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Funk You! has been reissued on this twofer, where it is coupled with the Sonny Stitt album Soul Electricity! They were recorded on two consecutive days.

I suggest adding Benny Bailey to the list. He was born in 1925, and recorded in 1947 with Teddy Edwards.

Alix Combelle has sometimes been called ”The French Coleman Hawkins”, and when he visited the US in the late 30s Tommy Dorsey was so impressed that he offered him a job in his big band. He recorded quite a bit under his own name as well. There are three CDs on Classics of which I first and foremost would recommend the earliest one. Django Reinhardt is on several of the sessions too.

Michael, I have earlier recording dates for some of those if you are interested. Illinois Jacquet 1941 (with Lionel Hampton) Buddy DeFranco 1943 (with Charlie Barnet) Max Roach 1943 (with Coleman Hawkins) Gerald Wilson 1939 (with Jimmie Lunceford) Dave Brubeck 1942 (recently discovered performance) Lucky Thompson 1944 (with Hot Lips Page) Hank Jones 1944 (with Hot Lips Page) James Moody 1946 (with Dizzy Gillespie) Clark Terry 1948 (with Count Basie) Oscar Peterson 1944 or possibly 1945 (earliest date given as circa December 1944) Roy Haynes 1945 (with Luis Russell) Don Lanphere 1948 (with Earl Coleman) Billy Taylor 1945 (under his own name) Harold Land 1949 (but dead now so he is off the list anyway) Frank Foster 1953 (with Count Basie) Ray Bryant 1949 (with Tiny Grimes) Von Freeman 1950 (with Charlie Parker)

Does anyone know the original track order on this LP? AMG has a track listing, but since it follows the recording order it's possible that it isn't identical to how the LP was sequenced.

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Yup. Sergey Karjakin became the youngest grandmaster ever last year at the age of 12! Actually many of the great chess players have learned chess at a very early age. Capablanca, Karpov and Kasparov (all World Champions) have it in common that they learned chess at the age of 4. Capablanca learned the rules by watching his father play a friend. The father was very surprised when his son challenged him, because he didn't think his son knew the rules. But in his first game ever the young Capablanca beat his father! Kasparov has called Capablanca the purest natural talent ever. Those who have learned the game at an early age seem to have the game engraved in their spine. It comes so natural to them. There are however players that started late and became good. The most notable example is Akiba Rubinstein, who only learned the game at 18, but became one of the top three players in the world. But he didn’t become a World Champion. Myself I learned the game at 10 and … well, sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I had learned it at 4!

Clifford Brown was supposedly a good chess player. And we have Wayne Shorter’s The Chess Players, which opens Blakey's "The Big Beat". Shelly Manne must have had a thing for chess too: The Gambit Checkmate The last album includes a tune called The Isolated Pawn! That’s pretty cool. One must know a bit about chess to be familiar with that term.

Very true!

It's listed in their online catalogue: http://www.fantasyjazz.com/catalog/woods_j_cat.html

Well, at least four of those albums can be scratched off the list now. The Mulligan/Hodges and Jim Hall were reissued by Verve in their LPR series this year. The Getz was reissued by Blue Note in 2001. The Pee Wee Russell came out on Collectables the same year.

I don't think this thread should be deleted either. This board is virtually a BNBB in exile (albeit with superior software), so the indignation over Blue Note's decision to link to two other boards but not this one is justified, IMO. Deleting it would be history revisionism!

Sorry, I see now that JSngry started a new thread about the same thing while I was writing this post.

Well, May 1 was reached and the text was changed to ”will reopen soon”. But now the text that meets us when we try to access the BNBB has changed again: "The Blue Note Records Bulletin Board is currently closed. While the Blue Note Bulletin Board is closed, have a visit to the All About Jazz Forum or to the JazzCorner.com Speakeasy Forum for your Bulletin Board & Discussion Group enjoyment." What’s up with that? Maybe someone should ask them to include a link to the Organissimo Forums too. After all it is what most closely resembles the old BNBB. I suppose it would be a good way to attract new members as well. Or old BNBB members who don't know that this place exists.

Speaking of Getz and Verve, I see on Verve’s homepage that they have an upcoming Getz release on A&M titled Bossas & Ballads: The Lost Session. Just to confuse us they also say ”reissue release date 9/9/2003”, but I suppose the ’Lost Session’ bit must mean that it is an hitherto unissued session. I see in Lord that Getz made one album for A&M in 1989. Could it be something recorded around that time? Oh, and for those who are craving for more Verve compilations, there are some of those too. Chet for Lovers and Louis for Lovers are just what you were wishing for, right?

Not necessarily. I could have to do with how Getz’s Verve contract was constructed, as opposed to his Columbia contract. Or it could be that Verve's lawyers are more cautios. (Actually I vaguely remember Mark@Verve saying something to the effect that Verve probably had the right to reissue the material, but because the estate was protesting, the Verve lawyers blocked the reissues just for safety's sake.) The Verve problem seems to continue. Verve just reissued Getz’s Reflections as a straight reissue of the original LP. But there are four unissued tracks from the same sessions, which now remain unissued. Reflections was planned as a reissue already some years ago, but never materialized then, in all probability because of the problem with previously unissued material. It’s the same with Sweet Rain. There are three unissued tracks from the same sessions. Sweet Rain was even listed in other reissues as an upcoming release in 1999. What may have happened now is that Verve has resigned and just decided to reissue the Getz albums as straight LP reissues, just to get any Getz out. Expect Sweet Rain without the bonus material soon.

Wait a minute here, folks! Maybe the culprit isn't BLP 1577 after all??

LOL!