Swinging Swede

No, but the booklet has a paragraph of "Producer's Notes" by Michael Cuscuna in English. I don't think I've ever seen a TOCJ with an English translation of the liner notes. All the fold-outs I've seen have been reprints of the original English album notes. Since this album only has been released in Japan, there are no English liner notes to reproduce, and that's why we only get liner notes in Japanese this time, I suppose.

amazon.de says 4th June.

Re: Frank Foster's Manhattan Fever "Tracks 1-6 were released in 1968 and feature the saxophonist in a swinging sextet. The second session, a nonet [sic] augmented by a second reed player, has been in the vaults since it was recorded in early 1969, and offers a fresh look at one of jazz's most versatile tenor players." This means that we get the unissued 1969 session as well! Frank Foster Septet Burt Collins (tp, picc tp -1/5) Jimmy Cleveland (tb -1/5) Ed Pazant (as, fl, ob -1/5) Frank Foster (ts, acl) George Cables (p) Buster Williams (b) Mickey Roker (d) Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, January 31, 1969 1. 3322 tk.1 Slug's Bag Blue Note BST 84316 2. 3323 tk.7 Buster Brown - 3. 3324 tk.15 Fly By Night - 4. 3325 tk.23 Hip Shakin' - 5. 3326 tk.27 What's New From The Monster Mill - 6. 3327 tk.31 The House That Love Built - * Frank Foster (not released) (Blue Note BST 84316) Since it even got a catalogue number it must have had an intended album title. I wonder what?

According to the info that's now up at worldsrecords.com: "Featuring two different 10-piece bands, the first seven tracks were released on two long-out-of-print LPs in the late 70s and the last five tracks are gems from the second session issued here for the first time." That must mean that it includes the following two sessions: Stanley Turrentine Tentet Donald Byrd (tp) Julian Priester (tb) Jerry Dodgion (as, fl) Stanley Turrentine (ts) Joe Farrell (ts, fl) Pepper Adams (bars, cl) Kenny Barron (p) Bucky Pizzarelli (g) Ron Carter (b) Mickey Roker (d) Duke Pearson (arr) Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, February 17, 1967 1839 tk.4 She's A Carioca Blue Note BN-LA 394-H2 1840 tk.9 Samba Do Aviao - 1841 tk.14 Manha De Carnaval Blue Note LT 993 1842 tk.15 What Now, My Love? - 1843 tk.24 Night Song Blue Note BN-LA 394-H2 1844 tk.32 Here's That Rainy Day Blue Note LT 993 1845 tk.41 Blues For Del - * Stanley Turrentine Best Album (Blue Note BN-LA 394-H2) * Stanley Turrentine - New Time Shuffle (Blue Note LT 993) Stanley Turrentine Tentet Blue Mitchell, Tommy Turrentine (tp) Julian Priester (tb) Jerry Dodgion (as, fl) Stanley Turrentine (ts) Al Gibbons (ts, bcl) Pepper Adams (bars, cl) McCoy Tyner (p) Walter Booker (b) Mickey Roker (d) Duke Pearson (arr) Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, June 9, 1967 1904 tk.16 With This Ring Blue Note unissued 1905 tk.15 Silver Tears - 1906 tk.20 A Bluish Bag - 1907 tk.26 Come Back To Me - 1908 tk.30 The Days Of Wine And Roses - 1909 tk.45 Message To Michael Blue Note rejected This means that the New Time Shuffle album isn't complete here, and that Cuscuna thus must be planning a later CD with the 6/23/67 session, which has the remaining tracks, plus probably the 7/28/67 session, which has several unissued tracks, and perhaps even the 1/25/68 session. Here's the cover:

And according to fnac.com the next batch is: Stan Getz 1954 Benny Goodman 1949-1951 Slim Gaillard 1951-1953 Benny Carter 1954 Charlie Barnet 1949 Vol. 2 (sic; should be 1940) The release date is June, so either the earlier monthly schedule has slowed down, or May will see more reprints of OOP titles instead.

Francois, I thought you had written an excellent post in reply to my question, and I was going to get back to it, but now it's gone?!

