Great US tenor players who DIDN'T record for Blue Note

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Richie Kamuca is on the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis album "Consummation", which someone was playing today - you I think

Not a BN date. The Jones/Lewis big band records were made for Solid State.

That one appears to have been issued on Blue Note, not Solid State, after Solid State was closed down by UA. Reissues from UA labels are segregated from the BN own sessions in the discography. Same applied to Jimmy McGriff's "Black pearl".

MG

[paul secor]

Don Byas?

Frank Wess?

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Don Byas?

Frank Wess?

Neither recorded for Blue Note.

MG

[Peter Friedman]

Gene Ammons is on the Bennie Green - Soul Stirrin" album on Blue Note.

Ralph Moore is on this Blue Note CD - Superblue 2.

[Big Wheel]

Richie Kamuca is on the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis album "Consummation", which someone was playing today - you I think

Not a BN date. The Jones/Lewis big band records were made for Solid State.

That one appears to have been issued on Blue Note, not Solid State, after Solid State was closed down by UA. Reissues from UA labels are segregated from the BN own sessions in the discography. Same applied to Jimmy McGriff's "Black pearl".

MG

If we're going to get that arbitrary about it we might as well just throw in all the Pacific Jazz/Roulette/Jubilee sessions in there that were reissued by EMI in the 1990s (and thus count Frank Wess). Consummation was produced by Sonny Lester, not Alfred Lion or Frank Wolff. It was given a Solid State catalogue number and Mosaic put it out on the The Complete Solid State Recordings of the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra. Saying that Kamuca "recorded for BN" because of the way Solid State's ownership was transferred is a stretch.

Edited June 7, 2010 by Big Wheel

[Pete C]

Pharoah Sanders is on two Don Cherry Blue Notes.

Never knew that. Perhaps I should look for those. Is one of them "Symphony for improvisers"?

MG

Yes - classic album. He also played on the very good Where Is Brooklyn.

Guy

Very good, but not in the same league, IMO, as Symphony for Improvisors, which is closer in form and style to Complete Communion.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Richie Kamuca is on the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis album "Consummation", which someone was playing today - you I think

Not a BN date. The Jones/Lewis big band records were made for Solid State.

That one appears to have been issued on Blue Note, not Solid State, after Solid State was closed down by UA. Reissues from UA labels are segregated from the BN own sessions in the discography. Same applied to Jimmy McGriff's "Black pearl".

MG

If we're going to get that arbitrary about it we might as well just throw in all the Pacific Jazz/Roulette/Jubilee sessions in there that were reissued by EMI in the 1990s (and thus count Frank Wess). Consummation was produced by Sonny Lester, not Alfred Lion or Frank Wolff. It was given a Solid State catalogue number and Mosaic put it out on the The Complete Solid State Recordings of the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra. Saying that Kamuca "recorded for BN" because of the way Solid State's ownership was transferred is a stretch.

It doesn't mention having had a Solid State catalogue no in this discography. You're obviously correct.

MG

[Peter Friedman]

Though not originally recorded by Blue Note:

James Clay is on the Blue Note CD - Tenorman - The Lawrence Marable Quartet

Paul Gonsalves is on the Blue Note CD - Togo Brava Suite - Duke Ellington