Fer Urbina

Last year I asked vibist Warren Chiasson (still active in and around NYC - they were together in George Shearing's group in the late 1950s) and he told me that at some point Garcia left for the West Coast, became religious and left the music world. F

Saw him in 2004(?). He requested no smoking in the room, and had oxygen during intermission. F

• Legit. • All three albums have been remastered by Andrew Thompson at Sound Performance, London, in 2012. Sounds right to me. • 24-page booklet with all the original liner notes + additional notes (9 pages) by Charles Waring (Record Collector, Mojo). F

There's a mention to this 3-CD sets at the very end of the first message, but link needed changing. Thanks!

Bumping this up. It seems that the Italian version of Lester Young The Complete Verve Studio Recordings is back in stock. F

Yep. Besides what's in the link, I've noticed Dizzy's Perceptions , Clark Terry's Swahili and the Fred Astaire set with Oscar Peterson. F

I don't think he's bitter, but canny. What sells? Trash talk about celebrities and outrage. I know Phil Woods would have gone to war for him, and that he was good to Clark Terry. As for the music, I like his stuff and actually enjoy watching him conduct (like on Sinatra's LA is my Lady, which carries the name of the arranger for each track). About Sinatra at the Sands, it says "arranged by Quincy Jones" on the cover, but it is clear that most of the music has been adapted from Riddle's, May's and Jenkins's originals (and what else could he do, really?). Friedwald's book says that the new stuff ("Where or When", "The Shadow of Your Smile", "Get me to the Church on Time") is all by Byers -- interestingly, Sinatra never recorded those in the studio, but since then opted for Byers's "Where or When" instead of the earlier, more somber version for Capitol. FWIW, Friedwald carries this quote by Byers: “Quincy was an excellent arranger, but he doesn’t write anymore. He found an easier and better way to go. Quincy is highly motivated and finds it tough to sit down long enough to write a whole chart. You have to be a recluse like Nelson [Riddle] was, to do orchestrations. Quincy would much rather be up front with the clients, doing what I call his ‘floor show’.” F

A singer that tends to always sing the verse is Tony Bennett. Another rarely sung, but IMHO beautiful, is "How High the Moon"'s F

A song that has quite a bit of unused material is "Autumn Leaves". Two verses, I'd say, that were dismissed in Something Else. Yves Montand sings the whole thing in his earliest recordings of "Les Feuilles Mortes", and recites the first bit in later versions. In the video below, the "second" verse would start at 0:38 ("Et le vent du Nord les emporte"), and the song as is commonly known, at 1:12 ("C'est une chanson..."). F

The other guitarists were Billy Bauer, Howard Collins and Thomas Kay, except on the September 24 session, where Bauer was replaced by Allan Hanlon. No Mottola (who did his own guitar choir records for the Command label) on this one. F

Note that, as per the discography on the Mosaic website, they have sourced some of the tracks from Hep CDs. F

I don't know if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but there is an official CD reissue of Three for Duke. By Japanese WMG. First one ever, as far as I know. http://wmg.jp/sp/artist/teddycharlestrio/WPCR000029085.html F

A bit more of information about the end of Harold Moore's. https://thevinylfactory.com/features/harold-moores-london-lassical-record-shop/ F

Al Grey indeed. This may or may not be entirely correct: https://www.loc.gov/item/jots.200013962/ F

Sorry to report that Harold Moore's is gone. I only learned about this last Saturday, but apparently it's been closed for a few weeks. I've read on FB that this was done without notice, not even to the staff. That's all I know. F

I've edited the first post to correct a link and to add two more for the 5-CD sets (there are a few additions, both from the Concord and Blue Note vaults) and the new 3-CD sets respectively (I don't think those are worth listing thoroughly). F

Amazon.fr has a few Universal boxes (LP facsimiles, no booklets as far as I can remember) with the complete studio recordings of several artists. They carry 10+ CDs and they go for €30. Artists include Brassens, Brel, Moustaki, Leo Ferré, Jean Ferrat, Barbara, Gainsbourg, etc... F

