Anyone know about this recording?

[Hardbopjazz]

Most likely this may very well indeed be a bootleg, but I don't recall this.

Rollins, Sonny – “Sonny Rollins” (guest artist Thad Jones) [Archive of Folk Music FS-220]

Edited June 21, 2010 by Hardbopjazz

[Chuck Nessa]

It's a reissue of the Period lp - one side Sonny, one side Thad.

[Hardbopjazz]

Thanks.

[J.A.W.]

Thad Jones didn't actually play with Rollins, the LP has two different sessions. This is a 1968 fake stereo reissue of Rollins' November 4, 1957 and Jones' December 12, 1956 dates, which were originally issued on Jazztone and Period. The Rollins tracks can be found on his The Freelance Years box that Fantasy put out before Concord stepped in.

[Big Beat Steve]

Most likely this may very well indeed be a bootleg, but I don't recall this.

Rollins, Sonny – “Sonny Rollins” (guest artist Thad Jones) [Archive of Folk Music FS-220]

Though these were U.S. pressings, "Archive of Folk & Jazz Music" (produced by Everest Records) was not a rare label at all in the "budget price" bins of record stores over here in the 70s/80s. I remember passing up a lot of these releases because their track compilations seemed to be rather random to me and the production (including artist credits) rather sketchy but among those that I did pick up were "Foundations of Modern Jazz" (FS-229, Period masters feat. Osie Johnson's Orchestra, The Jones Boys, The Birdlanders, Charlie Mingus) and "The Birdlanders" (FS-275, actually featuring the Henri Renaud-Al COhn Quartet, HEnri Renaud All Stars and Duke Jordan Trio all recorded in NY for the French Swing label and later released on Period in the U.S.).

Obviously they picked tracks largely from the Period catalog; a Django Reinhardt LP I have (FS-230) includes scattered post-war tracks for the Blue Star and Swing labels whose only common denominator is that they were released on Period in the USA.

[AllenLowe]

Everst Archive of Jazz was a bogus but actually somewhat important label, in that it put out a bunch of Bird broadcasts (I still remember the thrill of hearing Bud Powell play that solo on the Birdland Round Midnight). They also put out the Al Haig Will o' the Wisp album, with notes by Max Harrison - and some of the jackets had a blurb to the effect that if any musicians out there had the right to receive monies for the recordings, they should contact the label. Haig told me he sent a few letters to the PO box number but never got a response (surprise).

Edited June 23, 2010 by AllenLowe

[Pete C]

I had a slew of those Everests as a teenager, jazz and blues. The Dolphy Music Matador session was half of one lp. The Mingus session with Thrice Upon a Theme, etc. They had Bird's Royal Roost broadcasts as well as the Birdland one mentioned above. I had that Haig album too (and used to see him & Jimmy Raney at a bar called Gregory's). The Cannonball and Trane session was issued on that label too, which is one of the most weird, because wasn't it originally on Mercury?

The Rollins session is pretty good. First recording of Sonnymoon, right?

Edited June 23, 2010 by Pete C

[Pete C]

This list reminds me that those Charlie Christian proto-bop jams were also on the label (sounding so much better on the JSP box).

http://www.discogs.com/label/Everest+Record+Group

[mjzee]

I have it on a Fresh Sound CD:

One side Rollins, one side Thad. And then some (but not all) of the Thad tracks are on this CD, along with others from the same session:

Very confusing.

Does anyone know why Rollins only recorded 3 tracks? Was it originally a 10"?

[JSngry]

The Rollins session is pretty good. First recording of Sonnymoon, right?

Nope. The first was the night before, at the Vanguard!

[Teasing the Korean]

How did Everest go from being an upscale audiophile classical label to a budget bin label in about 15 years?

[J.A.W.]

How did Everest go from being an upscale audiophile classical label to a budget bin label in about 15 years?

This doesn't answer your question, but it's nevertheless interesting: The Story of Everest Records (wikipedia, for what it's worth)