Victor Feldman

[mikeb]

Can anyone provide me with the year of this LP?:

Victor Feldman, A Taste Of Honey And A Taste Of Bossa Nova Infinity INXLP5000

Is anyone familiar with this date? Opinions? Has this been reissued on disc?

Thanks in advance!

[JohnS]

I've never heard the album but Lord lists the date as "early 60s".

[mikeweil]

Bruyninckx does not give more accurate details - but it sounds interesting, with Buddy Collette, Clifford Scott etc.

[mikeb]

Thank you for the info!

Any other players known besides Collette and Scott (and Feldman )?

[Daniel A]

It's closer to easy listening than the typical jazz-bossa album of the day. Minimal solo space, which is used very cautiously too.

I think this album was also released as "Love Me with All Your Heart" on Vee-Jay. The year of release (possibly recording) is given as 1964 in this discography:

http://www.bsnpubs.com/veejay/veejayb.html

Look for catalog no. VJ*-1096

[mikeweil]

Buddy Collette (flute, tenor sax) Victor Feldman (piano, vibes) Leroy Vinegar (bass) Ron Jefferson (drums)

A Taste of honey

Valerie

New Dehli

John Brown's Battle Hymn

Clifford Scott (tenor sax, flute) Laurindo Almeida (guitar) Victor Feldman (piano, vibes) Al McKibbon (bass) Frank Guerrero (drums)

Theme from 9073

Moon River

On Green Dolphin Street

Anna

Nino Tempo (tenor sax) Victor Feldman (piano, vibes) Bob Whitlock (bass) Colin Bailey (drums)

Fly me to the moon

I left my heart in San Francisco

Walk on the wild side

[mikeweil]

Look for catalog no. VJ*-1096

This is what's listed for that release:

VJ*-1096 - Love Me With All Your Heart - Victor Feldman [1964]

Love Me With All Your Heart*

I Left My Heart In San Francisco

Fly Me To The Moon

Valerie

Walk On The Wild Side

Hello Dolly*

The Girl from Ipanema*

A Taste Of Honey

Green Dolphin Street

Moon River

Anna

New Delhi

Some differences - marked *. Maybe they had unreleased material or whatever. Bruyninckx also lists the VeeJay LP but does not connect the two. The personnel on the VeeJay LP only says "Victor Feldman and his Instrumentalists" according to Bruyninckx.

Edited December 12, 2003 by mikeweil

[Teasing the Korean]

Side 2 of the soundtrack LP for David and Lisa by Mark Lawrence (Ava AS-21) consists of "Jazz Impressions of David and Lisa" by the Victor Feldman All-Stars.  My copy of the LP does not credit the musicians.  Have they been identified anyplace? 

[Chuck Nessa]

Feldman's Ava recordings via Bruynincks:

-Soviet Jazz Themes- : Vic Feldman All Stars : Nat Adderley (cnt) Harold Land (ts) Vic Feldman (vib) Joe
Zawinul (p) Bob Whitlock (b) Frank Butler (d)
Hollywood, Ca., October 26, 1962
Ritual Ava LP19
Blue church blues -
Madrigal -
Carmell Jones (tp) Harold Land (ts) Vic Feldman (p,vib) Herb Ellis (g) Bob Whitlock (b) Frank Butler (d)
Hollywood, Ca., November 12, 1962
Vic Ava LP19
Polyushko polye -
Gennadi -
Vic Feldman Trio : poss pers Vic Feldman (vib) Bob Whitlock (b) Frank Butler (d)
Los Angeles, Ca., March 1963
63E053 Theme from "David and Liza" Ava LP21
David and Liza’s love song -
Paree, paree, paree -
63E057 Theme from "Lawrence of Arabia" -

[Teasing the Korean]

On October 8, 2019 at 8:20 AM, Chuck Nessa said:

Feldman's Ava recordings via Bruynincks:

-Soviet Jazz Themes- : Vic Feldman All Stars : Nat Adderley (cnt) Harold Land (ts) Vic Feldman (vib) Joe
Zawinul (p) Bob Whitlock (b) Frank Butler (d)
Hollywood, Ca., October 26, 1962
Ritual Ava LP19
Blue church blues -
Madrigal -
Carmell Jones (tp) Harold Land (ts) Vic Feldman (p,vib) Herb Ellis (g) Bob Whitlock (b) Frank Butler (d)
Hollywood, Ca., November 12, 1962
Vic Ava LP19
Polyushko polye -
Gennadi -
Vic Feldman Trio : poss pers Vic Feldman (vib) Bob Whitlock (b) Frank Butler (d)
Los Angeles, Ca., March 1963
63E053 Theme from "David and Liza" Ava LP21
David and Liza’s love song -
Paree, paree, paree -
63E057 Theme from "Lawrence of Arabia" -

Thanks.  What is interesting is that only three musicians are listed, but it is a quartet with piano and vibes.   Do we assume that Feldman played both piano and vibes, via overdubs, or was the pianist or vibist not credited for contractual reasons?  The pianist uses some Bill Evans-esque devices, including ascending triads derived from the melodic minor scale, but otherwise it does not necessarily sound like Bill Evans.