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Yes, and the Stanley Turrentine has had a name change to A Bluish Bag. This is very interesting since that is the title of one of the tunes from the unissued 6/9/67 session! Stanley Turrentine Tentet Blue Mitchell, Tommy Turrentine (tp) Julian Priester (tb) Jerry Dodgion (as, fl) Stanley Turrentine (ts) Al Gibbons (ts, bcl) Pepper Adams (bars, cl) McCoy Tyner (p) Walter Booker (b) Mickey Roker (d) Duke Pearson (arr) Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, June 9, 1967 1904 tk.16 With This Ring Blue Note unissued 1905 tk.15 Silver Tears - 1906 tk.20 A Bluish Bag - 1907 tk.26 Come Back To Me - 1908 tk.30 The Days Of Wine And Roses - 1909 tk.45 Message To Michael Blue Note rejected But the price indicates a single CD and in that case there will not be room to also include the tracks from the Best Album compilation, which were recorded on the same sessions as New Time Shuffle. In other words, the bonus tracks will not be the additional tunes recorded at the same sessions, but tunes recorded on a different session, which would be kind of strange! OK, I guess in due time we will see exactly what's on the CD and what's not...

jazzdisco.org has an Elvin Jones Discography, even if it isn't on the main page yet. It shows that Elvin recorded one session in 1948, one in 1955, 8 in 1956 and 14 in 1957 before the Village Vanguard set. I haven't heard the 1948 Detroit session, but that one in particular should be interesting for those who want to compare early Elvin.

According to the info at jazzmessengers.com all 14 tracks are there. Total time is listed as 79:26. Both albums are also "PREVIOUSLY UNAVAILABLE ON CD!", although several of us have the Japanese CD edition of At The D.J. Lounge. It's released on Jazz Beat, which, if anyone didn't guess that already, is yet another Disconforme label. They are also releasing My Mother's Eyes, an album Stitt recorded for Pacific Jazz about the same time, on the just slightly less new Groove Hut label. The third Stitt CD they have coming out is Tune Up! + Constellation on Gambit, which probably is a straight rip of the OOP 32 Jazz twofer.

It's an excellent quintet session from 1966 with Kenny Burrell on guitar. Hiroshi is worth a try; I got it from him some time ago. If he can still get it, it will be much cheaper than those import prices. After Mr. Tanno come other Japanese options like amazon.co.jp or hmv.co.jp. I notice that the latter has the CD shipping within 2-3 days, so it may still be available. It's sold for ¥2,345, which should be about $20.

I'll try. The earlier Mosaic LP set covered Hodges's 1951-55 Norgran material. The Blue Moon series for some reason only went to 1954. If you buy Volume 3, 4 & 5 of the Blue Moon series you get the complete 1951-54 Norgran sessions, but you will lack the two 1955 sessions. I'm not aware of a CD release of the 1955 sessions. Remaining to be released on Classics are the last 1954 tracks and the 1955 sessions. We feared that Classics had come to a definite halt, but this month a new batch will be released after almost a year's hiatus, so hopefully another Hodges CD (or possibly two) covering the 1954-55 material can be released soon. On Classics you should get 1950-1951 (only the last four tracks are Norgran material though), 1951-1952, 1952-1954 and the next one or two Hodges CDs Classics puts out. By the way, Lone Hill Jazz will come out with a Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill Davis "Project" which will include their 8 albums from the 60s. Those make up a chunk of what could be a possible future third Mosaic set of Hodges on Verve.

It's from 1993. Did the Rare Groove series at all exist in 1993 yet? It certainly looks different from regular Blue Note reissues. It may very well be that those early releases were part of a new series intended for groove-oriented material, but the actual name "Rare Groove Series" hadn't been invented yet. That way they could be seen as part of the same series. It' just that the series only got a specific name after awhile.

