New batch from Fresh Sound Records

[EKE BBB]

Just received an email with this batch of upcoming FSR CDs:

FRESH SOUND RECORDS

FSRCD 428 CHET BAKER - ART PEPPER / Complete PLAYBOYS Sessions 1956 (DeLuxe Digipack)

FSRCD 429 JOHNNY MATHIS / A New Sound in Popular Music (DeLuxe Digipack)

FSRCD 430 BOB BROOKMEYER Septet - Octet / Kansas City Sounds

FSRCD 431 EAST-WEST JAZZ SEPTET / The Birdland Stars On Tour 1956

FSRCD 432 AL HAIG TRIO / 03/13/54 One-Day Session (Vogue - Esoteric Recordings)

FSRCD 433 RANDY WESTON Trio - Sextet / From 52nd Street to Africa

FSRCD 434 ZOOT SIMS Quartet / Plays Alto, Tenor and Baritone (DeLuxe Digipack)

FSRCD 435 JOE PUMA / The Jazz Guitar of Joe Puma - Featuring Bill Evans

FSRCD 436 URBIE GREEN Quintet - Big Band / All About Urbie Green

FSRCD 437 JAMES CLAY / Tenorman James Clay - The Kid From Dallas (DeLuxe Digipack)

FSRCD 438 GEORGE HANDY & His Orchestra / Pensive

FSRCD 439 JOE HOLIDAY & His Band / Holiday For Jazz

FSRCD 440 PAT MORAN / This is Pat Moran - Complete Trio Sessions Featuring Scott LaFaro

FRESH SOUND JAZZ CITY

FSRCD 2240 TEDDY CHARLES Tentet / Vibrations (DeLuxe Digipack)

FSRCD 2241 PETE JOLLY / Quartet, Quintet - Sextet- BMCD 6053 MONTE EASTER / The Complete Recordings, Volume 1 (1945-1951)

BLUE MOON

BMCD 6054 MONTE EASTER / The Complete Recordings, Volume 2 (1952-1960)

BMCD 6055 MYRA TAYLOR, EARL JACKSON, ELLA MAE MORSE / Kansas City Jumps. Swingin’ Small Combos Kansas City Style, Volume 3 (1940-1949)

Edited February 7, 2007 by EKE BBB

[Big Beat Steve]

Joe Holiday?

THE Joe Holiday that Prestige, OJC and whoever have steadfastly refused to include in any of their reissue programs through the decades although he was fairly prolific in the very early years of Prestige?

May not be 100% essential listening but a nice example of that era anyway.

Thanx, Fresh Sound!

[brownie]

Joe Holiday's 'Holiday In Jazz' was a Decca album where the leader had interesting players (Blue Mitchell, Thad Jones, Art Farmer, Eddie Bert, Cecil Payne, etc...) along.

OJC did release a CD 'Mambo Jazz' that gathered the five sessions Holiday led for Prestige that still seems to be available

[Big Beat Steve]

Thanks for the info, Brownie. Never saw this OJC CD on Joe Holiday anywhere before at all (and certainly no vinyl reissues ever ...).

So the FS reissue includes his final leader date.

[mikeweil]

Larry Young's Prestige LP Testifyin', which features Holiday as a sideman, is also on CD:

(Concord website link)

The Holiday CD brownie mentioned is nice, available and includes all his leader dates for the label:

(Concord website link)

[brownie]

Details from the Joe Holiday release are available at the FreshSound site.

Click on Holiday for Jazz

[king ubu]

What's that Randy Weston disc? Not a repackage of Freshsound's own Dawn reissue, I hope? That's the only one from that time that's got trio and group (quintet? not sextet, I think) tracks on it I can think of...

[couw]

What's that Randy Weston disc?

http://www.ejazzlines.com/c847/RANDY-WESTO...ICA-p54996.html

[king ubu]

What's that Randy Weston disc? Not a repackage of Freshsound's own Dawn reissue, I hope? That's the only one from that time that's got trio and group (quintet? not sextet, I think) tracks on it I can think of...

