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Received the Oscar Pettiford discs today, in great condition. Thanks!

I'd love to find the OTC box at a decent price. The download is $39.99, but I want the discography and liner notes.

PM sent on the 3 Oscar Pettiford titles: Oscar Pettiford - Bass (Bethlehem) Oscar Pettiford - Baden Baden Unreleased Radio Tapes (Delta) Oscar Pettiford - Discoveries (Vogue)

This is what was printed: So I'm talking a little earlier to a dear friend and fellow record collector about a short stack of Lester Young 78's that he's currently got for sale. And one of them in the stack happens to be on the Mercury label. Now, those in the know about these things (namely, for the most part, a large gathering of proud 78rpm record collectors, natural masochists that we are ) know that Mercury Records, in the late 1940's, acquired the entire catalog of a small, independent label called "Keynote Recordings", which happened to have a big chunk of exceptional jazz. Well, not only did Mercury acquire their complete catalog, but they also took a lot of Keynote's pressing back stock and simply pasted their own labels over them. The conversation reminded me that I happen to have one of those pasted-over back stock pressings - and it happens to be a pair of real doozies on a 12" 78 by the "Kansas City Seven" or, as the Mercury label lists, "Count Basie and his Kansas City Seven". And, the one I've got (originally Keynote 1303-B), you can actually peel back the Mercury label some to reveal the original Keynote label beneath! And it's only on one side - the original Keynote label remains on the flipside ("Destination K.C." by the Kansas City Seven). It's kind of weird to look at that Mercury label listing Count Basie at the piano because the original Keynote labels list only a "Prince Charming" at the piano instead. No, that's really Basie, but Keynote had to list Basie under a pseudonym because, at the time these we're originally issued (mid-1944 - recorded March 22, 1944), Count Basie was under exclusive contract to Columbia Records and, as such, while he was free to record on different labels, he could not, in any way, appear listed under his own name. But, by the time Mercury got hold of Keynote's catalog and back stock of pressings, Count Basie was recording for Mercury, so he could be listed correctly (Mercury "released" these recordings around 1950). Anyways, enough gabbage - enjoy a little collecting eccentricity below. Got both original KC Five/Seven 12" 78rpm Keynote pressings below. :

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Any further developments on the CD that Uptown was preparing of early recordings?

There was a Herbie Mann CTI?

Thanks for the tip! I got one too.

I can't remember where I read that.

Yes, if you count a pair of trousered legs in the background of Cool Struttin'.

There is a cheaper way to go: a Collectables two-fer of Hasaan and Roach's Drums Unlimited for $4.98 from oldies.com: https://oldies.com/product-view/62562.html

You are correct. I was mistaking this album for Spontaneous Combustion.

Excellent!

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I noticed the difference when I looked at the photos included in the Hank Mobley Mosaic box. Man, those guys were sharply dressed!

Looking again at the Bohemia After Dark cover, the photo seems to have been taken at Rudy's (by the curtains). I'm struck by Paul Chambers doing the date in his undershirt. Granted, it was recorded in July, but it struck me that in all of Francis Wolff's photos taken during recording dates, you never saw the musicians underdressed. I wonder if BN had a dress code for musicians because they knew Frank's photos might be used on covers.

Speakers Corner Records.

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Release date June 21: During the mid 1960s, Duke Ellington was constantly recording his own musical ideas and projects with the hope and intent that a label would pick them up, as albums, and then commercially release them. However in some cases the projects were never fully completed in terms of an album's length of work, or were just never accepted by the labels and were otherwise left in Ellington's vault of recorded masters, as well as unmixed sessions. In this release, we explore some such works; parts of an Ellington album that was planned as a feature for trumpeter Ray Nance, a few miscellaneous studio versions of important songs he was playing out on the road, as well as a very obscure small group led by his son Mercer Ellington, featuring a very young Chick Corea on piano. The sessions range from 1962 to 1966, and they contain a whole lot of important music that Ellington fans need to hear.

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Release date June 21: 'MLK' is an acronym for this superlative trio of Chicago bassist Marlene Rosenberg, drummer Lewis Nash and pianist Kenny Barron and of course, iconically for the great American moral and spiritual leader Martin Luther King, Jr. Balancing the thought of these musicians being people of different colors, heritages, sexes and generations, coming together in great joy and purpose, with recent headlines highlighting a renewed environment of permissible hate, blame and lack of tolerance, was at the forefront as Marlene shaped this program. The music and activism of the '60s provided an inspiration for many of the original compositions, while the current social conditions added an urgency. Her relationships with Kenny and Lewis going back decades contributes the warmth, love and camaraderie that envelops the proceedings, bringing to mind Stevie Wonder's lyric from the closing track, 'Loves in Need of Love Today / Don't delay / Send yours in right away. '

Release date June 7: While Dameron is fairly well-known for some eight compositions that have become part of the jazz canon, there are many more of his works that deserve our attention. The 12 selections recorded here were either never recorded, or only recorded rarely, and not easily available. Conversation (1940) was copyrighted along with other pieces Tadd wrote for Harlan Leonard; Moon From The East (1962) was written for Benny Goodman's USSR tour in 1962; Take A Chance On Spring (1963), with lyric by Maely Danielle, was recorded by Karin Krog and Per Husby on a record that won an award in Europe; Don't Forget It (1942) written during Dameron's tenure with Jimmie Lunceford, is very much in the vein of the popular songs of the day-It was never recorded; The Search (1948) was copyrighted along with some other tunes that were recorded by Dizzy Gillespie at the time; Never Been In Love (1963), lyric by Irving Reid, was first recorded by Bill Lee and Muriel Winston; Sando Latino, written for a 1962 Milt Jackson session on Atlantic, was lost in a vault fire at Atlantic that year; A La Bridges (1940) was written for and recorded by Harlan Leonard's Kansas City Rockets; Zakat (ca 1945) was written for Jimmie Lunceford, it was never recorded; Come Close (1962) only appears as a piano arrangement filed with the Copyright Office. The title and the melody suggest that Dameron had a lyric in mind, none have come to light; The Rampage (1956) shares some thematic material with Small Groove, which Tadd wrote for Woody Herman around this same time, and may have been the basis for the Herman version. This is its first recording. Paul Combs, saxophonist/arranger (Dameron's biographer) and 11 great musicians: Alex Aspinall; Derek Cannon; Ken Cook; Bill Cunliffe; Jeff Denson; Alex Frank; Melonie Grinnell; Kamau Kenyatta; Richard Sellers; Rob Thorsen; Danielle Wertz

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