Swinging Swede

But have you heard the 25-bit remaster? I think you mean 24-bit; there's no such thing as a 25-bit remaster. I actually have at least one CD that says that it is a 32-bit remaster.

Never seen or heard of any of 'em on CD. I guess I'll spring for 'Spider man'. Thanks Jim. I guess that was the only one, but this is the second time it's been out on Japanese CD. I've got "CDs" of some of the others, but... Yes, Spider Man is still the only one of Freddie McCoy's seven Prestige albums that has come out on CD, which is a bit strange. But with the deluge of Warner and Blue Note titles now coming out on CD for the first time in Japan, perhaps we can hope for something similar for the remaining Prestige titles?

Well, since Glenn Miller was a forerunner of rap and bop, why not modal jazz also? The Impressions segment can be heard on Miller's 1939 recording of Pavanne:

I read somewhere that he had completed 6 of 15 episodes for the second season.

For #2 Flip Phillips may be the winner. In 1954 he recorded an album for Clef (soon to be renamed Verve) that was first named The Flip Phillips Quintet, and later reissued as Rock With Flip (on both Clef and Verve). In 2000 he recorded Swing Is The Thing for Verve. That's a stretch of 46 years!

All of these tracks were also released on Chronological Classics CDs. The 1947 Metronome All Stars session is on Nat "King" Cole 1947-1949, and the big band sessions on Dizzy Gillespie 1949-1950.

Ditto to all of these, at least bowed bass solos. Harpsichord is fine though. I think it could be used more in jazz.

Gangnam Style hit one billion views on 21st December - the first YouTube video ever to achieve that!

Excellent suggestion. I also count 12 unissued tracks, but they may have perished in the Universal fire.

Hey, it was Prestige! If they had paid for rehearsal time they would have been Blue Note!

Yes, I recently noticed this release too. I have the vast majority of its contents already, but it also includes some mid-50s Norgran/Verve tracks that are impossible to find elsewhere, for example the remaining tracks on Jazz Recital (the small group tracks are already on the Mosaic). It will now be possible to burn a complete version of that album. Also noticed the Shearing box you mention, which I will probably get too.

Count Basie playing Albert Ayler's Love Flower and Pharoah Sanders's Japan. Happened on the 1970 Flying Dutchman album Afrique.

Bass solo!

Annie Ross (if vocalists count) Are Al Porcino and Don Ferrara still with us? I couldn't find any mention of them having died. They both recorded with Bird. When this thread was started in September, Dick Hafer could have been added too. Unfortunately he left us two weeks ago.

Yes, it is on Second Sacred Concert and The Jaywalker.

No. Having read his autobiography, Gentle Giant, I can't find reason to refer to him as "Bill Evans" in any phase of his life. See, for example, page 1. http://books.google....ography&f=false (I hope that link's okay) Maybe I missed it, because the fable goes on and on. On page 61 it says "My next move was to change my name from Bill Evans to Yusef Abdul Lateef". Looking at the discography section starting on page 188 it also seems that he went by the name Bill Evans on the earliest sessions.

Sad to hear this. It is a site I have visited with irregular intervals for many years.

They suddenly and without any warning removed lossless, confiscated members' store credit and removed the Paypal option. And all of this was labelled as an "improvement". As a result I didn't renew my membership either. What did they expect?

My god, how good he was already at that early stage. Sometimes I wonder why I listen to anything but Bird...

Got both of these back in the day. Typically excellent Storyville releases as we could expect during Knudsen's days. These are also important in that they catch the Ellington band during the record bans when they could not make any official records. Well, technically the second record ban was over by February 1949, but the Ellington orchestra didn't enter a Columbia studio again until September 1949 (and after that it would take until November 1950 for the next occasion). Another important aspect is that Ben Webster is present on both CDs. He was back in the Ellington band in 1948-49, but just as with Lester Young's return to the Basie band in 1943-44, this went completely undocumented as far as official studio recordings go. Unfortunately I see that both are officially sold as CD-Rs now. Try to get the proper CDs, if you can.

This has since become an Internet meme. For example:

Great clips! Perhaps they should join forces and become the new Griff & Lock or something. First they might however want to learn a lesson or two from the most viewed saxophonist on YouTube, namely Epic Sax Guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1kApnsayeQ

No, he left about a decade ago. When I saw the Basie band in 2005, it had two Dougs on tenor, Doug Miller and Doug Lawrence.