Just checked, details are up on the website - all new to me, no idea where this had originlly been released:

Trio & Sextet From 52nd Street To Africa - Randy Weston

Featuring: Randy Weston (p), Ray Copeland (tp), Frank Haynes (ts), George Joyner, Bill Wood (b), Gilbert G.T. Hoogan, Lennie McBrowne (d), Big Black (conga)

REFERENCE: FSRCD 433 | BAR CODE: - | PRICE: 9.50 €

Although he has achieved neither the popularity of Peterson nor the mystique of Monk, Randy Weston is one of the most important contributors to modern music, both as a pianist and as a composer. In the 1950s he became one of the first soloists to compose and perform jazz successfully in waltz time. He was also among the earliest to bring to his music a sense of the importance of his African heritage, in his search for "the real link between Africa and American jazz. This is the link I want to get into", he said. "I feel it will really make jazz grow".

While many of his works illustrate either one or the other of these

initiatives, Weston has also retained his ties with the swinging essence of jazz represented by the Gillespie-Parker school of the 40’s.

Tracklisting:

1. Announcement by Allan Morrison 1:01

2. Hi-Fly 6:39

3. Expert From Bantu suite 9:27

4. Beef Blues Stew 6:31

5. Introducing by Allan Morisson 0:42

6. Machine Blues 4:33

7. Blues For Strayhorn 10:34

8. Sad Beauty Blues 10:44

9. Afro Black 18:06

Randy Weston Trio:

Tracks 1-6: Randy Weston (p), George joyner (b), Gilbert "G.T." Hoogan (d).

Live at The Newport Jazz Festival, July 5, 1958.

Randy Weston Sextet:

Tracks 7-9: Ray Copeland (t), Frank Haynes (ts), Randy Weston (p), Bill Wood (b), Lennie McBrowne (d), Big Black (cg).

Live at Both/And, San Francisco, October 1966.

All tracks composed by Randy Weston.

[brownie]

Yes, I have my eyes on that Randy Weston Trio & Sextet too!

At long last I will be able to listen to those Randy Weston at Newport sides. Never could find a copy of that MetroJazz album at a reasonable price.

The sides with Ray Copeland and Frank Haynes were issued on a Trip vinyl that I never saw.

Edited February 7, 2007 by brownie

[king ubu]

What's that Randy Weston disc?

http://www.ejazzlines.com/c847/RANDY-WESTO...ICA-p54996.html

Thanks, I'd been searching around myself while you already posted.

[king ubu]

Yes, I have my eyes on that Randy Weston Trio & Sextet too!

At long last I will be able to listen to those Randy Weston at Newport sides. Never could find a copy of that MetroJazz album at a reasonable price.

The sides with Ray Copeland and Frank Haines were issued on a Trip vinyl that I never saw.

What where the Newport tracks paired with?

Haynes with Weston, that's at least interesting, and anyway good to see another disc out with Haynes!

[J.A.W.]

What's that Randy Weston disc? Not a repackage of Freshsound's own Dawn reissue, I hope? That's the only one from that time that's got trio and group (quintet? not sextet, I think) tracks on it I can think of...

Just checked, details are up on the website - all new to me, no idea where this had originlly been released:

Trio & Sextet From 52nd Street To Africa - Randy Weston

Featuring: Randy Weston (p), Ray Copeland (tp), Frank Haynes (ts), George Joyner, Bill Wood (b), Gilbert G.T. Hoogan, Lennie McBrowne (d), Big Black (conga)

REFERENCE: FSRCD 433 | BAR CODE: - | PRICE: 9.50 €

Although he has achieved neither the popularity of Peterson nor the mystique of Monk, Randy Weston is one of the most important contributors to modern music, both as a pianist and as a composer. In the 1950s he became one of the first soloists to compose and perform jazz successfully in waltz time. He was also among the earliest to bring to his music a sense of the importance of his African heritage, in his search for "the real link between Africa and American jazz. This is the link I want to get into", he said. "I feel it will really make jazz grow".

While many of his works illustrate either one or the other of these

initiatives, Weston has also retained his ties with the swinging essence of jazz represented by the Gillespie-Parker school of the 40’s.

Tracklisting:

1. Announcement by Allan Morrison 1:01

2. Hi-Fly 6:39

3. Expert From Bantu suite 9:27

4. Beef Blues Stew 6:31

5. Introducing by Allan Morisson 0:42

6. Machine Blues 4:33

7. Blues For Strayhorn 10:34

8. Sad Beauty Blues 10:44

9. Afro Black 18:06

Randy Weston Trio:

Tracks 1-6: Randy Weston (p), George joyner (b), Gilbert "G.T." Hoogan (d).

Live at The Newport Jazz Festival, July 5, 1958.

