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Here's what Cannonball himself had to say about it (and lots of other things!): https://www.cannonball-adderley.com/article/panorama.htm originally in Jazz Review, iirc.

Pluck It is on two different LPs, one on Crown https://www.discogs.com/Chico-Hamilton-With-Paul-Horn-Chico-Hamilton-With-Paul-Horn/release/2227108 , another on PJ https://www.discogs.com/Fred-Katz-With-Paul-Horn-And-Chico-Hamilton-Quartet-Zen-The-Music-Of-Fred-Katz/release/4515378 Looks like Boplicity has it now, in the Crown version: Boplicity is Ace, and Ace by all accounts is legit, so I have no idea what happened between Richard Bock & the Bihari brothers, only that Crown would often (enough) release cuts leased(?) from other labels. But maybe Chico cut a deal years later, he had resources, I believe. Either way, the Crown record is not a complete copy of the PJ record. Anybody surprised?

How about Atlantic?

You answered your own question!

No idea, but not implausible, not in the least. I would recommend that book though, just because it might be hard today to imagine just how, uh...."entrepreneurial" the AFL was on its way to forcing the merger. The beauty of it is that it was originally written in 1965, so the story peaks with the signing of Joe Namath, the AFL winning a bidding war with the NFL that was the real "shot heard around the world" as far as expectations that the AFL wasn't going to have staying power. It's a great story, full of characters (and "characters"). That Going Long book looks like a good read. The AFL was great.

Can we confirm, then, that the incomplete take at the top of this thread has never been available commercially, legit or otherwise?

If today still has a spot open for a tenor player, Harold Vick.

Can knowledgeable sources confirm that the incomplete take posted here has never been released commercially (legit or otherwise)? Is this truly a "collector's specialty"?

This is a really fun read if you want to learn about the AFL.

Stanley Dance really had a thing about Lees, always calling out his almost(?) exclusive favoring of "cats of all colors" who exhibited, uh..."respectable" and/or "middle class" lifestyles and attitudes. I generally enjoyed Lees pieces, even as I noticed that Dance had a rather good point. But Leonard Feather...that guy seemed to always have an angle that either diverted the conversation around to his doings, or controversies that he was engaged in. Sure, he wrote a lot, and it was not devoid of real information. But nevertheless, fuck Leornard Feather, by and large, exceptions allowed when really valid, but I don't know that all that many are.

Usually you can get a good basic overview of a label at Both sides Now. They have listings for all kinds of Mercury eras and subsidiary labels, but oddly enough, nothing about Emarcy? http://www.bsnpubs.com/discogl-r.html I always think of "Emarcy" as "Bob Shad", but yes, Jack Tracey took over, although a lot of jazz came on on Mercury itself, iirc. Mercury was a pretty big label, really, strong pop, jazz, classical, subsidy labels, merged with Phillips, and for the better part of two decades. Here's a site that thoroughly covers Mercury, including MRC: https://www.jazzdisco.org/mercury-records/

Have we figured out yet who Tom Verlander is? That name came to mind waaaaay too easily. Am I thinking of Tom Verlaine, like, you know Justin Verlander is always on television, so make that connection to get that? Didn't Freud write something about that, getting names wrong?

Not the same section exactly or the same band, but close enough is Manny Albam's West Side Story album, which seems to be obscure these days? I bought it early on, loved it, then grew away from it as my need to hear "that type of playing" diminished. Pulled it out again a few years ago, just because, and was more or less delighted not just by how the band played, but how well the whole thing was recorded. I got the "later" LP on Decca, the one with the "hoodlum" and a brick wall. Somebody's since sent be a Japanese CD copy that is absolutely perfect as far as transfer goes, those parts, you can hear then all at once, together and separate. Delightful! https://www.discogs.com/Manny-Albam-And-His-Jazz-Greats-Play-Music-From-West-Side-Story/release/6259918

None? Unless your power goes out or something. But even then, Feather gives me the heebie-jeebies, to this day. So...I don't have a need to know birthdays, and have learned enough from enough other sources that if my power went out, I'd rather use a Leonard Feather "encyclopedia" to start a fire than for reading. Fire give more light and more heat! And for some reason, now I'm hearing "Norwegian Wood"....

Yeah, there will be singing, and yeah, it might get cringe-y for some listeners, but there's not all THAT much of it, and look at that lineup, THAT'S what you get. And as shaky as Ms. Pleasant's vocals might be, that's how solid her organ playing was. FLAYVA!!! Oh yeah, this one turned out to be quite fun. Initial skepticism quickly overcome.

Albert Collins. First blues record I heard under..."organic" conditions. 17 years old, met a guitar player with real jazz ambitions from Kilgore who lived with his grandmother, who lived kind of back a-ways, and this record was plowed ALL to hell, which was ok, because we were eating Grannie's cornbread, beans, and greens (collard, iirc) while it played. The meat was salt pork. My name's Friday, I'm a cop. Quite unrelated to all that, look at who the cover artist is!

Bingo.

Good scowls. They played Bartok with a definite point to make, and they made it. Their Nordic folk song medleys definitely had a point and seemed to relax all concern. After intermission, with everybody relaxed, the played Beethoven. As the old joke goes, Beethoven won. But the quartet did put up a good fight. Hoeveer, Beethoven is better than most people, so...a little to relaxed going in, and then, next thing you know,....Beethoven is here. UH-oh! Also, the guys have a publicity photo that shows their age to be the same as it is when they come on stage. Nice surprise, that.

Is a Canadian year longer or shorter than an American year, I keep forgetting the conversion rate...maybe I'm not late after all?

Jackie's Bag I imprinted on the LP version, so if the CD is not that....Demon's Dance. Hell, Consequence. Yeah, that one. It's a motherfucker. It's not 90s, but in another thread, I misremembered and said something about Keystone 3 when I meant New York Scene as being the last "forward" Blakey album, and the only one after the last Prestige. So, that one, if not now, then later. Recommendations made with a fairly good grasp of what you like and don't.

I think he was still in NYC when this was published, so it's not as bad as it got in The Encyclopedia Of Jazz In The Seventies, but still..."certain artists" are afforded recognition/write-ups that one could argue was out of line with their actual overall significance/impact. Otoh, good for anybody to get more spotlight than they would ordinarily get, but otoh, when there's a clearly discernible pattern...

I've looked at it a fair amount back in the day, library had it...the more you know, the more problematic it becomes. Not factually, but just...choices made, and the Feather-pimping (call it bias or personal preference if you like) angle becomes a lot more obvious in this later book, because, it was the 60s, and everybody knew more by then. It would have been ok if he had called it Hi, I'm Leonard Feather, This Is Who I Like, but it wasn't called that, was it....

Baby Face, Face To Face.

Alright, "just the head", y'all been the whole song, all of it? Intros, bridges, and all? to me, that all seems a bit....thorough to be a "worm". Then again, I'm used to breaking worms into pieces to bait the hook, so I get that mileages will vary.