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Found the 'Sessions, Live' LP where she's featured on. Terry Morel does two songs too...Oscar Peterson and Gerald Wiggins are the featured muscians. Fielding does not sing with Peterson though (but with Bob Hammack I believe it is). Morel sings with the Wiggins trio. Nic LP, recommended. It's a pity that the Troup interviews are cut out, so we can only imagine why Fielding was on 'Stars of Jazz'...

I've thought that myself...(since this the only reply/post BlueRose ever posted...) But I do so hope it isn't...

Blue Rose I have emailed you a couple of times but never got a reply, can please do so? Thanks a million... j.

I wish him all the best!!! He such a jazz treasure. This summer he's billed at the Jazz Middelheim Festival here in Belgium. I truly hope that I'll see him there... j.

Not familiar with this kind of music but makes me think about a song that Lee Wiley recorded on her Storyville LP; 'Give it Back to the Indians'. j.

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Thank you Brownie for the reply! Found out that she's also known as Vivian Lord-Alge, she's a voiceteacher (eg of Judy Bady) and is the mother of 'three time Grammy Award winner' record producer and mixer Tommy Lord-Alge. Two of his brothers are also in the musicindustry. The fact that you have all ten of those records makes me green-eyed jealous... And how could I forgot that Morgana King is one of those ten singers... One day I'll have them too, all ten, and hopefully in mint condition... j.

I didn't know about the sleepover, but I've read somewhere that Hipp refused to record some of Feather's originals. Most of the sessions he produced have at least one tune from his hand (and it's not always the best one from the set). There were many talented female musicians in the fifties who could have benefited from Feather's eagerness to boost their careers and somehow it didn't happen. (Vivian Garry, Clora Bryant, Norma Carson, Beryl Booker, et al.) j.

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Define "OP". Oscar Pettiford? Oscar Peterson? Other Person? OOPSY Completly my fault...I ment Oscar Pettiford of course (is there a Peterson sextet date?) I thought that this 'abbreviation' of Oscar Pettiford was common thinking of Jon Hendrick's lyrics to 'In Walked Bud'; 'Dizzy he was screaming, next to O.P. who was beaming,... j.

Just have listened to OP's Sextet date. The number 'Rhumblues' being credited to Jane Feather, I was wondering was she a musician herself?!? Makes me also think about musicians who took their wives to recordingsessions to let them participate in the fun (just for once). Like Mrs. Waldron on one of his earliest albums (she wrote the beautifull 'All About Us' on his Champs Elysées album)or Sue Ryan (Mrs Ralph Sharon),...I wonder what became of them... But let's start with Jane Feather! j.

Ooh that one sounds interesting!!!

Renee Raff is an South African singer who made just one album in the early sixties. Though she only sings on this lp she seems to be a pianist herself, according to the linernotes she studied at Julliard with John Mehegan. The program of the record varies from standards ('Willow Weep for Me', 'Little Girl Blue'), a folksong ('Jan Pierewiet'), and offbeat material('Butterfly with Hiccups', 'He Lied', 'In the Interim'). One of the songs is credited to Gerry Mulligan but I don't know which one it is. The arrangements are by Billy Byers. Four musicians get credit; Jerome Richardson, Hank Jones, Milt Hinton, Osie Johnson. On some tracks there's also a noncredited guitarist. The arrangements are in a typical sixties groove and on some tracks the 'always ever so tasty Mr. Jones' sounds more like a Bobby Timmons or Ray Bryant to me...Don't think I ever heard him play like this, but I have to admit that I'm unfamiliar with his work from the sixties. Though no worldshocking things happen here, it's a nice forgotten record... (front cover) http://www.customphotousa.com/podsville/images/hires_covers/RAFF1.JPG'>http://www.customphotousa.com/podsville/images/hires_covers/RAFF1.JPG (back cover) http://www.customphotousa.com/podsville/images/hires_covers/RAFF2.JPG'>http://www.customphotousa.com/podsville/images/hires_covers/RAFF2.JPG Hear here in the middle of the page http://www.customphotousa.com/podsville/ Enjoy! j.

I wouldn't be surprised if putting up countless subsidiaries (presumably with complicated ownership relations) makes it easier to escape responsibility for copyright/IP infringements. Sounds logical. Thank's! Another question; Is there somewhere a list of the lp's that Fresh Sound released back in the '80s? Spotted on ebay some lp's mostly by vocalists(Pinky Winters, Mary Ann McCall, Jackie Paris,...)that were never issued on cd or only through Japanese import. Can't understand why they never made it on cd on this label!?! j.

One of my favotite Dameron tunes; 'I Think I'll Go Away'. I only know the vocalversion of Kenny 'Pancho' Hagood. Are there other versions? 'Ladybird' is a favorite to. For me is 'If You Could See Me Now' one of the most beatifull songs ever written... He recorded some tunes with Babs Gonzales in the late '40s. j.

