Swinging Swede

The classic edition featuring Gene Krupa and Harry James!

The great Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra in 1936!

Wow, lots of stuff I haven't seen before there! Count Basie, Zoot Sims & Roy Eldridge in 1979 Eldridge plays surprisingly well for it being so late in his career, I think. He had to stop playing the year after.

BBC gets wrong Guy - and gives cab driver five minutes of fame Patrick Barkham Saturday May 13, 2006 The Guardian Just get the guy, any guy, and stick him in front of the camera is, some fear, the philosophy of rolling television news. For BBC News 24, however, the bloke in reception waiting patiently to pontificate on a courtroom verdict turned out to be the wrong Guy. Guy Kewney, a computer expert, was waiting outside a BBC Television Centre studio to discuss the high court ruling on the Beatles' Apple Corps v Apple Computer on Monday morning. As he watched the news in reception, he was amazed to see "Guy Kewney" pop up on screen. Unlike the white, bearded technology columnist for IT Week, this "Guy Kewney" was black, and appeared stumped when asked about the US computer giant and its tussle with the Beatles over the Apple trademark. "Were you surprised by this verdict?" he was asked. "I'm very surprised at the verdict," he gamely replied. "Because I was not expecting that when I came." A BBC insider said the wrong Guy was a minicab driver, waiting to pick up the real Guy. When the producer went to collect the computer expert from a different waiting area, he called out "Guy Kewney" and the driver said "hello". He was then whisked upstairs to meet the BBC's Karen Bowerman, who asked the first question on live TV. There is only one Guy Kewney in Britain on the electoral roll. As the real Mr Kewney explained in his blog, the accidental impostor at first seemed "puzzled that anybody might imagine that the lawsuit had consequences". The BBC said: "Unfortunately we did make a mistake and the wrong guy was briefly interviewed on air before we cut to our reporter." Watch the clip of the complete interview here: http://img.dailymail.co.uk/video/cabbie.wmv Watch the cab driver's facial expression when he's introduced as Guy Kewney!

There are also two unissued Verve sessions from 1965. It has been discussed before, I think.

Medjuck was quicker than I! Should add that the Jazz Factory release can be expected to be a straight rip of the Soulard CD (as always with the Andorran guys).

But according to Peter Losin's excellent Miles Davis sessionography the dates on the Soulard CD (and jazzdisco.org) are wrong and the correct dates are February 16 & 23, 1957. The sound is very bad, but if you can listen through that, the music is great of course.

Turin in English.

Yes, release the Tyrone Washington session!

Aha... the "bird flu"!

I checked with Peter Losin's excellent Charlie Parker sessionography, and think the bonus tracks are from the dates below. If so, there are two previously unissued tracks, both in bad sound, from the December 17, 1945 date. Or three, if you don't count the third track that only was on one of the late "unofficial" Philologys, which I think were sold on CD-Rs. 8. Groovin' High, 9. Shaw 'Nuff, 10. Dizzy Atmosphere, December 1945 CD: Stash STCD 535, Media 7 MJCD 121, Philology Volume 44 (W 875) 11. Salt Peanuts, January 24, 1946 CD: Philology Volume 14 (W 844), Volume 44 (W 875), Media 7 MJCD 121 12. Lover Come Back To Me February 4, 1946 CD: Bird Box Volume 1, Stash STCD 535, Media 7 MJCD 121, Philology Volume 26 (Revised) (W 857) 13. Sweet Georgia Brown, May 30, 1945 (?) CD: Stash STCD 535, Media 7 MJCD 113, Philology Volume 26 (Revised) (W 857), Volume 44 (W 875) 14. I Waited For You, 15. How High The Moon, 16. 52nd Street Theme, December 17, 1945 (”Quality is very poor throughout”) 14: CD: Philology Volume 62 (W 893) 15-16: previously unissued! 17. Blue N' Boogie. June 5, 1945 CD: Philology Volume 17 (W 847), Volume 44 (W 875), Media 7 MJCD 113

