Moncur III's "Sonny's Back!"

[Kreilly]

I'm listening to the Shepp and Mobley version of "Sonny's Back" on "Yasmina, A Black Woman" and I'm trying to place this tune. I know it was recorded by the Jazztet and by Moncur on 2004's "Exploration". Was it recorded by anyone else? Maybe McLean in the 60s? It sounds so familiar.

Thanks,

Kevin

[Michael Fitzgerald]

Shepp has done it several times.

Apparently also Big John Patton on a 1995 DIW.

No evidence of a McLean.

Mike

[Soul Stream]

Shepp has done it several times.

Apparently also Big John Patton on a 1995 DIW.

No evidence of a McLean.

Mike

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Yes, great version from Patton.

[JSngry]

Albert Ayler can be heard playing it (labeled as "Rollins' Tune") in 1962.

[Michael Fitzgerald]

Really? Discographies have that all confused then.

Jepsen says:

Rollins' Tune

Raben says:

Rollins' Tune with a footnote that says "The tune played is 'No Moe'."

Lord CDROM 5.0 says:

Rollins tune [The stopper] with a footnote that says "The tune played is 'No Moe'."

[guess we know where Lord stole that one]

Bruyninckx CDROM says just:

Rollins tune [The stopper] with a footnote that says "A piano is heard and could be played either by Albert Ayler of by a pianist occasionally present at the session recorded by Bengt Nordström." [yes, it says "of", not "or"]

Soooo.....I can't access my copy of the Ayler right now, unfortunately. I know "No Moe" and I know "The Stopper" - from the Rollins Prestige records. I know "Sonny's Back" from The Jazztet - these are THREE separate tunes. So what gives?

Mike

[JSngry]

Sorry, brain fart, just came in off the road.

It's "No Moe" that Ayler plays.

[tkeith]

Shepp does it very quickly at the end of the last tune on Montreaux I as a set closer, that's where I knew it from. Listening to the Jazztet's version as I type. Man, Golson is a bad man.