Ok no reactions so I assume that nobody knows her... Opinions about the youtube track? j.

so who was Bird ever legally married to?!? At the time he was with Chan? Doris Snyder though after a year the marriage was over. Think that his first marriage was the most 'durable' j.

Think I gonna get this one...Have been doubting for two years or so to buy it or not...Have to admit that Carl Perkins is the main reason for me why I'm interested in it Btw for more Carl Perkins see my topic about Inez Jones where you can dowload the complete album... j.

I can't get past the monotony of her singing. My problem, I know I know what you mean... But that 'monotony' works so well on her versions of 'Can't Get Out of this Mood' and 'Where Am I to Go'...sigh One question; when she started her career (with 'Julie is her name' ?) was she considered as a jazzvocalist? And just to be clear I don't want to start a discussion about what a jazzsinger is, should do/be...I'm just curious about what the critics (Feather, Hentoff,...) in the 50's had to say about Julie London. j.

Mmmmmm thought someone would know it...shoot... The copy's of 'The Forward Sound' that are sometimes on ebay are the 80s lp reissues of Fresh Sound. Never saw an original copy of it... It seems that the lp reissues that Fresh Sound made in the 80s never were available as cd on that label (like 'Detour to the Moon' Mary Ann McCall, 'Lonely One' Pinky Winters, 'Jackie Paris',... and many other rarities) Thank's for the reply anyway! j.

I'm a big fan of vocalese jazz and this man, Frank Minion, seems one of the forgotten artists in this tradition. Probably few people are aware that the lyrics of the wellknown versions of 'Night in Tunesia' and 'Take the A Train' by Eddie Jefferson and more recent Giacomo Gates, are from the hand of Minion. Minion's second album 'The Soft Land of Makebelieve' has been almost always available through Japanese import. But what about his debut lp 'The Forward Sound'? Does someone know it? Or has an idea of who the supporting musicians are? On the 'Soft Land...' he's sympatically acompanied by Bill Evans, Tommy Flanagan, Roland Alexander, Jimmy Jones,... j.

Maybe it has been mentioned before; but what's about those other labels mentioned on the freshsoundwebsite who release some cd's and then nothing...(without any prejudice about those labels) Like; Wax Train, Jazz Collectors, Fine & Mellow, American Jazz Classics, et al. I have also noticed that some of the new releases are like faster in the store than that they are on their site...Is that possible? I have seen a Blossom Dearie album on 'Essential Jazz' that's not on the site... j.

Hagood with Lafitte is new to me What's the title of that one????? Wishfullthinker as I am but maybe there exist some radiobraodcast of those Parisdays.... Don't know I just have some thing with those "discovered" radiobroadcastcd's... Thank's for the reply's and the new info (mmmm Chan Parker and Alice Coltrane at Quincy Jones's place!!!) j.

Some months ago I orderd on ebay a cd from Anne Marie Moss (that's Mrs Jackie Paris to you!), titled 'Two for the Road'. I didn't know 'till I received this cd that it's a reissue of two lp's. One by Moss the other one by a totally new singer to me; Vivian Lord. While the set by Moss was a little bit dissapointing (with only 'My Romance' as a memorable if not quite amazing version) the set by Vivian Lord was a revelation to me. Personal I think there are some similarities wit McRae or Shirley Horn, not only in her way of singin' but she's also a capable pianist herself. So I googeld a bit to find out that there isn't much information about her on the net. She probably only made three recordings; the one above mentioned called 'Love Dance', one with Dardanelle and one, in the late '80s, for the Japanese Sony label, exclusively for the Japanese market. That last one is part from a series of recordings from American singers like Sheila Jordan, Lorez Alexandria, Millie Vernon, Shirley Horn, Carol Sloane (singers who had been on the scene for some time), Carmen Lundy, Bobbe Norris, Susannah McCorkle (a new generation of singers)... On youtube I found two clips of her, one short homerecording from e few years ago with her grandchildren. So I emailed to the one who posted the clip, I asume it's her daughter, to ask if she could give me some information...without succes... So here I am (with a very long intro) does someone have information about this singer? What "fascinates" me about Vivian Lord is that it don't seems that she was like in her twenties when she made these recordings. She has a mature style, so maybe there are some early recordings from her? Hear here her heartfelt version of 'My Foolish Heart' from her Japanese cd 'Route 66' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3ACqMvxiIU&feature=related Enjoy! Thank you j.

While waiting for a complete reissue of the man's work; Some rare tracks on youtube... That Old Black Magic Yes Sir That's My Baby Rushin' On Home/Race Horse Enjoy j.