Verve new releases

[mjzee]

Release date August 31:

This collection presents every track he cut for Norman Granz’s pre-Verve labels, plus 16 rare singles recorded for MGM, and 10 previously unreleased alternate tracks.

[medjuck]

57 minutes ago, mjzee said:

Release date August 31:

This collection presents every track he cut for Norman Granz’s pre-Verve labels, plus 16 rare singles recorded for MGM, and 10 previously unreleased alternate tracks.

Ricky Riccardi strikes again! 

[Chuck Nessa]

I will probably stick with the previous 20 track issue.

[jazzbo]

I pre-ordered this back in May.

[mikeweil]

Thanks for posting this - I had given up on this, but I am delighted and pre-ordered. 

[JSngry]

9 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

I will probably stick with the previous 20 track issue.

same, with the caveat that the key word there is "probably".

I've yet to hear anything that surpasses the Dot "How High The Moon", though.

[mikeweil]

Nice to see this will include the MGM sides, too .... were these associated with Granz? Some were reissued on Verve Gaillard LPs.

That said, I count 20 MGM Gaillard tracks in the Lord disco - four of them unissued. that makes the 16 to be included in this new issue. I wonder about the discographical details.

Edited August 23, 2018 by mikeweil

[Dave James]

I swear his fingers have to be six inches long.  

 

[Big Beat Steve]

1 hour ago, Dave James said:

I swear his fingers have to be six inches long.  

 

 

Yes you might almost think so ...

September 1988 (Méridien, Paris)

 

As for that new Verve release, not so sure if I'll bite (though I am a Gaillard fan). Beyond the alternates, ther are only about 4 tracks or so that have not been on the vinyl reissues on (French) Verve and on Official from the late 80s.

Edited August 23, 2018 by Big Beat Steve

[JSngry]

12 hours ago, medjuck said:

Ricky Riccardi strikes again! 

Is that his real name? Is he perchance married to somebody named Luci?

Just wondering.

[medjuck]

4 hours ago, JSngry said:

Is that his real name? Is he perchance married to somebody named Luci?

Just wondering.

From his FaceBook profile: Louis Armstrong Historian, Author and Archivist; dedicated family man; piano abuser; donut enthusiast

• Director of Research Collections at Louis Armstrong House Museum

   

  And producer (with others) of several reissues, including the last Armstrong Mosaic. 
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[jazzbo]

He's a very interesting and knowledgeable and fun dude. And he's starting to produce some good reissues.

[JSngry]

No doubt to all that, but is that really his name? His real name?

[jazzbo]

As far as I know, yes.

[JSngry]

 Riccardi, I don’t doubt. It’s the Ricci part that I wonder about. But who know, maybe his parents were fans of the show. If he’s that young, he’ll who knows? Parents been giving TV names to their kids for quite a while now.

[mikeweil]

If there ever was one real jazz entertainer, it was Slim Gaillard.

But Isla Eckinger has a hard time remembering that music is fun, too. I would have had a ball playing that gig, and for me, music is a deadly serious thing, too.

Edited August 24, 2018 by mikeweil

[jazzbo]

His first name is either Rick or Richard, I haven't determined which for certain, and he goes by Ricky which makes sense to me. Not Ricci. (This makes sense to me. I worked with a man whose last name was Kuykendall, which was pronounced "Kirkendall" and he went by "Kirk" even though his first name was different just so that his last name got pronounced right).

Edited August 23, 2018 by jazzbo

[AllenLowe]

it is his name, let's leave him alone about it. He is one of the nicest people in the business.

[JSngry]

I'm not needing to "leave him alone about it". I'm not doing anything to him about it. It's a really catchy name and I was wondering if is his actual given name or if it was close to catchy and he went ahead and took it all the way in.

[Brad]

FWIW, there is a Spanish broadcaster who does the play by play for the Yankees called Ricky Ricardo. 

[JSngry]

and is that HIS real name?

I mean, it's all show biz, and a catchy name never hurt anybody.

[AllenLowe]

it is. I know him well.

[JSngry]

Who, the record producer or the Yankees broadcaster? Or both?

[Brad]

9 minutes ago, JSngry said:

and is that HIS real name?

I mean, it's all show biz, and a catchy name never hurt anybody.

I believe that is the real name of the sports broadcaster except that his first name is Rickie, not Ricky. He’s also the Spanish broadcaster for the Philadelphia Eagles. 

[sonnymax]

What are the chances he named one of his kids "Babalu"?