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Where can he be heard? I've got the shortish Hawkins Newport 1957 disc and some stray stuff here and there (Frankie Newton, Sir Charles Thompson, Coleman Hawkins, Buster Bailey, Leonard Feather)

What's "influential", really? Biggest impact on jazz history, most disciples... in that respect, was Ammons influential? (Don't get me wrong, I love him!) Guess I might go with Don Byas... or with Chu Berry or Ben Webster. (edited for lousy spelling)

ok, amended... but that's about it with my disabilities

from Bill Kirchner's new liner notes to the Verve Master Edition of Boss Tenors in Orbit:

Yeah, thought so... guess I need them!

bumping this one, just because... well, because it's one of the finest comments on Sonny Stitt I've read, and I've remembered it for years... and now I found it again

bump - what about these: http://www.delmark.com/delmark.563.htm http://www.delmark.com/delmark.426.htm is Stitt ON or is he merely coasting, or a mix of both? been of a hefty Stitt binge lately, playing the Mosaic a a few dozen other discs, up and down, down and up...

...and that CD makes a discographical mess... also, there was a third album recorded over the same three days (and a later one with Levy, Chambers and Levey). This should really have been a Mosaic Select! Levy is funky as gets, Vinnegar always delivers, and Lewis, too... these guys got some of the best out of Getz around that time, too! And for those who care, I think the following corrects the lousy discographical info given on the Fresh Sound CD: Don’t Call Me Bird! - Sonny Stitt Quartet Sonny Stitt (as), Lou Levy (p), Leroy Vinnegar (b), Mel Lewis (d) 01. I Cover The Waterfront (Green-Heyman) (3:17) 02. Lazy Bones (Mercer-Carmichael) (7:41) 03. Sunday (Styne-Conn-Miller-Krueger) (3:54) 04. Just Friends (Lewis-Klenner) (3:48) 05. All Of Me (Simmons-Mark) (3:02) 06. Two Bad Days Blues (Stitt) (4:43) 07. It’s You Or No One (Styne-Cahn) (4:31) 08. Blue Smile (Stitt) (4:00) 09. Lonesome Road (Shildkret-Austin) (4:04) 10. The Gipsy (Reid) (4:03) 11. That’s The Way To Be (Stitt) (2:08) 12. There Is No Greater Love (Jones-Symes) (5:02) 13. Jaunty (Stitt) (5:11) 14. Blue Sunday (Stitt) (3:24) 15. The Way You Look Tonight (Kern-Fields) (5:02) #6, 8, 14: LA, Dec. 21, 1959 (two more titles - BLUE DEVIL BLUES, A BLUES OFFERING - were recorded that day, they were releaed on "Sonny Stitt Blows the Blues") #1-5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13: LA, Dec. 23, 1959 (note: the same band recorded the rest - 6 more tracks in addition to two from Dec. 21 - of "Sonny Stitt Blows the Blues" on Dec. 22) #11, 15: NYC, Feb. 9, 1959 personnel: Amos Trice (p), George Morrow (b), Lennie McBrowne (d) (rest of this session released as "The Hard Swing", #15 included on both "The Hard Swing" and "Sonny Stitt Swings the Most"!) Fresh Sound has that one on a twofer with "The Hard Swing" (which I find somewhat... underwhelming)

I think that one came out not too long after Evans passed away and was released under Gordon Beck's name. Nice one ! That was a case of an image not appearing... here it is again, and indeed Beck is billed first:

two part article on Budd Johnson by Frank Driggs (yeah, I know...) from Jazz Review (Nov 1960 / Jan 1961): http://jazzstudiesonline.org/?q=node/1115 http://jazzstudiesonline.org/?q=node/1123 or straight to the PDFs if that's what you prefer: http://www.jazzstudiesonline.org/files/JREV3.9FULL.pdf http://www.jazzstudiesonline.org/files/JREV4.1Complete.pdf

Oops, sorry about that!

Found "Broadway Basie's Way" (Command, Stereo) with Little Jazz and Lockjaw today... heard the music before, cool to have a vinyl of it! Now I need "Hollywood Basie's Way", too, I guess... Also got an interesting looking one: "Seven Steps to Evans - A Tribute to the Compositions of Bill Evans" (MPS), by a quintet of Kenny Wheeler, Stan Sulzmann, Gordon Beck, Ron Mathewson and Tony Oxley. Never even heard of that one before!

By chance found out that this includes two bonus tracks: Bags' Groove (6:55) Four (6:08) They seem to be from the Nov. 30, 1957 Olympia Theatre concert: http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/Sessions.aspx?s=571130 Weird to just include two cuts... would have been worthwhile to include the entire set, for sure!

well then get to work! and don't forget: NO CAPS for email addresses!

Is this the guy from Dukoff mouthpieces? (Never tried one though... and never heard any his music, either.)

I still have the 5LP box with the Savoy studio material - it's how I first heard it and I won't give it away! The funniest take is that false start that's really just one or two notes of bass...

ah well... the "Stepping Stones" LP is a bit large to be squeezed (squozen?) in there... but then with the missing track being on the bonus disc, it's superfluous. I'd still love to see a 2CD edition for those who have the Mosaic and all the other material.

Thanks a lot! That's about an hour of new music... not sure if I really have to buy all of it again, but it DOES look tempting!

Thanks for the scan!

Hm, doesn't sound too great... as I have the Mosaic and both the CD and LP of "Setting Stones", I'm really only interested in the unreleased Vanguard material. Would you be so kind and post some details about it?

Ordered it today... but seems it might take a while (went with amazon).

There's an entry on that one on the Marion Brown Discography that suggests the one Ornette track (Side 3 Track 4, "Trouble in East", 6:39) is indeed the same as was released on "Crisis". That's the most I can seem to find online...

What;s "The Complete Chicago Disc"? This one here: http://www.amazon.com/Chicago-Live-at-Pershing-Hotel/dp/B00005K3SF Contains more than was on CD4 of the Savoy live box (which is essential for what's on CD1-3... CD4 has some of the Chicago/Pershin material plus the Diz/Bird Carnegie Hall set that's also on that Blue Note CD that again is essential because it contains the Dizzy Big Band set from Carnegie Hall, while that Bird/Diz set is marred somewhat by Bill Harris' lacklustre drumming...) And before you or anybody else asks, this here's the Carnegie disc: http://www.amazon.com/Bird-Carnegie-Hall-Charlie-Parker/dp/B000005H9I What;s "The Complete Chicago Disc"? Looks like this is it: http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Pershing-Club-Charlie-Parker/dp/B00008HAU7 There's an Amazon seller who's offering it new for $9.95 + $2.98 s/h. & I agree, George Freeman is great--sounds ahead of his time. That's the Spanish rip-off, of (I assume) the one pictured above (which is on Ember). Freeman... yeah, a visitor from another planet! Saturn, I guess