Niko

couldn't find that info anywhere... the blurb to the series is reasonably interesting by the way "„Doppelt klingt besser!“ lautet der Slogan der neuen Serie, die jeweils zwei Originalalben auf einer CD versammelt. Aber auch die anderen Aspekte der preiswerten Edition können sich sehen und hören lassen: Alle Aufnahmen wurden neu digital von den Originalbändern remastert, viele Alben erscheinen hier erstmals auf CD oder waren lange nicht mehr erhältlich. Außerdem beinhalten die Booklets komplette Faksimiles der beiden Original-LP-Artworks, sowie natürlich alle diskographischen Angaben zu den Aufnahmen. Ein weiterer Aspekt der Serie sollte nicht übersehen werden: Viele berühmte Jazz-Alben werden inzwischen von so genannten „Public Domain"-Labels herausgebracht, die weder die Rechte an den inzwischen rechtlich nicht mehr geschützten Aufnahmen, noch die Archivbänder besitzen. Das Nachsehen hat oft der Kunde, denn viele der Veröffentlichungen klingen ebenso schlecht wie sie aussehen. Bei der JAZZPLUS-Serie erwirbt man dagegen die Originalaufnahmen in bestmöglicher Qualität. Dafür bürgen auch die schönen und bekannten Logos der Labels Verve, Mercury, Prestige, Riverside und vieler anderer mehr. Sie würden ja auch keinen Mercedes ohne Stern kaufen, oder?" the second paragraph explicitly mentions that these recordings are in the public domain, but that the "so-called" public domain labels don't have the original tapes and thus the present edition is newly remastered from the original tapes..., last sentence asks whether you would buy a Mercedes Benz without the star... haven't read that this explicitly from them before...

here's a more (in some ways) more detailed discography of django's early sessions, a good deal of the recordings can be found in the JSP set "Musette to Maestro", the first 15 tracks of that set are pre-accident (november 1928)

a similarly well-known and earlier father-son team seems fairly unlikely since the dodds brothers were born in the 1890s, closest thing i could find were the dorsey brothers but they were younger, even more so for the teagardens and mcpartlands (and in both cases one is much better known than the other)

Thank you!!!

apparently, they left out disk 4 and added some of it to disk 2...

I suppose, if Gryce had been in that Bullmoose Jackson Band, Golson would have mentioned it e.g. here http://www.jazzwax.com/2008/09/interview-ben-1.html from a quick online search, it doesn't look like it... the only line-up of the jackson band that I can find right now is the first session here: http://www.feeeez.net/johnnycoles/discography.htm johnny coles, jymie merritt, golson, dameron (and at some other point also philly joe jones...)

He was so relaxed he forgot the name of some of his tunes! Actually, I'm guessing the producer renamed them. What's with the Franglish "Portrait of an Ermite"? Does anybody know if the original French label said that or "Portrait d'un Ermite"? And speaking of portraits of ermites: http://info.francetelevisions.fr/video-info/index-fr.php?id-video=000331624_CAPP_Entrevaux04Portraitdunermite_251020111247_F3 just read the corresponding passage in kelleys book and it says (without looking up the details) that andre francis made up titles where he didn't know them...

funny, this was scheduled for release on Futura/Marge about a year ago - even to the point where soundsamples (good ones iirc) were available but then it suddenly disappeared there...

we have a pharmacy here, the "Henderson Apotheke", which claims to be the only pharmacy world-wide named after Fletcher Henderson - could well be true...

Geri Allen

according to jpc it's on this label called Klimt Records: http://www.discogs.com/label/Klimt%20Records

belated happy birthday!

