Fer Urbina

FWIW, while I listened attentively, headphones on etc, to the Minneapolis tracks (and I compared them to the Masters of Jazz version), I didn't do the same with the Goodman recordings. Should go back and check, I guess. F

Could this be the answer? From Wikipedia F

Mmmm... That'd be interesting to see. There's a bunch of stuff that has not been released on CD. And then, there are things like the reissue of The Beat of My Heart (the album with Blakey, Candido, Jo Jones, et al) reissued with six extra tracks, but missing a track from the original LP ("Army Air Corps Song"). There was also some tweaking done in other tracks... as far as I can remember the intro to "Blues in the night" on the CD is not the same than on the LP. F

Don't know if this was known about. I knew about the gig (John Mehegan was the relief pianist) but didn't know about the recording. http://jazzontherecord.blogspot.com/2011/08/unheard-tal-farlow-eddie-costa-marian.html F

Gotta say, the sound on the Charlie Christian CD is remarkable. And I wonder what kind of sound equipment Frank Driggs has, because he says that Pettiford is barely audible on the Minneapolis recordings, and I can hear him alright. F

One has to wonder whether more people would go through the gates of jazz if WM weren't guarding them. F

I just received the Charlie Christian CD. I understand this is the first issue of the Minneapolis session from Newhouse's original acetates, not the dubs used by Columbia in their early 70s LP (and presumably source of many subsequent reissues) or the ones owned by Jerry Jerome (used at least for an Arbors CD, and presumably for Volume 9 of the Complete Edition of Charlie Christian recordings - these issues presented the unspliced "I Got Rhythm" and the complete intro to "Tea For Two"). As for the rest, it looks that everything has been reissued before, but this should be in better sound. Also, the 4/26/1940 "Sheik of Araby" here is the most complete version I recall. In previous reissues it fades during Guarnieri's solo, this has it complete plus almost a whole chorus by Goodman. If you don't have this music and you're interested, I think this is the way to go. "Tea for Two" is the only recording of this tune by Christian, IIRC, and it has one of his best recorded solos IMHO. Interesting to hear Oscar Pettiford's earliest stuff to, aged 17. And the booklet carries pictures of Frankie Hines (duly assumed to be "Earl Hines (p)?" in old discographies) and Newhouse I'd never seen. F PS Haven't read them yet, but the liner notes are by Frank Driggs (!)

Is that the info given in the Uptown booklet? The personnel and date of this recording, which is >not< a broadcast, had been long settled (see Leo Valdés's discography), not least in this forum by Chris Albertson. F

Ubu, can't help with actual info, but you may want to check Ruppli's Atlantic discography, his latest, which was released by Names & Numbers on CD-ROM some months ago. F

I am subscribed to this thread because of the boxed CD sets, artifacts that, in general, were originally made with great care and to be sold for a lot of money, and that now can be found for peanuts. Just willing to help the industry get rid of their stock. I'm not interested in mp3 files, at least in principle, but I don't mind skipping the (ir)relevant messages. Regarding the Capitol Vault Series, FWIW those have been available on Spotify for a while now (link). F

This is probably up to EMI, who licensed the masters to Mosaic. The Complete Nat King Cole is also available in mp3 at Amazon (and can be listened to on Spotify). F

Thanks, Jim. If those sources don't give more info it's probably because there ain't. F

This is a Roulette album by Sarah Vaughan, recorded in July 1962. It's been reissued on CD as a 2-in-1 on EMI. Does anyone have a copy of this? Are there any details regarding personnel and the studio it was recorded in? (Bruyninckx only gives the dates, Don Costa as arranger and conductor, and the matrix numbers.) Thanks!

FWIW shipping to the UK or Spain is CHF9 (about €7.50). However, Amazon.com has it cheaper (even for us in the EU). F

PM on its way for Dexter Gordon - Live at Carnegie Hall (Columbia/Legacy) w/J.Griffin on two tracks, 2009 issue "Original Columbia Jazz Classics", same remastered content as the 1998 re-issue $4 Pepper Adams - Encounter! (Prestige) w/Zoot, Flanagan, R.Carter, Elvin; 1996 remastering $5 Lee Konitz Quartat (Solal, Nhop, Humair) - Jazz a Juan (SteepleChase) $6 F

Wow... you really have to drink to get that drunk. By the way, going back to the earliest posts in this thread, the version of "Teach me Tonight", sax solo and all, is based on Dinah Washington's. F

Not a major, but Tico springs to mind. I only know a few releases from the late 50s, but apparently it was started a decade earlier. It became part of Roulette c. 1959 and now its owned by Fania. F

RE: Brel, I have a copy of the earlier complete edition, 10 CDs, and although it proved not to be really complete, it was more than OK. There is some stuff that was only released in singles or in live albums (don't remember how many there were) which I miss in this "albums originaux" set, like my favourite version of "Le Prochaine Amour". It's interesting to listen to 30' CDs, with only the tunes originally released, in the order they were released. The sound, I must say, is excellent. F

Ah, but that's the *complete* set. This one's missing the live recordings and some other assorted stuff, I presume. F

Don't have the LP with me at the moment, but the producer is someone else. Ramone is listed as "sound engineer" or something to that effect. F

I don't know if there's any love for Brel around here, but this Jacques Brel: L'Intégrale Des Albums Studio (Coffret 13 CD), for €40, looks like pretty good value for money to me. There are other similar boxes by Brassens, Jean Ferrat, Barbara, etc. F

Have put it on and it's... nice. Gavin sings in a rather straight-forward manner, no jazz inflections at all. Sometimes he sounds a bit like a less energetic Bobby Darin. There are three settings, big band, and small combo (rhythm + Phil Bodner on ww) with or without strings. More details can be seen here. Jerome Gavin, Kevin's brother wrote the liner notes and four of the tunes with his brother. A fifth is by Dick (brother of Andy) Williams and Kevin Gavin. There are almost no instrumental solos to speak of (Mundell Lowe takes a chorus in "My Beginning with You"), although I must say that George Duvivier may have slipped a few dollars to Phil Ramone, because the bass in my mono copy is huge (fine by me), even, or especially, with the big band. F

About Gavin. Have not listened to it for a while, but it looks like a serious effort by Gavin to put something out as a soloist. It's more or less the band Mundell Lowe put together for the soundtrack of "Satan in High Heels" (rhythm: Lowe/Costa/Duvivier/Shaughnessy) augmented with strings in some tracks. F

It could be this, at least in part:

Noal Cohen put his (and Mike F's) discography on-line a few months ago: http://www.attictoys.com/jazz/GGdisco.HTM The Birdland tracks and the unissued studio stuff are there, from "possibly Fall 1960" onwards. F