[Baritone Saxophonists]

Joe Temperley is not exactly chopped liver, either .... and in his heyday, Tony Scott could produce some prodigious sounds out of a baritone sax ..

[***** Yusef Lateef Corner *****]

Regarding the Savoy 2-CD set, "The Last Savoy sessions" ... Orrin Keepnews says in the opening paragraph of his notes that "This is the first of two double-CD reissues that will present the full Savoy output of Yusef Lateef ..." The question is will the other double-CD set ever see the light of day? (Or has it? I can find no record of it.) The second set should contain the first 17 selections recorded by Lateef for the Savoy label, and the two sets would then contain the full 36 selections. I have resisted replacing my old viny with copies of the early unremastered Savoy CD reissues .. but perhaps I will have to do it. Is Savoy still doing reissues?

[Mike Douglas, TV talk show host has died.]

Just because my father was an undertaker, do I always have to provide these sad details? .... In any case, Douglas had a groovy band, and often featured Jack Sheldon, both playing the trumpet and doing his comedy schtick, which can often be hilariously hip.

Mike Douglas, Former TV Talk Show Host, Dies at 81 in Florida

by Brian Skoloff

Associated Press, August 11, 2006

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Mike Douglas, who drew on his affable personality and singing talent during 21 years as host of a syndicated television talk show, died Friday on his 81st birthday, his wife said.

He died at 5:30 a.m. at a Palm Beach Gardens hospital, Genevieve Douglas said. She wasn't sure of the cause yet, but said he was admitted Thursday.

She said he became dehydrated on the golf course a few weeks ago and had been treated on and off for that since. He lived in North Palm Beach.

"He was coming along fine, we thought. It was really a shock," she said. "We never anticipated this to happen."

The afternoon talk show, which aired from 1961 to 1982, featured Douglas' ballad and big-band singing style, other musicians, comedians, political personalities and sports figures. His interviews included seven men who were then, had been or would become president.

"People still believe 'The Mike Douglas Show' was a talk show, and I never correct them, but I don't think so," Douglas said in his 1999 memoir, "I'll Be Right Back: Memories of TV's Greatest Talk Show."

"It was really a music show, with a whole lot of talk and laughter in between numbers."

Longtime friend Larry King said on CNN: "He was a genuine nice guy."

"It was easy to be around him," King said Friday. "He had a relaxed measure about him, and he also had an incredible ability to get great guests."

King said Douglas became disappointed later in his career as times changed, and he tried a few nighttime talk shows.

"He was out of place, he was not a nighttime host," King said. "Sometimes time passes you by, and time passed Mike by.

"I don't want to say he was bitter because he had done so well in his life ... but he was not happy," King added. "At the end of his life, he was very happy in retirement."

Tom Kelly, who co-authored Douglas' memoir, said he had about 30,000 guests appear on his show over the years.

"One big key to his great success was he had his ego in check," Kelly said. "He always let the guest have the limelight. He was a fine performer. He could sing, he could do comedy, he did it all, but he always gave the guest the spotlight."

Douglas did about 6,000 shows, most an hour and a half long, and estimated that at its peak the show was seen in about 230 cities.

Douglas fondly recalled when Tiger Woods, as a preschooler who already was drawing attention because of his golfing talent, appeared on the same show as Bob Hope, an avid golfer, in 1978. "I don't know what kind of drugs they've got this kid on, but I want some," Hope quipped.

Douglas was genial only most of the time. He confided in his memoir that his composure was sorely tested one week in 1972 when former Beatle John Lennon and wife, Yoko Ono, were his unlikely guest hosts. One of the guest celebrities they selected was well-known anti-war activist Jerry Rubin.

"He just got on my nerves. It sounded like this guy hated the president, the Congress, everyone in business, the military, all police and just about everything America stands for," Douglas said. He recalled becoming confrontational with Rubin.

But Lennon "picked up the mantle of Kind and Gentle Host, and he did it quite well, reinterpreting Jerry's comments to take some of the sting out and adding a little humor to keep things cool," Douglas said.

