Fer Urbina

I am subscribed to this thread because of the boxed CD sets, artifacts that, in general, were originally made with great care and to be sold for a lot of money, and that now can be found for peanuts.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

Same here. F

For a while (c. 1956-1961, as far as I can remember) Down Beat published yearly books with all the previous year's reviews. Paperback, although I know there's at least one hardback (1961?). Don't know when they stopped doing that. To get them, I'd try eBay or other used books outlets. And yes, very interesting reading. F

CDs received. Thanks!

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The story about Christian playing "just a little piano" in 1937 is, according to most recent research (Valdés, Goins-McKinney, Broadbent), b.s. As for Durham recording on electric guitar in 1935, it doesn't sound like an electric guitar to me, more like a guitar with a mike placed close to it. Regarding Floyd Smith's recording of "Lazy Rhythm" with Jeter-Pillars, I have it as recorded on August 26, 1937 in Chicago. Matrix no. C-1993-1. You can hear the solo here: http://www.goear.com/listen/76fb043/lazy-rhythm-ext-jeter-pillars F Edit to add that my source is this CD: VA - The Territory Bands 1935-1937 (Jazz Band/Flyright EBCD 2165-2), available thru Amazon and CD Universe.

Wow, thanks for this! F

I'd say the drummer is Gary Chester (website). F

I know it's been confirmed, but yes, pianist is Moe Wechsler. Terrific guy, he's 91 if he's still around. In the fifties and sixties he was, with Bernie Leighton, one of the busiest studio pianists in New York. F

Benny Goodman is in that one... F