Have they done anything at all with the stuff they've had for two years? F

How does that fit with Concord having bought the label two years ago, I wonder. F

Welcome to London, Bol! Besides what Sidewinder said, Harold Moore's in Great Marlborough St is worth a visit for their second-hand jazz CDs and LPs downstairs. F

Yesterday I got an alert email from Amazon related to the Impulse 50 box. Alas, it's a new 25-CD box (1961-1974), most (all?) of it available at some point as single CDs. By the look of it, it's based on the original 50-CD project. Info, here. Cheapest price I've seen, on Amazon.de This is how it compares with the original 50-CD set. IMPULSE 50th Anniversary 1961-1974 1. John Coltrane, Ballads 2. Roy Haynes, Out of the Afternoon 3. Quincy Jones, The Quintessence 4. Benny Carter, Further Definitions 5. Freddie Hubbard, The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard 6. Gil Evans, Into the Hot 7. Max Roach, Percussion Bitter Sweet 8. Manny Albam, Jazz Goes to the Movies 9. Shelly Manne, 2-3-4 10. John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman 11. Sonny Stitt & Paul Gonsalves, Salt and Pepper 12. Charles Mingus, Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus 13. Terry Gibbs, Take It From Me 14. McCoy Tyner, Today and Tomorrow 15. J.J. Johnson, Proof Positive 16. Chico Hamilton, Passin’ Thru 17. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme 18. Shirley Scott, Queen of the Organ 19. Yusef Lateef, Live at Pep’s 20. Earl Hines, Once Upon A Time 21. Sonny Rollins & Oliver Nelson, Alfie 22. Stanley Turrentine, Let It Go 23. Clark Terry & Chico O’Farrill, Spanish Rice 24. Marion Brown, Three For Shepp 25. Dizzy Gillespie, Swing Low Sweet Cadillac 26a. Charlie Haden, Liberation Music Orchestra, 26b. Oliver Nelson, More Blues and The Abstract Truth 27. Rolf & Joachim Kuhn Quartet, Impressions of New York 28. Ahmad Jamal Trio, The Awakening 29. Lionel Hampton, You Better Know It!!! 30. Alice Coltrane, Journey in Satchidananda 31. Pharoh Sanders, Thembi 32. John Klemmer, Waterfalls 33. Archie Shepp, Attica Blues 34. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Jazz!!!!! Messengers!!!!! 35. Gato Barbieri, Chapter 1: Latin America 36. Dewey Redman, The Ear of the Behearer 37. Sam Rivers, Streams 38. Gabor Szabo, Gypsy ‘66 39. Danilo Perez, Central Avenue 40. Michael Brecker, Two Blocks From The Edge 41. Alice Coltrane, Translinear Light 42. Jose James & Jef Neve, For All We Know 43. Zoot Sims, Waiting Game 44. Chico O’Farrill, Nine Flags 45. Albert Ayler, In Greenwich Village 46. Tom Scott, Rural Still Life 47. Michael White, The Land of Spirit and Light 48. Keith Jarrett, Death and the Flower 49. Max Roach – It’s Time 50. Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins F

Looks like it's from a Bill Savory acetate: https://jazzlives.wordpress.com/2013/08/28/a-few-beautiful-seconds-of-lester-young-on-clarinet-the-famous-door-1938/ F

He does, most notably on four tracks from the Count Basie/Joe Williams Roulette LP Memories Ad Lib. I blogged about this some time ago (here) and also built a Spotify playlist of Freddie Green's solos. F

IMHO, Lester's solo on the alternative take of Lady Be Good is less coherent and fluid than the master (takes went unreleased for a reason). He seems less assertive than on the master, although this impression may be due to having listened to the master so many times that I've memorized it. Interestingly, he seems to stick to the same ideas for the bridge, and his playing on the bridge of the second chorus is the bit most similar to the released take. F

It seems that Universal has finally jumped on the 5-CD set bandwagon started by WEA and followed by Sony (or vice versa?). They've released eight such sets, which are listed at the end of post #1 of this thread, since they seem to come from the Italian branch of the label. You can also see those, here. F