Swinging Swede

Because the one who has the largest collection when he dies wins.

Apparently those tracks are not present. I'm not sure why. Was that session perhaps only later acquired by Roost/Roulette and not originally recorded for the label? That might be the rationale for omitting it in that case. Or it will appear under Stitt's name. (Cool & Blue reissued it with Stitt's name mentioned first.) Here are the description and track list from Worlds Records: The majority of these recordings was made by the tenor-saxophonist with a trio for the King label, featuring two different organ players: Eddie Bonnemere, a comparatively obscure player, and the more versatile Doc Bagby. The recordings for King from 1955 were aimed at the jukebox clientele who knew little about the history of jazz but loved groovy melodies played with drive, zest and power. I Only Have Eyes For You Chihuahua This Can't Be Love Nightingale Bingo Domingo Secret Love There's A Small Hotel Bean-O This Is Always Leaping On Lenox Tenderly I'll Remember April Moonlight In Vermont Yesterdays Little White Lies You Go To My Head What Is This Thing Called Love Holler Tickle Toe Punch Fireball I Want A Little Girl Hay Ride Soft One Grinding I'm glad just to see that this batch finally came out after another long hiatus. Hopefully we will then see a bit more from Classics. For 15 years the label came out with a batch of 5 titles each month without a glitch, but in the last three years or so there have been extended periods of nothing coming out.

Here is a video of the incident: Apparently this didn't wholly come as a bolt from the blue. Puerta had recently fainted during training on two occasions, and had undergone tests, but nothing wrong could be found. After his death the question will surely be asked whether he should have been prohibited from playing, until further tests had been carried out. And this isn't all. On the same day that Puerta was declared dead, Leicester City's Clive Clark, 27, collapsed in the changing room at half-time in a cup match. His heart stopped twice, but he survived, and is reported to be improving. And just yesterday former Zambian national team player Chaswe Nsofwa, 28, died during a training match with his new team in Israel. Just a few days before he had scored 2 goals in his first match for the team. And, while it didn't make international news, a few days before Puerta's last match a Swedish 16-year-old football player died during training. Still in fresh memory are Miklos Feher and Marc-Vivien Foe, two other national team players, who also died during televised matches. Is it just my memory that is short or have these deaths become much more common in recent years?

ah well, I'm just plain wrong... it was the Hodges chair he had, anyway... Hodges came back later as we all know (but I won't say he replaced Jefferson, since maybe Procope replaced Jefferson and Hodges thus replaced Procope... ) Hilton Jefferson's replacement was the boppish Rick Henderson, whom Duke for some reason very rarely gave solo space. Henderson held that chair throughout the entire Capitol period actually (Jefferson was only on the 1952 Columbia sides). Russell Procope was there all along! He replaced Otto Hardwick in 1946 and remained until the end. Rick Henderson was an interesting choice. When Hodges left, Duke replaced him with a fellow Swing Era star, Willie Smith, but he left after just a year. He was then replaced with another Swing Era veteran, Hilton Jefferson, who stayed an even shorter time. Perhaps Duke therefore decided to try something different in the young Henderson. But in late 1955 Hodges came back to the safety, and I think Duke was very pleased with that! I find it regrettable though that Willie Smith didn't stay longer. He fitted well into the band (musically anyway), and fortunately there are both live recordings and soundies in addition to the studio recordings, that document his stint with the band.

Also, Hilton Jefferson didn't replace Johnny Hodges, he replaced Willie Smith.

So why did they at all buy Fantasy in the first place? What hasn't gone according to plans?

I didn't spring for it. I guess that if I want to get it in the future, it will probably not have increased as much in price as the OOP Fantasy titles I have been picking up instead. Some Fantasy titles are already going for over 100 €, and many more will go that way I suppose.

I'm still on the fence regarding this one. Should I get it, or spend the same amount on OOP Fantasy titles? Or do both, and if the Johnny Hodges and Gerald Wilson soon hit the endangered list not afford both of them? These are tough questions! Does anyone know how many copies are left?

He suffered a stroke some years ago. He did come back to playing, but I remember reading a review that his post-stroke playing was weak. Unfortunately.

Yep; that's what I clicked for! Me three! I forgot it's spelled with a K.... Here's a clip for you guys then! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPHi6ibR7nY

As far as I remember, the liner notes mention that the musicians just had learned that Bird had died, and that it affected them.

1) I think I would agree with you. But the Terry album also has "with Thelonious Monk" on the cover, so I'm not absolutely sure. 2) The Bird/Diz session from 1950, and the 1955 session nominally led by Gigi Gryce, although three of four tunes were Monk compositions, making it seem like a Monk date anyway.

No Trainwreck??

Another thing: CD 2 10 GOOD BAIT (T. Dameron / C. Basie) 02:45 CD 3 3 GOOD MAIL (T. Dameron / C. Basie) 02:45 Is this what it seems to be? The same track twice, but with two letters substituted?

What do you mean by "unknown"? Are You All Reet? is a Cab Calloway recording from 1941. (Btw, I find it funny how both in the midst of and after Chu Berry's solo the band shouts "Yes, he's all reet!", but they have nothing to say about Dizzy's solo!) Glancing over the tracklist I would say that the tracks are all over the place, from the late 30s to the 50s (at least). They have even included tracks where Dizzy doesn't solo! And by that I mean both tracks where there is no trumpet solo whatsoever, and tracks where there is one, but it's not Dizzy! Another thing I find ridiculous is that these CDs all are between 45 and 50 minutes. This could easily have been a 6-CD set. Or they could have included more music on the 10 CDs. I suppose you get what you pay for. There are quite a few tracks on this set, so if you could list the ones you haven't been able to identify, we could try to fill in the gaps.

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?