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Dick Wellstood/Dick Hyman 'I Wish I Were Twins' (Swingtime)

This was the original release got the original LP from Prestige records direct when it came out. They sent me a freak copy. Labels show side A and side B but the music is side A on both sides!

No HalfNote vinyl... the Verve doubleCD was the original release of the date, 35 years after it was recorded!

are you talking about Andex who originally released it or VSOP which reissued it on vinyl? Andex issued half a dozen more West Coast albums in the late 50s including: Bill Holman 'In a Jazz Orbit' Jimmy Rowles 'Weather in a Jazz Vane' Dempsey Wright 'The Wright Approach' John Graas 'Premiere in Jazz' Spain's FreshSounds reissued these on vinyl too.

I've got that one somewhere. Wish I could lay hands on the LP so that I could recheck it. I remember it as not too bad. I was not too keen on buying it when it was available and was rather pleasantly surprised...

Chu Berry Columbia and Victor Sessions, disc 4

Art Blakey 'Hold On, I'm Coming' (Limelight, mono)

Very sad news! He was the pianist on Ornette Coleman's debut album on Contemporary. His Maybeck recital is one of the best from that remarkable Concord recording series. I have not seen anything about this on the net yet!

Was listening to that one a while ago (after finding out it was John Patton on organ!) Let's consider it as a fun record. And a not too bad one. Certainly not a Messengers album (except for the final track 'Slowly but surely' which must have been added to compensate for the short playing time of the album. Patton and Grant Green get short solo space on a number of tunes. So is Frank Mitchell and you don't get many chances to listen to him...

From a very personal point of view, it would be a very nice idea to reunite those French concerts from 1967 and 1969 in audio and video releases. I attended several of them (Paris 1967, Antibes-Juan les Pins, Paris and Bordeaux 1969).

Sonny Rollins 'Tour de Force' (Prestige/Japan)

Pete Jolly 'Strike Up the Band' (Atlas)

Sam Rivers 'Contours' (BN, stereo, NY label)

Don't recall problems with the mastering on the original vinyl releases on the Trio label (The 4-volume Art Pepper Memorial Collection). 'The Summer Knows' LP was Volume 2. It was remastered by James Mooney at LA's Sage & Sound Studios!