Big Beat Steve

Just received my copy through the mail. Looking forward to some Easter reading. But I'm beginning to see why the paperback edition is rather affordable and waaay cheaper than the hardcover edition ($30 vs $99): Print-on-Demand! My copy has this statement on the final inside page: Printed in France by Amazon, Bretigny-sur-Orge, FR But printing quality and photo reproduction look absolutely OK.

Thanks! Both for the review (which is helpful, though I guess I'd betteer not read it again before having finished the book - just so as not to be sidetracked unduly ) and for the link to Knauer's website. Excellent news that Wolfram Knauer's reviews will keep coming on his own site. They have always been a highlight of the Darmstadt Jazz Institute website, but were sorely missed (at least by me ) when he went into retirement and that section of the Institute site went dormant.

Just received my shipping notice from Amazon. Anyone in the US already received their copy? (Just curious ...)

All too involved for a book like this IMO, particularly if you care about the photos for permanent and TANGIBLE reference. Would it be possible to EASILY print out Kindle contents page by page by now? Besides, do you actually OWN a Kindle ebook forever and ever? Too many snags, really ... (Or should I say "Emperor's Clothes"? )

The "Sittin' In" book on Kindle? What a waste of presentation and format ... (regardless of how cheap that ebook version is). I can only imagine this will trigger some into getting the "real thing".

I'm not familiar with these labels but broadly know who Sonny Lester was (as a producer). So I felt the need to read up on him online now and see that he has an entry dedicated to him on a site named "spaceagepop". 😉 So maybe this (also) explains that (in terms of immediate Soul jazz credentials with the harder-core jazz fraternity)??

Brief but very interesting, thanks Allen ... I marked and copied the entire text (plus the Randall's Island photo of Clyde Hart) into a Word file for permanent future reference. No popups there, but of course I'll have to pull the sound samples one by one from my collection.

Digging this up now ... I had bookmarked the above site on a previous PC of mine and remembering the valuable info it contained, I now found a printout of a few excerpts from that site in my files. But trying to access the site it seems it has gone belly up. Or did I overlook something? Does anyone know if that site is really dead ot if its contents maybe have migrated to a different site under a totally different link? Thanks in advance.

OK, so the "blame" is on them ... 😄

Somehow it looks like Riverside contracted an artist who was more used to painting pics of down-home country blues artists for the cover artwork of that "Portait of Wes" LP.

Typo correction: ... that the additional tracks that are on one tape only come from a second set that was played

Thanks for your comments. I was just puzzled that the fact that there are two tapes in circulation where one tape has additional tracks (beyond the idential tracks on both tapes) would necessarily mean that there were two sets played. So if I got you right you presume that the additional tracks that are one tape only come from a second set that was payed?

A question from the sideline: But if it is a "2nd set", could it have been the "same tape"? Surely they never did play two sets (with the same set list of tunes) in EXACTLY the same way, note for note? So either it is the same tape that so far was incomplete and now has been expanded, or it was a second set and therefore is a differnet tape now.

Thanks for your diligent research, Niko. So I checked the two Down Beat issues close to the 10 Feb. 1955 recording date of the Nat Pierce session for WODDY HERMAN now. But nothing precise ... The 9 Feb. 1955 issue says Woody Herman had just made a private dance date at the Sheraton Hotel in Detroit. Nothing about tour data in the "Band routes" sections at all. The 23 Feb. issue states he was in the Ohio area in the second half of January. The 9 March issue reports that "Woody Herman broke several attendance marks on Saturday night at the Statler" but does not say which Saturday exactly . The 23 March issue says "Dick Jurgens succeeded Woody Herman at the Cafe Rouge of the Hotel Statler" (New York) (but none of these reports about New Yokr happenings state if the residence of the Herman band extended back into early February). Anyway, this is at least an indication that the orchestra was at the East Coast during that period.

10 February 1955. The Down Beat issues of 26 January and 9 February 1955 did not list any tour activities of the Stan Kenton band, neither in the "Band Routes" (tour data) section nor anywhere else.