Contributed by Azule Serape, who writes:-
The 1948 tracks, which are his first recordings, feature Victor aged not quite 14 playing drums in pretty heavyweight company. Other tracks find him 'multitracking' in 1951 (an early experiment?) and then playing vibes, which was his instrument of choice in later years. All this by the age of 20. A wonder kid indeed.
Victor moved to the USA in 1957, enjoying a very successful recording career and died there in 1987 aged just 53.
The sound is disappointing bearing in mind that the re-issue lp was produced by Esquire in the mid 1980s and one assumes that they had access to their own masters for dubbing. Any surface noise etc you hear is on the original music - the lp is in mint condition.
FLAC with cover scans
(01-05)
John Dankworth - clarinet
Eddie Thompson - piano
Bert Howard - bass
Victor Feldman - drums
(06 07)
Victor Feldman - vibes, piano, drums
(08-11)
Victor Feldman - vibes
Stan Watson - guitar
Lennie Bush - bass
Freddie Manton - drums, Indian drum
(12-15)
Victor Feldman - vibes, conga drum
Tony Crombie - piano
Lennie Bush - bass
01 Mop Mop
02 Lady Bird
03 Quarternity
04 Moonlight in Vermont
05 Gone With the Wind
06 Ego
07 Jolly Rogers
08 Evening in Paris
09 Kashmir
10 Pakistan
11 Harem Scarem
12 Monkey Business
13 Serenade in Blue
14 For You Alone
15 Body and Soul
Label: Esquire lp ESQ 327
Recorded: February 17 1948 (01-05) June 12 1951 (06 07) March 19 (08-11) July 14 (12-15) 1954
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Thank You. Marvellous post !!!
ReplyDeleteLovely stuff. What a prodigy!
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ReplyDeletethank you Azule Serape
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Victor Feldman very much appreciated. Thank you Azule.
ReplyDeleteThanks for a glimpse of the young Victor
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ReplyDeleteMany thanks for another Esquire LP! Treasure troves these are.
I didn't think the sound was disappointing at all. The two overdubbed tracks, yes, but that could be expected since the technique for doing such things was still crude then. The regularly recorded tracks from 1948 and 1954 sound like one could expect from those years, IMO.
Is a Volume 2 forthcoming, or was it never released? Lord only mentions Volume 1, not Volume 2 which the liner notes promise, but Lord is not complete when it comes to these things.
No, chu, there never was a Vol 2 we believe. Mentioned somewhere here perhaps - seem to remember reading about it.
ReplyDeleteGetting back to this as I now have burnt and listened to it more closely. I added the four 1944 tracks posted later at the start, to get the complete early Feldman tracks on one CDR (Well, there is also the 1952 Melodisc session, but it is on a Jasmine CD.)
ReplyDeleteThe liner notes mention that Feldman was in India from late 1952 to early 1954 and was rushed back into the studio by Esquire when he came back.
I also read in the liner notes to a Lake CD that few of the original masters exist for Esquire recordings. Already in the 80s when the Treasure Chest series was made, they may in many cases have had to use original 78s/EPs/LPs as sources.
It is deplorable that the intended second volume never was released before this reissue series came to a halt. However, fortunately practically all of Feldman's subsequent 1954-55 Esquire recordings have appeared here at BritJazz in later posts covering the original EPs.
Bluebird tells us:-
DeleteEsquire never had master tapes and the following extract from a letter dated 2012 to me states the position:
"You mention a vault full of Esquire tapes etc but I am afraid that is not so. You may remember that Peter Newbrook,
co-founder of Esquire, died a couple of years ago and I was approached by his son offering to sell me the original 78s - he wanted to sell them in one go but there were over 1000 and I had no room to store them. There were no master tapes or anything because Esquire recorded direct onto vinyl and Peter Newbrook kept one mint copy of everything. On his death all the LPs and EPs were sold to a dealer who sold them one at a time on Ebay and the 78s went to a buyer in the US so as a collection there is nothing left and any re-issues would have to be done from original vinyl. It is similar to the Tempo situation where all the masters have disappeared and vinyl is used for re-issues."
BTW, chu, the Melodisc material you mention is already posted here , part of item 0102.
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