the miles davis tuba band

[blake]

saw this one at a local music shop. it's on the natasha label. in addition to the davis tracks there are a handful by lennie tristano. amg lists personnel but no session info. can anyone provide some details?

gsb

[jazzbo]

Good stuff. The Tristano stuff is mostly as far as I remember live radio material that had all star sessions. . . good stuff.

[JohnS]

Didn't I have this on a Bandstand cd? I sold it a while ago but I'm sure I have the Tristano tracks elsewhere. I'll have to dig a bit deeper.....

After a dig around I think the Bandstand cd may have had the Davis/Konitz band with John Lewis from the Royal Roost in 1948.

Edited April 25, 2003 by JohnS

[JohnS]

I'm intruiged now, I can't find any details of these Tristano tracks-can someone kindly post the personnel, date and location please.

[JohnS]

Thanks couw, that's great. I'm grateful. Don't you just hate it when you don't recognise something. I have the Spotlite lps.

I guess I'm getting too old to make the mental leap from Tristano to Ulanov

Edited April 25, 2003 by JohnS

[FrancoisD]

The Tristano recordings on this album were taken from a Nov. 8, 1947 radio broadcast that was intended as a "cutting contest" between trad jazz musicians, and the "Young Turks" of modern jazz, billed as "Barry Ulanov's All-Star Modern Jazz Musicians". Tunes on this CD are only excerpts from that show. More cuts from the same date are to be found on "Charlie Parker-Young Bird, vol. 6" on the Masters Of Jazz label, if copies of that now-defunct series can still be located.

[blake]

thanks everyone for the information - exactly what i was looking for. i think i'll pick this one up over the weekend.