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All I can find in my files is the following - I haven't heard it, alas, hence I don't know if the info is accurate and if she's actually on "Blue Skies", singing with Rushing: Count Basie Orchestra September 11, 1948 Royal Roost, New York Radio Broadcast Clark Terry, Jimmy Nottingham, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Emmett Berry (tp) Bill Johnson, George Matthews, Ted Donnelly, Dicky Wells (tb) Bernie Peacock (as) Earl Warren (as,vcl-1) Wardell Gray, Paul Gonsalves (ts) Jack Washington (bs) Count Basie (p) Freddie Green (g) Singleton Palmer (b) Shadow Wilson (ds) Dinah Washington, Jimmy Rushing (vcl-2) X-1 Futile Frustration Good Bait Moon Nocturne (-1) Paradise Squat Blue Skies (-2) The King

What a boring final... there ought to be a rule to make some more fun team the world champion... after the boring seems to me none of the four teams that made the semi-finals actually deserved to win... I guess I'd give the title to Ghana, but of course it's not my choice

Maybe brownie can help?

I wouldn't bother about the prices - they're great, even 23€ for a 3CD set is pretty much ok in my book!

9CD, not 3... the Threadgill was 7. Same format I guess indeed.

Happy Birthday! :party:

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The booklet of the Uptown "Baron Mingus" disc is another great source for this era of Mingus' career. The music and pictures are sort of an illustration of what he (freely) describes (muses on) in the book, I guess.

Hippocrates George & Martha Dilbert & the Dodo on second thought, make that: Martha & The Vandellas

Oh, Mingus tempers... the second half of chapter 33 is then dedicated to his famous fight with Juan Tizol during his abbreviated stay with Ellington that followed his leave from Norvo's trio... hilarious, how - in Mingus' words (and I guess pretty much freely invented, but who knows) Ellington describes the acrobatics that Mingus and his bass performed to run away from Tizol's knife

Ok, as I'm not home, just checking jazzdisco.org... there's a straight CD reissue of that 24108 (PRCD 24108-2). The Red Norvo Trio (P-24108 / PRCD 24108-2) - the entire San Francisco, CA, September 14, 1953 session - all but 1 title of the Detroit, MI, March, 1954 session - 3 (of 7) titles from Hollywood, CA, October 6, 1955 - 1 (of 7) title(s) from Hollywood, CA, October 7, 1955 Tal Farlow - Guitar Player (P-24042, no CD) - the remaining 4 titles from Hollywood, CA, October 6, 1955 - the remaining 6 titles from Hollywood, CA, October 7, 1955 - plus the "Tal Farlow Returns" album (NYC, September 23, 1969) Quite a mess... so you need to duplicate "The Return of Tal Farlow" in order to complete those October 1955 dates. How silly! Seems there's indeed no CD with those two dates in full! The original LPs were: - Red Norvo With Strings (Fantasy LP 3218) (all of that on P-24042) - Red Norvo Trio (Fantasy LP 3-12) (all, I assume, on 24108) There ought to be a 3CD or 4CD box collecting these, you know, one of those small ones like the Monk Prestige and Stitt's Bits sets!

You are right, my fault - the trio twofer with Raney and Farlow as well as Mitchell is on Prestige P-24108. Additional material from the 1955 Norvo/Farlow/Mitchell trio is on "Tal Farlow - Guitar Player" (Pestige P-24042). ... which is another of those Fantasy twofers, judging from the catalogue number? Have you ever compared their contents to the OJCCDs? Is it all out on CD, too?

I'll have to look for these airchecks! And maybe get the vinyl twofers, too... the Raney/Mitchell one is on Savoy as well? Wasn't that period on one of the Fantasy labels? I've yet to hear those... (though I have some on the Raney Quadromania, but I rarely play those ugly sets at all). As for judging these incidents described by Mingus: I'm not sure... quite possibly, each of these situations would have been *very* annoying and possibly dangerous, so each of them may indeed be reason enough to call it a day, even if it were just two or three over the course of a year. But I'm speculating, of course...

That's the issue I have - sounds decent to me. To my ears, too - and it has some titles that I think were previously unissued (or just very difficult to find?). I think some other selections were omitted though - which is somewhat silly, as they ought to rather have omitted the date with Bird, which everyone has on at least two other issues, I assume. But I guess there are nay-sayers, soundwise - I've read many a negative comment on these black Savoy digipacks (using compression or whatever).

Don't know if there's a thread (didn't do a search), but that's why I was rather cautious in trying to give context to the quote I typed. Contrary to other parts of the book, the paragraph above at least *could* well be true - at least in my opinion.

My first Osie Johnson: Finally one where I don't have to type the sidemen's names!

Good to know! Thought I might have missed out on some bonus or whatever... it's pretty good!

so we're headed in a three-way direction now?

Sorry, Farlow of course! It's been a while that I played these sessions, but I still remembered about the passage in Ming's book. Not sure if I see this as such as put-down... I mean after all Mingus is rather tempered, it seems... and getting pissed about the thoughtlessness of the "two dumb white boys" who went to have breakfast is quite fair, after all.

my first Sammy Price: with Lucky Thompson, Jean-Pierre Sasson, Pierre Michelot and Gerard Pochonet

My first Ben (& Bean, too): with Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown and Alvin Stoller (would be cool if this went on with Stoller, who's a terrific and underrated drummer, to realise which I took many, many years)

Here's the beginning of chapter 33 of Mingus' "Beneath the Underdog" - he wouldn't even give Norvo's (or Kessel's) name:

my first Aaron Bell: with Coltrane, Ellington, Garrison, Jones and Woodyard

my first disc with Eddie Jones: features Thad, Hank & Elvin plus the music of Thad and Isham Jones

Happy Birthday, Barak! :party: Hope all is well!