Mal Waldron

Happy Birthday!!

one of my favorite story's from michael dregni's django biography is how django demonstrated to the other band members that the British have a moon on their sky just like the French... (also saw an autograph of django once which showed fairly clearly that he had memorized only his first name and then R...h...d with some small scribbling in between...)

happy birthday!

should be easy to check with the listing here: http://findaid.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt187019m6/dsc/#c02-1.2.8.2.2 (don't have the book with me but glancing at the listing i guess the last session on the cd is not from there but the rest is), putting all this music out would definitely be something of an overkill but there must be some interesting and some great stuff in between (for a rather random example Item 26 in Box 76 has a 1964 quartet with Tapscott and Blythe playing Golden Pearl which was later recorded on Sonny's Dream, Item 1 in Box 20 apparently features a "supergroup" including Carter, Bradford, Blythe, Tapscott, Wilber Morris and Stanley Crouch...)(there are also some tapes of the Carter/Bradford quartet in there)

That's an exciting prospect. I didn't know about this unfinished album. I wonder if it's related at all to the "Birth of The New Cool" project. I seem to recall that Tapscott had wanted different musicians for that session with Sonny Criss (— a session that still sounds great to me). Imagine Arthur Blythe in that setting! At any rate, I really hope The Giant Is Awakened sees reissue. Though I've lived with the music for some time now, it'd be great to hear this recording with the JLH treatment. As with the other IP reissues, I'll purchase a copy on Day One. I haven't heard a note of the Steig, but I'm purchasing a copy of this one too. isn't there a much later live recording of Birth of the New Cool with Blythe in Criss place? (was on some bft here iirc)... and (yes, i mentioned that before) there are apparently loads of unissued tapscott at the ucla library (including more recordings by the band who recorded Giant is Awakened)

thank you so much, in bad need of a better year but fairly optimistic it will turn out that way!!

some late de arango can be heard here http://hooksgems.blogspot.de/2010/04/bill-dearango-live-barkin-spider.html

i like some of christian escoudé's albums (e.g. In LA, with Lou Levy and Billy Higgins) (but he did record quite a bit... )

the last track apparently is a duo with bassist Al Stauffer (nice article)

thank you! think there's some more info in the blurb below e.g. the sentence i put into boldface seems to say that the 8 bonus tracks are live recordings? the last track has "(Live From Glassboro State University/1976)" in the title so... "Plus de 35 ans après sa disparition, l'oeuvre de Bernard Peiffer reste sans doute l'une des plus méconnues du jazz moderne. Doté d'un talent hors norme, Peiffer n'aura de cesse de faire évoluer son art dans la recherche d'une fusion parfaite entre musique classique et jazz. Une expression qu'il s'applique à développer en concert comme en attestent les 8 titres totalement inédits présentés dans cette réédition. Peiffer y démontre une maîtrise et une imagination sans limites au cours d'interprétations de standards cf. L'introduction de 6 minutes de Lullaby of Birdland et de compositions complètement débridées, lorsqu'il ne s'agit pas de pièces improvisées de bout en bout (Perfect Storm). Enregistré à son arrivée sur le sol américain en 1956, l'album Bernie's Tune voit le pianiste entouré d'accompagnateurs de premier plan (Oscar Pettiford, Joe Puma). Un album en guise d'introduction au public américain qui ne laissera pas indifférent le critique Leonard Feather : "Bernard Peiffer est incroyable. Art Tatum mis à part, je ne connais pas d'autre pianiste de jazz aussi virtuose." Malheureusement, le pianiste français aura peu l'occasion de retourner en studio. On ne peut que le regretter à l'écoute du très rare Modern Jazz for People Who Like Original Music, paru sur le label Laurie en 1965, son album le plus personnel et le plus abouti.Sans doute trop en avance sur son temps, Bernard Peiffer n'aura de son vivant pu recueillir la reconnaissance qu'il mérite."

Sean Levitt

as something of an aside, i often wondered about how we all would get to hear the contents of the Tapscott collection at UCLA http://findaid.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt187019m6/dsc/#c02-1.2.8.2.2 no idea about an details, but there is - among others - a lot of material by the Giant Is Awawkened band listed...