Yes, I saw on worldsrecords.com that this batch finally is coming out. It was supposed to come out in May 2006 but then Classics had another long hiatus. I feared that we had seen the last batch, but I'm very glad that that isn't the case. Do you have any info about about what has been behind this long second hiatus or this sudden reappearance of the label? As for the batch, well, the Monk is readily available of course, and the Ellington material was on the now OOP Capitol Mosaic, but what I've heard from the Krupa small group recordings for Clef from these years really is excellent, with many fine sidemen, and Bechet is a jazz giant, who admittedly recorded a lot during his final decade, but always on a high level. I'm not familiar with the Bushkin material but that may be another case of Classics making available rare material that not many have heard in a long time. Anyway, I'm glad that the label continues and am looking forward to future batches. Woody Herman's 1941-44 Decca recordings, and Charlie Barnet's post-1940 recordings are some of the things I want to see.

king ubu, sorry that you had to type them in by hand, since I do actually have a list in an old Word file of the complete 1991-1994 batches, which I've pasted below. Notice that some early catalogue numbers only were released in the second batch. 1991/1992 Release SV-0101 Charlie Parker Memorial Vol. 1 SV-0102 Charlie Parker Memorial Vol. 2 SV-0103 The Genius Of Charlie Parker Vol. 3 SV-0104 The Genius Of Charlie Parker Vol. 4 SV-0105 The Charlie Parker Story SV-0108 Presenting Cannonball Adderley SV-0111 Milt Jackson - MJQ SV-0114 Frank Foster – No Count SV-0115 Art Pepper – Surf Ride SV-0116 Introducing Lee Morgan SV-0118 Stan Getz – Opus De Bop SV-0119 George Wallington – Jazz At Hotchkiss SV-0122 Wilbur Harden – Jazz Way Out SV-0123 Fats Navarro - Nostalgia SV-0124 Wibur Harden-Tommy Flanagan – The King And I SV-0125 Wilbur Harden, John Coltrane – Tanganyika Strut SV-0126 Gigi Gryce – Nica’s Tempo SV-0127 Curtis Fuller - Bluesette SV-0128 Curtis Fuller - Imagination SV-0129 Curtis Fuller - Images SV-0130 Duke Jordan-Hall Overton – Do It Yourself Jazz SV-0131 Joe Wilder – Wilder ’n’ Wilder SV-0132 Donald Byrd – Byrd’s Word SV-0133 The Jazz Message Of Hank Mobley SV-0134 Curtis Fuller Jazztet SV-0135 Cecil Payne – Patterns Of Jazz SV-0136 The George Wallington Trio SV-0137 Frank Wess – Opus De Blues SV-0138 Hank Jones – Bluebird SV-0139 Frank Wess – North, South, East…Wess SV-0141 Sahib Shihab – Jazz Sahib SV-0142 A. K. Salim – Blues Suite SV-0143 Phil Woods – Bird’s Night SV-0145 Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – Midnight Session SV-0146 Nat Adderley – That’s Nat SV-0147 The Hank Jones Quartet SV-0148 Red Rodney - Fiery SV-0149 Duke Jordan – Trio & Quartet SV-0150 Booker Ervin – Cookin’ SV-0153 Curtis Fuller – Jazz…It’s Magic 1992 Release SV-0106 Kenny Clarke – Telefunken Blues SV-0107 Kenny Clarke – Bohemia After Dark SV-0109 Milt Jackson – Opus De Jazz SV-0110 Milt Jackson – Roll ’Em Bags SV-0112 Lester Young – Blue Lester SV-0113 Lester Young – The Master’s Touch SV-0117 Paul Smith, etc. – I Just Love Jazz Piano SV-0120 Dexter Gordon – Dexter Rides Again SV-0121 Wilbur Harden – Mainstream 1958 SV-0140 Paul Bley - Footloose SV-0144 Frank Wess – Opus In Swing SV-0151 J.J. Johnson Jazz Quintet SV-0152 Dizzy Gillespie – Groovin’ High SV-0154 Charlie Parker – An Evening At Home With The Bird SV-0155 Charlie Parker – The Bird Returns SV-0156 Newly Discovered Sides By Charlie Parker SV-0157 Dizzy Gillespie – School Days SV-0158 Jazz Message Of Hank Mobley Vol. 2 SV-0159 Miles Davis – First Miles SV-0160 Marian McPartland, George Shearing – Great Britains SV-0161 Art Pepper, Sonny Redd – Two Altos SV-0162 Erroll Garner – Penthouse Serenade SV-0163 J.J. Johnson + Kai Winding – Jay And Kai SV-0164 Dexter Gordon & Wardell Gray – Jazz West Coast Live / Hollywood Jazz Vol. 1 SV-0165 Bopland Boys – Jazz West Coast Live / Hollywood Jazz Vol. 2 SV-0166 Bop Jam Allstars – Jazz West