Douglas was among the "early settlers" in daytime talk shows, said Robert Thompson, a professor and director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

"Mike Douglas was an old-fashioned traditionalist, holding down the fort while the culture was changing," Thompson said. "He was always the very friendly talk show host, nice to everybody. He would lean toward his guest as if he really cared. He owned that territory."

Hosts Phil Donahue, Dinah Shore and Merv Griffin also found success about the same time. Douglas said in his book that people often confused him with Griffin, another singer of Irish heritage.

Tim Brooks, television historian and executive vice president of research for Lifetime Television Network, said Douglas was "an outgrowth on the 1950s mentality of politeness, or niceness."

"Even when America was getting kind of angry in the 1960s and 1970s, his show was sort of an oasis of politeness," Brooks said. "It got you away from some of the turmoil in life."

Actress Rosie O'Donnell, who eventually had her own talk show, said in an introduction to Douglas' book that she was influenced by his shows. She described Douglas has having "a twinkle in his eye and a kindness to his being."

Born Michael Delaney Dowd in Chicago on Aug. 11, 1925, Douglas began his career as a teenage singer and entertainer in supper clubs and on radio programs.

He was the staff singer at radio station WKY in Oklahoma City before joining the Navy during World War II and serving on a munitions ship.

Returning home, he became a featured performer on the radio and eventual television program, "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge." Kyser gave him his stage name.

Douglas had some hits with Kyser in the 1940s, including "Old Lamplighter" and "Ole Buttermilk Sky." He made the popular song charts one more time in 1966 with the sentimental "The Men in My Little Girl's Life."

As the era of rock 'n' roll began to emerge in the late 1950s, his style became less marketable, so he started looking for a way to energize his career.

He briefly hosted "Hi, Ladies!", a daytime television program on WGN in Chicago. Then in 1961, Woody Fraser, a Westinghouse Group W program director who had known Douglas in Chicago, recruited him to a Group W station in Cleveland (then KYW) to host a talk and entertainment program.

The show syndicated starting in 1963 but had a limited budget, and Cleveland was not a frequent destination for well-known potential guests. The show moved to Philadelphia in 1965 and was based there for 13 years.

"The proximity to New York just made it for us," Douglas said in a 2004 interview. "We had limos going from New York to Philadelphia. That made it easier to get some of the guests who were in New York, and they happily came."

The show moved to Los Angeles in 1978.

Three years later, Group W replaced Douglas with a younger popular singer, John Davidson. "The Mike Douglas Show" continued in syndication under Douglas' control until he retired in 1982 to North Palm Beach, Fla. Douglas appeared as a guest on several talk shows but spent much of his leisure time on the golf course.

He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1990, but after surgery he was cancer free.

[do u guys know about this Trane+Getz thing]

I believe that is what I was offered, but was not interested. A lot of people have it, it seems.

I must apologize ... I do not seem to have mastered the art of searching this site very well, so I may be redundant in posting this video of Trane and Getz ... but it is well worth another look anyway ... Enjoy!

BTW, I interviewed Getz several times, and I doubt very much if playing with Coltrane would have made him "poop his pants"!

http://tostud2.free.fr/coltrane-and-getz.ram

[Duke Jordan, R.I.P.]

I am sorry if this has been posted already, but i cannot seem to find it ....

Duke Jordan died in Copenhagen,Aug 8, at age 84. He had a long and

impressive career in music - interrupted only by a period in the 60s and

70s when he worked as a cab driver -

[Deitch Music Cartoons]

I finally got to actually look at, and purchase this book at the Museum of Comic Art in San Francisco this weekend. I heartily recommend it to anyone with a "jazz" sense of humor, and it would make a great addition to your Christmas list for that person who never knows what to get you ....

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/156097526...ie=UTF8&s=books

Garth.

