Stereojack

Most items sold on Ebay are sold by auction. This means that there was more than one person willing to pay a premium for this item. I don't see how you can label a dealer as greedy just because he puts an item up for sale and the price reaches $900. The buyers determine the prices in an auction. The fact that this went for a lot of money indicates that this is what the set is worth, like it or not.

Yes, they are all true stereo. Most unusual. We have all encountered isolated stereo recordings that predate the acknowledged (late 1957) stereo era, but this is the first time I've found one on Fantasy. And while I'm on the subject, there is more than one OJC that plays mono where the original LP was stereo: Dave Brubecks's "Reunion" (Fantasy 8007) and Gigi Gryce "& the Jazz Lab Quintet" (Riverside 1110) are two that come to mind. Both were recorded in early 1957.

I have listened to the track, and although the composers are given as Waller & Williams (composers of Squeeze Me), the tune is actually Just Squeeze Me, the Ellington composition. I don't have the Stallings LP - is the version on that an instrumental? If so, we have solved the mystery.

They don't seem to be exactly the same. 1. Fascinatin’ Rhythm (Gershwin) A 2. For Heaven’s Sake (Levey-Webb) B 3. Mambo Macumba (Tjader) A 4. Autumn Leaves (Kosma-Prevert-Mercer) B 5. This Can’t Be Love (Rodgers-Hart) B 6. Cherry (Redman) B 1. It Ain’t Necessarily So (Gershwin) A 2. I’ll Remember April (Raye-DePaul) B 3. Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen (Cahn-Chaplin) B 4. Yesterdays (Kern-Harbach) B 5. I Concentrate On You (Porter) A 6. Squeeze me (Waller-Williams) B A – August, 1954, San Francisco Dick Collins, John Howell, Al Porcino, Charlie Walp (tp), Cal Tjader (vbs/cencero), Manuel Duran (p), Carlos Duran (b), Edgardo Rosales (cga), Bayardo Verlarde (timbales/cencero/bgo) B – September, 1954, San Francisco Cal Tjader (vbs/cencero), Manuel Duran (p), Carlos Duran (b), Edgardo Rosales (cga), Bayardo Verlarde (timbales/cencero/bgo) I couldn't find "Cherry" or "Squeeze Me" in Jepsen, but the liner notes seem to indicate that they were made at the same session as the other "B" tracks.

Although the original LP's were cheesily packaged, several of them contained marvelous music, especially the Dexter and Mingus dates. All of the records claim to have been recorded in 1977, which I have no reason to doubt, except for the Coleman Hawkins - Hawk died in 1969!

I have the LP - Fantasy 8019, stereo. According to the Jepsen discography, this was issued in mono on Fantasy 3221. Here's the kicker, however: Jepsen says this was recorded in August and September, 1954, yet it is a true stereo recording! Some of Fantasy's "stereo" releases are fake stereo, but not this one.

I heartily agree! I liked them best as a four-piece. When they added Cyril Neville they began to emphasise vocals more, and the music overall was less interesting. I bet they sold a lot more records though!

I saw Hardman twice - in the 1970's with Art Blakey, and around 1980 in a group with Junior Cook and Walter Bishop. He was a low key but thoughtful player. I like his mature playing a lot, especially the Muse albums.

Don't know whatever happened to Tatro, but I did meet Sleet's brother a few years ago, and of course the question arose. He informed me that his brother had been deceased for some years, but didn't go into details. Sleet was also a member of Lennie McBrowne & the Four Souls who recorded two LP's, one each for Pacific Jazz and Riverside. Don't know if these have been reissued. jack

As a long time Sonny fan, I just gotta throw my two cents worth in here. I love "The Bridge", "What's New" (an overlooked masterpiece, IMO. The long "If Ever I Would Leave You" is priceless), "Sonny Meets Hawk", "On Impulse", and "Alfie" (again, overlooked - Sonny plays his ass off). A lot of people point to "Our Man In Jazz", but I think it's just a little too rambling. "Now's the Time" & ""Standard" are OK, but seem too edited for airplay, and don't flow particularly. I loved his first "comeback" album on Milestone, but it's been downhill ever since. I finally gave up on his records by the mid 1980's, although they weren't as lame as a couple of out-and-out commercial titles he spewed out in the mid 70's.

In the very early days of stereo LP's, the size of the stereo grooves was larger than that of the grooves on a mono record, necessitating the dropping of a track or two from stereo versions of the records. By 1958 the variable cutting lathe was introduced, which made the engineer cutting the master able to vary the groove size sufficiently to include all of the music. A few Lp's which come to mind that had fewer tracks on the stereo versions are "Ellington Indigos" (Columbia), Count Basie "E=MC2" (aka "Atomic") (Roulette), Shorty Rogers "Martians Go Home" (Atlantic).

Bob Sunenblick (Uptown owner) played me a test CD of this a few months ago. I can only say that this is a major discovery. Of course Bob always takes forever to release these things.....

My original stereo copy of this LP, which I first bought back in the 1960's, contains "Loads of Love". I first discovered the variance some years ago when I was listening to this record at a friend's house, and noticed that "Loads of Love" was replaced by "My Kinda Love" on her copy. I recall (but am not certain) that her copy was an original, and the jacket & label did list "Loads of Love". It took us a little while to figure out what the tune was, and eventually I was able to locate a British mono copy that contained and listed "My Kinda Love". Eventually I found the Japanese release, which lists and contains "My Kinda Love" in stereo. Of course, I had to keep both for the sake of completeness! jack