Big Beat Steve

I read the German version (published by Hannibal) a couple of years ago. Interesting contents but the translation makes it often sound a bit pedestrian. Pity ...

Ah, I see. Makes sense. That's the explanation I was (unknowingly) waiting for - these fine points of Americana escape us over here.

Ah, well - in the first pic he looks kind of anguished indeed. (Not the kind of anguish your are in, no? Or are you just saying somebody in that shipping department is getting slow too?) Better to remember him like this, then (no, this won't be on the box set you are waiting for )

Can somebody translate for non-baseball fans, please?

Looks like this is the Vogue session leased to Blue Note. As for Wade Legge having been with Dizzy, in fact this IS the Dizzy rhythm section of his 1953 French tour that also yielded various studio recordings as well as another live recording LP from a Salle Pleyel concert.

You mean it took them SIX days from announcing shipping to ACTUALLY announcing shipping? 16 to 22 August ... My, my ... they sure are doing their best to keep you entertained and on the alert ...

Thanks for the feedback. But like I said, I have about 80-90% of the music elsewhere (in quite decent presentation andfidelity). Which basically leaves the book as something mostly new (mostly because they not flood me with facsimiles of the Jazz Podium write-ups from the 50s like they did with the mod Records box set - I have the originals of the mags). I am very tempted but am really hesitating ... BTW, are there two versions of this box set out? I have seen two differently priced box sets (though with identical descriptions) on two online sellers' platforms (i.e. each of the two platforms listed two differently priced sets). And a price difference of some 40 euros is not negligible.

Immaterial. What counts are the contents of the actual article. Jutta Hipp WAS contacted and interviewed by jazz insiders during he self-imposed "exile", and Evered may not have been the first one. Now what I am wondering rather more about is what reference sources were used exactly for that much-hailed Longreads article published here in 2017. It seems to have been published before elsewhere (according to the fine print) but when and how long ago? That Jazz Podium article linked by Niko was published 11 years ago and - as Niko has shown - is accessible online, including in an English version. Seeing how much of the details in that Jazz Podium article of 11 years ago crop up in the Longreads text - almost verbatim, in some cases - you start wondering ... So it would indeed be interesting to see how and where Evered's writings were actually published and/or circulated. The duplications of contents in the two articles now linked just baffle me ... I wonder how much of it is taken up and maybe elaborated on in that huge Jutta Hipp box set released by the Be!Jazz label (I admit I am shying away from taking the plunge as I have most of the music, and shelling out the full amount mainly for the book ... ho hum ...).

Actually, the article doesn't say so at all. She acknowledges that she was too late and refers to earlier reports by people who did meet her.

Thanks very much, Niko. Much appreciated! Quite a bit of this one and of the Longreads article seem to have drawn from the same primary sources for the details, e.g. the roles of Evered and Leonard Feather. (Now where did Evered INITIALLY publish his account of how he contacted Jutta Hipp, I wonder?)

Good idea. Guess I will spin them later this evening.

Actually I asked about tjhe year only because about 12-13 years ago I was able to buy (at a good price) an almost complete collection of Jazz Podiums from 1953 to 1990 (1990 was when the orignal owner of the mags who was a teenager in 1953 stopped his subscription). I kept the issues up to 1966 and sold off the later volumes (including some via ads around here), and a few weeks ago I finally was able to pass on the final 5-6 remaining volumes (from the 80s). So too late to check now ... But prior to unloading the 1967-90 years I photocopied all the articles and reviews that were of interest to me and filed them separately. No Jutta Hipp interview, though (I should remember that and would have filed it separately)....

Hi Gheorghe Actually I just wondered how much of a "scoop" of having tracked down Jutta Hipp the contents of the story linked above really were. It seems like several people tracked her down and contacted her separately so it is not easy to say who did so first after those decades of "exile". As for the interview you refer to, if it was run prior to 1991 I must have seen this but don't recall it at all. Anyway, her comments are understandable. I have no problems with Koller's 50s records (though I don't spin them often) but I do remember distinctly that almost all reviews of German jazz records published in Swedish jazz mags of that era described the German recordings (very often featuring Koller) as "mechanical" and "unswinging".