Coast Live / Hollywood Jazz Vol. 3 SV-0167 Howard McGhee & Milt Jackson SV-0168 Red Norvo - Move SV-0169 Fats Navarro, etc. – In The Beginning The Bop SV-0170 Dizzy Gillespie – The Champ SV-0171 Charles Mingus – Jazz Composers Workshop SV-0172 Meet Milt Jackson SV-0173 Milt Jackson – The Jazz Skyline SV-0174 Ronnie Ball – All About Ronnie SV-0175 Milt Jackson – Jackson’s Ville SV-0176 Kenny Clarke – Jazz Men Detroit SV-0177 Dizzy Gillespie Story SV-0178 Jazz Is Busting Out All Over SV-0179 Johnny Rae – Opus De Jazz Vol. 2 SV-0180 Lester Young – Jazz Immortal Series The Pres 1992/1993 Release SV-0181 Fats Navarro - Memorial SV-0182 Coleman Hawkins – The Hawk Returns SV-0183 Eddie Bert With The Hank Jones Trio SV-0184 Kenny Clarke – The Trio SV-0185 Boyd Raeburn – Boyd Meets Stravinsky SV-0186 Shelly Manne, Bill Russo – Deep People SV-0187 Al Cohn – Cohn’s Tone SV-0188 Various – Swing Not Spring SV-0189 Chuck Wayne – The Jazz Guitarist SV-0190 Frank Wess – Trombones And Flutes SV-0191 Frank Wess – Jazz For Playboys SV-0192 Charlie Byrd – Jazz Recital SV-0193 Herbie Mann – Yardbird Suite SV-0194 Dorothy Ashby – Jazz Harpist SV-0195 Charlie Ventura – Crazy Rhythms SV-0196 Pete Johnson – House Rent Party (Pete’s Blues) SV-0197 Edde Condon – We Dig Dixieland SV-0198 The Cool Sound Of Pepper Adams SV-0199 Joe Williams Sings SV-0200 Mildred Bailey – Me And The Blues 1993 Release SV-0201 Herbie Brock – Brock’s Top’s SV-0202 Marian McParland – In Concert SV-0203 Ray McKinley & His Orchestra - Borderline SV-0204 John Mehegan - Reflections SV-0205 Al Caiola – Deep In A Dream SV-0206 J. Mehegan & E. Costa – A Pair Of Pianos SV-0207 Mike Cuozzo – Mighty Mike SV-0208 George Shearing – Midnight On Cloud 69 SV-0209 Billy Ver Planck – Jazz For Play Girls SV-0210 Yusef Lateef – Prayer To The East SV-0211 Jazz-Young Blood – Chuz Alfred SV-0212 Bill Barron – The Tenor Stylings SV-0213 The Futuristic Sounds Of Sun Ra SV-0214 Four French Horns SV-0215 Joe Roland – Joltin’ Joe SV-0216 Barbara Long - Soul SV-0217 Charles Moffett – The Gft SV-0218 Jackie and Roy SV-0219 South Pacific Jazz SV-0220 Ronnell Bright – Bright’s Spot 1993 Release SV-0221 Erroll Garner – Serenade To Laura SV-0222 Ernie Wilkins-Kenny Clarke Septet SV-0223 Erroll Garner – Billy Taylor SV-0224 The Jazz Keyboards SV-0225 Paul Smith – By The Fireside SV-0226 Marian McPartland – Looking For A Boy SV-0227 Vido Musso, Stan Getz - Loaded SV-0228 Herbie Mann – The Jazz We Heard Last Summer SV-0229 Eddie Bert - Encore SV-0230 John Jenkins, Donald Byrd – Jazz Eyes SV-0231 Eddie Condon – Ringside At Condon’s SV-0232 Al Caiola – Serenade In Blue SV-0233 Marlene – Every Breath I Take SV-0234 Johnny Coates Jr. - Portrait SV-0235 Billy Ver Plank – Dancing Jazz SV-0236 Hank Jones Quartet SV-0237 Yusef Lateef – Jazz Moods SV-0238 Valdo Williams – New Advanced Jazz SV-0239 Jimmy Scott – Very Truly Yours SV-0240 Various Artists – The Jazz Hours 1994 Release SV-0242 Gene Ammons – Red Top SV-0243 Kenny Clarke Meets The Detroit Jazzmen SV-0244 Erroll Garner - Yesterdays SV-0245 Booker Ervin – Down In The Dumps SV-0246 Kenny Burrell – Monday Stroll SV-0247 Charlie Byrd – Midnight Guitar SV-0248 Coleman Hawkins Meets The Big Section SV-0249 The Progressive Al Cohn SV-0250 Lester Young – Master Takes With Count Basie SV-0251 Cannonball Adderley – Discoveries SV-0252 Emmett Berry, Al Lucas, Bobby Donaldson etc – 7th Ave. Stompers Fidgety Feet SV-0253 Chuck Wayne, Brew Moore, Zoot Sims – Tasty Pudding SV-0254 Fletcher Henderson – The Crown King Of Swing SV-0255 The Perry Robinson 4 – Funk Dumpling SV-0256 Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry – Climbin’ Up SV-0257 Billy Wright – Goin’ Down Slow SV-0258 Hal Singer – Rent Party SV-0259 Nappy Brown – Don’t Be Angry SV-0260 The Ravens – Old Man River SV-0261 The Ravens - Rarities There were later releases than SV-0270, since I have SV-0273 Boyd Raeburn – Jewells, but it doesn't have a list inside like the earlier releases, so I don't know what other titles were in its batch.

