Eddie Bert fans?

[brownie]

He's also on some of Gil Mellé's BN sides,

Really good contributions from Eddie Bert (also from Urbie Green) on the album:

[Kyo]

Really good contributions from Eddie Bert (also from Urbie Green) on the album:

This is on the way to me as we speak.

[king ubu]

Larry, how about Urbie Green, wouldn't he fit in there with Dennis & Bert, too?

I like Green, who was reputed to be (and certainly sounds like) a genius instrumentalist as well as a very tasty player, but I don't think he had as much saxophone conception going as Bert and Dennis did. Also, a certain rounded-off shapeliness of phrasing seems to come so readily to Green (as did just about everything else on the trombone) that I feel that he often rested content at that admitttedly elegant level, while for Bert and Dennis it was more like ever onward. BTW, Green fans should look for the Fresh Sound reissue (on a single CD) of his two (or two of his, don't recall which it is) ABC-Paramount albums, a small group date with Jimmy Raney and a big band album with John Carisi charts, including "Springsville," which features Green and is treated as a kind of walking ballad. The big band date is not as adventurous as one might wish -- the goal seems to have been to produce a musically superior version of Les Elgart -- but within those limits the playing and writing are very good.

Thanks, that makes sense yes... that ease of Green's though can be very tasty indeed!

I have the date with Raney (and McKenna) on another spanish label (Jazz Beat), paired there with the 10 inch album "Urbie Green and His Band" (which also came out in German Membran's "Original Long Play Albums" series, paired with another 10 incher by Vic Dickenson, those were already paired on a 12 inch LP). That's a fine disc, too! The 10 incher has Ruby Braff, Med Flory, Frank Wess, Sir Charles Thompson, Freddie Green, Aaron Bell and Bobby Donaldson. The disc is filled out by three Vinnie Burke All Stars cuts with Green and Jimmy Raney (with Costa/Burke/Morello and Al Cohn, the remaining material was just the trio, I assume).

If someone can help me find a CD of Eddie's Savoy album Encore that would be greatly appreciated.

It's part of the "Crosstown" 2CD package, as are Bert's two other Savoys. Mighty fine stuff! I think the date with Monterose is spread over "Encore" and the third (besides "Musician of the Year") album, so getting that package is good anyway, to have it all in one place.

Wow, thanks a lot! I somehow missed this compilation. Yeah, it's from our Andorran friends

once again but since Savoy still can't be bothered to release their stuff in complete form

(the Montage compilation contained the rest of the Crosstown material and some other

tracks from various artists that I've been waiting for them to issue on CD as well).

So the sound quality of the Fresh Sound set is good then?

Sounds fresh

Seriously, I've never been bothered by the sounds, it's not great (I'm no audiophile, though, don't forget that!) but it's good enough. The first album ("Musician of the Year") works with trombone overdubs (very nicely arranged stuff) and that might have had a bit of an influence on sound anyway, I can imagine. Anyway, I just popped in the disc, background playing while working (and posting, and downloading... multi-tasking as I do too often) and it definitely sounds ok to me.

[king ubu]

Really good contributions from Eddie Bert (also from Urbie Green) on the album:

This is on the way to me as we speak.

No connection with Bert and Green, but his (Mellé's) two OJCs are up again in the current Concord sale, and they're mighty fine!