Thanks for the recommendation. Dont have records with Praskin as leader but have heard his name here and then together with other european recordings.
He is also member in the Vaclav Zahradnik big band from CSSR which I have. But that is all I can remember.
Mercury Records 195J-44 [Japan] - Julian 'Cannonball' Adderley " Cannonball's Sharpshoters" - rec. 1958 -
Nice Inlay with an Julian Adderley discography compiled by Kioshi Koyama
Have the following versions of that composition:
crazy she calls me 1254 Atlantic (jap) The Jimmy Giuffre 3
crazy she calls me 3121 Vanguard Free Wheeling - Ted Brown Sextet
crazy she calls me 45956 RCA Victor (jap) The Horn`s Full-Jack Montrose Allstars
crazy she calls me 8209 Verve Very Cool - Lee Konitz
EmArCy / Mercury MG 36118 [Japan] - Lennie Niehaus ! I Swing For You" - rec. 1957
with
Lennie Niehaus (as) / Ed Leddey (tp) / Ken Shroyer (tb) / Bill Perkins (ts,fl) / Steve Perlow (bs) / Lou Levy (p) / Red Kelly (b) / Jerry McKenzie (dr)
EmArCy / Mercury [Japan] DMJ-5045 - Two groups rec. 1953 & 1954 Stockholm
a) Art Farmer / Jimmy Cleveland / Ake Persson /Arne Domnerus / Lars Gullin / Bengt Halberg / Simon Brehm /Allan Dawson
b) Ake Persson / Ed Gregory (Sahib Shihab) / Bjarne Nerem /Adian Acea / Joe Benjamin / Roy Haynes
No Info in the liner what Quincy has to do on both session. At least he was on european tour in 1953 with the Lionel Hampton band - probably arranging for the 1953 session?