Big Beat Steve

I am not quite sure what the "full and complete" Panassié sessions would look like but basically there have been two different versions around in vinyl days: One where the "master tracks" (i.e. one each) were included (which was in some RCA Vintage series pressend in various guises and country-specific pressings in the early 70s, maybe even before), and then there was another one a bit prior to those RCA twofers mentioned above: It was one of the many single-LP volumes in that RCA series with the BLACK front cover (what was the name of that series again? Black & White?) and included alternate takes of several of those "Panassié session" tracks. Can look up the exact issue numers tonight. As I have not seen Vol. 5 of those 2-LPs Jazz Tribune sets (or the respective CD issue) I don't know if they included the alternate takes there too (but there is a good chance as this series overall did include its share of alternates).

Ordered mine directly from Fresh Sound on Sunday, Paypal'd at the same time, got a shipping notice from them by mail yesterday (Monday) and UPS tried to deliver today (but nobody home so will receive it delivered to my office address tomorrow - Wednesday). Can't complain about speediness of shipping and am looking forward to giving this one (and the others) a listen.

Which sounds very much like a case of "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine (even if only posthumously)". Just the ways of the world, I guess ... Ater all, networking often only amounts to creating dependencies.

Placed my order for it (along with a dozen or so more from Fresh Sound/Blue Moon) today directly from Fresh Sound. Last time I ordered from them their shipping was pretty quick. Was a while ago, though.

I like plays on words so I don't mind most of these album titles. Many in fact make me snicker a bit ... That said, is "Six Pieces of Silver" a bad album just because of its allegedly "dumb" title? Or "Shelly Manne at the Manne Hole" (although this would be stretching the topic a bit - or maybe not, since in a way the leader's name was actually "reworked" twice: for the club AND for the album )? And I freely admit I like Pete Jolly's "Jolly Jumps in", Shorty Rogers' "Short Stops" and Serge Chaloff's "Blue Serge" (to name only some that come to mind immediately).

To be pronounced just like Otis SPANN.

Yes, the subtle play on words in the subtitle of "Took thousands of photos" was duly noted.

Interesting project. I havent' listened to any of their music on record or stage yet but I wonder if their quest for recreating the music from that period extends to the drummer's work too. The Youtube excerpts are a bit muddy and lo-fi in that respect, but it does seem like the drummer passably refrains from riding the cymbals like mad (shifting the basic beat up there) in a post-Jo Jones/Kenny Clarke-like manner just like even drummers of recent oldtime/"Dixieland" bands have seen fit to do in so many cases (something that would alter the overall rhythm and feel of the music quite a bit. Hope the Youtube samples are representative even in that respect. After all, if you wanted to recreate the spirit from those times (without slavishly copying it, of course) it would be a bit strange if this stopped right in front of the drummer, wouldn't it?

Remember that series well from my early collecting days though I never bought any of them (once you were halfway seriously into collecting 50s r'n'r you very quickly outgrew that elementary Greatest Hits fare ). But those LPs remind me of another one I cherished in those days as it had a lot of less ubiquitous "oldies":

So we are talking about the BILLY STRAYHORN LP, right? Because for the life of it I cannot see a Johnny Hodges LEADER date in this series.

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The story about that Jim Hall record cover was that when Larsen was asked to do the cover he said his price was one million dollars.....or one guitar lesson from Jim Hall. I'm assuming he got the latter. He did: http://articles.latimes.com/1989-08-06/entertainment/ca-462_1_gary-larson

Ha, Mike, you started with three that I also own. So I'll add three more from the same corner (music and/or label-wise). P.S. Can we just wait a little before the inevitable Robert Crumb covers are pulled up? That would be just waaay too obvious. Pleeeze! P.S.2: I see it has already happend (Earl Hooker). But still ... There just GOT to be plenty of others, less obvious ...

That would be this series (the one with the violet-blue back leaflet with the track listing)? Marked "Nippon Columbia" in my case, though. Edit to confirm that apparently it is (as Mikeweil's post just beat me to it). Too bad we did not jump on these earlier to pass them on later as this series seems to be in demand ... about 10 years ago a lot of these were available cheaply at the "2001" shops here.

Tempting package indeed, but as I already have five of the LPs (still lacking the Rex Stewart, the Barney Bigard and both Dicky Wells) I think I'll pass.

Who knows who may have been given a dub of that session decades ago and allowed it to be circulated now? Maybe one of those involved in the session? It is not AUTOMATICALLY a case of "stolen" if something surfaces that somebody else prefers to sit on like a setting hen on a set of marbles wondering when ANYTHING will ever hatch from it...

Good that my pending "mass" order from Fresh Sound/Blue Moon has not been placed yet.

The one who recorded on Dootone, you mean?

I have the two Route 66 LPs with quite a few of the 1951 Swingtime recordings, though not the Crown Prince label LP from the same stable. I admit I cannot quite see the tight Swingtime/Black Lion reissue connection yet, though. Those Black Lion LPs with 40s items that I am aware of and have found in release listings (e.g. Buddy Tate, Jay McShHann, Nat Cole, Andre Previn and some more) all feature reissues from other indies.

Strange that Bruyninckx doesn't list it at all. Neither did I find it any mention of Jimmy McCracklin on the Black Lion label in any of 3 or 4 annual jazz LP catalogs (listing the items then currently available from the distributors over here) from the mid-70s to the mid-80s. Are you sure you are not talking about the "Rockin Man" LP on the ROUTE 66 label?

Same here. A hundred and four is a bunch of years. Ditto here. Same here too. 104 years. Amazing .... Will spin the Mountaineers' Old Timey LPs a bit later on in remembrance.