Contributed by bluebird
Ronnie Scott in his Getz mode here playing with American pianist Rocky Coluccio. The tracks are alternate takes to those originally issued on 78 rpm discs.
Rocky had been part of Sam Donahue's Navy Band during WW2 which had played in London so the local musicians were known to him. At the time of this recording (18 June 1953) he was pianist to Johnny Ray who had a three week engagement at the London Palladium.
He gets a good share of the solo space here even though it was Scott's date.
Listeners must be warned that the sound on the first track of both sides contains an unusual 'swishing' noise which has proved impossible to eliminate although it was somewhat reduced. Opinion suggests that at the time of recording, raw vinyl stocks in the UK were low and sometimes old vinyl with their labels were re-processed to make new discs such as this.
Ripped in FLAC from ep with cover scans.
Ronnie Scott - tenor
Rocky Collucio - piano
Lennie Bush - bass
Tony Crombie - drums
01 Tangerine
02 How am I to Know
03 I Cover the Waterfront
04 Night and Day
Label: Esquire EP 51
Recorded: June 18 1953
Lineage: EP>FLAC
Nice to see some more Ronnie. EPs like this one are sadly missed as a format. Many thanks to bluebird.
ReplyDeleteRonny Scott/Rocky Coluccio - When I looked at this I thought the tracks already were on the Properbox "Boppin' with Scott" 4CD set. But they weren't there so I thought they must be on the Giant Steps "Great Scott" 2CD set - but they're not there either! So they are very welcome indeed.
ReplyDeleteYou talk about the strange background noise. I don't think it is due to the poor quality of the vinyl, it seems to have been there right from the first 78rpm releases. The review of the 78 release of "Tangerine" and "I Cover the Waterfront" in the October 1953 edition of "The Gramophone" (whose archives are now available on the web) says, " It is a pity that both sides are marred by a high-pitched hissing that can be eliminated only by heavily cutting the high frequency response."
That rather strange sound may be why the session doesn't seem to have ever made it to commercial CD, there's no other obvious reason as the playing of both Scott and Coluccio is very good.
Thanks to both Britjazz and Bluebird.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for that information John. A great piece of research.
It certainly helps to understand why the 'team' had little success in trying to eliminate or reduce this sound.
Yes, this is the only issue but it does deserve to be better known.
It's that 'bluebird of happiness' again! Many thanks.
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ReplyDeleteI wish I had something of interest to contribute of pre-1960 Brit jazz that hadn't already been posted on your blog or Yewsta's Ronnie Ross-connected site (am I allowed to mention and recommend that to anyone who hasn't seen it yet?). I cut my jazz teeth listening to post-1960 Brit stuff, and even by the early 1970s the originals from the 1950s seemed impossible to find in the record shops I haunted as a schoolboy. My local jazz shop despised home grown players anyway - as I've tried to explain before - and furthermore he thought 78 & 45 rpm releases in general and British pressings in particular were not worth stocking because his customers regarded them as inferior.
I thought he must be wrong then and I still do. So to hear an original Ronnie Scott ep is a long deferred dream come true. As for the 'swishing' noise, it's only there at the start of each side. It all depends on whether you're listening first for the music or for any 'imperfections'. This is beautiful, swinging music - and of course the covers are so evocative too!.
Many thanks to bluebird.
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ReplyDeletebrian - getting on to the next four (0053, 0056, 0060, 0065). You're doing a grand job, finding the missing ones for us.
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