JRR 25 Oct 2014

[Alyn_Shipton]

DISC
Artist Buddy Rich
Title Love For Sale
Composer Porter
Album Big Swing Face
Label Pacific
Number CDP 7242 8 37989 2 Track 5
Duration 4.51
Performers: Buddy Rich, d; Bobby Shew, Yoshito Murakami, Chuck Findley, John Scottile, t; Jim Trimble, Ron Meyers, Bill Wimberley tb; Quinn Davis, Ernie Watts, Jay Corre, Robert Keller, Marty Flax, reeds, Richard Resnicoff, g; Roay Starling, p; Jim Gannon, b. Feb 1967


DISC
Artist Gil Evans
Title St Louis Blues
Composer Handy
Album New Bottle Old Wine
Label Poll Winners
Number 27214 Track 8
Duration 5.25
Performers: Gil Evans, p, arr, cond; Johnny Coles, Louis Mucci, Ernie Royal, tp; Joe Bennet, Frank Rehak, Tom Mitchell, tb; Julius Watkins, fr h; Harvey Philips, tub; Cannonball Adderley, as; Jerry Sanfino, reeds, Chuck Wayne, g; Paul Chambers, b; Art Blakey, d. New York City, Apr 1958.



DISC
Artist Vic Dickenson
Title Keeping Out of Mischief Now
Composer Waller
Album Vic Dickenson Septet
Label Vanguard
Number VRS 8520/1 S1 T 1
Duration 5.53
Performers Ruby Braff, c; Ed Hall, cl; Vic Dickenson, tb; Sir Charles Thompson, p; Steve Jordan, g; Walter Page, b; Les Erskine, d. 29 Dec 1953


DISC
Artist Ben Webster
Title I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
Composer Waller, Razaf
Album Live at Jazzhus Montmartre Vol 2
Label Black Lion
Number Track 8
Duration 5.55
Performers: Ben Webster, ts; Kenny Drew, p; NHOP b; Alex Riel, d.


DISC
Artist The Squadronaires
Title South Rampart St Parade
Composer Haggart
Album Jazz in Britain
Label Marshall Cavendish
Number CD049 Track 20
Duration 2.49
Performers: Tommy McQuater, Archie Craig, Clifton ffrench, t; George Chisholm, Eric Breeze, tb; Jimmy Durrant, Tommy Bradbury, Harry Lewis, Sndy McDevitt, reeds; Ronnie Aldrich, p; Sid Colin, g; Arthur Maden, b; Jock Cummings, d. 21 May 1942.


DISC
Artist Eric Silk with Neva Raphaelo
Title Every Day I Have The Blues
Composer Chatmon
Album British Traditional Jazz A Potted History
Label Lake
Number 300 Cd 2 Track 3
Duration 3.23
Performers: Dennis Field, c; Teddy Layton, cl; Pete Strange, tb; Ron Weatherburn, p; Eric Silk, bj; Norman Bunce, tu; Stan Lewis, d; Neva Raphaelo, vo. 29 June 1956

Artist Humphrey Lyttelton
Title Mairzy Doats
Composer Livingston
Album Cornucopia 2
Label Calligraph
Number Track 14
Duration 1.55
Performers: Humphrey Lyttelton, t; Jimmy Hastings, Karen Sharp, Jo Fooks, reeds; Ray Wordsworth, tb; Ted Beament, p; John Rees-Jones, b; Adrian Mackintosh, d. 2007.


DISC
Artist Jo Fooks
Title Dr No Blues
Composer Fooks
Album Playin’
Label Jo Fooks
Number white label copy Track 3
Duration 4.16
Performers: Jo Fooks, ts; Ted Beament, p; Dave Cliff, g; Ed Harrison, b; Buster Birch, d. August 2008.


DISC
Artist Francesco Lo Castro
Title Dresden
Composer Lo Castro
Album Chasing Beauty
Label Flocastro Records
Number Track 1
Duration 4.10
Performers: Francesco Lo Castro: nylon strings, acoustic and electric guitars, Fulvio Sigurta: trumpet, flugelhorn; Noa Bodner: vocals, harmonica; Dora Maria: violin; Joe Fowler: flute; Maurizio Minardi: accordion, sax; Svetlana Savvina: doublebass; Dado Pasqualin: perc; Saverio Gerardi: drums

DISC
Artist Soft Machine
Title Strangest Scene (aka Lullaby letter)
Composer Ayers
Album BBC Radio 1967-1971
Label Hux
Number 037 CD 1 Track 5
Duration 4.55
Performers Kevin Ayers, b; Mike Ratledge kb; Robert Wyatt, d. v. 10 June 1969

Artist Johnny Hodges / Duke Ellington
Title Weary Blues
Composer Hodges
Album Back To Back
Label Verve
Number Track 4
Duration 6.50
Performers: Harry Sweets Edison, t; H=Johnny Hodges, as; Duke Ellington, p; Les Spann, g; Al Hall, b; Jo Jones, d. 1959.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

thanks for the listing Alyn much appreciated

there is fun in them there tracks

[Serial_Apologist]

Thanks from me too, Alyn.

