Swinging Swede

Also being released the same day is Stan Kenton's The Jazz Compositions Of Dee Barton from 1967, which was his penultimate Capitol album. Since I already have the Mosaics, the Kenton is the most interesting for me personally.

I understand that the studio tracks are mono. Why is that? Columbia had recorded Ellington in stereo since 1956, and the actual 1958 Newport live performance is in stereo. So why is this studio session in mono only?

Europeans can't buy on Half.com either.

As mentioned on the other thread Concord doesn't ship to Europe, which complicates the matter.

Thanks for the tip, but I checked the Concord site once, and wrote it off as a source, since they don't ship to Europe. Perhaps they will if I ask them nicely? It's worth a try. It's odd that they have it, when not even one copy can be found on any Amazon site, and that includes marketplace sellers. Concord must not be very interested in selling its stock, if they actually have titles that are unavailable elsewhere.

I can subscribe to everything you said there. First they wouldn't touch the catalogue, then came the blowout sale of things that would go OOP, but there's so much more that wasn't in the blowout sale that has gone OOP. It's really incredible how much has disappeared in a short time. I guess that between the Zweitausendeins sale, the Dusty Groove sale of blowout items (Concord wouldn't ship directly to Europe) and Newbury Comics, I've been lucky to be able to pick up a lot of OOP stuff at a pretty good price, but there's so much more. Try finding This Is Walt Dickerson to take just one example. That one has disappeared from the face of earth.

Thanks for the info, but uh oh ... there we go again .... endless series of duplicates ... (I have ALL of Hamp's Deccas - there were two excellent LP series on both German and French MCA years ago, and I don't believe in changing music just for the format, especially if it would mean dumping my good old vinyl ). No separate V-Disc Hampton collections anywhere, I guess, then? Not even something that may be OOP but can still be traced somewhere somehow? Or would I have to look for a cheapo box set that has it all but would leave me far less broke than a Chronological Classic full-price series? OK, I see. However, you would only have to pick up two of the Classics, 1942-1944 and 1945-1946. Hampton only recorded six sides for V-Disc, although they are much longer than what was usual for the time, clocking in at between 4 and 6 minutes per side, for a total of almost 30 minutes. And they are great fun! 1942-1944 has Flying Home, parts 1 & 2, The Major And The Minor and I Wonder Boogie, while 1945-1946 has Vibe Boogie and Screamin' Boogie. I checked the Proper and Quadromania tracklists, but they only seem to have two V-Disc tracks each. Speaking of Hampton's big band, something that should be released is his numerous broadcasts from the mid-40s. Very little of it has come out on CD, and I'm sure it's exciting stuff.

I picked up the Chronological Classics releases as they came out. They have all of Hampton's Deccas as well as his V-Discs. Don't know about current availability.

What Niko said. It's right there in the sessionography; I didn't add anything (although I corrected a couple of typos). The sessionography hasn't been updated since January 2003 though, so the discovery isn't so recent anymore. Since these are Impulse studio sessions and the notes say "rumoured to be released sometime in the future", I assumed when I first read about it that the tapes were in the posession of the Coltrane estate, which has had other tape reels of unissued studio recordings that Coltrane took home. What else? Some collector somehow acquired these sessions and neither Universal nor the Coltrane estate has them? I don't know if that's possible. Weren't there rumours while Alice Coltrane was still alive, that she wanted to trickle unissued Coltrane material out, so we would get one new release a year or so? We just got the Coltrane At Newport thing, so perhaps these studio recordings are in the pipeline in the coming years? But with the record industry implosion, and the staff layoffs at Verve, who knows?

