Don Brown

According to Tom Lord's Jazz Discography this date was issued exclusively on the Blue Note label, both on LP and CD.

I've just received an email saying Neal Hefti has died. I can find nothing so far to officially confirm.

I would guess that they're staff announcers, Chuck.

No, Chuck, Not Sullivan or James.

Allen Lowe is correct about Mingus playing throughout the Massey Hall concert. I was there - one of the 700 or so people who bothered to attend - and I can attest to the fact that although Mingus was obviously pissed off by Dizzy's clowning he never once left the stage.

Gee Bill, you're just a kid! In June of 1953 I was twenty going on twenty-one (in November). A Study in Dameronia has always been one of my favourite albums and I still don't understand why Tadd Dameron never really received his due from music lovers. His influence is more than obvious on arrangers such as Gigi Gryce and Benny Golson and he wrote pieces that will be played as long is there is a music called jazz.

Dial B For Beauty by Tadd Dameron featuring Clifford Brown. This is one of four Dameron originals recorded June 11, 1953 for Prestige Records. I remember buying it the week it was released. It was on a ten-inch LP titled A Study in Dameronia and was my first exposure to Clifford Brown, Benny Golson and Philly Joe Jones. There's some majestic trumpet playing here and wonderful "arranger's" piano from the leader. How tragic the loss of Clifford Brown at such an early age. Also, I've never been able to understand why Dameron never achieved the acclaim he so richly deserved. I remember in the fifties he was sometimes referred to as "the man who brought beauty to bebop". How true, and his compositions including the lovely Lady Bird and Casbah have become true classics.

Just received this message from a member of the Duke-LYM discussion group: "EU Market Commissioner, Charlie McCreery, announced today the European Commission has adopted the proposed extension of the performer's copyright period to 95 years from the current 50. Good news for a handful of aged pop stars such as Cliff Richard, and even better news for the corporate owners of the relevant recordings (Beatles anyone?) Less good news for music buyers, especially fans of the stuff the corporates cannot be bothered to reissue." Not sure what effect this will have on such Spanish labels as Fresh Sound, Definitive, Lonehill, Gambit, Jazz Beat, RLR, etc., etc.

Jeez, Allen, don't forget the late British tenorman Ronnie Scott's advice: "Never pat a burning dog."

Any further news on the release dates for the Gillespie, Parker, and Dupree Bolton Uptowns?

No one's mentioned Miles Davis' Walkin' session on Prestige (OJC). That's the one with J.J.Johnson, Lucky Thompson, Horace Silver, Percy Heath, and Kenny Clarke recorded April 29, 1954.

Yes, there was a series of RCA albums recorded in 1973 produced by Albert McCarthy, the editor of the British magazine Jazz Monthly. If memory serves there were about half a dozen LPs in total. Some of the filming of Born to Swing comes from the actual RCA recording sessions featuring musicians such as Snub Mosley, Buddy Tate and Earle Warren.

Just checked - John Jeremy's Born to Swing was made in 1973.

These clips on YouTube come from John Jeremy's Born to Swing. The film was made in the early 70s with voice over by Humphrey Lyttelton. I'll have to check the exact date. Jeremy followed the fortunes of some of the veterans of the original Count Basie orchestra - Buddy Tate, Dicky Wells, Buck Clayton, Earle Warren, Joe Newman and Jo Jones among them. It's an excellent film that was once available on VHS but, as far as I know, has not been issued on DVD.

Ray Charles "borrowing" a gospel song was nothing new. In 1929 Ellington's Saturday Night Function was clearly lifted from Were You There When They Crucified the Lord.

No one's mentioned Celestial Blues by Woody Herman's Third Herd featuring Nat Pierce on celeste. It's a real swinger recorded for Woody's own Mars label.

Charles Mingus was responsible for a whole slew of unique titles. Among them are: The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife are Some Jive Ass Slippers E's Flat, Ah's Flat Too Eat That Chicken Oh Lord, Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me Wham, Bam, Thank You, Ma'am Ecclusiastics Vassarlean Half-Mast Inhibition Bemoanable Lady Then there were Al Cohn's sessions which often had clever plays on words in the tune titles: Ah Moore (Marilyn Moore was Al's first wife) Cohn My Way Sugar Cohn El Cajon Sioux-zan

Chasin' Chippies - Cootie Williams Poon Tang - Barney Bigard Zoot Case - Zoot Sims Pigeons and Peppers - Cootie Williams Hellview From Bellevue - Charles Mingus Once Upon a Time There Was a Holding Company Called Old America - Charles Mingus Blight of the Fumblebee - Gerry Mulligan & Paul Desmond Crimea River - Al Cohn

Al the Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother - Charles Mingus Warm Valley - Duke Ellington Soft and Furry - Johnny Griffin Beaver Junction - Count Basie Pussy Wiggle Stomp - Don Ellis T.T. on Toast - Duke Ellington Tea and Trumpets - Rex Stewart Texas Tea Party - Benny Goodman & Jack Teagarden Chili Con Carney - Sandy Williams (with Harry Carney) The JAMFS are Coming - Johnny Griffin Papilloma - Flip Phillips Tonsillectomy - Boyd Raeburn Athlete's Foot - Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

Jsngry asked about the origin of Kamuca's surname. Kamuca told my late friend Gunter Nolte that he was the best Jewish-Hawaiian tenor player in Philadelphia (his home town). Actually, I believe Kamuca was part Hawaiian and that the name is probably Japanese/Hawaiian (Kamuka).

Eena Eena.

I've heard that the alto player was Bunky Green. As for the others, who knows?

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Paul's playing was serpentine, and I mean that as a compliment.

And in Canada the Status albums were sold at the same price as the Prestiges most of them were copied from. Really shitty pressings too.