Bill Fenohr

Thanks G A Getting a TV and radio show mixed up just lets me know im an old timer.

Pete also did the music for the detective show Richard Diamond. Was the star of that show Dick Powell? I dont remember for sure.

In total jazz,cd's and vinyl im probably running neck and neck with Brownie and Lon.

My vote goes to Solomon Ilori's African High Life with Grant Greens Am I Blue a close second

Seeing that Alfred would be 96 or 97 if he were still with us, i don't think he would be running much of anything these days,Cecil Taylor or no Cecil Taylor.

I go just the oppisite way. As i have been able to get covers and liner notes i have broken the Mosaic sets down to the individual lp's in the original track order. Screw session order, i want to hear the lp as i did when i bought it the first time back in the 1960's. Thats what im used to. As far as alternates, i keep the sets if i ever want to hear them. Which is not very often for most of the sets.

Just from a trivia standpoint that New Sounds cover is a redesign of the original 5010 10" cover and there are only two songs, The Thin Man and Bop Alley on the cd that were on the 10" that used that cover. The original cover was the same design, but the names were: Max Roach James Moody Kenny Dorham Art Blakey There were three songs by a group led by Roach and one tune by Moody that were leased from French Vogue plus the two i mentioned above.

Chuck is probably right. Unit Structures appears in that same ad with Rough And Tumble but the ad slick does not show the logo very well. The labels probably did have the NY address,since the company was still based in NY. Even the print ads with "a product of Liberty Records" had the NY address. I was also a buyer for a retail shop at that time,but that was almost forty years ago and some things are a bit hazy these days. Like Chuck, whatever i bought for the store was plus one for me. Im sorry to say i dont have any of that vinyl today. I sold around 10,000 lps to raise capitol to start the business i have had for the last twenty five years. Mr Texas Jim, Again im going by memory, but the Jack Wilson was recorded after the sale and as i remember reading somewhere, Wilsons contract was assigned to Blue Note by the Liberty folks.

Ive gone futher in looking at the Down Beat ads and it kind of jogged my memory. I think that the "a product of Liberty Rcords" started to appear under the BN logo on the front cover when they moved the album number to the top right hand corner of the cover. The first two that i can clearly see it are Sweet Honey Bee and Rough And Tumble in 1967.

I would guess that none of those six releases had Liberty on the covers, but they did own BN when they were released. Wolf, That ad was the first release after the sale of the company. It was pretty much BN's method of operation to release six titles at a time. But as Chuck mentioned, they were not always in numerical order.

Lets confuse matters even more. I dug through some old Down Beats and here are my findngs. The sale of the company was announced in the June 30, 1966 edition. The first ad that under the BN logo said "a product of Liberty Records" appears in the August 25,1966 edition. That ad features six new releases: Lee Morgan-Search For The New Land-4169 Big John Patton-Got A Good Thing Goin-4229 Hank Mobley-Dippin'-4209 Andrew Hill-Smokestack-4160 Dexter Gordon-Gettin' Around-4204 Larry Young-Unity-4221 Now even though some of these had been in the can for a couple of years, and the jackets may have not said anything about Liberty, they paid for the ad, so i would say these were the first Liberty releases.

Can anyone tell me if these songs from the Blue Note 10" New Sounds From The Old World have been issued on cd or as part of a vinyl issue. Cream Of The Crop-Pt 1 Cream Of The Crop-Pt 2 Summertime Pick Yourself Up The band was, Rolf Ericson, Ake Persson,Putte Wickman,Arne Domnerus,Carl-Henrik Norin,Lars Gullin,Ulf Linde,Bengt Hallberg,Sten Carlberg,Simon Brehm and Jack Noren. These tunes were originally recorded for the Cupol label. Thanks in advance.

Mike, Pepper Adams Conjuration was also released on cd by Reservoir RSR CD 113. The cd contains three songs not on the lp Claudettes Way-Adams-7:35 Dylans Delight-Adams-6:46 Quittin' Time-Thad Jones-6:52 The Peter Leitch album Exhilaration was also released on Reservoir RSR CD 118. It also has extra material, but i dont know if it was recorded for Uptown. There are some duo tracks recorded in 1988. I just found an old Reservoir catolog and the Al Grey/Buddy Tate Just Jazz date was issued as RSR CD 110. I dont know if it had any extra material.

A couple of years ago i used to use a site called Jazz Valley which i think was based in France. They had pretty complete artists disco's going back to 10" days. Anyway they decided to become a subsription service. Guess what, they folded. So if AMG has thoughts of becoming a pay service, they ought to rethink their position. Jazz Valley had much more accurate data then AMG and still could not make it as a pay service. Oh yeah, JV was alot faster also.

