Double or Nothin'

[catesta]

Can anyone give me some information on this date?

[Dmitry]

I don't have this one, so don't know if Lee is on all the tracks[doubt it].

Was this a Liberty date originally? I think the original LP cover is quite different.

Edited August 17, 2003 by Dmitry

[catesta]

According to Dusty Groove it was originally a Liberty release.

[P.D.]

Reggie has Morgan,Golson, Kelly, Middlebrooks , Persip

Stable mates has Morgan, Rosolino, Golson, Dick Shreve pno. Red Mitchell, Stan Levey

Celedia has Candoli, Rosolino, Cooper, Kelly, Middlebrooks, Persip

Moto , Wildwood Candoli, Morgan, Rosolino, Golson, Cooper, Shreve, Mitchell, Levey

The Champ Candoli, Cooper, Rosolino, Shreve, Mitchell, Levey

Blues After Dark Morgan, Golson, Kelly, Mitchell, Persip

Quicksilver, Bye Bye Blues Candoli, Rosolino, Cooper, Shreve, Mitchell, Levey

Taken from the Cd booklet

all recorded Hollywood Feb 14 and 27 1957

Edited August 15, 2003 by P.D.

[Jim R]

Original cover. Sorry- it was the biggest one I could find so far.

[catesta]

Thank you gents.

I assume it's a solid date?

[Jazzmoose]

You know, I picked this one up when I was in the midst of my "Lee Morgan Completist Fever", and I'm not sure I can even remember it...time to hit the shelves!

[DrJ]

Assuming this WAS indeed originally released on Liberty, and given Lee Morgan's popularity in particular with reissue fans...why the HELL hasn't Blue Note gotten around to reissuing this material legitimately!?!?!

[catesta]

It would be cool to see it from BN.

[Dmitry]

It came out on LIBERTY TOCJ-5376.

[Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All Stars and Charlie Persip's Jazz Statesmen /

Double Or Nothin'] (Liberty LRP-3045, LSP-7014)

*Conte Candoli(tp-1) Lee Morgan(tp-2) Frank Rosolino(tb-3)

Bob Cooper(ts-4) Benny Golson(ts-5) Wynton Kelly(p)

Wilfred Middlebrooks (b-6) Red Mitchell(b-7) Charlie Persip(ds)

#February 27, 1957 / Los Angels

+ Reggie of Chester -2, 4, 6

+ Celedia -1, 3, 5, 6

+ Blues After Dark -2, 4, 7

+ Wildwood -1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Judging by the fact that it was recorded between Dizzy Atmosphere and Lee Morgan Vol.3, with almost the same rhythm section and Benny Golson, it's probably a pretty good session.

The fact that it came out on TOCJ means that EMI does own it, and this Fresh Sounds cd is perhaps a boot.

I thing you dug up a good cd for BN to reissue!

[catesta]

Hell yea dude.

I'm not playin.' B)

[brownie]

This is a thoroughly enjoyable date and would be a great reissue with alternates.

There must be some lying around.

[BruceH]

If Blue Note re-issues this baby, I'll be in line to buy it! B)

[catesta]

Maybe Kevin B. can get someone in particular on the horn.

[Vincent, Paris]

This was recorded while the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band had a three-week stay in Los Angeles while touring the West Coast. As Howard Rumsey tells in his inspired liner notes, some of the younger members from the band - Lee Morgan, Wynton Kelly, Charli Persip, Benny Golson - went to the Lighthouse, Hermosa Beach, looking for some place to have a jam session and, probably, be able to judge by themselves some of the young West-Coasters, like a East/West, Black/White kind of confrontation. The session apparently smoked so much that Rumsey, then a new A&R for Liberty, suggested that they do it again in the studio, and the result is as great as you can imagine, if not as loose as a real jam.