[for those who missed out the cheap Universal Mosaics]

Sonny Rollins Freelance Years Set... no booklet

for those who need it, info sheet for the Rollins set attached

I am enjoying having all of this material collected in one neat box, and especially at this low price; however, was there a "real" booklet with the original Prestige/OJC release in the U.S.? If so, how extensive was it, and can it be produced in a PDF file for those of us who are deprived by German austerity?

I am very grateful for the insert prepard by Couw ... as I am for all of his box inserts.

[are some OJC limited editions going oop?]

I'm now reading nearly 30 pages of Us american folks being able to buy-out Concord records and feel sad not being able to get those K2's ...but here's my deadly revenge:

2001 has the 12 CD complete Mingus Debut recording in stock and on sale for unbeatable 30€ !

So after pressing the prder now button.. I can now be very relaxed when reading all the good stuff you got...

Cheers, Oliver

With your "smilie" I am not sure that you were serious about this, or not. If this is a serious offer by 2001, how can I find it online? I tried to find it, but without success ... Do you have an item number?

In the meantime, like most of us, I am awaiting my two orders from Concord ...

you need to enter the following article code 502925 into the "Bestellzettel" to get it... my order is already confirmed.

They also have added some quite nice OJC (Tjader, Manne, Golson, Mraz) that I order alongside. You can only find those via CD->JAzz-> list them all, sorted by price or Artist. They are right now not found when entering the appropriate string into the Search box

Hope that helps...

Cheers, Oliver

Danke Oliver. I just placed the order .. I had an E24,00 credit with them, and this is one of those items that I would not necessarily have sprung for a full price ... I do have the 4-CD Debut Records Story set .. but having the complete albums will provide greater satisfaction. This item seems to be "hidden" as without the number you so kindly provided I could not call it up...

Garth.

[are some OJC limited editions going oop?]

I'm now reading nearly 30 pages of Us american folks being able to buy-out Concord records and feel sad not being able to get those K2's ...but here's my deadly revenge:

2001 has the 12 CD complete Mingus Debut recording in stock and on sale for unbeatable 30€ !

So after pressing the prder now button.. I can now be very relaxed when reading all the good stuff you got...

Cheers, Oliver

With your "smilie" I am not sure that you were serious about this, or not. If this is a serious offer by 2001, how can I find it online? I tried to find it, but without success ... Do you have an item number?

In the meantime, like most of us, I am awaiting my two orders from Concord ...

[are some OJC limited editions going oop?]

What is the "highest" order number on this list ... somewhere in the 6000 area? I am certain that their order number must have started at about 5500. Does anyone have a lower number than this?

My reason for asking is that I wonder exactly how many CD-buying jazz fans are left in the United States to take advantage of this sale? We may be looking at less than 1,000 people, and THAT number may be high!

Let's face it folks, we are a highly self-selecting group here ...

[Concord Summer Blowout]

I feel guilty ... I got 64, and at least 25 of those are "upgrades" .... can these tired old ears really appreciate upgrades?

Do I need to buy some new audio equipment now? Are there any good audio sales round at the moment?

[are some OJC limited editions going oop?]

Well .. I just got billed for the FULL amount of my second order placed last Saturday... But I have never received an email confirmation of my first order placed last Thursday. Go figure! Then as I was typing this, this confirmation of shipping the SECOND order arrived. (A phonecall subsequently determined that both orders were ready to ship.)

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Ordered: 1 Shipped: 1 RCD-1135-2 Chet Baker - Chet $2.98 Ship Date: 7/19/2006

Ordered: 1 Shipped: 1 RCD-1120-2 Chet Baker - Chet Baker Sings-It Could Happen To You $2.98 Ship Date: 7/19/2006

Ordered: 1 Shipped: 1 RCD-1119-2 Chet Baker - In New York $2.98 Ship Date: 7/19/2006

Ordered: 1 Shipped: 1 RCD-1152-2 Chet Baker - Plays the Best of Lerner & Loewe $2.98 Ship Date: 7/19/2006

Ordered: 1 Shipped: 1 PRCD-7109-2 Miles Davis - Bag's Groove $2.98 Ship Date: 7/19/2006