Yes, a sad story. I wonder, though, who among the jazz fraternity at large tracked her down fiorst in her latter days. I remember reading a feature on her (and her latter-day paintings) published around the year 2000 in the German jazz mag JAZZ REALITIES (privately published by researcher and discographer M. Frohne) that gave a rather clear account of her later life after she had given up public appearances as a jazz pianist. So her whereabouts were known around that time.

About those needle-nose pliers and removing individual teeth, I must admit I am a bit wary of this (which probably was what made me try the "sanding down" trick). I have every now and then had problems with CDs bought new through mail order that arrived here with several of these teeth broken off the jewel case hub, causing the CD to float around inside and the remains of the teeth somewhere inside the case. Annoying, particularly if it happens on multiple-CD cases ... On rare occasions this even occurred on sealed CDs (shoddy packaging?) but in other cases (new, but not sealed) I have a feeling this happened with sellers normally storing their CDs and inlay paperwork inside thin clear plastic CD envelopes and only puttng them back in jewel cases when mailing them out (I know one seller I ordered from has this habit - he also has a record stall at certain concerts/festivals and this is how he displays his goods). Apparently there are sellers out there who are rather heavy-handed when pushing the CD back on the prongs of the case and couldn't care less when some of them snap.

It worked for me (you have to go easy on it and clean everything well afterwards) but if Rooster_Ties manged to accomplish the desired result just by breaking two of the individual teeth on this very same set then this might be the easier route for you in this particular case.

Isn't there a saying that copying is the highest form of flattery in Asia?

I am not sure I can visualize the problem accurately because I do not have these boxes (or other Mosaics incriminated for this before) but I have enocuntered similar problems with other boxes and jewel cases before where I had to press down like mad on the teeth (i.e. the center) with my thumb and at the same time forcibly pull up the CD to release it, bending it dangerously in the process (fearing indeed it might break). My method (if several removal and replacing operations did not improve matters): After having removed the CD I took some fine-grain sanding paper, held it with the tips of three fingers and rubbed down the teeth by rotating the sanding paper around the teeth. At certain intervals I checked impoved "ease" of removal using an old CD (or CD-R) that didn't matter. When the removal force was acceptable I cleaned up everything and put the actual CD back where it belonged.

His "Story of the Blues" was an early read I soaked up from the first to the last page in my very early collecting days (borrowing the book repeatedly from the local Amerika Haus library), and browsing through it today I think I can stil feel the impression it made on me at the time (omissions 'n'all). RIP

Talking about Vienna: Don't forget Hans Koller who was said by insiders to have been a difficult person to get along with too, including offstage when in fact people dealing with him went out of their way to accommodate him and yet it seemed to be not enough ...

Wow .. this ... I wouldn't have thought I'd see you go on a rockabilly binge. And then with such a connoisseur disc. Hats off to your eclectic tastes. (FWIW, if I am in the mood for Charlie, I pull out this one below - have seen the ZuZazz LP countless times in the record stall bins back in the day and thinking about it now don't even know why I passed it up - maybe because of duplicate alternates?) http://readerstarred.blogspot.de/2013/01/charlie-feathers-jungle-fever-lp.html

Just curious ... In what way do you think it falls short or isn't what it might (could) have been?

I guess I'll treasure my UK original Vanguard vinyl (PPL 11002), then. It's a very nice one indeed.

I noticed that absence too. But as we are in a privileged situation over here (that Manhattan/Bertelsmann EP is not that exceedingly rare) I have that one too. BTW, I guess what Fresh Sond claims to be "bonus" tracks on CD 4 (such as the two included from that session) refers to "bonus to the "Paris recordings and feat.Lucky Thompson" criteria. So I guess we are not supposed to complain.

I do understand that some key or "cult" (?) LPs reissued before on vinyl are moved to CD. But in other cases (of not quite so desert island-ish LPs already reissued by them) it does gall me (a bit) that often there would have been other LPs by that same artist that are not that easy to find elsewhere either and could have been selected as well (instead of that previous vinyl reissue) to make up such a "2 LPs on one CD" set. But - even disregarding the fact that these Fresh Sound vinyl reissues are not toally inaccessible secondhand - I think he still eyes that "I've dumped my LPs for good and am all CDs now" crowd and does his marketing accordingly. Anyway ... anyone have any any opinion on that 1959 Symphonium session on that Lucky Thompson set? How does it compare to the "rest"?