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it's my day! amazon has it as a download for $6.99. The arrangement of "Cherokee" on that date, with Manne playing in double time, is a killer! Agreed on Cherokee, don't miss the two tracks with Eddie Costa either, especially "Lean On Me", possibly my absolute favourite of Costa's recorded output. Fernando

As for authorship, I think this was initially credited to Charlie Parker but has been later established that it was Miles Davis who wrote it. As for the title, IIRC Donna Lee was bassist Curley Russell's daughter? (I think Allen Lowe was the source for this?). Two other "Indiana" contrafacts from those years are "Tiny's Con" and Fats Navarro's "Ice Freezes Red". Fernando

Donna Lee? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeHiYJQSs6A F

FWIW, and IIRC, "race records" was a term regularly used at the time in reference to recordings made by African-American artists. This term was first changed to "rhythm & blues" in 1949(?) in Billboard magazine by Jerry Wexler (later of Atlantic records fame). Very interesting story, Teasing. Would also like to see your questions answered. Fernando

Sony did do some CD reissues, but AFAIK the rights (and tapes) are owned by Bob Shad's daughter. Same goes for Time Records. F

I know this one here gives his arranging credits on the Sal Salvador sessions; if you're still looking for them let me know. Thanks for the offer, Cliff , will let you know if I need those, but I don't think I will. best F

I've posted this in the Spotify, etc. thread, but I may as well put it here too. A while ago I did a playlist in Spotify with everything I could find with Eddie Costa in it, and have just updated it, with a lot of newly added stuff. The list is here, and a brief comment, here. About Satan in High Heels, in the actual film - to watch it and claim you're doing it for research is quite funny - there's some incidental music featuring Costa's rumbling piano. F PS Edit to add that I hope to pinpoint all the arranging he did in my discography. In the period 1954-1956 I've found a few tunes that he arranged (with Sal Salvador, for instance). Also, "Round Trip" in the first recording with Sal Salvador appears to be his, not Salvador's.

That's right. A while ago I did a playlist with everything I could find with Eddie Costa in it, and have just updated it, with a lot of newly added stuff. The list is here, and a brief comment, here. F

Allen, Have you tried the Teo Macero collection at NYPL? F

Hello I've already commented on EKE's blog, I think Al Hall is on bass, possibly Frankie Newton on second trumpet (?), drummer O'Neill Spencer talking to the white woman on the second picture. Also, could the guy giving a light to Big Sid be Omer Simeon or Billy Kyle? (I'd go for Simeon). I'd really like to know who are the man between Lester Young and Jo Jones, and the one sitting by Basie. F

PM sent RE Chet Baker / Stan Getz West Coast Live 2 cd Pacific Jazz $12 Eric Dolphy Music Matador Fresh Sound $5 F

Plus Desmond is nowhere to be heard. THANK YOU VERY MUCH! F PS Anyone interested, an excerpt can be heard in the Amazon links I provided.

Many thanks, Ken. What's on the Summit Sessions LP seems to be the source for Bruyninckx, Lord, etc., with the added mistake of putting Bennett together with the classic Brubeck Quartet. I don't know the source for the possible 1971 date - I've seen it around in the internet. However, on aural evidence, it does seem more 1971 than 1962. In any case, it'd be very useful if you or anyone else could have a look at the CD just to see whether the information is any different from what the LP liners say. Thanks again. F

Anyone with access to any of these issues, could you check the track "That Old Black Magic" with Tony Bennet on vocals? * The Essential Dave Brubeck (C2K 86993) * Vocal Encounters (CK 61551) or the LP Summit Sessions. I'd need any discographical info provided in those records as well as any other details about that recording. Reason is I've seen discographies saying that track is from 1962 with the classic Brubeck quartet, and having listened to it, there's no alto, the bass is electric and there is some assorted percussion (bongos and tambourine?) as well as electric guitar. I've also read elsewhere that it was recorded in 1971, which is more like it. Thanks in advance. Fernando

Sure, a law is a law. And the copyright law has been consistently interpreted to only apply to recording date and not to remasterings. True, although there is an exception. Avid (UK) do their reissues (with heavy-handed remastering IMHO) from the actual first issues, for instance, they did the Goodman 1938 Carnegie Hall from the 1950 LP (hence, no "extra" tracks), and they actually copyrighted their remastered version. In any case, as expected, it's only when the issue gets to the big money in Europe that the politicians elected "by the people for the people" decide to bother about this.

I think not (sorry I can't be more specific). F

Tonight 21:00–22:25 The Jazz Baroness 22:25–23:05 Jazz 625 Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers 23:05–23:40 Jazz 625 Thelonious Monk 01:20–02:40 Storyville The Jazz Baroness Tomorrow 20:00–21:00 Legends The Charlie Parker Story 21:00–23:00 Let's Get Lost 23:00–00:25 The Jazz Baroness 00:25–01:10 Imagine- Saint John Coltrane

That's generally credited to Dizzy. Wasn't it originally the coda he used to play in "I Can't Get Started"? Or was it the other way around? F

More info here FWIW, I have a few SESAC vinyls (mainly 45s) and the Woody Herman recordings were leased to Jazzland (the Fourth Herd LP, etc). F

The Getz-Burton gig at LSE is on BBC4 next Saturday 11, at 20:30 (till 21:20), London time. 1959: The Year That Changed Jazz is back on at 21:20 and 0:15. Schedule here. F PS I didn't quite get the programme about "cool". No mention of Lester Young?

Yes, excellent stuff last Friday, too. Hoping for something next week. I was away last weekend, but watched it today on BBCi. Especially good the footage of Brubeck and Desmond (and Joe Morello recently, he seems to be doing fine), and also an interesting interview (audio only, no video) with Ornette Coleman. Good to be in England, to be honest. F

... I didn't know where to put this. (All times are London) Tonight on BBC 4 19:30-20:00 & 1:25-1:50: Jazz 625 - Oscar Peterson (restored) 22:00-23:00 & 0:25-1:25: Arena - Cool (jazz) 23:00-23:35 & 1:50-2:25: Jazz 625 - MJQ & Laurindo Almeida http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/ F

Thanks for that (from Tony King's disco, right?). Should have mentioned I'm aware of February 1956 as the most likely date for this recording. F

Hello everyone. On the back of the Fresh Sound reissue (FSR-CD 76, 1989) of the Eddie Costa-Vinnie Burke Trio it says the date of recording is September 29, 1956, which is wrong. Anyways, by complete chance I've just realized that FSR-CD 80, The New Johnny Smith Quartet, has exactly the same date of recording. I suspect one was used as a template for the other and they forgot to change the date. If anyone has copies of CDs from that series of c. 1989 Fresh Sound reissues, catalog numbers around FSR-CD 80, could you check what are the dates of recording? Incidentally those two reissues are from the EMI rooster, via Roulette (Jubilee and Roost respectively), and licenced by "SOVISA" of Madrid. Tiny pieces of minutiae, I know, but I'm really curious, because the Costa date doesn't make any sense (it's actually impossible). Thanks! Fernando

Allen, have you considered James P Johnson's "Worried and Lonesome Blues" from 1923? Quite interesting, in the first section he plays triplets against a striding left hand in a way that I'd never heard before (although I'm not so versed in 1920s music). It can be heard here: http://www.redhotjazz.com/jpjohnson.html F