s Rachmaninoff Third Concerto lacked “the sort of angst or urgency that has endeared Rachmaninov to millions” and that “Bronfman sounds oddly unmoved by Rachmaninov ’s intensely slavonic idiom. In the sunset coda of the Adagio his playing is devoid of glamour and in the finale’s fugue he lacks crispness and definition.” Fifteen years later, he wrote of Hatto’s release of the same recording: “stunning . . . truly great . . . among the finest on record . . . with a special sense of its Slavic melancholy.”"

In case some of you missed it, the Urbie Green was recently reissued on this Fresh Sound CD: In addition to the Blue Note 10-incher, it also contains his Vanguard 10-incher, as well as all but one track from his Bethlehem 12" album. Love Locked Out seems to be missing from the latter. Oh well, that album has been reissued in full on its own anyway, so the Fresh Sound in any case at least combines two complete 10" albums. With this I believe all Blue Note 10" albums (not counting leased material) have come out on CD.

Let me see if I understand this. The OJC of Kirk's Work has been available since 1991. Then in May 2007 they release an RVG of it. And now, just months later they release it again on a twofer???? You are absolutely right, they obviously have no clue what they are doing. Perhaps someone happened upon the master tapes for the 70s twofers, then compared the titles with a list of the OJC titles, and found that Pre-Rahsaan and the others were titles currently not available, and thought that the jazz community would be very grateful for Concord releasing these previously unavailable titles on CD... If I had a say, Concord would release twofers of still unreissued albums by people like Gene Ammons, Willis Jackson, Don Patterson and Shirley Scott. There is still stuff from in particular the Prestige catalogue that should see the light of day.

Speaking of completeness, Classics has released Moody's complete early recordings, and I'm In The Mood For Love is on the second volume: There are five Classics CDs in total: 1948-1949 1949-1950 1950-1951 1951 1951-1954 An important reissue project from Classics, if I may say so. They also include some sideman sessions, like those made under Ernie Royal's name in 1950.

And where's Chaney??

A couple of years ago Avid released a 10 CD box set called Songbooks Etcetera. It included OP's ten 1951-54 Clef songbook albums, the majority of which saw their first CD release. The box set also included sideman and JATP material, but the main reason to buy it was to get the complete songbooks, which were: Plays Cole Porter (Clef MGC 603) Plays Irving Berlin (Clef MGC 604) Plays George Gershwin (Clef MGC 605) Plays Duke Ellington (Clef MGC 606) Plays Jerome Kern (Clef MGC 623) Plays Richard Rodgers (Clef MGC 624) Plays Vincent Youmans (Clef MGC 625) Plays Harry Warren (Clef MGC 648) Plays Harold Arlen (Clef MGC 649) Plays Jimmy McHugh (Clef MGC 650) The first 5 CDs of the boxset were essentially twofers, with each CD containing two complete albums with the original track order of the albums. This new United Archives releases has the same 10 albums, but also adds the later Plays Count Basie (Clef MGC 708) from December 1955 which was a quartet album with Buddy Rich added to the trio. Then as filler on the 6th and last CD they have the 10-incher Oscar Peterson Plays Pretty, which only was part of the 12-incher Pastel Moods, plus one track from Recital By Oscar Peterson. The filler material doesn't make much sense as far as completeness goes. Looking at the track lists it also becomes apparent that unlike the Avid set which has the tracks in album order, the United Archives has them in chronological order within each album! My educated guess is that United Archives has ripped all the songbooks from the Avid set. The rest (Basie etc.) has previously been out on CD, so it was most likely ripped too. My recommendation would be to get the Avid set instead. They have done original work in transferring many of the songbooks to CD for the first time, and you also get the albums with their correct track order. One last note: These early "songbooks" didn't actually have "songbook" or "song book" in the title, just Oscar Peterson Plays [insert composer's name]. When nine of the composers (all but Vincent Youmans for some reason) were rerecorded in stereo in 1959 with OP's new trio, which had drums instead of guitar, they were actually called "Song Book" in the title (Oscar Peterson Plays The Cole Porter Song Book etcetera).

J.A.W. knows something we don't.

I think he has been influenced by Wes Montgomery: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...ideoid=10933311

Is it the remaining stock of Sony's XCP discs and Blue Note's Cactus discs?

Good news then. This recently came out on CD on Groove Hut, one of the numerous "Andorran" labels. Perhaps they will also reissue Kynard's own PJ album? As for The Soul Brotherhood, I got it from Newbury Comics, but it's still in the backlog!

It's not even listed on hmv.co.jp! Normally UCC* reissues are available for much longer, often a couple of years at least. The Gonsalves must have been pressed in very low quantities indeed. However, sometimes UCC* reissues are "reissued" a year later or so. We can hope. This was one I would have wanted myself, but I had no idea it could go that quickly.

And while we're at it, Sam Most made an EP for Prestige in 1953, which doesn't seem to have been available in any form afterwards. From jazzdisco.org: Sam Most Sextet Doug Mettome (tp) Sam Most (fl, cl) Dick Hyman (p) Chuck Wayne (g) Clyde Lombardi (b) Jack Moffet (d) NYC, January 20, 1953 419 Undercurrent Blues Prestige PREP 1322 420 First With The Most - 421 Sometimes I'm Happy - 422 Takin' A Chance On Love - * Sam Most - Introducing A New Star (Prestige PREP 1322) There are some Prestige obscurities from the early to mid 50s that seem to have been lost in the format shuffle of those years. Much was later reconfigured for 12" LPs, but far from everything.