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The one I recall was black & white, which is not to say that it was originally such.

You might be right. For some reason I was thinking it was a club in Massachusetts in the early 1970s, but I'd not put even half of your money on that bet, much less any of mine!

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My wish is for that badass Max 4tet club date video from the very early 70s that was up on YouTube for a quick minute back in yonder times to get extrapolated out more fully.

I was thinking more in terms of who would be incentivized to create and sustain a name-recognition program. Say what you will about Robert Irving(?), he's keeping Miles' name alive in the general market consciousness. Same thing for Laurie Pepper, Woody III, and others. Skin in the game, quite literally, as opposed to lawyer-manages assets waiting for licensing opportunities. Nothing wrong with that, just...you know. But to the greater point, oh hell yeah, a comprehensive Gene Ammons collection, smartly annotated and designed, yes, that, all over the place that. SkketSkeetSkeet THAT.

Serious question - is there a Gene Ammons family estate, even on paper, or do lawyers own it all? 'Cause I'm kinda like, if jazz is the bible, then Gene Ammons is Good News For Modern Man, now and forever, and c'mon, where is the necessary pimpage to get this thing out there like it needs to be?

Give the alto player some! Bill English!

The session June 13, 1961 arranged by Oliver Nelson The September 5, 1962 quartet session with Mal Waldron The April 13, 1962 sessions w/Patti Bown & George Duvivier: (the totally gorgeous Moodsvill date was recorded the next day, with Ed Shaughnessy replacing Perkins...get it on the CD of Gentle Jug. Gene Ammons Quartet Gene Ammons (tenor sax) Patti Bown (piano) George Duvivier (bass) Walter Perkins (drums) Etta Jones (vcl) Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, April 13, 1962 3482 But Not For Me (w/vcl) Prestige PRLP 7275, PRCD 24188-2 3483 If You Are But A Dream (w/vcl) Prestige PRLP 7275, PR 7443, PRCD 24155-2, PRCD 24188-2 3484 The Party's Over Prestige 45-319, PRLP 7287 3485 Cool, Cool Daddy (w/vcl) Prestige PRLP 7275, PRLP 7313, PRCD 24188-2 3486 Lascivious Prestige PRLP 7287 3487 Soft Winds - 3488 Scam Prestige PR 7400, PRCD 24266-2 * Prestige PRLP 7275 Gene Ammons/Etta Jones/Jack McDuff - Soul Summit, Vol. 2 = Prestige PRCD 24118-2 Gene Ammons/Sonny Stitt/Jack McDuff - Soul Summit * Prestige PR 7443 Etta Jones' Greatest Hits * Prestige PRLP 7287; Original Jazz Classics OJCCD 942-2 Gene Ammons - Late Hour Special * Prestige PRLP 7313 The Prestige All Stars - Prestige/Groovy Goodies, Vol. 2 * Prestige PR 7400 Gene Ammons - Sock! * Prestige PRCD 24155-2 Gene Ammons - Gentle Jug, Vol. 2 * Prestige PRCD 24266-2 Gene Ammons - A Stranger In Town * Prestige 45-319 Gene Ammons - The Party's Over / I Want To Be Loved Of real interest - this 1970 Nat Cole tribute session with Wynton Kelly that was left in the can until 1988 (passed me by totally unnoticed, unfortunately) and is still not fully released on CD!!!! What I've heard on A Stranger In Town is solid like a mo. Gene Ammons Quintet Gene Ammons (tenor sax) Wynton Kelly (piano) George Duvivier (bass) Rudy Collins (drums) Pucho (congas -1) Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, February 2, 1970 1. Calypso Blues Prestige PR 7862, PRCD 24266-2 2. Night Lights - 3. Nature Boy - 4. The Christmas Song Prestige PR 7862 5. The Christmas Song (alt. take) Prestige PR 24046 6. Sweet Lorraine Prestige PR 7862 7. Lush Life Prestige PR 7862, PRCD 24249-2 * Prestige PR 7862 Gene Ammons - Night Lights * Prestige PR 24046 Various Artists - 25 Years Of Prestige * Prestige PRCD 24266-2 Gene Ammons - A Stranger In Town * Prestige PRCD 24249-2 Gene Ammons - Gentle Jug, Vol. 3 Anybody got any others?

