Getting back to my series on old record advertisements from vintage jazz magazines, here's a new installment. Clef magazine (April to July 1946) is the source and labels are West Coast Recordings, Excelsior and Cadet.
“MINTON’S PLAYHOUSE ALL-STARS”: DIZZY GILLESPIE, THELONIOUS MONK, ART
BLAKEY, SONNY STITT, KAI WINDING, AL McKIBBON (Berliner Jazztage, November
5, 1971)
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By any measuring device, jazz seems a young art, and a fast-moving one.
Consider how many years separate the New Orleans Rhythm Kings and Ornette
Coleman. ...
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From Donald Clarke:
ResponderEliminar"Interesting. Mingus had 78s on Excelsior too, I think."
Yes, Donald. The Mingus Sextet (1945) and Mingus & his Orchestra (1946) sessions, both included in the Uptown CD "Charles Baron Mingus - West Coast 1945-1949".
ResponderEliminarFrom Donald Clarke:
ResponderEliminar"That Uptown release was very exciting; I remember Chuck Nessa showing me the booklet before the CD came out. We were at the Chicago Jazz Festival, must have been 2000. I thought the booklet alone was almost worth the price!"