https://www.musicweb-international.com/jazz/2010/Duke_Ellington_NI2736.htm
This new CD contains 15 such recordings made between 1965 and 1972. They are said to be "previously unissued" but they were actually first released in 1991 by the MusicMasters label.
That's a very good record too.
Billy Vera knows his shit. His work on the Specialty reissues was pretty damn solid too.
Look at that though, how this video is credited to "Billy Vera", like Judy Clay was an afterthought.
It never stops...
Blue Moon, eh? Jonki Purpos again.
The real Vee Jay was ran by Billy Vera. It was short-lived but excellent. The Staples Singers volume remains a desert island set for me!
I found an OG copy at a flea market in the 70s, and jumped at the CD reissue (with some alternate takes at the end).
And yet I forgot about that CD. Jeesh....
I get the "sameness" thing...but lately it seems to me that it's a kind of cold, dead-eyed stare that dares you to blink first. Like, ok, this is what I DO, dammit.
And I find myself more and more blinking first.
The original liner notes (by Frank London Brown https://www.discogs.com/artist/2645584-Frank-London-Brown) are some of the truest musings on "black blue collar jazz" that I know of.
Oh yeah = Tootie Heath on drums!
I don't know that too many people are. It's popped up a few times under different guides, but AFAIK never on its own terms.
It's s a pity, really. A very... vernacular- heavy session!
Ok, my bad. It has been reissued on CD, and remains available!