ListeningToPrestige

Big Beat Steve -- Time is not pressing on this project. Anything you can come up with will be appreciated.

Thanks to all of you. I guess the Joe Goldberg notes to Steamin' must be referencing the Jazz Podium review. I got Joe Goldberg's Jazz Masters of the Fifties when it first came out. My first wife had dated Goldberg. When she mentioned that, I told her I'd really like to meet him, but she told me no, he was her friend, and she wasn't sharing. So I never did get to. I will definitely look up the Lewis Porter biography. Thanks, Mark, you always come through. Big Beat Steve -- if you can find the Jazz Podium story, that would be great -- but it's not life or death for, so if it's too much trouble..,. This will only be a couple of sentences in a long book.

For my book on Prestige Records, I'm looking for contemporary critical quotes questioning Miles's judgment in putting Coltrane into his group.

I wonder how often Monk's music got referred to as dreamy and sexy.

Jsngry -- Thanks a lot. Just what I was looking for.

This is for my book on Prestige, but I'm looking for what must have been an album on Columbia. There's a very weird liner note on the back, from a noted jazz critic, where he talks about his teenager daughter hearing a Monk recording and saying "He's cool -- he sounds sort of like Tim Hardin." Or something like that. Ring a bell with anyone?

I'm writing a book about Prestige, and I'm going to do a chapter on their album covers. I have the coffee table book of Prestige covers, but it doesn't have all of them. Well, of course, it couldn't. I'm probably going to have to cop out and say "numerous covers" or something like that.

Anyone have any idea how many covers David X. Young created for Prestige?

Can anyone tell me anything about the reviews the Modern Jazz Quartet got for their early albums on Prestige, particularly the first 10-inch album with La Ronde and Vendome?

Thank you.

Does anyone have the Roulette album, Count Basie Presents the Eddie Davis Trio + Joe Newman? I'm trying to quote from Barry Ulanov's liner notes (from the discogs screen shot) and a couple of words are too blurred. He says: Little Shirley Scott is an astonishing musician. She has a big man’s power at the manuals and pedals. As the (unintelligible) pours force and the rhythmic impulse gathers force, one finds it hard to believe that this girl weighs, at most, one hundred pounds. But the power, effective as it is, is not Shirley’s most compelling contribution. It is rather, I think, the surrealist (unintelligible) with which she decorates the ballads. Help?

On one of the other days, Mike Stoller is credited on piano, so I texted his son Peter, who's a friend. It turns out Stoller produced the album, so Peter is going to run it down for me. On edit...and success! Peter has the album, there are photos from the session included. It's the right Charles Brown.

Here's the personnel from one day -- the sessions were over several days, and varied slightly. T-Bone Walker (vcl,g) acc by Marvin Stamm, Danny Stiles (tp,flhrn) Joe Farrell, Frank Vicari (ts,fl) Seldon Powell (bar,ts,fl) John Tropea (el-sitar) David Nadien, Paul Gershman, Julius Brand, Emanuel "Manny" Green, Leo Kahn, Harry Glickman, Karen Jones, Fred Buldrini (vln) Theodore Israel, Harold Coletta (viola) George Ricci, Charles McCracken (cello) and Gerry Mulligan (bar) James Booker (p) Charles Brown (el-p) Wilton Felder (el-b) Paul Humphrey (d) Hollywood & New York, 1973 Stormy Monday Reprise 6483, (G)936247758-2 [CD]

Charles Brown has all too common a name, and it can fuck up discographers. Tom Lord's jazz discographical data bass has Charles Brown who played congas on a Coltrane session, and Charles Brown who played tenor sax with the Detroit Jazz Composers orchestra, both cross-referenced to Charles "Drifting Blues" Brown, obviously mistakes. But then he has T-Bone Walker leading a group of jazz all-stars in 1973, with Charles Brown listed on organ, again cross-referenced. Another mistake? Lots of piano players also play organ occasionally, but I never heard of my Charles Brown doing it. And this is an all-star jazz band, not his normal company, although he did play with jazz musicians occasionally. On the other hand, he and Walker are both blues guys, and both veterans of the Central Avenue scene of the 1940s, so I guess it's possible, Two friends are on the session, including Warren Bernhardt on piano, and I could ask them, but they're both dead. Any ideas?

No one has mentioned Little Willie Jackson, who consistently blew his ass off in Joe Liggins' band,