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Getting ready for my first concert of the year, David Fathead Newman next Saturday:

David Newman--Heads Up (Atlantic)--love the title track (tenor), Delilah (on flute), and For Buster (on alto).

Who's in his band?

MG

The LP? It has Kirk Lightsey, Eddie Gladden, David Williams, and Steve Nelson. It's a good one (from 1986). Checking Amazon, it was on CD but appears long out of print.

The concert--I don't know yet.

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Getting ready for my first concert of the year, David Fathead Newman next Saturday:

David Newman--Heads Up (Atlantic)--love the title track (tenor), Delilah (on flute), and For Buster (on alto).

Who's in his band?

MG

The LP? It has Kirk Lightsey, Eddie Gladden, David Williams, and Steve Nelson. It's a good one (from 1986). Checking Amazon, it was on CD but appears long out of print.

The concert--I don't know yet.

Oh, I meant the concert. The album's one of my favourite Newmans; one of his best half dozen (though I think there are seven in his best half dozen). The two bonus trax on the CD are very, very, good, too.

Looking forward to a report on the gig.

MG

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Quincy Jones - The Dude- on A&M - recorded in 1981 - kind of a disco feel. Good in small doses. I play this every once in a while, along with a similar Isaac Hayes album of the same period. Chorus in the background. This puts me in mind of all the soundtracks from the Blaxploitation films of the time. Heavy drums behind Jones' big band.

Before that, Dave Brubeck's Greatest Hits. [Columbia label]

I have all the tracks on this collection on other albums, but it's nice to have them all on one. Brubeck was the start of my love affair with jazz with "Take Five".

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Yes, a typical problem with well-played Esquires is that they have been played on old 1950s gramaphones with knitting needles wired to tin cans. Fortunately, I think this one was treated with kid gloves. In good condition they usually sound very full and with lots of 'body'.

I've only one Esquire LP by Ray Bryant ( forget the name buts it's a solo date ex Prestige). The vinyl looks nice and shiny , is incredibly heavy ( almost like it's a shellac 78) but indeed sounds as if it's been to several hundred parties and been played with a rusty nail !!!

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That's the crunch - you have to find them in very good condition. After nearly 50 years and with use on old UK gramaphones, they can sound shagged out..

As mentioned, the pressings are very heavy and almost 'Lexington Flat Edge' standard. They don't make 'em like that any more.

One thing I like about them is that they usually list the Esquire telephone number ('MUSeum 1810') at the back. Images of olde worlde manual exchange operators at the British Museum ! :D (I guess Carlo Kramer and Co. must have been located in the vicinity of Bedford Square).

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That's the crunch - you have to find them in very good condition. After nearly 50 years and with use on old UK gramaphones, they can sound shagged out..

As mentioned, the pressings are very heavy and almost 'Lexington Flat Edge' standard. They don't make 'em like that any more.

One thing I like about them is that they usually list the Esquire telephone number ('MUSeum 1810') at the back. Images of olde worlde manual exchange operators at the British Museum ! :D (I guess Carlo Kramer and Co. must have been located in the vicinity of Bedford Square).

Well, I had to go and have a look, didn't I? Yes, mine have MUSeum 1810 on them too. Just think how much simpler things were in the early 60s!

Gigi Gryce, of course, wouldn't have been taken to a party, or no one would have asked him to play. The stuff I had, only two of which I've still got, was Jimmy Forrest, Gene Ammons, Scott/Turrentine, Singer/Shavers, King Curtis - I forget what else. All of them party fit and, within only a few years, looking and sounding like it.

Sometimes Esquire put different sleeves on their issues from the Prestige originals. I really love the sleeve they did for Jug's "Bad Bossa Nova"; red with white splurges on it and the huge word BAD! stamped right accross it as if it hadn't passed inspection! It was so much more truculent than the Prestige sleeve. I've kept that, even though I have the album on CD.

MG

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