Swinging Swede

I suppose Columbia found The Beginning And The End more appealing than The Beginning And Somewhere In The Middle...

Old myths die hard. It has been established that this jam session actually was recorded on May 31, 1955, over a year before his death. Brownie did indeed play at the same location hours before his death, but that's not what's on the recording. The presence of Billy Root makes it impossible that it is from June 25, 1956, since he was with the Kenton band at the time. Root has also stated himself that is was from an earlier occasion. This takes nothing away from the actual music of course.

And now it's once again time to mention Grachan Moncur III...

I ordered a bunch of Japanese CDs on January 1st. Help me...

Jimmy Rushing it is! Now I don’t need to use the line I had prepared about rushing off to work and posting the answer when I got home… Rushing can be seen playing alto sax and then falling asleep and dreaming away in a Basie video. In another he wins a dance contest by cheating. Hilarious stuff! Rushing recorded with Dizzy Gillespie on Duke Ellington’s Jazz Party from 1959.

Need more hints? OK, he wore Brooks clothes and white shoes all the time, and was a most indifferent guy. Now I'm going to listen to some Reinhardt, and when I get back, hopefully someone has solved this.

Not Nat Cole, although the pianist>singer story is similar.

Not Buddy Greco, Cab or Louis. Actually I'm not sure it was meant derogatory; it may simply be that he didn't find bop as revolutionary as others did. The liner notes mention that he appreciated Dizzy Gillespie. He even recorded together with Dizzy on one occasion, so there you have another clue.

Not Billy Eckstine, but it's getting closer. Come on guys, you can solve this!

Not Carmen McRae and not Sarah Vaughan as someone posted but deleted. With three female singers suggested I think it's time to give another hint: It's a male singer.

Yes, what jazzbo said. Blue Moon's Dawn series has good sound, reproduces the original cover art and liner notes, and has plenty of bonus tracks from the same sessions. Here's the content of the Sims CDs: Zoot Sims (ts), Bob Brookmeyer (tb), John Williams (p), Milt Hinton (b), Gus Johnson (d) Tracklisting: 1. September In The Rain 2. Down At The Loft (J.Williams) 3. A Ghost Of A Chance 4. Not So Deep 5. Them There Eyes 6. Our Pad 7. Dark Clouds 8. One To Blow On 9. When The Blues Come On (Bonus Track) 10. Buried Gold (Bonus Track) Recorded in New York City, 1956 Zoot Sims (as), Jerry Lloyd (tp), John Williams (p), Bill Anthony (b), Knobby Totah (b), Gus Johnson (d) Tracklisting: 1. You´re My Girl 2. The Purple Cow 3. I´ll Wind 4. The Big Stampede 5. Too Close For Comfort 6. Jerrys Jaunt 7. How Now Blues 8. Bye Ya (Bonus Track) 9. I Cover The Water Front (Bonus Track) 10. Blues For The Month Of Day (Bonus Track) 11. I Should Care (Bonus Track) 12. Mixed Emotions (Bonus Track) 13. How Do I Love You (Bonus Track) 14. Knotty Pine (Bonus Track) Recorded in New York City, 1956

Not Anita O'Day. Second hint: Our singer started out as a pianist, and only, when once asked to sing a song, reluctantly did it. The response made our person a singer for the rest of the career. Although the singer can be seen (but not heard!) playing another instrument in a 'video' with the famous band.

Hint time: It's a famous singer who sang with a famous band, but also had a career afterwards.

From the Mosaic booklet: "All New York selections with the possible exception of the July, 1962 dates were recorded at Capitol Studios, usually with Bob Arnold engineering. All Chicago sessions were done at Universal Recording possibly with Bruce Swedien engineering. All Los Angeles dates were done at United Recorders with Wally Heider engineering." Also, the early sessions were recorded in real stereo, with the rhythm section on one side, and the horn sections on the other. I've heard an LP of "The Atomic Mr. Basie" that used these stereo masters. Cuscuna considered the mono masters to be superior and used them instead on the Mosaic. He did the same with the "Off To The Races" material on the Byrd/Adams Mosaic, although the TOCJ had used the stereo masters.

Yes, this release has been on my radar, and I will get it eventually. The same batch also included Burrell's next and last Verve album Asphalt Canyon Suite, which also is new to CD as far as I know. Any words on that one? Not that I doubt that I will pick it up too! The only drawback of these releases is that there are several unissued tunes from the same sessions, and it would have been nice to have them as well.

From liner notes I read recently: "Bop is nothin' but the riffs they used to play behind the singers – only the boppers played them out front!"

New Wave will come out on CD in Japan on 23rd February. After that I think that the Verve(-owned) albums that remain to be released on CD are the following: Dizzy Gillespie and his Orchestra a.k.a. Jazz Recital (1954-55) *Dizzy Gillespie Big Band (1955/57) The Greatest Trumpet Of Them All (1957) The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie (1959) *This is a complicated album. It was scheduled for release as Verve MGV 8357 but it never came out. All but two of the tracks later came out on a British LP. The 1957 tracks were released on CD as part of the Birks Works twofer, including the two previously unissued tracks. All but one of the 1955 tracks were on the Dizzy's Diamonds compilation. The logical way now to release the 1955 tracks would be as bonus tracks to a reissue of Jazz Recital, since they were partly from the same sessions. But since Verve now only would release it in the LPR series which comes without bonus tracks, I suppose that's a moot point. Plenty of Hank Mobley in quintet & sextet settings on Jazz Recital, by the way.

George Guesnon (who recorded for Blue Note!) And since Doris Day made the list: Kitty Kallen

That made me think of: Jerry Jerome

That reminded me: Haywood Henry

Leroy Lovett Chris Columbus

Another one: Pat Patrick

Buster Bailey Billy Butterfield Bam Brown Zeke Zarchy Jack Jenney Al Aarons Alvin Alcorn Cutty Cutshall Corky Corcoran Glen Gray Gene Gifford Eddie Edwards Billy Banks Ram Ramirez Rudy Rutherford Rodney Richardson Matty Matlock Marty Marsala Marky Markowitz Harold Harris Bill Basie

Excellent news! Brown Sugar was out as a TOCJ, so maybe that's why they changed it. I believe all Water BNs have been new to CD except The Phantom, which only was out on a very early Japanese CD (pre-TOCJ).

Volume 7 in the Landmark series is Cannonball in Europe!, which was recorded live in Belgium in 1962. This album only came out in Europe originally; the Landmark release was the first U.S. release.