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I guess I'll pull out my copy of this one this evening too - not least of all to see if I need to (re)file it under "mellow".
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Understandable that you spun this more than once (once you are on a "kick" for this kind of music). Just checked that series on Discogs (it wasn't too familiar to me). I guess I'll have to be on the lookout for these at our local #1 vinyl outlet. From time to time for no good reason at all (except that the covers sometimes aren't pristine) these Folkways items crop up in their clearance sale bins. Some time ago I picked up a copy of the "Music of the Eureka Brass Band" (Folkways FA 2462) there, as well as a reissue of the Young Tuxedo Brass Band LP on Atlantic - for just 1 EUR each. It's not music I'd care to listen to each week, but once you do spin these records it's a very special listening experience!
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Ha, I bought this back in 1990 when it was released - waaay before I could bring myself to buying a CD player. 😄 (I resisted the CD trend for several years into the 90s) All this because I figured this is music that I was highly unlikely to ever see the original releases of at affordable prices (and only part of the contents of this set were ever released on vinyl back in the day anyway). So I figured I'd better grab this set while it was available.
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What I'm saying now is just a spotty observation which may not be widely representative but it did strike me as surprising ... Yesterday I set up a stall at a local fleamarket and of course displayed my two crates of vinyl for sale (about 75% jazz with an emphasis on swing, plus a good bit of bop, cool and classic/trad/oldtime jazz, the rest being 50s R'n'R, R&B/blues plus some Easy Listening). Not that I sold a huge lot, but it was amazing how many youngish browsers (from their late teens to mid-20s student age) browsed the record bins (though it clearly said "Jazz" on the boxes ), and from some of their comments it was more than just curiosity. One chap (a University student) not only specifically asked for oldtime jazz (rare enough anyway ) but admitted liking this early roots music a lot, and went on to ask if by any chance I had any Bluegrass too. Sorry, no - but when he mentioned the Carter Family I tipped him to a few early Country string band artists to check out in addition to pre-Depression Classic Jazz, provided he'd be willing to deal with the lo-fi recording quality of the reissues of many of these (a good sign being that he already was aware of the problem ). Amazing moments, all in all, and maybe a sign that there is some subculture thing going on somewhere? Which BTW was confirmed by several Gen Z punters I saw pulling out records by the likes of Louis Armstrong or Bessie Smith at our local record clearout sale in April. The records were more of the "Best of " variety but seemed to reflect a willingness to "explore". Not a bad thing at any rate.
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Don Byas "A Tribute to Cannonball" (CBS)
Big Beat Steve replied to Big Beat Steve's topic in Discography
Thanks everyone! Amazing that this was held back for so long. A side note that may not be documented or known everywhere else: The writeup of the session in Jazz Magazine says that the original plans were to bring in Jimmy Woode as the bassist for this session, making it an ALL-expat lineup. But as the session seems to have been organized at rather short notice, Cannonball Adderley was unable to contact Jimmy Woode who was nowhere to be found. It turned out he was out playing gigs - somewhere in the Swedish province! So ever-dependable Pierre Michelot was called in. -
While reading the recently-published Don Byas biography ("Sax Expat") I chanced upon a highly affordable copy of the CBS "A Tribute to Cannonball" Don Byas/Bud Powell LP of 1961 and took it home (and like it a lot): https://www.discogs.com/de/master/407175-Don-Byas-Bud-Powell-A-Tribute-To-Cannonball Looking for period reviews of the record in my historical jazz magazines, however, I drew a blank, and the Discogs page seems to indicate that the above 1979 release actually was the original one. During my searches, though, I discoverd a 4-page photo spread on this very recording session ("Cannonball supervising a jam session of the exilees") published in the February 1962 issue of (French) "Jazz Magazine". In addition to other background info this states that "the session yielded enough material for a 45-minute record that Columbia will release in the USA in spring (i.e. of 1962), and it is going to be billed to The Kenny Clarke Quintet." Anyone among you fellow discophiles familiar with anything of that kind? I usually do trust Discogs for such basic facts, so is it really so that this session sat in the can until 1979? (The new Don Byas bio is remarkably vague about when this record actually hit the market and may or may have not added to the discographical awareness of the jazz public of Don Byas in his lifetime.)
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Sax Expat: Don Byas
Big Beat Steve replied to nighthawk68's topic in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...
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. -
Sax Expat: Don Byas
Big Beat Steve replied to nighthawk68's topic in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...
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. -
Sax Expat: Don Byas
Big Beat Steve replied to nighthawk68's topic in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...
Just received my shipping notice from Amazon. Anyone in the US already received their copy? (Just curious ...) -
Jazz eBooks on sale
Big Beat Steve replied to GA Russell's topic in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...
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"? ) -
Jazz eBooks on sale
Big Beat Steve replied to GA Russell's topic in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...
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)??
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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.
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Typo correction: ... that the additional tracks that are on one tape only come from a second set that was played
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Bruyninckx gives New York as the recording location.