Dmitry Posted June 13, 2006 Report Posted June 13, 2006 Just got Al Casey's BUCK JIMPIN'. My oh my! I love this album. I'd like to find out more about the Swingville label and you are just the guys for the job. Quote
brownie Posted June 13, 2006 Report Posted June 13, 2006 (edited) I'm one of those guys! A full listing of Swingville releases is near the bottom of this page Love those Swingvilles! Edited June 13, 2006 by brownie Quote
paul secor Posted June 13, 2006 Report Posted June 13, 2006 I can recommend the following records - originally on Swingville - without hesitation: Buck Clayton/Buddy Tate: Buck & Buddy - OJC 757 Buck Clayton/Buddy Tate: Buck & Buddy Blow the Blues Coleman Hawkins with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis: Night Hawk - OJC 420 Coleman Hawkins/Pee Wee Russell: Jam Session in Swingville -Prestige 24051 Taft Jordan: Mood Indigo - Prestige 24230 (1 record on the CD originally on Swingville, the other originally on Moodsville, but neither to be missed.) Pee Wee Russell: Swingin' with Pee Wee - Prestige 24213 (Swingin' with Pee Wee originally on Swingville - great Pee Wee and Buck Clayton. Portait of Pee Wee originally on Counterpoint - also a great record.) Shorty Baker & Doc Cheatham: Shorty & Doc - OJC 839 I'm sure that others will have more to add, but you can't go wrong with any of these. Quote
paul secor Posted June 13, 2006 Report Posted June 13, 2006 Forgot a few other fine records - Thanks to Brownie for posting the Swingville listing and reminding me: The Budd Freeman All Star Swing Sessions - Prestige 24286 (I only have the OJC LP, The Budd Freeman All Stars featuring Shorty Baker. The CD adds another session from 1962 and some sides from 1935. The Budd Freeman All Stars is a truly fine date.) Buddy Tate/Claude Hopkins: Buddy and Claude - Prestige 24231 (The Buddy Tate session, Tate a Tete, is by far my favorite of the two included.) Joe Newman Quintet with Frank Foster: Good 'n' Groovy - OJC 185 (Haven't listened to this one in a while, but I recall it as having a good feel to it.) Quote
(BB) Posted June 13, 2006 Report Posted June 13, 2006 I would add Tonite's Music Today - Zoot Sims & Bob Brookmeyer My copy is a japanese vinyl. Trio Records PA-6135 (M) Mono Quote
JohnS Posted June 13, 2006 Report Posted June 13, 2006 I've always enjoyed Tiny Grimes' 'Callin The Blues' Quote
(BB) Posted June 14, 2006 Report Posted June 14, 2006 I would add Tonite's Music Today - Zoot Sims & Bob Brookmeyer My copy is a japanese vinyl. Trio Records PA-6135 (M) Mono Ooops, That's a Storyville, not Swingville. Sorry, Bill Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted June 14, 2006 Report Posted June 14, 2006 "Coleman Hawkins with the Red Garland Trio" is a fine one. More Buddy Tate - "Groovin' with Tate" two SV LPs on one CD - "Tate's date" & "Grovin' with Buddy Tate". "Tiny in Swingville" by Tiny Grimes is another good 'un. The Al Casey was the first one I ever bought, though, a second hand copy with a crack all the way through - just held together by the label - and I've always had a particular affection for it. It was the King Curtis band of the time, with Rudy Powell instead of Curtis. MG Quote
montg Posted June 17, 2006 Report Posted June 17, 2006 (edited) Coleman Hawkins All Stars (with the great Vic Dickenson) is a good one. (good sound too I think it was recorded by RVG, as most of these were) Edited June 17, 2006 by montg Quote
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted June 17, 2006 Report Posted June 17, 2006 oh poo was there REEEEAAALY anything to distinguish a 'swingsville' or moodville lp from that of one on PRESTIGE? isnt it all just prestige n stuff Quote
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted June 17, 2006 Report Posted June 17, 2006 ok ok so what are ALL THE SUBSIDERARIES-- ive seen a catlog and theres like 5 different ethnic subs and others too- not just moodsville Quote