Ordered: 1 Shipped: 1 PRCD-7076-2 Miles Davis All Stars - Walkin' $2.98 Ship Date: 7/19/2006

Ordered: 1 Shipped: 1 NJCD-8260-2 Eric Dolphy - Eric Dolphy at the Five Spot, Vol. 1 $2.98 Ship Date: 7/19/2006

Ordered: 1 Shipped: 1 PRCD-8270-2 Eric Dolphy - Far Cry $2.98 Ship Date: 7/19/2006

Ordered: 1 Shipped: 1 PACD-2310-762-2 Duke Ellington - The Ellington Suites $2.98 Ship Date: 7/19/2006

Ordered: 1 Shipped: 1 RCD-1129-2 Bill Evans - Everyone Digs Bill Evans $2.98 Ship Date: 7/19/2006

Ordered: 1 Shipped: 1 RCD-9351-2 Bill Evans Trio - Explorations $2.98 Ship Date: 7/19/2006

Ordered: 1 Shipped: 1 FCD-8089-2 Vince Guaraldi - Cast Your Fate to the Wind $2.98 Ship Date: 7/19/2006

Ordered: 1 Shipped: 1 RCD-9407-2 Milt Jackson/Wes Montgomery - Bags Meets Wes! $2.98 Ship Date: 7/19/2006

Ordered: 1 Shipped: 1 CCD-7532-2 Art Pepper - Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section $2.98 Ship Date: 7/19/2006

Ordered: 1 Shipped: 1 PRCD-7038-2 Sonny Rollins - Plus 4 $2.98 Ship Date: 7/19/2006

Ordered: 1 Shipped: 1 RCD-241-2 Sonny Rollins - The Sound of Sonny $2.98 Ship Date: 7/19/2006

Ordered: 1 Shipped: 1 OJCCD-1785-2 Lem Winchester Sextet - Lem's Beat $2.98 Ship Date: 7/19/2006

Ordered: 1 Shipped: 1 OJCCD-1870-2 Randy Weston Trio - Get Happy $2.98 Ship Date: 7/19/2006

Ordered: 1 Shipped: 1 OJCCD-1034-2 Gerry Wiggins - Wiggin' Out $2.98 Ship Date: 7/19/2006

Ordered: 2 Shipped: 2 PRCD-7057-2 Modern Jazz Quartet - Django $2.98 Ship Date: 7/19/2006

Ordered: 1 Shipped: 1 OJCCD-935-2 Milt Jackson - Bags' Bag $2.98 Ship Date: 7/19/2006

Ordered: 1 Shipped: 1 OJCCD-1703-2 Elmo Hope - Hope Meets Foster $2.98 Ship Date: 7/19/2006

Ordered: 1 Shipped: 1 PRCD-7130-2 Red Garland Quintet - All Mornin' Long $2.98 Ship Date: 7/19/2006

Ordered: 1 Shipped: 1 JCD-46-2 Thelonious Monk/John Coltrane - Monk & Coltrane $2.98 Ship Date: 7/19/2006

Ordered: 1 Shipped: 1 RCD-235-2 Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Himself $2.98 Ship Date: 7/19/2006

Ordered: 1 Shipped: 1 PRCD-7027-2 Thelonious Monk Trio - Thelonious Monk Trio $2.98 Ship Date: 7/19/2006

Ordered: 1 Shipped: 1 PRCD-7005-2 Modern Jazz Quartet - Concorde $2.98 Ship Date: 7/19/2006

Ordered: 1 Shipped: 1 RCD-242-2 Thelonious Monk - Monk's Music $2.98 Ship Date: 7/19/2006

Ordered: 1 Shipped: 1 RCD-1133-2 Thelonious Monk - Misterioso $2.98 Ship Date: 7/19/2006

[AOTW - Monk with Trane - Complete 1957 Riversides]

The music is fabulous!

I'm glad I ordered it!

me too!