The opening Buddy Rich track: long ago I had an LP which from memory was titled "Live at the Chez". I'm pretty sure it was recorded in 1967. On it Rich's daughter gave a cringeworthy rendition of "The Beat Goes On". I don't suppose this is from the same album under a different title?

[french frank]

S_A: The lesson according to wiki: "In 1967, American jazz musician Buddy Rich made a version on his Big Swing Face album with his daughter Cathy on vocals (Buddy was joking when he said she was drunk; she was only 12 at the time: her date of birth is 1954 and the album was released in 1967)."

[Alyn_Shipton]

Cathy is not to be heard on tomorrow's track...

[Serial_Apologist]

S_A: The lesson according to wiki: "In 1967, American jazz musician Buddy Rich made a version on his Big Swing Face album with his daughter Cathy on vocals (Buddy was joking when he said she was drunk; she was only 12 at the time: her date of birth is 1954 and the album was released in 1967)."

Great, thanks ff

[Serial_Apologist]

Cathy is not to be heard on tomorrow's track...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

well stap me the Squadronaires were hot ... but i could happily not hear Neva Raphaelo ever again ...

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

well stap me the Squadronaires were hot ... but i could happily not hear Neva Raphaelo ever again ...

Yes, a bit of an odd program. I had visions of cobwebs and sepia photographs. Still I suppose people nostalgic for say Prince Lasha or Bill Dixon do not click on R3 at teatime.

BN.
,
I'm just "nostalgic" for Francoise Hardy.,

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

it was the just the sixties El Senor and yoof innit ... on the other hand

[Ian Thumwood]

I didn't realise that "Everyday I have the blues" was written by one of the Chatmons. They seemed quite prolific in the 1920's / early 1930's but I've always felt that the Mississippi Sheiks covered a wide range of music as well as the blues.

Also quite surprised to learnt that there is a vocal on the "Big swing face" album had a vocal on it. This record was one my uncle used to have and it really made me wake up to more contemporary styles of jazz when I was about 13/14. At that time, the music was about 13 years old and Rich was very much one of the musicians from the 1930's who was moving with the times. The album has some great music on it included "Norwegian wood", "Willowcrest", "Mexicali Nose" "New blues " and "Machine" - which was my favourite track. It is just about the best thing that Rich ever did. It's easy to deride Buddy Rich and sometimes the rock influences and shear bombast can be a bit too much but, as I said last week, even George Russell was guilty to pandering to the pop / rock grooves of the 1970's with equally dodgy results. "Big Swing Face" is a pretty good album making a style of music that effectively died out in the late 1940's as popular music, into something relevant at the time. It is also worth noting that there wasn't a great deal of competition around in the late 1960's / 1970s and if Bluesnik thinks that this "jazz drought" was limited to musicians working as taxi drivers, it's also worth recalling that by the mid 70's the only regular "name" big bands working were the likes of Buddy Rich as well as Basie and Herman. Even more "outside" band like Gil Evans weren't working regularly.

This must be the only jazz message-board where Buddy Rich can be damned with faint praise and "The Squadronaires" described as being hot! It's all a matter of perspective. Most big band in the UK in the 30's / 30's only irregularly had any affinity to jazz but the Squadronaires at least seemed to have a line up of the very best British players at the time. Some of their tracks are pretty good and quite surprising (seem to recall a particularly good version of "Anchors aweigh!" ) but this band is really of it's era. The more commercial stuff they produced is still pretty poor and I wouldn't swap any of their records for the better aggregations from the States at the time.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Peter Chatman, Ian, aka Memphis Slim.

Memphis Slim (September 3, 1915 – February
24, 1988) was an American blues pianist,
singer, and composer. He led a series of bands
that, reflecting the popular appeal of jump
blues , included saxophones, bass, drums, and
piano. A song he first cut in 1947, " Every Day I
Have the Blues", has become a blues standard,
recorded by many other artists. He made over
500 recordings .

BN.

He became the King of France. Almost.

[Serial_Apologist]

Peter Chatman, Ian, aka Memphis Slim.

Memphis Slim (September 3, 1915 – February
24, 1988) was an American blues pianist,
singer, and composer. He led a series of bands
that, reflecting the popular appeal of jump
blues , included saxophones, bass, drums, and
piano. A song he first cut in 1947, " Every Day I
Have the Blues", has become a blues standard,
recorded by many other artists. He made over
500 recordings .

BN.

He became the King of France. Almost.

Yeh but in the end chances were too slim.

(I'll get me goat...)

[Ian Thumwood]

Bluesnik

Yes, I recall that "Every day I have the blues" was a Memphis SLim number, albeit it was covered in a really good version by Jow Williams and Count Basie in the new testament band's "Verve heyday.

The credit listing posted by Alyn mentioned Chatmon and given the complex inter-family links between the vintage blues singers, I wonder if Memphis was related. Wicki has him down as Chatman . I believe that that Chatmons were related to Charley Patton.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

His later guitarist was Matt Murphy (the Matt Guitar Murphy of the Blues Brothers films) who also did a lot of session work for Chess in the sixties. Wonderful player who I met when he toured with the US folk blues tour - Sonny Boy Williamson etc.

BN.