Actually that's not true any longer since two later studio sessions have been discovered, including one recorded one month after the Olatunji concert. Here are the unissued studio sessions from 1966-67, taken from Allan J. Sutherland's Coltrane Sessionography. They amount to two and a half hours(!) of late studio Coltrane, including over one hour from his last two sessions, and without them we can't paint a complete picture of where Coltrane was at the end, or where he might have been heading. John Coltrane Session 66-04-21: Date: 21 April 1966. Place: Van Gelder Studio- Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Ensemble: John Coltrane Quintet: John Coltrane soprano sax, tenor sax, Pharoah Sanders flute, tenor sax, Alice Coltrane piano, Jimmy Garrison bass, Rashied Ali drums, Recording: Commercial for Impulse. Recording Engineer: Alternative Issues: Recent Available Issue: 1. Darkness (10:43) (Unissued.) 2. Lead Us On (8:20) (Unissued.) 3. Leo (18:00) (Unissued.) 4. Peace on Earth (5:20) (Unissued.) Notes: Tapes for this session were recently discovered, and are rumoured to be released sometime in the future. John Coltrane Session 66-04-28: Date: 28 April, 1966. Place: Van Gelder Studio- Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Ensemble: John Coltrane Quintet: John Coltrane soprano sax, tenor sax, Pharoah Sanders flute, tenor sax, Alice Coltrane piano, Jimmy Garrison bass, Rashied Ali drums, Recording: Commercial for Impulse. Recording Engineer: Alternative Issues: Recent Available Issue: 1. Call (9:20) (Unissued.) 2. Leo (9:40) (Unissued.) Notes: Tapes for this session were recently discovered, and are rumoured to be released sometime in the future. John Coltrane Session 67-02-27: Date: 27 February 1967. Place: Van Gelder Studio- Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Ensemble: John Coltrane Quintet: John Coltrane tenor sax, Alice Coltrane piano, Jimmy Garrison bass, Rashied Ali drums, Marion Brown bells. Recording: Commercial for Impulse. Recording Engineer: Alternative Issues: Recent Available Issue: 1. E Minor (6:61) (Unissued.) 2. Half Steps (7:10) (Unissued.) Notes: Tapes for this session were recently discovered, and are rumoured to be released sometime in the future. John Coltrane Session 67-03-29: Date: 29 March, 1967. Place: Van Gelder Studio- Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Ensemble: John Coltrane Quartet: John Coltrane tenor sax, Alice Coltrane piano, Jimmy Garrison bass, Rashied Ali drums, Recording: Commercial for Impulse. Recording Engineer: Alternative Issues: Recent Available Issue: 1. Number Eight (5:01) (Unissued.) 2. Number Seven (3:18) (Unissued.) 3. Number Six (2:12) (Unissued.) 4. Number Five (6:18) (Unissued.) 5. Number Four (4:02) (Unissued.) 6. Number Two (4:09) (Unissued.) Notes: Tapes for this session were recently discovered, and are rumoured to be released sometime in the future. John Coltrane Session 67-05-17: Date: 17 May 1967. Place: Van Gelder Studio- Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Ensemble: John Coltrane Sextet: John Coltrane tenor sax, Pharoah Sanders alto sax, Alice Coltrane piano, Jimmy Garrison bass, Rashied Ali drums, Algie DeWitt Bata drum. Recording: Commercial for Impulse. Recording Engineer: Alternative Issues: Recent Available Issue: 1. None Other (14:28) (Unissued.) 2. Collidoscope (35:52) (Unissued.) Notes: Tapes for this session were recently discovered, and are rumoured to be released sometime in the future.

Not necessarily a mix-up. According to Mr. Nessa it's the same guys behind all those labels.

I don't know how common knowledge it is (it was new to me), but I recently read in Bob Blumenthal's liner notes to 'Round About Midnight that when Miles Davis was putting together his new quintet in 1955, he first tried John Gilmore on a few rehearsals. That didn't work out the way Miles wanted, and Philly Joe then suggested Coltrane, whom Miles hadn't been impressed with before. Jazz history came close to being very different.

Left off?! I didn't know that! Is it due to time restrictions, or because MC didn't like the tune? It was scheduled for release on Blue Note 84316, so it can not have been rejected in any case. I agree, a real disappointment that the whole unissued album isn't present.

Could be that Cuscuna intended to spread them out, but with EMI having been sold and the end of the series possibly being near, he decided to get the Morgans out quickly.

This is one thing I've been thinking about too, and very much would like to see come out. These are the relevant albums AFAIK, and they are all Universal-owned: Pacific Standard (Swingin') Time (1960) Decca DL-4031 Presenting The Buddy De Franco-Tommy Gumina Quartet (1961) Mercury MG-20685 Kaleidoscope (1962) Mercury MG-20743 Polytones (1963) Mercury MG-20822 The Girl From Ipanema (1964) Mercury MG-20900 Although I don't know what the selection would be if they all are included! Speaking of De Franco, a bunch of his 1950s Verve recordings have recently been released by the Andorrans. They include albums that never have been on CD before, or only on early 1990s Japanese CDs: Buddy De Franco And The Oscar Peterson Quartet (also on a Membran CD) The Buddy De Franco Wailers Buddy De Franco Plays Benny Goodman (early 1990s Japanese CD) Buddy De Franco Plays Artie Shaw (early 1990s Japanese CD) I Hear Benny Goodman And Artie Shaw (early 1990s Japanese CD) Wholly Cats Closed Session Generalissimo Live Date! (early 1990s Japanese CD)

Must have been when all those VEEs, VBRs and West Coast Classics were coming out!

Sure, but neither were the Half Note and Olatunji recordings that were released on Impulse recently. So, when all of you have bought this release, be sure to expect a Newport Deluxe set also including the 1961 and 1966 performances in a couple of years or so!

But someone else (Bob Belden? I forget) thought that it wasn't so bad, and that at least some of it could come out.

Wasn't EMI just sold? With all the other majors shutting down their jazz reissue programs and letting staff go, I wonder why EMI would be immune to the same development. I wonder if we have seen the last Connoisseur batch, for example.

Or the one from 1961.

No, almost all tracks are piano solos. Violinist Michel Warlop joins in on two tracks, and actress Nina Mae McKinney sings on two. Wilson switches to celeste on one track. All Lunceford recordings have been issued under Lunceford's own name on Classics. They are much recommended. Lunceford's was one of the great bands of its era.

A second Gerald Wilson, 1946-1954, is coming out on Classics (Classics 1444). It includes the remaining tracks by his 40s big band (at last!) and I suppose the same 1954 material. There is a Garland Wilson 1931-1938 (Classics 808). Don't know if the guy on the phone possibly could have been talking about that one.

Being without the Organissimo board is like being Paris Hilton in jail! Or something!

No - though you can get all the tracks (except the two by Sonny without Jug) on Chronological Classics. And those two tracks have also been released by Chronological Classics, but under Stitt's name.