Don Byas "A Tribute to Cannonball" (CBS)

[Big Beat Steve]

While reading the recently-published Don Byas biography ("Sax Expat") I chanced upon a highly affordable copy of the CBS "A Tribute to Cannonball" Don Byas/Bud Powell LP of 1961 and took it home (and like it a lot):

https://www.discogs.com/de/master/407175-Don-Byas-Bud-Powell-A-Tribute-To-Cannonball

Looking for period reviews of the record in my historical jazz magazines, however, I drew a blank, and the Discogs page seems to indicate that the above 1979 release actually was the original one. During my searches, though, I discoverd a 4-page photo spread on this very recording session ("Cannonball supervising a jam session of the exilees") published in the February 1962 issue of (French) "Jazz Magazine". In addition to other background info this states that "the session yielded enough material for a 45-minute record that Columbia will release in the USA in spring (i.e. of 1962), and it is going to be billed to The Kenny Clarke Quintet."

Anyone among you fellow discophiles familiar with anything of that kind? I usually do trust Discogs for such basic facts, so is it really so that this session sat in the can until 1979? (The new Don Byas bio is remarkably vague about when this record actually hit the market and may or may have not added to the discographical awareness of the jazz public of Don Byas in his lifetime.)

 

Edited Tuesday at 09:12 AM by Big Beat Steve

[Fer Urbina]

The booklet in the CD reissue (CK 65186) states "Originally issued in March, 1979, on Columbia 35755 (stereo)". Billboard carries a review in the May 12, 1979 issue (p.71).

It looks like it did remain in the can for 18 years.

F

Edited Tuesday at 02:09 PM by Fer Urbina

[JSngry]

There was a DB review. **** Iirc

[Big Beat Steve]

Thanks everyone! Amazing that this was held back for so long.

A side note that may not be documented or known everywhere else:
The writeup of the session in Jazz Magazine says that the original plans were to bring in Jimmy Woode as the bassist for this session, making it an ALL-expat lineup. But as the session seems to have been organized at rather short notice, Cannonball Adderley was unable to contact Jimmy Woode who was nowhere to be found. It turned out he was out playing gigs - somewhere in the Swedish province!
So ever-dependable Pierre Michelot was called in. 

Edited Tuesday at 03:47 PM by Big Beat Steve