Ditto. Before I read these last 2 posts I was about to write one asking "Am I the only one who's happy about this release?" I thnk we're being unjustly harsh with the new owners of Fantasy. They've repackaged a few things quite well. I just wish they'd do more: eg Shelly Mann at the Blackhawk and the 12/24/54 Miles with Monk session.

I agree! The sound on this reissue is fabulous (even on my 15 year old equipment), and I too would love to hear a remastered version of the 4-volume Shelly Manne at the Blackhawk! Not enough of the Contemporary catalog has been remastered, although it should be mentioned that of all the west coast labels Contemporary always had the best sound, despite the restrictions on their studio setup. Lester Koenig was a stickler for great sound, and many of these 1950s recordings still sound great today.

[are some OJC limited editions going oop?]

This list is very dangerous for my bank account ... I decided to place another order for 31 CDs yesterday (the economics of this sale make it impossible to buy just 22 albums, when for 8 more you basically get them free .. go figure!) I purchased the Monk box from our German friends several weeks ago, and I have yet to get around to listening to this (to me) familiar material from my vinyl days ... and now I am buying the same material as K2s in this sale!! I NEED HELP!

The time has come for the creation of that Jazz Collectors Anonymous organization that we keep talking about ... but then, what else would I spend my money on? Travel to Tuscany? A new car? Redo my house? A beach house? A new stereo system?

[Rarest (most expensive?) CDs]

If you go to GEMM, use the more elaborate search tool and check the respective price range you will get plenty of used CDs over $ 50 - some of these are really rare, but I'm patient .....

Thanks for this interesting suggestion. I have used GEMM with mixed success*, but I have never tried this search function. I searched for jazz CDs over $40, and it disclosed a suprising list, with most of the "rare" CDs being on small, often bootleg labels. I could not help but notice a series of Jaco Pastorious albums on European labels going for high price ... and WOW! ... some of those Kenton bootlegs (which I actually own) are going for over $100! Never count out those rabid Kenton fans ...

*I get about a 60% rate of order filling. I often wonder why sellers list items that they clearly do not have!

[Rarest (most expensive?) CDs]

This is not meant to be a bragging statement, in fact it is probably a cry for help in the dark, but I just paid the highest price I have ever shelled out for a single CD. I am a very big Lars Gullin fan, so I just purchased the rare reissue album "FINE TOGETHER: THE ARTISTRY OF LARS GULLIN" (Universal 986566-7), which according to the Lars Gullin webpage was a limited edtion. I paid $39.44 (incl. postage). I am feeling rather guilty ....

SO ... my question is: Now that CDs have been around for nearly twenty years, what are considered to be the rarest CDs (jazz or otherwise), and how much would YOU pay for your most wanted item?

[Lionel Hampton on Verve]

Who needs the David Stone Martin covers when you can get a hairshirt binding !

Yes, I agree ... this is certainly one of the Verve "award winning" design department's greatest hits!

[Lionel Hampton on Verve]

I have had this set for some time now (see my avatar ... so what else is new?) and just LOVE this music. What I miss however are the original David Stone Martin covers for several of these albums. My scanner is being replaced so I cannot scan them in ... Can some kind soul find the time to give me that pleasure once again ?

[are some OJC limited editions going oop?]

So now that the mad rush is (or close to...) over, when does the real fun start with open speculation about order fill rates and % of jewel boxes that'll get trashed? For $3 a disc, I can't imagine that they'll be using white gloves and laying down lush carpets of bubble wrap while processing these cartons that'll be shipped free of charge.

I'll start:

80% total fill rate

15.5% cracked cases

For what is it worth, our German friends were not too careful about how they packaged their sale offerings. The CDs were packed rather loosely (certainly no bubble wrapping); however considering that they came from Europe, I did not find too many broken jewel cases, BUT, I was mssing two booklets. Will they bother to replace them if I ask (he says to himself, already knowing he answer)? ...

[If You Are MF Broke, Stay Away From This Thread]

There is a famous strip from Dagwood from the late 1940's that could apply in this situation:

Blondie comes home loaded with packages and all excited she tells Dagwood that she has just saved $10! He, pleased, asks her how she did it, and she tells him that she just bought this $20 dress for $10 at a sale .... Don't try this at home ...

