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Tuesday, June 30, 2015

0528 Stan Tracey [Bath International Festival 1986 CD2] FLAC from MP3 9(1.13.38)

Contributed by jazzandylan
Audiochecker shows mp3 but these tracks have been converted from wav to FLAC because the wave forms look fairly good. This so as to preserve whatever fidelity is present.

Stan Tracey - leader, piano
Guy Barker - trumpet
Derek Watkins - trumpet
Alan Downey - trumpet
John Barclay - trumpet
Chris Pyne - trombone
Malcolm Griffiths - trombone
Roger Williams - trombone
Tony Coe - reeds
Art Theman - reeds
Peter King - reeds
Jamie Talbot - reeds
Roy Babbington - bass
Clark Tracey - drums

01 Murdering The Time
02 Passion Flower
03 Cockle Row
04 Creole Love Call
05 Take The A Train
06 Dream Of Many Colours
07 Afro-Charlie
08 Perdido
09 A.M. Mayhem

Label: BBC broadcast
Recorded: May 26 1986
Lineage: FM broadcast>audiocassette>CDRFLAC (probably mp3)
Scans: Front rear and tray

Friday, June 26, 2015

0527 Tommy Watt [Watts Cooking] FLAC 13(37.15)

Contributed by bluebird

Bert Courtley - trumpet
Albert Hall - trumpet
Stan Roderick - trumpet
Tommy McQuater - trumpet
Bobby Pratt - trumpet
Bert Ezzard - trumpet
George Chisholm - trombone
Jock Bain - trombone
Jackie Armstrong - trombone
Jack Irvine - trombone
Maurice Pratt - trombone
Jack Thirlwell - trombone
Jim Buck Sr - french horn
Jim Buck Jr - french horn
S Saville - french horn
R Young - french horn
Jim Powell - tuba
Johnny Scott - alto, piccolo, flute
George Hunter - tenor, clarinet
Bob Efford - tenor, clarinet
Keith Bird - tenor, clarinet
Tubby Hayes - tenor, clarinet, vibes
Ronnie Ross - baritone, clarinet
Don Honeywill - baritone, clarinet
Tommy Watt - piano, celeste, janglebox
Arthur Watts - bass
Phil Seamen - drums
Tommy Blades - percussion
Dennis McCarthy - percussion

01 An Apple For The Teacher (Burke, Monaco) (2:58)
02 Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries (Brown, Henderson) (3:03)
03 Small Fry (Carmichael, Loesser) (2:58)
04 Crumpets For The Count (Watt) (3:18)
05 Embargo On Escargot (Hayes) (2:14)
06 Victorian Plums (Watt) (2:34)
07 Little Jack Horner (Watt) (2:07)
08 (If I Knew You Were Coming) I'd've Baked A Cake (Hoffman, Merrill, Watts) (2:26)
09 Sugar Mixture (3:18)
    When I Take My Sugar To Tea (Fain, Kahal, Norman)
    When My Sugar Walks Down The Street (Austin, McHugh, Mills)
    Candy And Cake (Merrill)
10 I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket (Berlin) (2:24)
11 Black Coffee (Goodhart, Hoffman, Sigler) (3:09)
12 Honey Bun (Hammerstein, Rodgers) (2:04)
13 Sugar (Alexander, Mitchell, Pinkard) (3:26)

Label: Parlephone PMC1107 Bethlehem BCP6062
Recorded: June 01 02 1959 London
Lineage: LP>FLAC
Scans: Front and back LP covers

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

0526 Stan Tracey [Bath International Festival 1986 CD1] FLAC from MP3 7(46.18)

Contributed by jazzandylan

Audiochecker shows mp3 but these tracks have been converted from wav to FLAC because the wave forms

look fairly good. This so as to preserve whatever fidelity is present.

