Harold Land: Take Aim

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

....was mentioned in this booby cd i was reading the liners too-- what is the session info for this? i didnt know harold land had a blue note album!

[brownie]

This was a BN session recorded on the West Coast under the supervision of Leonard Feather.

Martin Banks, trumpet, Harold Land, tenor, Amos Trice, piano, Clarence Jones, bass (erroneously listed as playing drums on the original vinyl), Leon Pettis, drums.

The session was recorded in LA on October 25, 1960 and left in the vaults until Michael Cuscuna released it in 1980 on th BN Classic rainbow label!

Nice session!

[Peter Johnson]

Wasn't this reissued on CD recently?

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

BN session recorded on the west coast! OooooooooooHhhhh!!! i like that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kevin Bresnahan]

This was a BN session recorded on the West Coast under the supervision of Leonard Feather.

Martin Banks, trumpet, Harold Land, tenor, Amos Trice, piano, Clarence Jones, bass (erroneously listed as playing drums on the original vinyl), Leon Pettis, drums.

The session was recorded in LA on October 25, 1960 and left in the vaults until Michael Cuscuna released it in 1980 on th BN Classic rainbow label!

Nice session!

Michael Cuscuna may have been in charge of the reissues in 1980 when this was released on LP, but I wonder if it wasn't someone else who worked on it. Michael's made it clear enough that he doesn't think this session is "Blue Note material". That's why he let Water reissue it. He didn't want to.

It's OK, but I'd certainly grab one of Harold's Contemporary CDs over this one any day.

Later,

Kevin

[brownie]

Michael Cuscuna may have been in charge of the reissues in 1980 when this was released on LP, but I wonder if it wasn't someone else who worked on it.

The original vinyl I have carries this line in the credits on the back cover: 'Produced for release by Michael Cuscuna'

[brownie]

BN session recorded on the west coast! OooooooooooHhhhh!!! i like that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another BN West Coast session from the Lion/Wolff era was the 'Best of the West' December 31, 1954 recordings that came out on two ten-inchers! Musicians included Conte Candoli, Harry Edison, Herb and Lorraine Geller, Budy Collette, Jimmy Giuffre. Leonard Feather also produced this date!

The session was included in this Lonehill release:

[Dmitry]

I have this 10" Lp.

[Niko]

This was a BN session recorded on the West Coast under the supervision of Leonard Feather.

Martin Banks, trumpet, Harold Land, tenor, Amos Trice, piano, Clarence Jones, bass (erroneously listed as playing drums on the original vinyl), Leon Pettis, drums.

just found this snippet on google: Pettis/Petties seems to have this ability:

Don Glaser has performed at leading jazz clubs all over North America, including New York City's Birdland, and the Top O' The Senator & Montreal Bistro here in Toronto; and recorded and/or played with jazz legends such as drummers Ray Brown & Leon Petties (Nat Cole), bassist Shelly Manne, one-time Miles Davis bassist Marshall Hawkins, and Bill Perkins

[mikeweil]

Back to the Land ..... could it be this was intended for release on another label and just issued on Blue Note by Cuscuna as that label or rather the Classics series was the only outlet for jazz vault issues in the Capitol EMI label group at the time? If so, what label could that be? I can see why Cuscuna doesn't view this as a Blue Note session, but so many albums originally released on other (and West Coast) labels have been reissued on Blue Note ..... seems he gets pickier with age.

[mikeweil]

If the land was indeed reissued on Water, could someone please post a link to that? Seems I lost my bookmarks for Water .... thanks!

[Daniel A]

It was reissued by Mighty Quinn:

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?...91840&BAB=E