Eddie Harris-Steps Up-31151- @1990

These are all cd's I Wanna Talk About You-@1996 Hot House-@1996 Cheese Cake-@1990 King Neptune-@1990 Love For Sale-@1990 Its You Or No One-@1990 Billie's Bounce-@1990 Bouncin' With Dex-@1991

How I Play Jazz Piano-John Mehegan-Savoy. This has one of those great 50's covers with a young blonde in an evening gown laying across the piano.

Mike, Going by the dates given on the two cd's,you are correct that there was only one recording date,June 29,1964. The two cd's cover everything that was issued on lp.There were three lp's issued, 1. Live At Peps (A69),2.Club Date(AS9310) and 3. The Live Session AI9353 2lp set). Cd volume 1 has the seven original tracks from Live At Peps plus three tracks from Club Date. Cd volume 2 has the three tracks you are missing from Club Date and six tracks from The Live Session. There should just be one entry in the disco's for the one night. That would eliminate the double entrys that appear in Lord. The last seven songs he lists on The Live Session are in fact the original seven from Live At Peps. He also has a double entry for the three songs from Club Date that are on the Volume 1 cd. All in all if you get the volume 2 cd you will have it all and wont need the lp you have. Hope this helps. Bill

Spent the day listening to six Mainstream lp's that were either led by or had Charles Kynard as a sideman as i put them on cdr for someone. The leader dates are: Charles Kynard Woga Your Mama Dont Dance The sideman dates are: Blue Mitichell-The Last Tango= Blues Paul Jeffrey-s/t Soul Makoosa-Afrique This one is complete with a cover of Sleepwalk of Santo and Johnny fame. I have to say that by listening to all six of these lp's, i have exceeded my wah wah,waka waka waka,fuzz tone guitar for 2005.

This is just my opinion, but i dont think there was a jazz artist alive,including Miles, who,at that time, brought in enough profit to the record companies that would enable them to justify the legal costs they would rack up trying to pursue a case outside the US. After all if i remember correctly,did'nt it take 40 years for Kind Of Blue to sell a million copies. In Columbia's case, if the artist had been Streisand then its a whole different ballgame. For the independents the legal costs were out of the queston period. Not to mention that they spent most of their time trying to get their distributors to pay them. Like i say, thats just my two cents. However i do think the Dragon stuff is legit.

Motherland-The Visitors-Muse Stringsville-Harry Lookofsky- Atlantic Harry was not the greatest jazz violinist, but this is a nice date with Hank Jones,PC and Elvin as the rhythm section and Bob Brookmeyer added on half the tunes.Harry was on a ton of jazz dates in the 60's. If it had a string section chances are Harry was either the concert master or in the section. Cal Tjader/Don Elliot-Savoy I have not checked the books, but i suspect these were 10"ers. Tjader is side 1 and Elliot side 2. On three of the Elliot cuts there is some real roller rink organ from Doug Duke. Lullaby Of Birdland-Marion McPartland-Savoy

Am i the only one here that actually knows an exotic dancer or stripper or whatever you want to call them. I have a friend here in town who did it for 22 years. She started at 18 and did put herself though college, receiving a degree in finance. She told me that she went on a few job interviews after she got her degree, but reolized she was making three or four times the money that these firms wanted to pay her. So she kept dancing. She told me right from the beginning she was smart enough to know that someday her boobs were going to start to sag and it would be over, so she invested her earnings in the stock market,CD's, T Bills etc. She retired at age 40 owning free and clear a house in one of the nicer sections (read that to mean expensive) of town and has no money worries for the rest of her life. She had a plan, worked it like a professinal and is now enjoying the rewards.

kdd, Again im not sure your assumptions are correct. If these recordings are from Swedish radio then the sidemen would have been paid by them or the leader for the performance, and since Swedish radio owns the tapes, Dragon would have no obligation to the sidemen.So if the sidemen have a bitch its with the leader of the band or Swedish radio. This seems to me to be the same situation as Mosaic leasing a session from BN or Verve or whoever. They do not have to pay the sidemen a dime. As far as label clearence is concerned, i suspect that alot of those contracts only covered the US as far as not being able to record for other labels. Many artists recorded for labels in Europe and Japan while "under contract" to labels in the US.

The only dates i have been able to find are: New York session-summer 1981 Japan session-July 1981 Sorry i could not be more exact.

I remember reading that Milt Gabler made reference to Alfred bringing BN 78's to his record shop personally in the early days. So i would guess they hang out.