CD2 will be along next week

Stan Tracey - leader, piano
Guy Barker - trumpet
Derek Watkins - trumpet
Alan Downey - trumpet
John Barclay - trumpet
Chris Pyne - trombone
Malcolm Griffiths - trombone
Roger Williams - trombone
Tony Coe - reeds
Art Theman - reeds
Peter King - reeds
Jamie Talbot - reeds
Roy Babbington - bass
Clark Tracey - drums

01 Festival Junction
02 In A Sentimental Mood
03 Sophisticated Lady
04 I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
05 Mood Indigo
06 I'm Beginning To See The Light
07 Lay-By

Label: BBC braodcast
Recorded: May 26 1986
Lineage: FM broadcast>audiocassette>CDR (probably mp3)
Scans: Front rear and tray

Friday, June 19, 2015

0525 Tommy Watt [It Might As Well Be Swing] FLAC 14(40.01)


Contributed by bluebird

The other album by Tommy Watt will be along later. Both have been posted on blogs, I know.

Stan Roderick - trumpet
Tommy McQuater - trumpet
Bert Courtley - trumpet
Albert Hall - trumpet
George Chisholm - trombone
Jock Bain - trombone
Jackie Armstrong - trombone
Jack Irvine - trombone
George Hunter - alto, clarinet
Bob Efford - tenor, bass clarinet
Tubby Hayes - tenor, clarinet, vibes
Ronnie Ross - baritone, clarinet
Pete Edge - piccolo, flute
Tommy Watt - piano, celesta
Ike Isaacs - guitar
Joe Muddel - bass
Phil Seamen - drums
Tommy Blades - percussion

01 Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey (Cannon) (2:12)
02 Easy Street (Jones) (2:44)
03 Going To The County Fair (Warren, Gordon) (2:24)
04 Beaulieu Beef (Watt) (2:45)
05 Poor Little Rich Girl (Coward) (1:57)
06 Medley: (3:02) Lullaby Of The Leaves (Petkere, Young) It Might As Well Be Spring (Hammerstein, Rodgers) September Song (Anderson, Weill)
07 I'll String Along With You (Dubin, Warren) (2:42)
08 The Moon Was Yellow (Ahlert, Leslie) (2:59)
09 The Piper's Son (Lindsay, Green) (2:14)
10 Scooter Brain (Watt) (2:38)
11 Vibe Rations (Hayes) (5:11)
12 Five Foot Two Eyes Of Blue
(Henderson, Lewis, Young) (2:08)
13 Medley: (2:44) My Heart Stood Still (Rodgers, Hart) Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart (Hanley) My Heart Belongs To Daddy (Porter)
14 Rock Bottom (Watt, Bain) (2:53)

Label: Parlophone PMC 1068
Recorded: August 1958 London
Lineage: LP(?)>FLAC Audiochecker 96.57%
Scans: Front and rear LP covers

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

0524 Frank Horrox [Sugar Beat] FLAC 12(36.26)

Contributed by azule serape, who writes:-
A rare recording - one of the very few that pianist Frank Horrox made under his own name although he made many recordings with Ted Heath throughout the 1950s. This quartet recording dates from 1961 and has never been re-issued in any format.

Frank Horrox - piano
Terry Walsh - guitar
Geoff Southcott - bass
Don Lawson - drums

01 Lover Come Back To Me
02 Gigi
03 Sugar Beat
04 Moonlight In Vermont
05 S'Wonderful
06 I'll Take Romance
07 I Hear Music
08 It's Almost Like Being In Love
09 Flamingo
10 All Change
11 We'll Be together Again
12 How High The Moon

Label: Oriole MG 20045
Recorded: 1960-1961
Lineage: LP>FLAC
Scans: Front rear LP cover

Friday, June 12, 2015

0523 Ronnie Ross [Goes Dutch] 128 4(41.08)

Contributed by Q. Krook and wil

Ronnie Ross - baritone
Rob Agerbeek - piano
Roger Cooke - bass
Eric Ineke - drums

01 Like Someone In Love (Van Heusen) (incomplete) (12:28)
02 A Night in Tunisia (Gillespie) (13:02)
03 It Could Happen to You (Van Heusen) (10:47)
04 Bernie's Tune (Miller) (incomplete) (4:52)

Label: Private recording but not audience - mics on stage
Recorded: October 07 1977 In De Lantaren Hellendoorn Holland
Lineage: Tape>128
Scans: Front and back covers by the late Jazzman