Being a single, "mature" individual, in charge of his own purchasing decisions, I NEVER have to listen to that dreaded phrase from the lips of anyone, "DO YOU REALLY NEED ANOTHER CD?"

Now ... the only problem is when to find the time to listen to allof this stuff. By last count, I was 92 CDs behind in my listening, thanks in large part to the sale offered by our German friends

[are some OJC limited editions going oop?]

The other thing that struck me about this list of sale items, is that one could play endless speculation games by doing a content analysis (which is one of my basic research techniques) of what is actually on this list. For instance, considering the number of items under his name in the current Fantasy catalog, why is there NO Oscar Peterson on this list, and why so many (especially K2's) of Monk, and Rollins? Why so little Art Farmer, Art Pepper, and Zoot Sims? And where is long list of Bill Evans that could be expected? There is very little from the Contemporary label showing up here, and no Tommy Flanagan, Ella, or Joe Pass.

There may be really no logical explnation, but it does make one wonder ... ?

[are some OJC limited editions going oop?]

Thanks to all who alerted me to this sale ... My bank account is slilmmer this morning ... and I am sleep deprived becasue i was up till about 1:30 compiling an order of 37 items. I did not have to fill a large number of gaps, but I did take advantage of the list to get a lot of K2's ... and to be adventurous about some things I have never owned.

There is one really fine album I am amazed that no one has discussed, and that is the Lem Winchester, "Lem's Beat." Just recently I realized that I was missing this particular album from my Lem Winchester stash, and started to look for a copy. This sucker sells (sold) for a small fortune on Amazon, or anywhere else, and was OOP at most of the basic retail online stores like CDU or CDConnection. I never thought to go to the source itself, and look at the Concord site, and instead after much "googling" I purchased a copy from a smaller online company for $16.95 plus $3.00 shipping just three days ago... and here it was for $2.98!! Damn ... well, I ordered a copy and will attempt to return the higher priced item ... I highly recommend this gem of an album. Now ... let's see how many items from my order will actually be shipped.

This raises the question .. If one has met the $100 benchmark or the 30 item level with intended purchases, and they can only ship $99 worth of merchandise, or 29 items ... what price wil they charge?

[Jimmy Giuffre]

There's still a lot of Verve recordings out of print, such as Ad Lib, Seven Pieces and the Jimmy Giuffre Quartet in Person. Don't know if they've ever been released on CD. Lonehill or someone will soon take care of that.

For those who missed out on the Mosaic set, almost all of the music is now available one way (Collectables) or the other (from the Andorran hills). The one session I haven't seen yet is the music that became Travellin' Light, with Jim Atlas on bass instead of Bob Brookmeyer.

Once. long ago, in a vinyl world that I no longer occupy, I had all of these albums, and I believe that they were reissued in Europe on German Verve in the 1980s ... they are still around ... check here:

http://www.gemm.com/c/search.pl?field=ARTI...16&Go%21=Search

[Lars Gullin]

Swedish Jazz History

anyone heard any of the Swedish Jazz History CD sets on Caprice, look interesting but it's unclear how much they overlap with Dragon issues

I have volumes 6 through 9 (and have vol. 10 on order) ... and while there is some minimum overlap, it is not enough to prevent owning this wonderful series. I am not sure why, perhaps it is my love of everything associated with "cool jazz," but I find this series, and the earlier 9 volume series, "Jazz In Sweden: 1949-1961," with music taken from the Metronome label, to be very immensely interesting and worthwhile.

[Modern Clarinet Stylists]

Can this be purchased in the USA?

You can order this CD directly in Japan without any problems.

Send me a message pm and i'll forward you the email address of the producer.

Keep swinging

Durium

I believe that the rare Buddy DeFranco big band sides have now been issued on a recent Hep CD. Fine music. See here:

http://www.allegro-music.com/online_catalo...?sku_tag=HEP377

Garth.