They didn't.

Perhaps this is the right time for the big bands to finally come back!?

Well, 1964 *is* over 20 years ago, so the statement is technically correct! And it will be interesting to hear Dannie Richmond on piano...

A 2-CD set with all those sessions is another definite possibility. Even less reason to call it New Time Shuffle in that case! Actually, thinking about it, the last few years each Connoisseur batch has included a double CD. In 2004 it was Horace Silver's United States Of Mind, in 2005 Ike Quebec's Complete 45 Sessions, and in 2006 Lou Blackburn's Complete Imperial Sessions. Is the Turrentine this year's 2-CD set? I'm a bit surprised actually that this hitherto unknown site (to me anyway) has the titles in the upcoming Connoisseur batch, and yet there has been no insider information posted on the Organissimo board about that batch (AFAIK). Usually this board (or the old BNBB pre-2003) has been the first place to read about at least a tentative list.

Yes, and with that all of Hill's 60s Blue Note sessions have come out on CD. Who would have thought that 10 years ago? Andrew Hill Quartet Sam Rivers (ts -1/4,6,7) Andrew Hill (p, cel) Walter Booker (b) J.C. Moses (d) Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, March 7, 1966 1. 1708 tk.1 Violence Blue Note BLP 4233, BN-LA 453-H2 2. tk.3 Violence (alt. take) Mosaic MR10-161 3. 1709 tk.5 Hope Blue Note BLP 4233, BN-LA 453-H2 4. 1710 tk.7 Illusion - 5. 1711 tk.10 Pain - 6. 1712 tk.16 Desire - 7. tk.18 Desire (alt. take) Mosaic MR10-161 8. 1713 tk.19 Lust Blue Note BLP 4233, BN-LA 453-H2 * Andrew Hill - One for One (not released) (Blue Note BLP 4233) * Sam Rivers - Involution (Blue Note BN-LA 453-H2) * The Complete Blue Note Andrew Hill Sessions (1963-66) (Mosaic MR10-161, MD7-161) It was originally planned for release and given a catalogue number, but I believe jazzdisco.org is wrong in listing the intended album title as One For One. I think it has transpired that it was intended for release as Change already in the 60s.