Monday, June 08, 2015

0522 Ronnie Scott [Quintet] FLAC 5(44.54)

Contributed by rebf842

A little out of the normal pattern which should be re-established quite soon

Dick Pearce - trumpet, flugelhorn (out 03)
Ronnie Scott - tenor (out 04)
John Critchinson - piano
Ron Mathewson - bass
Martin Drew - drums

01 Sound For Sore Ears (Heath) (11:55)
02 I Hear A Rhapsody (Baker, Fragos, Gasparre) (7:22)
03 Goodbye (Jenkins) (5:49)
04 I Fall In Love Too Easily (Cahn, Styne) (5:40)
05 Old Friend (Feldman) (6:49)
06 When Love Is New (Walton) (7:19)

Label: BBC broadcast - probably May 31 1991
Recorded: 1991 Golders Green Theatre London
Lineage: FM>tape>FLAC
Scans: None

0521 Collin Bates [Brew] FLAC 9(41.59)

Contributed by bluebird, who writes:-
There were two pianists with very similar names working in the UK during the same period..
There is Colin 'Barney' Bates and there was this musician called Collin 'Tucker' Bates who was actually Australian.  Both worked almost exclusively in the Mainstream/Traditional fields but this, being in the modern style, is quite a departure in what is Collin Bates' only recording as leader. I don't think there has been a cd re-issue unless it was in Japan.
Collin Bates died in Australia in 1991 aged 60.
His rhythm section partners are not particularly well known but they have obviously worked together as a group and they present a varied and interesting programme of standards and original music. The recording date is indicated only as c.1968.
The music was ripped from the Japanese re-issue lp whilst the cover scans are from the original UK lp issue. I have both lps and thought that the Japanese sound would be better and require less, if any, restoration work.

Collin Bates - piano
Barry Dillon - bass
John Webb - drums

01 Brew
02 For All We Know
03 Days Of Wine And Roses
04 Claudia's Dance
05 Bus Dance
06 Little Lindy
07 Embarcadero
08 Laura
09 Epilogue: King Chanticleer

Label: Fontana SFJL 913 886 502 JCY
Recorded: c.1968
Lineage: LP>FLAC
Scans: Front rear LP cover

Friday, June 05, 2015

0520 Kenny Baker [Blowin' Up A Storm] FLAC 8(29.19)

Kenny Baker - trumpet
Albert Hall - trumpet
Stan Reynolds - trumpet
Ronnie Simmons - trumpet
Ray Premru - bass trumpet, trombone
Eddie Harvey - trombone
Ken Wray - trombone
Mike Senn - alto
Derwent Ridemaster (Don Rendell) - tenor
Art Ellefson - tenor
Johnny Scott - tenor, flute
Redvers Reedworker (Ronnie Ross) - baritone
Bill Le Sage - vibes
Norman Stenfalt - piano
Jack Seymour - bass
Jackie Dougan - drums

01 Blowin' Up A Storm (Baker) (3:56)
02 More Than You Know (Youmans) (3:29)
03 The Call Of The Flute (Scott) (3:07)
04 Cambridge Blue (Le Sage) (3:43)
05 Influential Character (Baker) (4:30)
06 Jazzman (Previn) (2:59)
07 Threesome (Bryant) (3:40)
08 Sunrise Serenade (Carle, Lawrence) (2:47)

Label: Columbia 33 S 1140
Recorded: February 23 24 1959
Lineage: LP>FLAC
Scans: Front rear LP cover

Tuesday, June 02, 2015

0519 Pete Downs [PD3 With Dick Pearce] FLAC 9(1.06.42)

Contributed by jazzandylan

Dick Pearce - trumpet, flugelhorn
Pete Downs - electric guitar, accoustic guitar
Andy Coe - bass
Tim Bruce - drums

01 Cantaloupe Island
02 Killer Joe
03 View In Blue
04 Eclipse
05 Tutu
06 Requiem
07 Straight No Chaser
08 Watermelon Man
09 So What

Label: Wiser Productions WPCD0004
Recorded: April 10 11 2006
Lineage: CD>EAC>FLAC Frontend Level 8
Scans: Front cover and tray