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The JATP IN EUROPE came out in four single LPs. All recorded in Stockholm in 1960. Never heard of a box of those. Nice music there. There also was a double LP JATP in London 1969 with an interesting lineup (Dizzy, Clark Terry, Moody, Zoot Sims, Hawkins, Carter, Teddy Wilson) PLUS T-Bone Walker. That was recorded in London in 1966. Shades of the 'Basie in London' album that was recorded in Sweden!

Milan, the problem with the JATP concerts records from the fifties is that they're in some kind of a mess. There has been no serious attempt to release them in CD like the JATP box with the '40s concerts. Back in LP days, a dozen JATP albums that originally appeared as LP boxes on the Clef label with names like JATP box volume 15 or 16 were reissued as single Verve LPs in the early '80s when the label was owned by Polygram. Some of the LPs that came out then had album titles like 'The Trumpet Battle 1952', 'One O'Clock Jump 1953', 'The Challenges 1954', 'Blues in Chicago 1955'. With the exception of years 1951 and 1956, the JATP tours of the fifties all produced record albums, most of them in vinyls. It seems time for a Verve effort to release a second JATP CD box with that material! But will Verve do that?

Saw Charlie at the evening news show. Wish I have his stamina when I get to its age. But its repertoire seems to be on the slim side

The original booklet to that rare Transition original (one of my treasures) lists Joe Gordon as playing on the following tracks: - Doug's Blues (Gordon plays the second oif the three trumpet solos), - El Sino (Byrd solos first, then Gordon, same order for the following shorter trumpet solos), - Hank's Tune (Gordon has the first trumpet solo). That's a superb date! Have enjoyed it this for decades.

Have not heard fresh Fortune in quite some time. The previous posts have raised my interest in his recent stuff. Liked his two Horizon albums 'Awakening' and 'Waves of Dreams'. Both featured that great underrated trumpet player Charles Sullivan. Sullivan was also in top form in Sonny Fortune's 'Long Before Our Mothers Cried'. Great Strata-East album from 1974 where Stanley Cowell already handled the piano chores.

There was a CD reissue of those two Anita O'Day albums (Cole Porter and Rodgers & Hart) on a single CD from Verve.

The Masters of Jazz series was one of the best reissue program ever. This was a French label and the people behind it wanted to issue complete works of jazz greats in as good sound as possible and with full discographical information They issued several series of complete works (including alternate takes, radio broadcasts, everything!) by Armstrong, Ellington, Miles, Lunceford, Basie, Lester and a lot of others. But the label died a quite death a couple of years ago. Very sad story. Enjoy the Dexter Gordon! The Dexter series went up to volume 6 or 7.

I usually avoid those Collectables reissues. I don't like the sound on the ones I have heard. The only one I'm happy with is the 'Lars Gullin' which gathered two very hard to find albums (one Atlantic, one East-West) I could not get in their original form. I can understand the interest in the Collectables releases since I reissue a lot of interesting material. But when I compare the Collectables sound with the originals I have, there's no match. And on the Gullin CD they put out, one track from the East-West album is missing.

Doh! I had that issue for a while and didn't notice. You sure? You still have it? But as I said the "Deep Passion" on the Pettiford album is a different tune and definitely not based on "Body and Soul". Yes, I have the Jasmine reissue of volume 1. Never could get a decent original LP of this. I do have the original ABC LP of volume 2.

The Lord says this should have originally appeared on Spin-O-Rama 3077. There is a note to the session indicating the titles were used under various pseudonyms on different labels such as Tiara, Coronet, Parade, Gala, Society, Vogue (Mode). The date also appeared on a Jasmine CD. Nearly all the labels used pseudonyms and very seldom does the correct title appear. The correct titles are: - Flying Home - Stardust - Autumn in New York - How High the Moon - Out of breath - Hamp's Boogiewoogie. Have fun!

We all know that, Lon. And it's one of the reasons we like you as you are. Keep it that way

The Lord says this Coronet comes from an August 1951 concert at Malibu Beach, Calif. This has appeared on various labels. Personnel should be: Quincy Jones, Benny Bailey, Ed Mullens, Leo Shepherd, Walter Williams, tp, Jimmy Cleveland, Al Grey, Paul Lee, Benny Powell, tb, Bobby Plater, Jerome Richardson, as, Gil Bernal, Johnny Board, Curtis Lowe, ts, Ben Kynard, bar, Milt Buckner, org, Billy Mackel, g, Roy Johnson, b, Ellis Bartee, dr, and Hampton. Personnel looks better than good. How do they sound?

'Pick Yourself Up' from Verve should be on your list. It has great versions of 'Sweet Georgia Brown', 'Let's Face the Music and Dance' and other O'Day classics.