Randy Weston Sextet:

Tracks 7-9: Ray Copeland (t), Frank Haynes (ts), Randy Weston (p), Bill Wood (b), Lennie McBrowne (d), Big Black (cg).

Live at Both/And, San Francisco, October 1966.

All tracks composed by Randy Weston.

Yes, I have my eyes on that Randy Weston Trio & Sextet too!

At long last I will be able to listen to those Randy Weston at Newport sides. Never could find a copy of that MetroJazz album at a reasonable price.

The sides with Ray Copeland and Frank Haines were issued on a Trip vinyl that I never saw.

One can never have too much Frank Haynes!

[brownie]

Yes, I have my eyes on that Randy Weston Trio & Sextet too!

At long last I will be able to listen to those Randy Weston at Newport sides. Never could find a copy of that MetroJazz album at a reasonable price.

The sides with Ray Copeland and Frank Haines were issued on a Trip vinyl that I never saw.

What where the Newport tracks paired with?

Haynes with Weston, that's at least interesting, and anyway good to see another disc out with Haynes!

The Randy Weston set was paired with a Lem Winchester set on the MetroJazz vinyl 'New Faces at Newport'.

Mikeweil has been taunting me with claims he is the proud owner of that rare vinyl!

[mikeweil]

..... and I was just about ready to offer my vinyl to brownie after making a CDR with my friend's Alesis masterlink ....

Seriously - if you want it, send me a PM. The Weston session is more important to me, and I reckon the CD will sound okay.

I have that rare Trip LP too, but it has some annoying surface noise on one side. It's a very good live date with a long solo by Big Black.

[mikeweil]

The first four tracks on the Fresh Sound Joe Holiday were made for Prestige and, of course, are on the CD posted above as well. But the remainder is rare stuff.

[mikeweil]

The Zoot Sims includes a rare ABC album which I was never able to find (just to get even with brownie ... .

He overdubs four saxes in fine George Handy arrangements.

[brownie]

The Zoot Sims includes a rare ABC album which I was never able to find (just to get even with brownie ... .

He overdubs four saxes in fine George Handy arrangements.

I have two of those: the French issue of it (on Vega, if I remember well) and later managed to get the original on ABC!

Are we even?

Mike, thanks for the Weston offer. I'll wait for the FreshSound release!

Edited February 7, 2007 by brownie

[mikeweil]

Well, you still don't have the Winchester tracks ........

but otherwise I'm certain you have plenty of vinyl that I never saw, not to talk about other ways to relate to those black discs.

[Big Beat Steve]

The Zoot Sims includes a rare ABC album which I was never able to find (just to get even with brownie ... .

He overdubs four saxes in fine George Handy arrangements.

I have two of those: the French issue of it (on Vega, if I remember well) and later managed to get the original on ABC!

This one seems to have been around in various guises through the years, though. I have it as a 60s (or early 70s?) U.K. reissue on the MFP label.

[felser]

It's a very good live date with a long solo by Big Black.

Isn't that an oxymoron? I end each track on 'Night of the Cookers' when Big Black starts to do his thing, go onto the next one.

[mikeweil]

Maybe you simply don't dig conga drummers - I find he was a real original (and he was respected by his collegaues as such, judging from what I was told), and his solo on Afro Black is extended but very well done.

Don't know how he is on the Hubbard - never heard that one.

Edited February 7, 2007 by mikeweil

[couw]

Don't know how he is on the Hubbard - never heard that one.

his solo is good on itself, but it's sticks out like a sore thumb in the performance (which isn't cooking too hot to begin with).

[king ubu]

Don't know how he is on the Hubbard - never heard that one.

his solo is good on itself, but it's sticks out like a sore thumb in the performance (which isn't cooking too hot to begin with).

huh? so the solo of his is the best of it all? none other good on itself solos there, or not many, right? maybe we should just have a disc "Big Black's Night of the Cookers", theme, conga solo, outro for all of the too long tunes?

As for Weston, he often uses conga drummers, in fact even in the trio he more often has his drummer (Neil Clark it was in recent years, I think) playing african drums as he opts for the drum kit. And Weston is the one musician where I never ask any question about congueros... he is beyond any slightest tiny bit of doubt, he's just a towering giant, only people haven't noticed that. It's not too late, as he's already going strong! I really wish he'd had that big break he deserved long ago!

[jazzbo]

I ordered the Weston from dustygroove last night. I have both sessions on vinyl. . . pretty worn vinyl, bought cheap and I know why, so this cd is welcome.