Steve Gray

Near (?) miss - Barry Harris and Harry Barris

romualdo mentions that in his discographical info earlier in the thread. Love For Sale was originally on a Columbia LP compilation called Black Giants. Just want to say that the handover from Miles to Coltrane on Stella By Starlight is one of the most magical moments in recorded jazz for me 🙂

"Night Of The Cookers" wasn't very good sound-wise either.

RIP. Was Playing New York Scene yesterday... Only Sonny left now from the Art Kane photo

It's on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuctdfkQ_50

Kenny Burrell says here that he played with Parker

Have you actually emptied the trash? Putting something in the trash doesn't actually delete it in case you want to bring it back

It was on this tour that Louis recorded an episode of 'Desert Island Discs' for the BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009y1rb

This BBC film about Hifi in the UK in the 50s is hilarious all the way through and is well worth watching but it also contains a scene in HMV in Oxford Street of a row of booths with different music coming from each booth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9o_eZGaaMk The Hitchcock film was "Strangers On A Train"

Volume 8 is available. now, on Amazon music at least and I assume another platforms I am so glad that the series hasn't been abandoned

Unfortunately definitely the latter!

Nope

I well remember the review of Ole in Jazz Journal in, I guess, 1962 The reviewer unfavourably compared the playing of "George Lane" to Boyce Brown. Of course in those days we didn't know definitively who "George Lane" was and I am not sure that the reviewer had heard any of Eric's records.

Basie next please

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/feb/02/a-man-cannot-learn-without-discipline-jazz-guru-marshall-allen-on-life-with-sun-ra-and-turning-100

We should have had 7 AND 8 by now! I do hope this series hasn't died a death

Looking on streaming sites, it is claimed that 6/8 is on the 1953-1954 "Dizzy Gillespie in Chronology" CD. Manteca Theme / Contraste / Jungla / Rhumba-Finale / 6/8 (05-24-54) is shown as lasting 16:29 which implies 6/8 is not really there given the discogs timings. I can't listen to it to confirm

If you look at the "other images" on that discogs link you will see that there is a shot of side 2 which does indeed include Contraste/Jungla/Rhumba Finale https://www.discogs.com/release/12735433-Dizzy-Gillespie-And-His-Orchestra-Afro/image/SW1hZ2U6MzY4ODg4MDc= It appears you can get 12 minutes on an EP. Surprises me. There are also shots of the liners which for me are illegible unfortunately

Also the timing given for "6/8" (4:47) is very close to the timing of "Rumba-Finale", the third part of the suite. Sure looks as if you are right

I don't think that's right either, it was recorded in mono so any stereo issues are fake. "Pres and Teddy" was, as it happens, the first jazz LP I bought, in 1961

The sleeve notes, which can be seen on Discogs, clearly state that it is unreleased 🙂 It's by the larger group that appears on MDM and Lock Em Up

Hah. Me too but it was Leo Wright, not James Moody. Same night that I saw Coltrane and Dolphy. I'm old now but I was young then.

I have read through the explanation given here but I still do not understand why some tracks on "The OKEH Ellington" are not available for this series. What has happened since 1991, when "The OKEH Ellington" was issued, to bring about their unavailability? The changes of ownership seem to have been over by 1940. I don't see how the sale of EMI in 2012 is relevant.

Volume 2 now on Amazon and presumably other streaming services