New Lester Young set from Mosaic Records coming

[sidewinder]

Nice to see a Nat Cole vinyl set up there !

[Fred]

4 hours ago, sidewinder said:

4 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Nice to see a Nat Cole vinyl set up there !

Nice to see a Nat Cole vinyl set up there !

Nope. CD.

[miles65]

10 hours ago, Fred said:

Just arrived! It's on the shelf with his sisters and brothers.

Nice collection and Dick Tracy art work to boot.

[Fred]

9 hours ago, miles65 said:

Nice collection and Dick Tracy art work to boot.

Thanks. Love music and comics.

[miles65]

2 hours ago, Fred said:

Thanks. Love music and comics.

That makes two of us.

[Quasimado]

On 2016/7/31 at 2:47 PM, Steve Gray said:

I would love to hear your views on the alternative take of "Lady Be Good'.

Medjuck's comment aside, nobody has attempted to directly answer this. The released version is one of the classic solos - and an alternate take has surfaced ... no opinions? Q.

[sidewinder]

On 5 August 2016 at 8:44 PM, Fred said:

Nope. CD.

Nice !

[Fer Urbina]

On 06/08/2016 at 0:33 PM, Quasimado said:

Medjuck's comment aside, nobody has attempted to directly answer this. The released version is one of the classic solos - and an alternate take has surfaced ... no opinions? Q.

IMHO, Lester's solo on the alternative take of Lady Be Good is less coherent and fluid than the master (takes went unreleased for a reason). He seems less assertive than on the master, although this impression may be due to having listened to the master so many times that I've memorized it. Interestingly, he seems to stick to the same ideas for the bridge, and his playing on the bridge of the second chorus is the bit most similar to the released take.

F 

Edited August 7, 2016 by Fer Urbina

[Quasimado]

3 hours ago, Fer Urbina said:

IMHO, Lester's solo on the alternative take of Lady Be Good is less coherent and fluid than the master (takes went unreleased for a reason). He seems les assertive than on the master, although this impression may be due to having listened to the master so many times that I've memorized it. Interestingly, he seems to stick to the same ideas for the bridge, and his playing on the bridge of the second chorus is the bit most similar to the released take.

F 

Thanks for that. I suspected as much, and it seems to fit with Loren Shoenberg's quote. Still, it's Lester at a peak - I've got to hear it!

But then I have so much of this set already! Q

[jazzbo]

That's the dilemma most of us face/faced. I took the plunge in large part because I trusted that the material on this set would sound better than it has on CD before. And I believe that to be the case.

[medjuck]

Couple of questions:

1) Schoenberg mentions a live Famous Door recording of Blue and Sentimental with a vocal by Helen Humes.  Anyone know if this is available anywhere?

2) On "I'm Fer It Too" from the Dicky Wells December '43 session Freddie Green takes an introductory solo.  Does he solo on any other recordings?  (I know he does at the Goodman Carnegie Hall  concert-- supposedly unwillingly. )

[Fer Urbina]

8 hours ago, medjuck said:

2) On "I'm Fer It Too" from the Dicky Wells December '43 session Freddie Green takes an introductory solo.  Does he solo on any other recordings?  (I know he does at the Goodman Carnegie Hall  concert-- supposedly unwillingly. )

He does, most notably on four tracks from the Count Basie/Joe Williams Roulette LP Memories Ad Lib. 

I blogged about this some time ago (here) and also built a Spotify playlist of Freddie Green's solos.

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[Fer Urbina]

9 hours ago, medjuck said:

1) Schoenberg mentions a live Famous Door recording of Blue and Sentimental with a vocal by Helen Humes.  Anyone know if this is available anywhere?

Looks like it's from a Bill Savory acetate: https://jazzlives.wordpress.com/2013/08/28/a-few-beautiful-seconds-of-lester-young-on-clarinet-the-famous-door-1938/

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[medjuck]

9 hours ago, Fer Urbina said:

Looks like it's from a Bill Savory acetate: https://jazzlives.wordpress.com/2013/08/28/a-few-beautiful-seconds-of-lester-young-on-clarinet-the-famous-door-1938/

 

Well I guess Loren would have access to that. 

[gmonahan]

On 8/8/2016 at 9:17 AM, medjuck said:

Well I guess Loren would have access to that. 

That he would! It's not on either of the two cds or the older lp of Famous Door material I have.

 

gregmo

[brownie]

My set (#899)  was waiting for me when I returned home after several week away.

Digging the music now  ☺☺☺☺☺

[carnivore]

I'm knocked out by the sound quality - I've been listening to the Deccas for more than 50 years - from every kind of source but I'm hearing details now that I've never heard before. A drum figure here - a previously unnoticed sax passage there - Also the 'textures' of the soloists' sounds is remarkable and a new experience..  It's the best I've ever heard Herschel Evans who really gains stature on this set.  Loren's notes are excellent.

[xybert]

I went ahead and ordered this set. I have a second hand copy of the Basie Decca set and most of the rest in a (admittedly not too bad) PD set, so it'll be nice to have it all collected new, legit and in good sound.

[gmonahan]

Loren has a nice quote in the notes from some guy named Allen Lowe about Basie's piano playing on the November 9, 1938 session.

 

gregmo

[bluesoul]

Already on backorder, but only until the end of September. 

[miles65]

Set 542 just arrived. Will start listening tonight.

[xybert]

Have finally had a chance to really dig in to this set over these last few weeks. Great stuff.

[Quasimado]

The alternate take of "Lady be Good" is superb. You need both - the original and the alternate!   Q

[medjuck]

That first Jones-Smith session is so great.  Does anyone know what kind of reaction there was when the two records were released? 

[gmonahan]

4 hours ago, Captain Howdy said:

Has anyone compared the Decca tracks to the Basie CDs on the Hep label (Listen...You Shall Hear, Do You Wanna Jump, and Basie Rhythm)? Between those three CDs are all of Basie's Decca sides except for the small groups. 

Pretty sure there's been at least one thread on this. If I remember correctly, the consensus was that the Heps were much better than the Decca GRP discs, though the new Mosaic is, I think, at least as good as the Heps.

 

 

 

gregmo