brownie Posted June 17, 2006 Report Posted June 17, 2006 ok ok so what are ALL THE SUBSIDERARIES-- ive seen a catlog and theres like 5 different ethnic subs and others too- not just moodsville A Fall 1963 Prestige order form I have lists the following labels: - Prestige - New Jazz - Moodsville - Swingville - Tru-Sound - Tru-Sound Latin American series - Tru-Sound Gospel series - Prestige Folklore - Prestige International - Prestige International/Documentary series - Bluesville - Irish - Lively Arts - Near East Would love to listen to the Lively Arts 30006 LP! It's 'James Mason Reads the Imp of the Perverse and Other Stories by Edgar Allen Poe'! Wonder if RVG recorded that one! Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted June 17, 2006 Report Posted June 17, 2006 ok ok so what are ALL THE SUBSIDERARIES-- ive seen a catlog and theres like 5 different ethnic subs and others too- not just moodsville A Fall 1963 Prestige order form I have lists the following labels: - Prestige - New Jazz - Moodsville - Swingville - Tru-Sound - Tru-Sound Latin American series - Tru-Sound Gospel series - Prestige Folklore - Prestige International - Prestige International/Documentary series - Bluesville - Irish - Lively Arts - Near East Would love to listen to the Lively Arts 30006 LP! It's 'James Mason Reads the Imp of the Perverse and Other Stories by Edgar Allen Poe'! Wonder if RVG recorded that one! I have one of those, too Prestige's subsidiaries have always been most interesting to me. Moodsville and Swingville are definitely different to Prestige, but only in terms of their general approach. Lots of musicians appeared on MV or SV as well as PR. TruSound was a great little label: R&B, Latin and Gospel. Bluesville was blues, of course. New Jazz eventually became the budget label and was used to introduce new players. Some of them were pressed on the Status (Prestige/Status) label - as were a few PR items. I always wondered about the Lively Arts material, too. One of them was Norman Mailer reading his own stuff. And another was Roddy McDowell reading H P Lovecraft. As for the "ethnic" labels, I always wondered how Bob Weinstock got into them; I'd imagine you needed a whole different set of customers to distribute those to their respective markets. It would be nice if Chris could throw some light on this. MG Quote
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted June 19, 2006 Report Posted June 19, 2006 did they not press a lot of em ive never seen 'tru sound' and such Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted June 19, 2006 Report Posted June 19, 2006 did they not press a lot of em ive never seen 'tru sound' and such TruSound had a load of King Curtis LPs out; I should think they sold reasonably well, though it was before "Soul twist". I've bought a few of them. And there's a good 'un by Texas tenorman Jesse Powell, which I've also got. But the Latin Jazz Quintet's 2 LPs - one on New Jazz, the other on TruSound - were very rare items (at least in Britain, where they were being sold for unconsionable amounts of dosh). So I guess few were pressed. Rhoda Scott did 2 LPs for TruSound, as well - I've never seen either of them on LP. Got my copies on a Japanese CD. They were too good to sell well, is my verdict. Never seen any of their Gospel LPs, though there are a couple out now on CD on Specialty, that I must get round to buying. I think TruSound stuff, being quite R&B oriented, probably made its appearance in specialised dealers which jazz fans wouldn't neccessarily visit - which may be why you haven't seen them. I've seen lots of MV, SV and NJ LPs about in my time, so they weren't particularly rare. Dunno about the ethnic labels, hence calling on Chris. MG Quote
montg Posted June 19, 2006 Report Posted June 19, 2006 Just got Al Casey's BUCK JIMPIN'. My oh my! I love this album. I'd like to find out more about the Swingville label and you are just the guys for the job. Here are a couple of fairly lengthy threads that provide a lot of recommendations for small group swing in the Swingville era--there's some discussion of Swingville also, I believe swing stars in the 50s small group swing Quote
montg Posted December 3, 2006 Report Posted December 3, 2006 Picked up CLaude Hopkins, "Swing Time" in the blowout earlier this summer--much love for this, particularly the session with the great Budd Johnson. Quote
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