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  9. Tony Fruscella

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    yeah, it's a neat way to incorporate Baker... the Jazz Factory liner notes contain the (somewhat cryptic) remark that Fruscella refered to Baker as to "Chatty" Baker... maybe my English is too bad, but I never understood what that has to tell me... :huh:

    Somebody else's English may also be not so good - I think Chet was occasionally called "Chetty".

  14. Hank Mobley & His All Stars - Sound Quality Issue

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    The first Blue Note session recorded in stereo was Sabu's Palo Congo on April 27, 1957 (it was issued only in mono at the time on Blue Note LP 1561).

    Mike, I'm afraid you're wrong!

    The Cuscuna/Ruppli BN Label discography book (first edition 1988) states that the first session recorded by BN in both mono and stereo was the May 8, 1957 session (Horace Silver 'The Stylings of Silver'). Or has this Bible been proved wrong?

    I have this from a note by Cuscuna himself on some reissue he produced! (I think it was the Japanese 3 LP boy "The Other Side of Blue Note 1500 Series".) As I said, the Sabu was only released in mono at the time - maybe the Silver was the first Blue Note to be issued in both mono and stereo.

    I had the Japanese LP reissue Cuscuna produced back then and now have the Japanese CD - clearly stereo.

    Perhaps the question should be which was the first Blue Note stereo session engineered by Rudy Van Gelder? A note at the end of the Silver date (May 8, 1957) in the Ruppli book clearly states that this is Blue Note's first stereo date. The Sabu date (April 28, 1957) was not recorded at Rudy's, it was recorded at Manhattan Towers, NYC, engineer uncredited. I've always assumed that the two week period April 21 - May 8) during which Blue Note did not record at Rudy's was while Rudy was installing his stereo recording equipment, which may be true, but a quick check of Ruppli's Prestige discography shows several dates (April 24, 26, 27, May 1, 3) not issued (and probably not recorded) in stereo. And Savoy recorded there on May 2, also mono.

    Btw, "The Stylings of Silver" is definitely not the first Blue Note to be issued in stereo. The stereo version was first released in 1967 when Liberty took over and "stereo-ized" the whole in print catalog - fake stereo on the earlier sessions, true stereo on the later ones. And, in many instances, they were unsure of what they had. I've found any number of Liberty-pressed 4000 series Blue Notes that claim to be "rechanneled for stereo" but which play true stereo.

  15. Jimmy Ricks w/Count Basie

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    The Ravens had a short stint w/Columbia, where they recorded with a Benny Gooman sextet. The results were, as you might suspect, rather, uh... quaint. :ph34r:

    Aside from the Ravens sides with Goodman, Ricks recorded a few sides with Goodman by himself. I have them on an old Harmony LP entitled "The Swingin' Benny Goodman Sextet", on which Ricks is identified simply as "Ricky", although that voice is unmistakeable.

    I've always loved Ricks' hit "Love Is the Thing" recorded for Mercury in the mid-1950's.

    I first heard tell about his Basie stint from a friend who had seen Ricks with Basie in the early 1970's, although there's nothing on record. Sheridan's Basie discography does show a couple of broadcasts, nothing commercially released.

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