This thread makes me want to search those Sly Stone LPs I have stored somewhere. They got a lot of play when they were around. Caught the Sly Stone gang when they were in town for a concert at the Olympia theater. How many years ago was that? They caused a near riot. That music moved...

I bought quite a number of their LPs when they came out. The Cecil Taylors, the Jimmy Lyonses, the Roach-Braxtons, Roach-Shepps, David Murrays and some more. I also got the Albert Ayler Lorrach/Paris 1966 double LP which turned out to be a nightmare of its own since LP1 played the regular 33rpm speed while LP2 (also 12inch) played at 45rpm and since my turntable is one of those beautiful Jean-Francois Le Tallec models with heavy glass platters and no switch to go from 33 to 45, to play 45ers you have to remove the platters and move the small belt one notch. Lot of trouble but that's the only complaint I have with this fantastic machine which has kept me happy for something like 20 years. Now that Hat Hut/Hat Art/Hatology or whatever have gone the CD way, I have bought some. Wish they were not priced as if they came out of Switzerland Among the favorites are the Steve Lacy/Roswell Rudd 'School Days', the Jimmy Lyons/Sonny Murray 'Jump Up', the Braxton'Eight (+3 Tristano Compositions for Warne Marsh'. I'm exploring the label and adding some when the price is right.

On the Jasmine LP reissue of the ABC album Lucky Thompson Featuring Oscar Pettiford, there is no mention of a 'Deep Passion' track. It's listed as plain 'Body and Soul'.

Charles Mingus 'The Great Concert' Albert Ayler 'Spirits Rejoice' Maurice Vander 'Nougaro' Gene Ammons/Sonny Stitt 'In Orbit' Bud Powell 'At Golden Circle' vol. 1/2

Lon, the Duke Ellington book is Moby Dick size. And more fun reading

There's that great fun 1956 film by Frank Tashlin 'The Girl Can't Help It' where Tom Ewell plays a musical agent who turned to drinking after his love affair with Julie London broke up. It takes Jayne Mansfield to replace Julie London. Julie London had a couple of singing appearances in the film with her hit version of 'Cry Me a River'. Lots of very nicely produced musical numbers were featured in the film. The Platters, Little Richard, Fats Domino, the Treniers and other acts. And a younbg Abbey Lincoln in a quite unique decollete-enhanced appearance! And Jayne Mansfield played the not so dumb blonde girl to perfection...

Thanks Trumpet Guy for the Chuck Nessa connection tip re Norman Howard Signals. Wonder if this is still available from the Nessa camp? Chuck? Chuck??

One more vote (after Alexander) for the EmArcy 'Just Friends' album with Stan Getz (plus Joachim Kuhn, Jean-Francois Jenny Clark and Daniel Humair, plus tracks with pianist Torrie Zito). That was a beauty! Also the 'You've Got A Date With the Blues', originally a rare MetroJazz LP, reissued on CD by Verve several years ago. With Kenny Dorham, Frank Wess, Jerome Richardson, Jimmy Jones, Barry Galbraith, Milt Hinton among the accompanying musicians. Another excellent album. Helen Merrill is impeccable on those.

I'm deep in 'Duke Ellington, Day By Day, Film By Film' a more than 700 pages book by Dr. Klaus Stratemann. This is a very detailed account of all the films and videos Duke Ellington was involved in. Plus a day-by-day account of the band activities. Thought it would be of little interest and kept away from it for a long time. Now that I finally got it, I find it totally fascinating. This whole Ellington business is like a labyrinth. And I love being sidetracked by all the information that is in the book.

For years, I worked late and finished around midnight. Was in bed around 2AM. Up at 8AM. With lots of variations. Then I got promoted and had to start working in the morning. Now I am at work around 7AM. Busy days usually. In bed before 11PM. With rare variations. I wake up around 5AM courtesy of my internal clock. No need for electric clocks. Problem is that when I don't have to work, this internal clock wakes me around 5AM too. And when on holidays, it takes days to have it set a bit later

Anybody knows what happened to Norman Howard who played trumpet on one of Albert Ayler's first album 'Spirits' (also known as 'Witches and Devils')? Howard was from Cleveland, same as Ayler. They were childhood friends. The 'Witches' album seems to be Howard's only record appearance except for a November 1968 date he led for Homeboy Music and which obviously had very limited ditribution. It is mentioned in Tom Lord's Discography. That Norman Howard session was recorded in Cleveland with local musicians.

Glad to see that Michael Cuscuna of Mosaic included 'Jada' from the Bob Brookmeyer Traditionalism Revisited session that was missing from the Michael Cuscuna-produced CD release of the album in the West Coast Classics reissue series. The classic tune was a very nice Brookmeyer-Jim Hall duo which was not included in the Pacific Jazz CD for unknown reason.