Ok, had a chance to get to the Ammons/Nelson date this weekend. My technology is not optimal right now, so I've yet to be able to collate the session onto one CD, but by impression so far is that it would make a decent enough records if released standalone. The charts are good, the playing is fine (solos consistently, ensemble almost consistently), and the releasing of parts of this semi-big-band session across three separate CDs (and LPs) really dilutes the vibe, especially since the Nelson date has a totally different recording ambiance (and not for the better, really). Oh, and there's a second tenor soloist on "The Song Is You" that is alleged to be Ammons in the liners, could be either Red Holloway or George Barrow based on the given personnel, but who to my ears could very easily be Jimmy Forrest. Hmmm... The days of this being an economically feasible "together at last" type reissue are pretty much gone, but hey, we got a record here if we want one, and a pretty damn good one at that, I think Here are the discographical details from Doug Payne's Oliver Nelson discography. I've blue-bolded the CDs I used to get the material. And oh by the way - Oliver wrote himself into the lead alto chair for this one. Economics, perhaps, but I'd like to think that there's more to it than just that. LATE HOUR SPECIAL Gene Ammons June 13, 1961 Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: June 13, 1961 Hobart Dotson, Clark Terry (tp); Oliver Nelson (as, arr, cond); Gene Ammons, George Barrow, Red Holloway (ts); Bob Ashton (bs); Richard Wyands (p); Wendell Marshall (b); Bill English (d); Ray Barretto (cga). a. (3079) Things Ain't What They Used To Be (Ellington/Persons) b. (3080) Makin' Whoopee (Donaldson/Kahn) c. (3081) I Want To Be Loved (But By Only You) (Savannah Churchill) d. (3082) Lullaby Of The Leaves (Petkere/Young) Note: Other titles without Oliver Nelson. Issues: a-d on Prestige PR-7287, Prestige OJCCD-942-2 [CD]. Singles: c also on Prestige 45-319 [45]. Samplers: c also on Prestige PRCD-24155-2 [CD] titled GENTLE JUG, VOLUME 2. Producer: Esmond Edwards Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder SOUL SUMMIT, VOL. 2 (aka SOUL SUMMIT) Gene Ammons Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: June 13, 1961 Hobart Dotson, Clark Terry (tp); Oliver Nelson (as, arr, cond); Gene Ammons, George Barrow, Red Holloway (ts); Bob Ashton (bs); Richard Wyands (p); Wendell Marshall (b); Bill English (d); Ray Barretto (cga). a. (3083) Too Marvelous For Words b. (3084) Love, I've Found You Note: Other titles without Oliver Nelson. Issues: a & b on Prestige PR-7275 titled SOUL SUMMIT, VOL. 2 and Prestige PRCD-24118-2 [CD] titled SOUL SUMMIT. Singles: b also on Prestige 45-294 [45]. Samplers: b also on Prestige PRCD-24155-2 [CD] titled GENTLE JUG, VOLUME 2. VELVET SOUL aka A STRANGER IN TOWN Gene Ammons Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: June 13, 1961 Hobart Dotson, Clark Terry (tp); Oliver Nelson (as, arr, cond); Gene Ammons, George Barrow, Red Holloway (ts); Bob Ashton (bs); Richard Wyands (p); Wendell Marshall (b); Bill English (d); Ray Barretto (cga). a. (3085) The Song Is You Note: Other titles without Oliver Nelson. Issues: a on Prestige PR-7320 titled VELVET SOUL and Prestige PRCD-24266-2 [CD] titled A STRANGER IN TOWN. Compilers. compile!

The World Of Duke Ellington by Stanley Dance gives you a good feel/portrait/etc for what it was to be in that world in real time.

You left a good job in the city....

So long...

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sorry, I will not cut your heads in half after doing all those other things, assuming that I do, and for you, I just might. But again, ask, don't tell. And along those lines... Well, if you're gonna be that way, then I have no choice but to ask... (note, there are many excellent Marlena Shaw records, especially that second one. She gets full props in my book, or more accurately, "book")

These guys?

So...the song got over way past what the movie did, it seems? That's a depressing thought, although icky pop songs coming from silly movies...the classics never go out of style, as they say. originally this! or, actually, this, minus the hit-warning sticker...

The Fluid side is the only one I'd not be in too big a rush to get hold of, at least not until you have all the others. Wasn't The Loadstar booted on CD within the last year or two? Or was it just predicted as a CD and then never happened? I don't know that a CD version would have the same power, though, I mean, you get up, flip the record over, and then they start playing again, not an edit of a continuous performance, like, a real time start, stop, and begin again, like a 78 only @ 33 1/3.

That Mainstream date should be better known and/or more available than it has been. Only two more documented recordings with him on it after this, 1974 & 1978. http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Kyner/kyner-disc.html Date: 1971 Location: The Record Plant, New York City Label: Mainstream Sylvester 'Sonny Red' Kyner (ldr), Sylvester 'Sonny Red' Kyner (f, as, ts), Cedar Walton (p), Herbie Lewis (b, vl), Billy Higgins (d, cga) a. a-01 Love Song - 05:48 (Sylvester 'Sonny Red' Kyner) b. a-02 Tears - 07:19 (Sylvester 'Sonny Red' Kyner) c. a-03 Mustang - 05:49 (Sylvester 'Sonny Red' Kyner) d. b-01 And Then Again - 04:14 (Elvin Jones) e. b-02 My Romance - 04:44 (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) f. b-03 A Time For Love - 05:19 (Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster) g. b-04 Rodan - 04:35 (Sylvester 'Sonny Red' Kyner) All titles on: - Mainstream LP 12": MRL 324 - Sonny Red Blocks, shapes, whatever. "hmmmm...interesting" is a pretty high compliment imo. There is so much music, including music that I like/love for whatever other reasons, that is not particularly interesting, not really.

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Well, him and Beltre. But, yeah.

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I dunno, Maria Gamino gives off the vibe of a pleasantly challenging co-worker, maybe.