from www.jazzmessengers.com: ARTIST: CHARLIE PARKER TITLE: TOWN HALL CONCERT 1945 LABEL: DEFINITIVE The complete New York show and a large corpus of rare radio and livew 1945-46 recordings of Bird and Diz playing together, including a previously unreleased broadcast from Billy Berg's in 1945. These live recordings, some captured live from concerts, some recorded for radio shows, are taken during that fundamental year of 1945 in which they formed their first combo and in the early months of 1946. The great majority of them were discovered very recently. This is the case of the concert at Town Hall, found not many years ago in unnamed acetates, and of the Billy Berg's radio broadcast we issue here for the first time ever. Total time: 75:00 mins. THE CONCERT: With Don Byas, Al Haig, Curley Russell, Max Roach, Sidney Catlett. Recorded on Friday Evening, Town Hall, New York City, June 22, 1945. 1. Intro., 2. Be-Bop, 3. A Night In Tunisia, 4. Groovin' High, 5. Salt Peanuts, 6. Hot House, 7. 52nd Street Theme. 10 BONUS TRACKS: With Lucky Thompson, Al Haig, Milt Jackson, Ray Brown & Stan Levey, among others. Recorded live in Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia, 1945-46. 8. Groovin' High, 9. Shaw 'Nuff, 10. Dizzy Atmosphere, 11. Salt Peanuts, 12. Lover Come Back To Me, 13. Sweet Georgia Brown, 14. I Waited For You, 15. How High The Moon, 16. 52nd Street Theme, 17. Blue N' Boogie.

Yes. The Swedish name too, btw.

The 1961 Jimmy Smith Trio session. Noone ever mentions that one!

Well, the discs themselves look the same; it's the cover that should give it away. There isn't any copy-protection info on the back cover, for example? Is your copy manufactured in the U.S. or somewhere else?

Are you sure they are CDs? The non-US releases of those titles are in the inferior Cactus Datashield format, which is known for often being unplayable on car stereos.

Trumpeter and bandleader Evan Thomas, whose band included Bunk Johnson and George Lewis at the time, was stabbed to death on stage in 1931.

If the Definitive notes say that the Gillespie tracks were on Continental, they are wrong. There are other sessions from 1945 on which Parker appeared that were on the Continental label, but the Gillespie session was originally recorded for Guild. Guild went out of business before all sides had been released, and the masters were bought by Musicraft which released them all, and later Savoy bought them and put them out too. I suppose that's the accuracy one can expect from Definitive.

Don't forget Joe Guy, who on Fly Right (Epistrophy) takes a very advanced trumpet solo for being 1942, perhaps more advanced than anything Dizzy had recorded up to that point. This is one of the few commercial pre-record-ban recordings (other than Bird with McShann of course) where you can really hear that something is in the air. And it wasn't even released in its time!

I got it just a few weeks ago from cdmail.fr, so that may be another possibility.

It's the same intro as on Double Exposure on Hank Mobley (BLP-1568), but the tune is completely different. I think that A-1 is too good a tune not to have been featured on a released album, but where then? Hmm...

Santos Inocentes? Oh well, if something seems too good to be true...

Studio material after the Olatunji concert? (It must be heavy, heavy stuff.) Was this discussed on the board? Is it really coming out? Inquiring minds need to know. It probably will come out on Impulse. This is from Allan J. Sutherland's Coltrane Sessionography, which also lists track timings: 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. 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. 50 minutes - that's a whole album in itself! Going backwards there are other late unissued studio sessions: Date: March 29, 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. 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. and 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. 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. and 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. 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. and 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. 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. So there is now enough known unissued material for three studio albums from 1966-67! There are also numerous unissued live sessions from throughout the 60s, so there is no shortage of new Coltrane to release, that's for certain. This one may be of particular interest: Date: 19 February 1966. Place: Philharmonic Hall, New York City, NY. Ensemble: John Coltrane soprano sax, tenor sax, Donald Ayler trumpet, Carlos Ward tenor sax, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler tenor sax, Alice Coltrane piano, Jimmy Garrison bass, Rasjied Ali, J. C. Moses drums, Recording: Private tape, generally unavailable. 1. My Favorite Things (?:??) (Unissued.) 2. Om (?:??) (Unissued.) Notes: The tape is in the possession of the Coltrane family. And who knows what other things are out there and not known to the discographies yet?

Btw, this session is not previously unknown; it is mentioned in the Coltrane discography at jazzdisco.org as rejected, for example. It is great to see it coming out though. There are also several late studio session that have recently been discovered, including one later than the Olatunji concert. These are good years for Coltrane fans.